Merry Christmas From Manila

Dear Partners and Friends!

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     Merry Christmas!  There’s so much to celebrate of Christ’s entrance into and ongoing work in this world. We wanted to share one story that captures so many aspects of where we see God at work.

Last year a Nepalese man in the student mentoring group I (Brian) lead received deeply discouraging news about his and his wife’s prospects of having a child. I felt led one night to take Morgan with me to go pray with them and spend some time with them.  It was a special night of ministering to them, but also for Morgan and I as it was the first real window she got into the significance of what we are doing here at IGSL.

A couple months later against all odds, this couple discovered they were pregnant in answer to many prayers and they just had their son a few weeks ago.  This past week things came full circle as I took Morgan with me to the baby dedication service where friends from church and IGSL came together to dedicate baby “Shalom” to the Lord. It was a special, international celebration of a communities journey of faith together with this family.

    But it was more than that.  This couple has invested a lot of time, as we’ve shared before, in ministry with a community of Nepali medical students here in Manila. He and others from Nepal at IGSL have been reaching out to the completely Hindu community of Manila Nepali graduate students.  All of these students were invited to the baby dedication and all of them came! They experienced an incredible environment of love and community, while also hearing the gospel shared in a way that was uniquely framed to speak to people from a Hindu background.

It’s a beautiful thing to see God at work in the world – to see people’s journeys of discipleship and faith, to see Christ’s body give witness to the one true God, and to see those who don’t know the Lord get clear invitations into the life they were designed for. We love that we get to be a part of these moments and it is even more special that our kids get to see God at work in these intricate, complex, and most beautiful of ways.  

That is some of what Christmas represents to us this year and we pray that you are blessed in witnessing how God continues to bring glory to Himself by drawing people to Him through His Son.  And we are grateful for your faith in partnering with the Lord in what He is doing around the world!

Merry Christmas and God Bless!

                                                              Brian & Christine

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