This summer, from mid-July to mid-August, I’ll be going to Northeast China to teach English at a university for a month.  Hopefully through my interactions with my students and the people in the town, I will be able to share the word of God with them or help the newer Christians develop their faith more.  The team I’m going with is composed of 7 other people from all over the U.S, none of whom know each other already.  We’re going to a pretty rural place, and apparently there’s a church already there, but the students at the university don’t really go because they speak a different dialect and there’s a lot of cultural barriers between ethnic groups.  There is a couple that has been there for about 6 years now, who both teach English at the university.  We’ll be working very closely with them in trying to build a Christian presence on campus.  So yeah, I guess now you know basically everything I know about my trip.  Please pray for me whenever you get the chance, because this trip is going to challenge me a lot!  Seriously though…

Pray that…

• I would desire to glorify God above everything else.  If this happens, everything else will fall into place.
• The language barrier would not be too much of an issue.  I cannot say a single word of Mandarin, so pray that I have the motivation to try to communicate with people anyways and not just give up.
• I get along well with my teammates, and not judge them or rank myself against them.
• God would prepare the hearts of the people I’m going to talk to, because no matter how hard I try, it is not in my power to “convert” people.
• I will eagerly and joyfully seek out ways in which I can serve my team, the long term missionaries, and the people of China and put their needs before my own desires.

-Kellie Kress

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