Romans 6:16 says, “Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey – whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness…”

 I spent some time praying about it and realized that I need to fully surrender to the Lord and put the trip to South America completely on the altar. The most important thing to me is being fully given to Him, regardless of what it looks like…

Sometimes it’s easy to trust ignorance and sometimes even easier to allow it, in our minds, to become innocence. Well… when the Lord calls that conflict  to attention it’s almost natural to fall into confusion. Especially when you’re thinking, “I never thought any of that in my heart.” The Lord told me to obey regardless of what I believed innocent and is the context for the above verse. My first love is Him, above myself, above my plans, above my understanding and above all things. So, this is me, filled with joy, not dodging the arrow. Taking a step of obedience and laying everything before him.

I apologize for any confusion.

 

Feel free to email me! : ssidwell@live.com

With love,

~Scott

~John 3:30~

This is a calling to see those without hope, weak and broken, that are wearing a crown of ashes come to find the true and living God. Our firm rock and foundation. It is August 25 as I write this blog, in 5 days the Lord will need to provide $1,700 to send in as initial funds for my trip to South America. These funds will go to paying for the vehicles that we’ll be using to travel into each of the 21 Latin American countries in South America. Isaiah 61 talks about those of whom Christ wants to reach and that our team will be going to.

• The deep of the jungle: The tribal peoples… Totally lost, with no hope of salvation. Who will die not just a physical death but one eternal, people just the same as you and me, yet captive by the darkness, prisoners to injustice, witch doctors, and the chains of the evil one.
• The broken of the city: To the poor, destitute, and rejected. People who sleep in the gutters, who are starving and desperate, desperate to know hope. To believe that there is even one, He, who came and died for them.
• The dark of the city: To the prostitutes, the enslaved, and those broken by drugs and addiction. People who may once have had families, torn from their fingers… captive to sin which many have accepted is all they’re worth.
• The heights of the mountains to the depths of the sea: To all of these places, with pockets of people to vast numbers, we go to proclaim Christ crucified, to mend the hurt, heal the broken, cast out demons, and to do the great work of the Lord.

What does love look like? it looks like stopping for “the one;” who no one else has stopped for. Jesus came for people such as this, to bestow on them a crown of beauty, the oil of gladness, and the garment of praise to the glory of his mighty name.

~John 17:22-23 “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”~

The miracle of the Lord is such as this: That we are one with Him, as he is one with the Father. To what end? “To let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” We often will spend money, provide for our family, and do whatever it takes to ensure their safety, sometimes though, we forget about the rest of our family. They are broken, they are hurt, they are oppressed, they are lost, they are hopeless… Our family, the people whom God loves are out there, right now, in spiritual rags… My heart is to share of the intimacy of the Lord, the fullness of Him, the true and living God, who isn’t limited by our understanding, who doesn’t follow the laws of this earth, but has broken and defeated the power of death itself. The days are short, every day, our family agonizes, starves, are lost, and die. It is heavy upon my shoulders, having seen a revelation of His Spirit, the sound of his voice, and his longing call for the lost. I see them as: sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters and my heart is called to be broken for them. To weep for them… To do whatever it takes… I certainly will, the Lord has placed this upon me. A burden; deep, soul wrenching, agonizing call to the deep of my heart. A call to rise, to the occasion, to partner with “the one.”

So what am I asking? For you to go with me in support, to take the hands of our family, to bring them to their feet into the righteousness of Christ. To wash them in the waters of His Spirit and to welcome them into our family. A loving family, that came to them in their need. Just as we ourselves were in need. Many of us reading this understand the frustration of hopelessness, the desire of restoration, the call of the Lords voice within our hearts and the significance of being found in Christ.

I need to raise $10,400 or $700 a month. Partner with me in any way that you can, because it’s not about a trip or an experience, it’s about our family. Your prayers, hopes, and heart will go with me, as the Lord strengthens us for His purposes in South America. I have raised $30 a month yet I need $700 a month for 12 months to continue or $10,400. I’m just picturing it, 1 mega supporter! haha orrrr!!! 7 people that can support me for $100 a month reaching this need. 14 people for $50, 28 for $25,  or a mix and match. I commit to being faithful to you, my supporters, my family, who are just as much a part of this as I am. To send updates and post on this blog as frequently with encouragement and (pictures hopefully!) as the Lord provides. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!

