Standing Firm

Before Jesus sends His twelve disciples out in Matthew 10, He tells them to “pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” - Matthew 9:38 That is one of the things that we are praying for Serbia; we can see that God is in the process of not only bringing laborers here, but He is also raising them up from among the Serbians. There is a student conference coming up this summer called Campus Mission 2007. I am super excited about this because it will gather about 20,000 students from all over the world who want to learn how to build movements on their campuses that would grow to impact their country and the world. Many students will be challenged to go to other parts of the world at this conference as they see the bigger picture of what it looks like when people “from every nation” gather to worship God!

Dijana has been praying and fasting about going this summer. She is a student here in Novi Sad and we have seen God working in mightily. Her passion to share her faith is steadily growing and God has shown her, through experiences during the past few months, how He can use her in other people’s lives. This has blown her away and increased her faith and vision dramatically. Oh, when I think of what seeing a vast fellowship of international believers who are as equally passionate about following God as she is would mean to her, I tremble. She is one of very few students here that have the vision and passion for her fellow students. I have met no other Serbian student equal to her in this.

Pray for her as she prepares to go this summer. There are still some significant barriers that must be overcome for her to go. The first is what her father will say. She doesn’t know for sure, but she fears that he will be resistant to her going. She is spending this next week with him and will talk to him about it. Please, please pray that God will work in his heart and soften it so that he will let her go. The other barrier is the cost of her transportation. Most of the conference cost is already taken care of, but Dijana is responsible for raising her own money to pay for her flight and application fee. Pray that God would bring in this money for her.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 2nd, 2007 at 6:37 pm and is filed under Ministry Update. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.