Letter 5

Hello everyone,

It's Sunday night here, just got done playing soccer with some of the local guys. (Lost again). I spent the morning in church and afterwards I finished selling coffee. Overall it's been a very relaxing and much needed day to myself.

This week I could see all of your prayers working in our ministry. I was able to tell the Japanese man, Kazuya the Gospel, while we participated in a rail jam. I will be able to see him again next Friday in Christchurch when we show the movie "One Year" there. The rail jam was a success we had about 60 people show up and were able to show many people Christ's love and there weren't any injuries. I was also able to see my friend, Luke (the skier I meant last week while staying at the church in Methven) come to faith. He prayed after we watched the video "One-Year", which focused on giving the Gospel to the snowboarder community. The movie was a huge success we had 180 people show up, many that didn't believe, or hadn't heard the Christian message. I am so happy to say that they have now have all heard the Truth and have been given an opportunity to come to faith, I know at least one has!

Thank you so much for your prayers. Please continue to pray for our ministry as we will be showing "One Year" next Friday in Christchurch. Specifically please pray that everything would run smoothly (AV Equipment etc...) and that our goal of 300 + people would show.

I spent Monday morning worshiping and learning about the Father's Love or God's love for us as His children. After lectures I spent the afternoon working at Peter and Diane's house helping them build a tool bench in their garage (the same couple I worked with last week). Monday night was spent in another lecture (I learned a lot about God's promises to us by Scripture and am very excited to continue to learn about them. When we understand His promises we can seek the gifts He promised.) On Tuesday we spent the morning in intercession and studying Scripture and on Tuesday afternoon I spent time in reflection and journaled about what I have learned thus far.
Wednesday was spent at Porters Skiing I was able to hand out 30 different invitation for the rail jam and One-Year video, many of the people I spoke with showed up. Wednesday night I had a great worship time with a few of my friends. We spent quite a bit of time praying for the rail jam and One Year video, it was awesome to see God answer those prayers in unique ways over the next three days. For example, we prayed for good weather for the rail jam. Well, when we woke up friday morning I found out that there were 150 km/hr winds at the mountain and they were not able to get the snow they needed for the event, well the wind stopped. Which was a shock to the weather men because when westerlies blow down from Australia the wind doesn't ussually stop. I believe God allowed it to happen.
Thursday morning we spent in intercession and learned about our God. Once again, I was touched by all of the promises that God gives us. I've given only a few here (John 17:26, Revelation 21:2, 1 Peter 5:7, Gen. 3:15, James 4:6, Phillipians 4:6-7, 13; Hebrews 11:16, Psalm 37, Luke 10, Luke 4, Psalm 91, Jeremiah 29:11, Joel 2:28, Romans 8:28, Dueteronomy 10, Jeremiah 10:22, Matthew 7:7, John 14:3, Exodus 14:14, Matthew 6:23, 1 Corinthians 10, Galations 3, Romans 3:23, Matthew 28:19, Proverbs 16:3, Isaiah 40:31). We spent the remainder of the day studying Turkey and learning about the different ways that we can serve and influence the people. My outreach team seems very compatible and I am really excited to work with them over the next months in our mission. Friday morning we dedicated to worship and then spent that rest of that day in Christchurch inviting people to the rail jam. I walked around with the coffee my mom had sent me and sold it for a cheap NZ price and was able to earn enough to cover postage (I talked to my parents today and they said I could keep the money, I'm a lucky guy). Now I will be giving the coffee away as hospitality gifts (Coffee is much more expensive in NZ).
We went to the rail jam and gave away free sausages. The Kiwi's call it a sausage sizzle, we also made it on Mauri T.V. (the extreme sports show)!! I think I'll be able to post a video on this blog.
Saturday was spent at Mt. Hutt and after selling my coffee and handing out a ton of invitations to "One-Year" I went to Methven and helped prepare dinner and watched the movie with 180 other people. I had a fun time with Luke and I beat him again, in foosball this time :).
This week was a great one I saw our Lord move and know that people were brought to faith and will be saved for eternity!!!!

Please keep me updated on life at home. I hope all of you are doing well.
Thank you for all of your prayers,

Travis