The caravan of about 50 missionaries, mobilizing to try to fulfill the great commission, is leaving on September 13. If you feel like the Lord has put it on your heart to support this vision. If you want to meet with me, to talk about this vision, to hear  my testimony, to share  the vision with others, or anything else feel free to call me:

My Number:  603-225-6829.

My mailing address: 27 Hampton St, Concord NH, 03301.

~Support should be made out to Scott Sidwell and addressed to the above.

Donation button to the right! (I won’t see who sent the support)

~Tax Deductible means of supporting are coming ASAP. (This will be worked out this week)

With Love, your brother and servant in Christ,

~Scott Sidwell

Maps:

 

What is it?

A while back a handful of Iris missionaries began to dream about South America. Prophetic words began to confirm that this dream would become reality. They transitioned from a handful of missionaries… to an army with hearts ablaze! To run through all of Central and South America on a massive treasure hunt to locate and reach the remaining unreached and less-reached people groups, as well as the poor and broken, partnering with other churches and organizations along the way, carrying the love and glory of Jesus and operating in the signs and wonders!

Some pictures of planned locations!

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. Romans 8:19

A video for one of the many locations and unreached peoples we will be going to!

Some words from the team:

-We will mostly go to hidden forgotten places and unreached peoples. When we do go into the cities we will be sent into the lowest places to the homeless, drug attics, and poor etc. (Heidi Baker prophesied this for our team)

-We will link our journey with a blog of video’s and stories of our adventures to Iris Home page for people to follow, (Heidi)

-We will partner with YWAM through all South America. (Heidi)

-From January to September is 9 months and will be a period of total preparation and equipping. This is where God told me Psalm 144:1. He’s going to prepare us emotionally, physically, mentally, financially, and of course and above all spiritually.

-I see a fearless army going forth catching no sickness or disease; Taking fire wherever we go until there is a ring of fire around all south America. Breaking slave trade; that busses will stop on the road where they are carrying boys and girls. That they will be able to be forgiven and then turn around and preach to their very own people.

-1 Peter 2:9 starts out by saying, “But you are a chosen generation.” I knew right away that God was giving me insight into my dream. I have always believed that there was a special calling on the current generations of Christ-followers, which we are all a part of, specific to the fulfillment of the Great Commission to “Go and make disciples of every nation.” I have more recently believed that we could be the generation that sees every nation (people group, language group) reached by the gospel of Christ in our lifetime. Statistically, of the 16,597 distinct people groups in the world, 6,916 of them, or 41.7% are unreached by the gospel of Christ. They have never even heard the name of Jesus. Verse 9 goes on to say, “(You are) a royal priesthood.” Very simply, the responsibility of priests were to take the hand of God, and the hand of people, and join them together. This is our responsibility as Christ-followers. to bring people to God through His Son Jesus.

My life for the Gospel. The profoundness of those words have never had such vivid meaning to me, both in the painful reality but also in the joyous truth. God has done some amazing things the last 9 months since I left the states:

We’ve seen countless Taiwanese people come and accept Jesus into their lives, many of them who have been close friends for years. Our missions team has become known for being studious and hard working, both in our jobs, but also in learning Chinese. The witness that we’re able to bring through this has left an impact both on my life and in the lives of the Taiwanese people, who, understand the teams truest desires is to serve them.

We now own 3 buildings, 2 for housing, and one will be a church that has 3 floors. The first floor may become a coffee house, the basement a prayer and meeting room as well as hang out area, and the upstairs will be where the church holds its weekly meetings, worship nights, and other main events. It has offices and bathrooms, all within a stones throw from Ximen Ding, the center of excitement for youth from 14-30 years of age. We have a vision to make this location a sending point. Where instead of having 80% of finances going IN, we want to see 80% of the finances going OUT! God is so good! To be able to be a big part of seeing the fruition of a plan that started 5 years ago, to see people who have always worshiped other Gods, who worshiped their ancestors, whose family worships their ancestors and other Gods. Who have a fear of evil spirits be transformed completely by the blood of Jesus! Is such a joy to me… I’ve seen families transformed, I’ve seen demons cast out, I’ve seen miraculous healing that I never imagined possible. But, we haven’t gone unscathed. We’ve seen spiritual attack, pain, and mourning. God doesn’t promise us that everything will be easy, he doesn’t say: “as soon as you’re saved, I’ll make everything in your life easy, ‘perfect’, and you’ll always be happy.” What a lie… No, there is something far greater, something far more profound that is with us always… Hope.

