"Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages. Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed." -Revelation 15:3-4
i spent the last 10 days in darjeeling, india. darjeeling is on the border of nepal and india. i can't even put into words how much i loved it there. we spent our time with a couple who's been there for over 10 years and own a boys hostile, where they invite college boys to live with them and gradually share the gospel with them. at the moment, they have about 8 boys living with them. all believers! these boys have some of the most amazing testimonies of how God called them to himself. a lot of them are the very first Christian in their family. and some have been disowned from their family and are forbidden to go home to their village because of their faith. but this hostile is a place where they've formed their own family and where they openly and freely worship Jesus.
the first night we got there, we had dinner with them and had bible study afterwards. right then, i could tell how much these boys loved Jesus. their exceeding joy in singing and reading God's Word was so contagious. it was like they knew full well what their purpose in life was...to glorify God and make His name known.
throughout the week, the boys took us around darjeeling and introduced us to their friends, mostly girls, who were nonbelievers. we got to go visit these girls in their homes and spend time getting to know them. one of us always shared our testimony with them and prayed over them before we left. every night, we would go to one of the girl's homes and have bible study. all the girls, believers and nonbelievers, would come. the boys would lead us in worship, both nepali songs and english songs. so every night, i would be in a small room, cramped with over 20 people, worshipping Jesus, and studying His Word for countless of hours. i've never been more joyful!
i spent the last 10 days in darjeeling, india. darjeeling is on the border of nepal and india. i can't even put into words how much i loved it there. we spent our time with a couple who's been there for over 10 years and own a boys hostile, where they invite college boys to live with them and gradually share the gospel with them. at the moment, they have about 8 boys living with them. all believers! these boys have some of the most amazing testimonies of how God called them to himself. a lot of them are the very first Christian in their family. and some have been disowned from their family and are forbidden to go home to their village because of their faith. but this hostile is a place where they've formed their own family and where they openly and freely worship Jesus.
the first night we got there, we had dinner with them and had bible study afterwards. right then, i could tell how much these boys loved Jesus. their exceeding joy in singing and reading God's Word was so contagious. it was like they knew full well what their purpose in life was...to glorify God and make His name known.
throughout the week, the boys took us around darjeeling and introduced us to their friends, mostly girls, who were nonbelievers. we got to go visit these girls in their homes and spend time getting to know them. one of us always shared our testimony with them and prayed over them before we left. every night, we would go to one of the girl's homes and have bible study. all the girls, believers and nonbelievers, would come. the boys would lead us in worship, both nepali songs and english songs. so every night, i would be in a small room, cramped with over 20 people, worshipping Jesus, and studying His Word for countless of hours. i've never been more joyful!
our small plane to darjeeling.
one of the boys in the hostile and my precious brother, kuldeep,
showing me around darjeeling.
bible study at 5 every night. truly a glimpse of heaven.
we had a slumber party with the girls we met and
spent the night playing different games with them.
one morning kacey and i rode ponies around
darjeeling. this is usually for kids but that didn't
stop us.
apparently darjeeling has great Ethiopian
coffee :)
sunjiv, kuldeep, and vishu. love them so much.
our last night, the boys and girls threw us a goodbye
party. so thankful to have met each of them.
swarnim, bullet, sundesh, sunjiv, kuldeep, mingma, and vishu.
i'm so blessed to know them.
:) yes, we did. #ZTA.
darjeeling, india will always have a special place in my heart.
the boys at the hostile have reminded me just how precious God's Word is. because of their deep love for God's Word, they live everyday knowing that the Kingdom of heaven is something worth losing everything for. they don't have much and yet, they joyfully take hold of the things they've been blessed with...striving to make all they have as a tool to reach the lost with the gospel. i have no doubt in my mind that God is going to use them in a mighty way to further His Kingdom. i've learned so much from them. i want to continually beg the Lord to use me, for there is no better place to be than in His will. i want to passionately live out the gospel and urgently spread the powerful message of the Kingdom. i praise Jesus for reminding me this week to fix my eyes on things above, for there is hope coming for me, great glory that's yet to be revealed. my heart eagerly longs for His coming!
-milcah
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