Pray for us

The following message is an email that my friend Craig wrote after I spoke with him on skype. Craig, thanks for writing all of this down and getting the word out



Good Morning,

I just had a Skype call with Felicia this morning. She contacted me requesting our prayers. Here are some notes from our conversation:

She and the team are in good spirits. Morale is excellent, and they are in intense prayer and worship daily.

They are experiencing some spiritual oppression at times.
- Liz had a very intense dream and had the impression of a heavy weight on her chest. She was unable to speak above a whisper. Thankfully, another team member heard her struggle and immediately moved to intercede for her and the oppression lifted
- The team was able to enter Asia's largest mosque and walked through praying and interceding. Afterwards, they met at a nearby catholic church to debrief and continue praying. At the church, Felicia felt an intense heaviness and felt like a hand had been placed over her mouth. She couldn't breathe or speak. She even blacked out for a moment.

The MegaCities coordinators hooked our team up with a local pastor. However, the pastor seemingly doesn't have any time for them. The team feels a bit like a burden to the church. The church has only set up a couple of "outreach" events for the team--mostly teaching English in an environment where they're not allowed to share the gospel. There is a real timid feeling about evangelism among the believers there. The church is unable to provide translators.

The church appears to be going through some difficulty. Some young people that are interested in evangelism and outreach have left the church. Felicia feels torn, because she wants to support the young people's vision, but also wants to honor the leadership of the church.

The team has gone into a slum area on their own on at least one occasion. They pray intensely going in and going out. Without any translators, they have been able to play soccer with some kids and make some connection there. She also shared about how fun it was to help a woman with her laundry, even though there was no way to communicate. Can you imagine what it may have been like for this woman where some strangers from far away and no way to speak spent time... Let's pray that somehow God's message of goodness is expressed by this team...

Okay, that's the extent of what I remember about our conversation. Felicia requests that we pray for them as much as we can. So I encourage you to join with our DTS and ask God for favor and blessing. The team will be in Jakarta for the rest of the week, and heads to Thailand on Saturday. Pray for their continued safety.

I shared with Felicia an impression about generations. I was reminded that God often works in generations--He's the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Maybe the body of Christ in Indonesia is in a wrestling kind of season, like Jacob wrestled with God... and that sometime in the next generation there will be a breakthrough, but that this generation is required to wrestle for their blessing. If that resonates with you, feel free to pray along those lines.

Felicia asked that we pass this info on to the other team from our DTS, but I don't have any contact info for them. BC, can you get that info to me, or can you make sure that this message is passed on to them in a timely way?

Thanks!