His faithful pursuit of a girl called K.

Sometimes a story comes along that is too good to not share with anyone and everyone. This weekend, one such story unfolded . I hope you will rejoice with me in what our God is doing among the nations. I also hope that as you read this you will be encouraged to ask God if he would have you go short-term, mid-term, or long-term to be apart of someone else's story.


In the summer of 2009 I was fortunate to spend 2 months teaching English to kiddos in Indonesia. During that time my team and I met a girl who worked at a store up the street - we'll call her K. She didn't speak English and we could hardly count to ten in bahasa. Nonetheless, we made initial contact and invested time hanging out with her to show her the love of Christ.
A year ago I heard from a couple who had labored in that city for 2 years. They briefly mentioned that K had become a Christ follower and her family was not happy with her new faith. They were persecuting K. I called on many of you to pray. I suspect that some of you who are reading this prayed for K to stand strong amidst persecution and for the Lord to give her favor in the eyes of her family. A few weeks later I heard K was safe but that was also the last I heard of/about K... 

...until this weekend. This past weekend I went to visit Allyson at SBTS in North Carolina. On my last night there, we went on what was supposed to be a quick trip to visit one of Allyson's friends from college - B. [B and I had met briefly almost 2 years ago and she had mentioned she was going to Indo for the summer of 2011.]  I asked how her time in Indonesia was. As she began to tell me about it, she began to unfold a story about their national partner - a girl who just  happened to be called K. B told me all about K - how she and her team had discipled K but that K had actually been the encouragement to them. B talked about how K's faith is strong. How K is filled with boldness. How she loves the Lord and loves his word and loves to tell about what He has done. Then, she began to tell me about how K's family persecuted her, how the situation ended, and how K is doing now. 

Yes! This K that B spent the summer discipling is the same K that my team met and watched a movie with.

I walked away praising the Lord for his grace in K's life and for giving the opportunity to talk to the person who discipled her.

This is not the end of the story. 

Tonight, as I was riding home from the airport, I got a call from Allyson and her friend Ashley. Ashley started out with "your never going to believe this..."
As it turns out, Ashley's friends from Auburn (who i briefly met this year) spent a little bit of time in Indo where they just happened to meet a girl called K. They poured into her, sharing the Good News of who Christ is and what He has done for us. During this time, K believed and became a Christ follower. 

There you have it - a beautifully woven story of the Lord's pursuit of a tiny Indonesian girl called K. 


There are so many things that I love about this story.

• First and foremost, I love that God is being glorified by K as she shares over and over of the Lord's saving grace in her life. She is multiplying the gospel through parts of Indo. Praise the Lord!
• Second, I love seeing the web of people who tilled the soil, sowed the seed, and continued to water it. So many different people (seemingly unconnected) were involved in K's story. It shows God's sovereignty that this web of people would actually be very connected.
• Third, I love how many different people were unknowingly praying for the same girl. 

This is what its about. Making disciples who make disciples who make disciples. 

All glory to the one who makes the seed grow.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.                           -1 Corinthians 3:5-7