Before I went to Japan and I was in Taiwan, my heart was hard. I looked at the disaster as something removed, I saw it as something that happened and was sad, and I would pray for them, but it didn’t stir my heart powerfully enough to make me do something. I wasn’t filled with the passionate love for those people… God did and does and he taught me this…

It was that night in prayer, that God nailed me. He wrenched my heart with the profoundness of the hopelessness that was in Japan… but not just in Japan, in was also a reminder of the hopelessness in all this earth. I immediately knew, I had to go! I prayed and asked God to provide everything, because I had to be sure it wasn’t of myself, that I wasn’t just leaving my ministry in Taiwan, (infact I was a bit scared too because I didn’t know the radiation situation) but also because I didn’t have any money haha… and not only did he provide all of my financial needs (without a single US supporter,) but he also did all the planning, he did all the organizing, he pulled around all the right people to pray for us and to help equip us in the full armor of God:

The belt of truth, there was a man who felt like no one loved him in Japan… that God hated him, who was broken by the truth of LOVE! and accepted Jesus in tears…The breastplate of righteousness, God equipped us with righteousness, we felt no condemnation or corruption on this trip. We were filled with the purity of the Spirit, and had the impenetrable substance of this breastplate protecting our hearts. Our feet were fitted with readiness, Jesus filled our hearts with the words to speak. We weren’t operating in the power of our own strength, but ready by the Word of God! We moved in that power and weren’t found lax.The shield of faith, ohh the shield of faith. I have so many stories and testimonies of the power of this shield, but God equipped us every day to confront the lies of the enemy, to quench the fiery arrows of the enemy, but even more than that… to turn those arrows into water of the Holy Spirit. Restoring and quenching the thirst of hearts that were burned by the enemies arrows… It was powerful. Faith is so so important…The helmet of salvation and sword of the Spirit, nothing can separate the salvation that these people chose, that we chose. We all are equipped with these things, and every morning I’ve been praying this prayer, and then seeking in the bible the word to equip me with the sword.

Now, to the newest thing that God has put on my heart… I was asked to go to South America in September. I need to raise $10,000 by September. To reassure you with words, (but even if this is not enough, I’d love to talk with you on skype that…) with all of my strength, with all of my heart, with all of my mind, I follow the Lord however he leads me, whatever the cost, no matter the sacrifice.

The initial cost will be $2,000 to purchase vehicles needed by the end of July, we will leave September 11th for the Mexico border from Redding, California. Also starting in September, each missionary will be expected to have at least $700 every month available. This will go toward fuel, visas (when needed), food, water, etc. The trip will have many vehicles taking anywere between 40 and 50 missionaries through literally every country in Central and South America. We will be focusing on locating and reaching the unreached people groups and will be partnering with many churches and organizations in the countries we will be traveling through. Our huge group will probably be splitting up into two or three groups and traveling to different areas of these countries.

Because there are so many missionaries going, there is an incredible amount of connections and co-ordination going on for this. This is through the IRIS missions teams and I’ve been honored to be invited to go with them because 2 of their leaders were on the trip in Japan and told me that they were encouraged by my integrity, devotion, and passion for the Lord. Personally, I don’t feel like this is just a coincidence, going to Japan on the Lords calling and then being asked to go to South America… but please pray with me on this vision.

Please contact me if you would like to be a part of this vision to South America in any way. I’m incredibly excited for how God will use this trip to impact His Kingdom and pray that I will be able to join them, supported by your prayers, vision, and love! You can e-mail me at: ssidwell@live.com!

In Christ,  ~Scott

The last couple days have been awesome. Both days we set out in the spirit with the purpose of having him lead us. We drove to a city called tagajo and started to pray for the spirits leading, I had a vision of a factory and a large power line. The building was confirmed by 2 other people and one person had a vision of someone in a blue jumpsuit. We stopped on the side of a decimated factory where there were some Japanese volunteers cleaning. We brought them coffee, some snacks from the states and shared with them how Jesus completely loves them and desires their hearts and 3 people accepted Jesus! One man in particular, wearing a blue jumpsuit said he had influence on a lot of children’s lives because he taught sports at school and they love and respect him and he just shared how he desired to bring the love of Jesus to them. It was a huge win in the Kingdom and I just really felt like he would have a huge ripple effect on the lives around him and was just overjoyed in my spirit to pray into the Kingdom and know that God would use him in such a powerful way.

