Hello our dear friends!
Happy New Year!
Here are some news about winter camping.
The Map of Life
I was leading a woman night called The Map of Life. And every girl had and opportunity to illustrate her map of life - important life invents starting from her birth to the present moment. Through this tool girls could know each other better and share with hard and joyful moments.
Symbat, 17 y.o.
"Till when I was at 4th grade I did not know who my parents were and how babies were born, - she shared. Symbat's dad died when she was a baby. And right after that her mom moved to Almaty to earn for living. Her mom left Symbat with her relatives in the village, who brought her up. "When mom was coming to me, shared Symbat, "I thought she will never leave me again, but after a week she had to leave and I started to looking forward for her next visit"
After camping I met Symbat one more time to share about Jesus. From early childhood Symbat was curious about spiritual questions. She read Koran and was doing namaz as all Muslims. In Koran she got to know Jesus as a prophet, but now she knows more about him. About His birth from Holy Spirit, his sinless life on the earth and resurrection after death-these things made her to think deeper about many things.
I am asking you to pray with me for Symbat, that Jesus would reveal himself to her the way, truth, and life through whom she can find salvation!!!
Nati, 18 y.o.
Nati (Nastya) illustrated her map of life in a star space view. I just could imagine that everything was in her mind - Space. Through our girls parties I understood that Nati believes almost in everything she hears or reads - ancient manuscripts, souls transformation, ancient manuscript, which has records of people's lives. But also she always says that she believes in God. When praying for Nati I was asking God to give me wisdom, how to explain her the importance of faith in Jesus that her mind could rid off all those wrong believes. Sometimes I just did not have any words to pray for her and just trusted God, that He will finish what he has started in her heart!
After camping I met with Nati again. I again shared with her about 4 spiritual truths. She said that all her life she believed in God and does not understand what else you need to do to believe in him if you already do. I explained her about Jesus sacrifice for us and as many orthodox believers Nati for the first time got to know that God came to us as a human being to die for sins of the world and particularly her sins.
After our meeting Nastya read a prayer of repentance in a brochure, but I was amazed that on the camping she also said the prayer of repentance. Hallelujah!!!
Please pray for the seed to be planted in Nati's heart would grow. That her faith and heart would get stronger every day!
Sevara, 15 y.o.
For Sevara and for other girls this trip was for the first time. And before the trip her parents was doubting weather let her go and even came to meet me personally.
Through the map of life Sevara shared about her struggles and worries. Her mom is seriously sick. Few years ago Sevara's little brother died. He lived only 2 days. "I do not understand why my mom should go through all this sufferings - shared Sevara with tears on her eyes - please forgive me that I said all this but I could not keep it in myself and not to share with my pain". At this moment I feel Gods presence very strongly and His desire to heal and encourage those who struggle. This was one of those moments. At that night we all prayed together for Sevara's mom believing that God can heal her.
Through Sevara's map of life we could understand that she is searching and most of all in spiritual search, but may be she even could not realize it. Sevara cannot sleep peacefully at nights, her mind is overwhelmed with different thoughts. The thing she drew at the end was a huge question mark.
Let's pray together that Sevara could find an answer on her question and this answer would be Jesus Christ!