Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Bangladesh!!!


Wow..I am in the country of Bangladesh!! Is this really happening? God is so good. I got my visa in India for a large sum of money and for a short amount of time but God is good and it is just enough time to get some work done here!! We have a month to do ministry here and it is jam packed. Russel, Sam and I have been here for a week and a half already and we have been nothing but busy.

We first arrived in the city of Khulna where we ran a two day pastor conference for about 25 pastors..teaching them Bible Overview and every ones favorite the Inductive Method through the book of Philemon. It was interesting having my first teaching victims be pastors...it was very stretching but God did it all.

Then we took off for a city called Kaligong where we ran another 2 day pastors conference for another 25 pastors teaching them the same things. This one was really busy because we would teach all day and in between breaks take off with the pastor to visit villiages and then we also had to preach at night but all in all again God did it all and it went really well!!

15 minutes after we finished that seminar we were on a little trip accross the country by bus ferry and taxi..it was a long day but we survived and arrived in the capital city of Bangladesh...Dhaka!! And that is where we are now! We are here for a week doing some mercy ministry for half the day and then the other half of the day we are preparing to teach the books of 1st and 2nd King's in the School of Biblical studies in Dhaka!

Everything is going really well...this is the busiest schedule I have ever been on but God is being so faithful!! Bangladesh is a beautiful country and the people are so hospitibal. Everywhere that we go God is taking care of us! So thank you all so much for your prayers they are truly appreciated...

Some things to keep praying for...
1)That God will bless the little study time that we have
2)For the people that we are ministering to that God will do a good work in them
3)That we will be focused on applying God's word in our own lives
4)That 3 white guys will learn how to bargain with the rickshaw drivers

Again thank you so much for your prayers and support...I will keep updating whenever I can....this is just a small piece of what has been happening so far so if you have any questions please ask me!!! I love you all Love Justin Frase

P.S. Bangali with Justin will start on the next update and next month we will continue with our series of Hindi with Justin..thanks for tuning in!!!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Leaving Soon

Well a quick update...I am here in an internet cafe because the base lost internet..weheee.got to love em...



Anyway this will probably be my last internet for a while but here is the outreach update...Me and two other guys from Montana..Sam and Russel will be leaving for Bangladesh on Sunday... we will travel by train for 2 days straight and then a day into Bangladesh...something to be praying about is I still need to get a Visa so just pray that God opens that door...We do have our outreach set up...The day we get there our leader Russell teaches the book of Ruth...we have two pastor conferences set up where we will teach the Inductive method and Bible Overview to them..then at the end of the month Sam and I are team teaching the book of Kings in the SBS there so another prayer point...we only have 3 weeks to prepare for that on top pf running pastor conferences so just pray that we have time to prepare and that we will be used...we will finish up our outreach by coming back to the Ywam Lonavala base where we are now and we will be running the seminar phase for the SBS in September...so that is our outreach...we have a lot of work a head of us but we are excited....sorry that was so short...I love you all and I will keep in touch the best that I can...don't be afraid to right me!!!
Much Love...Justin Frase