The next day we went to a pastors home that had been ruined and declared unsafe by the government, cleaned the disaster inside his home and packed the families belongings as our leaders took him to Starbucks and talked about a vision for the future, as well as encouraging and speaking life into his ministry.

After that we packed our stuff and went out to a higher class red district, I was praying passionately with all my heart for God to precede us as we would go into a place steeped in pain, I knew that many people would be going to bars to drown all the brokenness and that the only thing that could quench that thirst was Jesus. Before coming to Japan I felt strongly that Jesus would lead me to the hopeless to declare life and tonight he led us to a place of total despair. We talked to young people and old people, we shared the gospel and spoke life and encouragement into them, 6 people accepted Jesus tonight, the hurt and the masks of ‘happiness’ were torn off in Jesus name to reveal the mourning child like hearts beneath.

Many of them broken and crying were accepting Jesus to restore their hearts, one guy in particular was so moved by the Spirit after accepting Jesus that as we prayed over him we encouraged him to speak in a new language that only God would understand and he started to speak, it was mostly guttural groans and moans but Jesus was totally rocking his heart and his life. I came over halfway through and the Spirit just came upon me and I spoke with power over Him, declared Jesus’s absolute love over his life and some other things I don’t fully remember because I was totally being spoken through! He completely broke at that point and began to sob, he started to run but I caught him and hugged him, not letting him go. We told him to stay with us and that we loved him too and he broke away again just so completely consumed and overwhelmed by Jesus and His love. He took off and I pursued him but I felt in my heart that he needed to just be alone, so I gave his friend that knew him a bible and told him to make sure he gave it to him next time he saw him. Pray for this mans heart and that God would continue to reveal himself powerfully to him.

Also praise God for the two other men I was able to pray with that tearfully accepted Jesus, one of whom was a business man named Mykoto, and the others name was Nataka. They both were really struggling in their hearts with sadness but had put on a strong face, Jesus totally softened their hearts and we had a party to His glory out in the streets of Sendai. Which if you translate the second half (ai) means send-love. We thought that fit and along with the six we probably had at least 12 others who got connected and directed to a wonderful local church whose pastors home we had spent the day cleaning and packing who had also been connecting and helping our team hugely here in Japan. Thank you Jesus for this week, we give you all the honor and glory, may these changed souls bring you joy and inspire the hearts of everyone they share with; the profoundness and depth of your love. In your name we pray, amen.

Today was totally awesome, we packed up our stuff from our first location where we had just soaked in Jesus and learned more about each other, then we made the long drive to our new location. We unpacked and got ready for our day, today we were going to help by cleaning out some houses but because of the rain decided to do a prayer based navigation. We just prayed together and left asking God to lead us to where we needed to go. The devastation was incredible and astounding, realizing that this was peoples lives, their neighborhoods and homes they’ve always lived in made it hard but our group is strong and empowered.

We decided to stop at a house where we saw some cars that didn’t look ruined and found a mother, grandmother and two 3 year old children. We brought things for the kids and talked to them. They expressed that even though a lot of people had lost everything, including themselves, that they were joyful because God had kept them alive. They asked us to pray for them repeatedly and afterwards we gave them a bible that they kept looking at and said that they’d wanted one. It was amazing to meet them, they directed us to a location that they said was housing where many of the people from that area had lost their homes were staying. We parted ways after praying and they told us that their daughter felt different to them, that through our prayer her heart had changed, that was kind of cool.

Then after that we went to the location that turned out to be a school where 350 adults and around 40-50 children were staying, we were excited and went there bringing gifts and supplies. When we got there we were greeted by the school nurse who had some incredible testimonies of miracles from her family surviving, saying that her entire family had almost died including her daughter who had gone neck deep in the water but was rescued. She was very friendly, we peeked into the shelter and realized how many kids there were so 3 of us went back and put on cute costumes that we had (I was an alligator) haha, and the kids went ballistic they were screaming and wanting to be held, running around and jumping for joy. When we brought out the toys and candy that we had the kids went absolutely bonkers. It was a frenzy and in very very short amount of time all that we had brought was gone. We played with the kids and I was able to hug and hold many of them. They were so happy!

