Stories from the Field ...BTV Update # 7

The team is doing great. Everyone is healthy and loving the work. We do all miss you, so know that your ladies are thinking about you and praying for you too!

This week we started a class for the Sudanese on First Aid, CPR, and the basics of nursing. We've taught two classes already and its going to be a weekly class. The team did a great job preparing and teaching, and we love our students. We have around 15 Sudanese attending, about half and half, men to women. They are so eager to learn. We are really proud to see them equipped and encouraged to become servants and examples in their community. And also the class provides a lot of opportunities to talk about healing and where it really comes from. Ask that we would be equipped as teaching, the Sudanese would be eager learners, and that the HS would guide every discussion.

We're still keeping up the clinics and going out to meet people on a regular basis. Here are some specific stories that the ladies wrote about people they met that they would like you to pray for......BB Staff

Stories for Specific PRAYER

Her name is Abar. She is an M who works in a dress shop in the mall that specializes in Belly Dancing. She speaks minimal English. Jill and I met her on our first trip out, and she actually called Jill and I into her shop. And we began talking, mainly through gestures about where we were from, how long will we be in NA, were we sisters or not. But we were in there for about an hour communicating that way. In the midst of that time she offered us a hard-boiled egg sandwich. First she just handed us a hard boiled egg and we didn’t know what to do with it! But then she came back with a pita and we proceeded to make the sandwiches. Poor Jill wasn’t hungry and doesn’t even like eggs, but she ate it anyway!

We talked about singleness, and she was excited that we were single too. She was the first woman we have met that seemed proud to be a single. We came to the shop again on another day. We had a great time trying on some gowns (not the belly dancing outfits, mind you!) And it seemed like dad totally removed the communication barrier. And in the midst of the time there we seemed to establish relationships with all of the store clerks, including some who speak very good English. We are going back today and hope to establish more of who we are. And it has just so happened that no one has ever come into the store while we are there. Pray that dad will appoint more times for us to meet with her and share.- Lori.....

Her name is Sahara. She is 26 years old and she has a 6-year-old daughter. I met her in the mall. She had been divorced so she was a single mom living with her parents. We did not really talk about her personal story, but you could tell she felt really inferior and probably has a lot of emotional scars from the divorce (women do not choose to divorce here, their husband’s divorce them). We were invited by her to have dinner at her family’s house. We talked a lot with her sister and her dad. They were both teachers in a school. He talked mainly about his son and how proud he was to have him off at the university. We could tell Sahara must feel a lot of shame and guilt from her family. Since I met her I have been praying for her everyday. I really believe that no one we have met has been by coincidence, but we were meant to meet them. Her father did ask us if we were Cs and we told him yes. We have not shared much about that yet, but they know we are Cs and we have started a relationship, so we pray for more opportunities to meet with them.-Youngsil.....

Her name is Nagla. She lives in the neighborhood near our house. The first time I meet her, even though she could not speak very well she invited me into her house and showed me all of her family pictures and gave me so many presents and talked about how she is going to get married next year. Last time when we passed by their house she introduced us to her fiancé. So I have been praying for both of them. I hope he is nice, but I didn’t feel he is a nice man. Also, because she lives in our neighborhood and is Muslim, it dangerous to have her know about our work. So I don’t feel I should go to their house again, but I’m just praying for some way to keep building a relationship with her.- Youngsil.....

Hannah I met one time in the mall. We were just waiting for our last friend to come out of a shop and sat down on bench next to her. We started talking and she showed me pictures on her mobile, and I saw her without her veil on. She is getting married soon, and I just really enjoyed talking with her. When we got up to leave she told me, “I will never forget you.” And ever since I have been feeling that dad wants me to remember her and pray for her too. We’ve been singing about how dad can move a mountain. And if we just have a little bit of faith, I really believe he can move a mountain. I don’t know that I’ll ever see her again, but he wanted me to meet her and pray for him to move a mountainin regards to her. - Youngsil.....

We were at a city literally of trash and there was a woman laying in the clinic. I didn’t know her story, I didn’t know what was wrong with her, but we continued through the day getting the work done that was needed. She just lay there surrounded by her family. They were fanning her, and she looked weak and in pain and hot. And at the end of the day HK said we would give her the medicine and send her home. And I ask if I could join him. So he took me in and explained the situation to me and we helped her get up from the bed and I asked if she had been prayed for and HK shook his head no, and said, “Go ahead and pray for her, but just use a few words.” And instantly a twinge of fear hit me when he said to use few words. But I prayed softly and asked in the name of Jesus that she would be healed. And then her family led her away and I asked RL if that family was Muslim, and she said yes. That night we were having praise and worship on our rooftop, and we were told to picture a face that we had seen that day. And that women’s face came to my mind. Then we were told to picture that face standing beside us singing Amazing Grace. And there she was in my mind, standing beside me and singing praise to our father. And then after praise and worship HK said that he got a phone call that she was completely fine and had been healed. And dad has just given me the confidence that we will be beside her praising our him one day. And the only thing there is that could have healed her is his name.- Jenna