After the rainy season started, the dingy brown dust on the trees, houses and roads has all been washed sparkling clean by the rain water, and they have regained their original lovely colors. In the fields and along the roadsides fresh jade green grass sprang up at once. If you had seen the transformation, you would have jumped for joy just like me. Unfortunately I didn't think to take a picture of the dry brown of the dry season, or I could show you the difference at a glance.

Last time I shared about CHE (Community Health Education/Evangelism). Even though you could say that my previous nurse's training is a big help with health education, this strategy uses community organization as the entry point and I have absolutely no experience in this area. The Lord best understands my lacks, and so, through the guidance of the missionary team, He gave me the opportunity to join a one week concentrated course, Transforming Development, which is the foundational introduction course. Through community development and evangelism, communities can have true and lasting development and change. As Christians, we realize that unless people's lives are changed, community development has its limitations. And so, I had the chance to get to know a little more completely the Biblical basis and practical reasons for this strategy which unifies community development and evangelism. I am very grateful for this!

This also shows why, in the next 2 ?months, I need to once again immerse myself in studying: read a thousand pages of books on community development evangelism, write a three to four thousand word paper, and observe and report. One classmate has said it well: We need the true Word to lead us and from that discover truth, so that it is not only men's wisdom and reasoning. This is what I think also.

Please pray:

1. Through the reading and assignments, may I more deeply understand community development evangelism, and in a prayerful spirit seek out God's will in this: what kind of person He wants me to become, and then what I should do.
2. We need missionaries and local leaders who have the same vision and who can commit fully to open up this new ministry.
3. I need discipline to use my time to do both my existing ministry and these assignments: I need to read 20 pages each day.