Then, there was a woman who approached us and told about how God had saved her and her family and that she had named her child Noah because she had once heard the story of Noah and how when God brought the waters he had protected Noah, funny thing is that we had brought Noah puzzles and the woman who had brought them had all of her bags sent to Hawaii instead of Japan except for the puzzles of Noah. The woman asked to receive Jesus as we prayed for her saying “Jesus come into me, Jesus come into me, Jesus come into me” over and over. It was really awesome and a good reminder on how God plants seeds even with like the story of Noah! God is so good! We went home and had dinner and got ready for an early bed after some debriefing time. Unfortunately some of our team members got food poisoning from some curry that had been made for us but not refrigerated including our team leader Yonnie. Seems like everyone’s recovered though and we’re looking forward to more opportunities where God does the planning and provides!

With love,
Scott

Hey everybody, I’m safely in Japan! I’m so excited the first day we had a little fun walking around the city then we were on our way to crash relief, we brought them the financial support along with letters, talked for a little while and brought the prayers with us from the students, it was encouraging and informative to talk with them. They gave us some info about their relief vision and needs. They’re looking for more “brains” than brawn for now as they’re still setting up for a long term investment in re-building.

Then we left crash and went to sanoshi where we’re staying in the Sano church. We had dinner and got some coffee with the team it was great, afterwards we came back, had a little time to talk and relax.

Funny story is that while we were talking about God, His glory, and the end times a loud rumbling started and then everything started to shake, lol, it was an earthquake not His coming obviously haha anyways I’m going to get to sleep, we’re going to head to the coast tomorrow. Keep us in your prayers, I can’t wait to speak hope into hopelessness, joy into sorrow, and see lives restored by Jesus!

With Love,
Scott

Wow, ok. So… A lot of things have been happening, probably more than I could explain with a huge long letter. So i’ll begin with how awesome God is. I recently was able to share the gospel message in a speech to over 4,000 students. It was intimidating because I’ve never spoken just by myself for 10 minutes in front of so many people, but the Spirit totally spoke through me and I was able to explain it in an interesting and exciting way. This is one of the first times this has ever happened in Taiwan, but through the hard work of friends of our ministry we got permits through the government explaining it to be the explanation of Easter. (We just couldn’t do an alter call)

God really spoke to my heart about going to Japan, and the students and surrounding churches raised support not only for me and another friend to go over there as support missionaries but also to send relief money, cards, supplies, to Japanese people who are in need. It’s been so amazing to go into each of the classrooms after the main speech and telling all the kids about Jesus openly! The school agreed to have on the yearbook of the graduating class a list of all the churches, our personal church address in Ximen, and contacts of people that can directly hook them into Christian support. I’ve been blessed to be a blessing, but most of all I just feel honored that God could use me and this team in such a direct and incredible way.

Now, here I am. I was contacted by IRIS relief groups, at first I was just planning on going to CRASH and bringing the relief from the students and churches in the Taipei area but instead a pastor here suggested we get connected with the IRIS relief team that is supported and run by Heidi & Rolland Baker. http://irisrelief.org/ is their website.

I’m leaving on Monday, April 18th (This Monday) and Mark and I will be meeting the team in Hanada, Japan. Please pray about radiation poisoning but also specifically that God would give us strength, power, and fill us with His Spirit so that his joy can be seen through us. We’ll be ministering to adults, children, and helping rebuild and restore some of the locations that were hit by the Tsunami. We are fully supported, including flights, food, housing, etc… Now that the day is nearing it feels like it’s happening all of a sudden! haha, I’ll be going to Japan until May 2 so please keep our team in your prayers.

Also, we have a new building for our church in Ximen, Taiwan. When I get back from Japan I’ll be doing a major update about this building and how Gods been moving in our missions team in Taiwan! God is so good! I miss you guys and I’m so glad that I have such wonderful spiritual support back home in America!

With Love,

Scott

Dear family,

I’m writing to you today and now because I really need your support, prayer, and wisdom. Tonight as we were praying I just felt God speak to my heart and it felt clear that He wants me in Japan. At first I wasn’t sure about it, and I prayed deeply as I sought to reveal any self desires and realized that I had none, if anything I had to deny my self because I love this team, I love Taiwan, and the ministry here… but the absolute most important thing to me in life is serving the Lord with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and when He calls me to Japan, which has been so strongly destroyed and is on the verge of a total nuclear meltdown, I need to make sure that it is truly Gods will and not mine.

