In the 1990's my husband, a group of teen boys and couple of other adults went to Mongolia to show the Jesus Film to various outlying nomadic encampments. They were the finishing up showing the film in that country...
They drove old Russian Jeeps, lived in tents, generally roughed it. The film was a reel to reel type using a big projector and a generator to run it...
Their returning pictures show big grassy valleys, high rugged mountains, rutted roads, nomadic camps, with sheep, goats, small Mongolian horses, camels, and smiling, welcoming Mongolian people...
They showed the film in Mongolian and Kazack...with the only common word being "oh"....they showed it in town walls, tent walls, gerr walls...wherever they could...it made a lasting impression on hundreds and maybe thousands of lives...the government showed it on television over and over agin...ministries were started as people wanted more and more of Jesus...
When I think of the cumbersome projector compared to the projection we have 20 years later, it it amazing..now we can watch any Jesus film in any of the 1300+ languages on our watch or phone or Computer, using solar power...
Groups like my husband's have traversed the globe, but there are still more people who have not seen the life of Christ on film...groups are continuing to be sent out to show the film in communities around the world...reaching remote villages in the mountains, deserts, forests and plains of the world...it not only touches remote lives but the lives of the people who take it...each more tender to God's working and word in their lives...
Our favorite picture from that trip was a group of people holding the Mongolia book of Luke, and the book is shining..literally shining...like a star...and people are smiling..with their homes, mountains in the background...the grassy plains stretching as far as the eye can see...waiting for the Word to go forth into all the world...
Thank YOU...for touching lives, our lives, my husband's life, with Your vision of sending forth Your Word in this small trip amongst thousands...
Isaiah 55:8-13 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snowcome down from heaven,and do not return to itwithout watering the earthand making it bud and flourish,so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joyand be led forth in peace;the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,for an everlasting sign,that will endure forever.”
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