DISPATCH: Friday, Feb. 3

Our mission teams do daily devotionals together while in the field. These devos, which are prepared lovingly by spiritual coordinator Jordan Rowley, are a huge blessing to our teams. As this trip winds down, we spent Thursday evening discussing a devo that I wrote called “What’s in a name?” It is based on 2 Timothy 2:19 and the Tommy Walker song He Knows My Name. The point of the study is that we see and meet many people on an Evangelic Expedition. We learn many names. It is our prayer that we take these names and faces home with us. Their lives and ours should not be the same after these divinely appointed encounters.

Each member of our team talked about the people we were introduced to in the many places we went the past 2½ weeks. Marissa and Brandy both were moved by the same orphan, a young boy named Simson, at Tej’s orphanage. Dave was touched by Sarki, the Tamang woman in Gatlang who accepted Christ on the second day of our Langtang trek, and by Lalmaya, the first Christian in Korchabang, Rolpa. He said both just “glowed” the light of Jesus. My heart was broken by an elderly man in Korchabang, who, along with his wife, asked me to pray for them before we left Rolpa to return to Kathmandu. These are a few of the faces we are taking home with us as we begin our flights back to North America this evening:

The penetrating gaze of a Korchabang man.

Sisters in Christ: Sarki, above, and Lalmaya, below.

Simson, photographed by Marissa during their urban hike.

“Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: 'The Lord know those who are His...'” — 2 Timothy 2:19 (NIV)