So I’m writing to you urgently, asking you to respond to this posting after praying and seeking God for wisdom about this. I’ve already discussed this with my team and one other from my team has been given signs from God for the last half a year in the form of a rainbow as a symbol for Him to go to Japan (He just returned from a STM after heeding these signs.)Anyways, after God impressed going to Japan on my heart, I HAD to go on a intense prayer walk to just get raw and heart to heart with God. Mark came along with me, if it had been anyone else I wouldn’t have let them come but I knew God had been showing him signs.He shared with me this story: He had been praying to God to show him another rainbow and today as he went to work the first teacher that saw him couldn’t see anything out of her right eye for 10 minutes. During those 10 minutes the only thing she could see was a rainbow, she was concerned and later after she recovered she spoke to the boss of the school, who happened to be Marks mentor and had heard about the many signs that God had been providing mark through rainbows, as soon as marks mentor heard this she told mark that he had to quit, explained what had happened, and told him that she was going to support Him and send him to Japan. Afterwards, I hadn’t spoken to him about any of this mind you, he went on a prayer walk a bit before we had our prayer meeting and he told me that on his prayer walk he had specifically prayed that God would bring someone alongside to go with him, and that it would be without marks asking or prompting.

I strongly believe that our God is universal, that if this is truly a calling that it won’t just simply be from me and that God will pave the way! That above all else I want to serve God, regardless of where it is, who am I to argue otherwise. My greatest hope is that you will spend some time in prayer and if God gives you affirmation or otherwise please come along side me however you can, prayer, support, advice, encouragement, anything.

 

God reveal your wisdom now, in Jesus name, Amen.

¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. ¹⁴ The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶ for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

 

 

I will write again soon with an update, prayer requests, etc… (PS it’s almost 4am here so please don’t mind any mistakes haha;-)

With love,

Scott

Hello!

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted my last blog. I’ve gotten pneumonia and gone to the hospital, traveled the length of the country, met new people and established connections with other churches, and witnessed Gods Kingdom grow, flourish, and I’ve been present for miracles and healings in ways that I have never seen before, specifically physical healing, which I’m still prayerfully seeking wisdom on from God.

One of the recurring themes for me lately has been sickness. In America I never really had a problem with ever getting sick. However, I got pneumonia and went to the hospital for some time, recovered and got sick again and basically it’s a rinse and repeat, but i’m joyful! I’m full of joy because I had no idea how strongly my physical well being affected me both emotionally and spiritually. After feeling completely defeated by sickness,  I was seeking God in prayer and realized that He was trying to tell me something, that I don’t have to DO or BE, but that He was more than enough. I can even hear those words “Scott, I am enough. I am More than enough…”

So I’ve really begun to understand and learn what it means to love and worship God when my body is weak, beaten, or when I feel discouraged. To trust in Him with all things, especially when it’s the last thing my body or emotions feel like doing! but that’s enough about me, even bigger than all of that is the hearts that are being transformed by God in Taiwan!

I went to a conference in an area called Kaohsiung where thousands of people accepted Jesus into their lives, where there were miraculous healings, and just some awesome time to be refreshed in the Spirit. We recently had one of our Ximen teams first baptism for an older man named Roger, it’s been so amazing to see him grow and to hear the testimonies from his friends who said about him that “he would never in a million years become a christian.” Yet here he is, living a transformed life!

Praise and Worship
Our praise and worship times of late have been more than encouraging. We’ve had great prayer meetings and times of worship together. We had some Christian guests who came for the first time and said “That was the best prayer night ever!” and just cool things like that. Also just the other night, God healed several of our friends that came to the meeting. My friend William, who I met at the Gym and asked to come to our prayer meeting was prayed for and he said, “This is like magic! How does it work?” Perhaps a highlight was watching two of my Taiwanese friends share the gospel with him after God’s powerful miracles opened the door to his heart!

Building

Please pray for us as we’re looking for a new building to have our church at. We’re excited by a building near us but have gotten some points of hesitation, so please pray with us as we seek Gods will for our ministry!

Anyways, I’m so glad to be able to write to you all again. Praise God for all of you, I pray that he blesses you and your families I hope to talk to you again soon! In love, your brother…

~Scott