aaronbarkermusic.com » jesus http://aaronbarkermusic.com The new studio album - Rise Up Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:57:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Call2All DTS in Cambodia leads 37 to Christ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-in-cambodia-leads-37-to-christ/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-in-cambodia-leads-37-to-christ/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:45:51 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=316 Friday was a great day of salvation in the Cambodian village we are ministering in. We have been teaching English and Bible to about 120 young people since the middle of July in this beautiful village. There are two Christian families in the entire village and the rest are Buddhist families. They are primarily Buddhist only by culture, not necessarily by practice or conviction. However, “To be Cambodian is to be Buddhist.”

For the last couple weeks as a team we have had a growing sense that the young people we are teaching are very receptive and hungry to know Jesus. In prayer, we felt that this Friday was going to be a day where many would come to Christ. We have learned from our hosts that in Cambodian culture people will raise their hand when asked to in response to a Gospel presentation out of respect for the speaker. We were wrestling through how to give them a chance to authentically respond to the Gospel and not simply respond out of respect for our team. In prayer we felt that we would ask anyone who had a desire to commit their lives to Christ to stay after class so we could clearly lead them through the decision to say no to every other religion and say yes to Jesus. We wanted it to be very clear that you cannot worship Jesus and Buddha, but only Jesus!

All week we had been sharing the reality of God’s desire for relationship with us, our separation from God because of sin, and God’s solution through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross. Friday we reviewed all these details and gave them all a chance to respond by staying after class and out of 120, 37 stayed after to commit their lives to Christ! Our team is thrilled that this village is being transformed by the love of Jesus Christ! This is only the beginning and we believe that there is going to be many more young people that give their lives to Jesus. We are trusting for an entire village to turn to Jesus and follow Him alone for the rest of their lives!

This has been one of the greatest highlights of our outreach in Thailand and Cambodia! The great thing is we still have four weeks to disciple our new brothers and sisters in Christ and believe for more and more to come!

]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-in-cambodia-leads-37-to-christ/feed/ 0 Call2All DTS Reaching Out to Slums in Bangkok http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-reaching-out-to-slums-in-bangkok/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-reaching-out-to-slums-in-bangkok/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:03:32 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=277 Yesterday was such a wonderful day for our outreach team here in Bangkok! We spent most of the day as a team working in a community close to the YWAM Thailand base. We put on our construction hats in the morning and laid some concrete in a small section of the community while others passed out Gospel tracts and another group shared with a woman who is very open to the Gospel. This woman, Joy, a couple days ago as a Buddhist, prayed to our God to send some people to help fix her house. The next day we arrived to repair the siding of her home that sits above a sewage filled swamp. While our team worked on the house Ronda and Kellye got a chance to share with her and she was so thankful and open to learning more. So yesterday when we came back our team went back and shared some things with Joy they felt they had heard from the Lord for her. Through translation she asked them how they knew all that about her. They shared that Jesus knows everything about her and that He sent us to share with His love for her. We are still praying for her salvation, but believe the soil is ripe in her heart for her to meet the Lord.

Today is yet another day filled with service projects and evangelism at the university. Pray for us that the Lord would go before us and prepare the way of the hearts that we meet. We want to see continued harvest while we are here and are grateful for every opportunity to share His love in these communities!

Thanks to everyone who is praying with us!

]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-reaching-out-to-slums-in-bangkok/feed/ 0 Largest University in the World has Student Meet Jesus http://aaronbarkermusic.com/largest-university-in-the-world-has-student-meet-jesus/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/largest-university-in-the-world-has-student-meet-jesus/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:07:48 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=273 Today in Bangkok, Thailand at the largest university in the world we saw one of the over 600,000 students come to meet Jesus! After a couple meetings with this young man he told our team today that he wanted to become a Christian. He said it as if it was a dream of something he’d like to achieve someday if at all possible. When the two with him told him he could become a Christian right then, he almost gasped with excitement!

That’s right, with the joy of a child he came into the family of God and is going to be bringing his friends with him. In a couple days he is going to meet with our team again and bring a couple friends. He told our team that he would bring them and they would love to read the bible together and he was happy to lead the time! This is the sound of an evangelist!

Pray for our team as we minister at this campus and with children in this community. We believe God wants to touch this nation powerfully and our prayer is that we can be used over the course of our short time here to start something that will continue and even grow once we leave this area. God, let it be!

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