Hello Friends and Family,
This week, along with last week, has been very full. We could go on and on about the things the Lord has done in our hearts along with the hearts of the people we have been able to minister to. Classes, missionary testimonies, outreaches, a church takeover, and more, is what our week consisted of. Here are a few photos from our outreaches this week.
Although we could share about all the things listed above we thought we would share about what God has done in our hearts over the last few months. Ever since we started dating we have talked about getting married and moving to the mission field. In the last few months, leading up to getting married and now being married, we have been praying often about what our next steps are to be. We plan to start a 1 year missions training program at CCSG in October. Then the hope is that we would move the following year if God opens the door for us to go somewhere. We have several potential opportunities to move overseas and help with ministry’s that have already started.
One of these potential opportunities is to move to the Republic of Georgia with Olivia’s parents (Kurt and Kendall) and serve with them in their ministry. They serve at Calvary Chapel Tbilisi and CCBC Eurasia. We are really considering this as there is lots of opportunity to serve and learn from Kurt and Kendall and the other veteran missionaries serving there. Also, in Georgia there are approximately 16 unreached people groups. Our heart is to, at some point in our lives, serve in an unreached people group. Maybe one in Georgia or maybe somewhere else.
There are approximately 3 billion unreached people in the world. Unreached meaning they don’t have access to the gospel. So even if the unreached person was seeking God, they wouldn’t know a Christian that could tell them about Jesus and they wouldn’t have a local church accessible to them. Also, often they don’t even have access to Christian sources online. These people don’t only not know the gospel but they don’t even have an opportunity to ever hear it. They have never heard of Jesus!
We were able to go on an exposure trip to Indonesia in February and are also praying if it is Gods will for us to move there. There is no ministry started there that we could join so we would start this ministry from scratch. Indonesia has many unreached people groups.
As you can see we are very much in a place of praying and openness to what God has. Please pray with us as we continue in further training. Then Lord willing be sent out after that!
Prayer Requests
- Please pray for us as we seek Gods will for our future.
- Please continue to pray for us as we serve here in Mexico for the next 4 weeks.
- Please continue to pray that God would provide the finances for the tuition for CSOM
- Please continue to pray for strengthening in our marriage.
If you have any prayer requests, we would also love to be praying for that so please let us know!
Till the last one knows,
Nathanael and Olivia Douglass
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