This year, the Lord is using The Austin Stone to send around 17 trips to the nations. On these trips, partners with The Austin Stone are doing all kinds of ministry – serving the poor, providing medical care, evangelism, encouraging believers, praying for the lost, college ministry, and so on.
Yesterday afternoon another team from our church arrived in a major city in Central Asia. They were welcome by others from The Stone who are here in this city – it was like an Austin Stone reunion across the world! Their trip agenda is to be exposed to the people, pray for them, and to build relationships with them.
Today, the team visited a local church that is about average in size for this country (5-20 regular attendees) and then the team spent time fellowshipping with the pastor of the church, loving some of non-Christian visitors to the church, and learning some of the local language! It was a blast.
Check back here for more updates from this team in the days ahead.