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Here we have another student preaching the Word of God. At this particular location the kids lead 47 people to the Lord! This was the first performance of the day. Earlier that morning in our corporate prayer time we all asked Jesus to "Let us leave with a bang!" He answered our prayer. This was one of our last performances.
| Posted By: E. G. on 7/29/2007 - 0 Comment(s) - 0 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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After spending a day and a half in Ulaanbaatar exploring the city and doing far too much shopping, the team will leave early tomorrow morning to head to Beijing. They will spend a day and a half there before heading back to Orlando. Just to let you know, we will be unable to update this page while in China, so look forward to hearing from the team either Thursday evening or Friday morning after we arrive back in the states. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/24/2007 - 0 Comment(s) - 0 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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The team has had their last day of ministry Sunday for the outreach.
The students held a program at a local church followed by a program that was not originally scheduled in front of the men's apartment building.
Team members - especially Kadesh - have developed relationships with the students in the neighborhood as well as other youth in the surrounding areas. For their last performance, the students wanted to talk to the people in their own neighborhood, so they could tell those who always waved them hello and goodbye every day the reason why they were here.
For their final performance, about 170 people showed up and more than 25 people prayed the salvation prayer.
In total, the Mongolia team has had the following statistics:
17 days of ministry
3,611 people ministered
257 salvation prayers
30 performances
2 regional television broadcast appearances
and the bragging rights to be the first team to ever perform an evangelistic performance during the town's Nadaam festival under the name "American Mobile Theatre."
On average, the team had about 199.8 people attending every performance with 12.2 salvations prayers per day.
Monday morning at 7 the students will leave Erdenet for Ulaan Baator. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/22/2007 - 0 Comment(s) - 0 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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For those of you who may not know...there have been pictures added to many of the posts below. Simply click where it says a number and Flickr and it will take you to the slideshows that Tony has created. Enjoy!!!
P.S.-Many of the team members have diarrhea...please pray for their bowels.
P.P.S.-Sasha has been feeling really sick today. We're not sure what is ailing him but he too could use your prayers.
Much love. :) | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/21/2007 - 0 Comment(s) - 0 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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After a week in the Russian hospital, Eileen from New York is back with the team in their apartments.
Eileen has not been able to perform since her return and is eating only soups, but she is still in good spirits. She joined the team today at an apartment complex where she personally led one person in a salvation prayer and helped with two others.
The team also ministered at a men's prison this week, where nearly 100 prisoners and prison guards attended and 16 men had salvation prayers.
Afterwards, the students traveled to the neighboring province of Bulgan and the city by the same name. The students ministered to 320 people total and led 36 people in salvation prayers.
The team has thus far ministered to more than 3,000 people and led approximately 250 in salvation prayers. This has proven to be a very fruitful ministry time in the three weeks they have been here.
Carter from Florida ministered today to 25 children and prayed a salvation prayer with all of them, leading them all to start their relationships with Christ.
Sunday will be the last two ministry programs for the students before they come back to America for their graduation. They will be ministering at a local church and having one last program at the local youth park.
Early Monday morning, the students will leave Erdenet to head back to Ulaan Baator, where they will stay til Tuesday night when they leave for Beijing.
| Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/21/2007 - 1 Comment(s) - 0 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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After another day of ministry around the apartments of the YWAM Erdenet base, the Mongolia team got to have a truly "Mongolian" experience in the form of horseback riding.
The students also ministered to a packed Living Word Baptist Church today. The church was also visited by a Korean Campus Crusade for Christ team from California.
Eileen is in good spirits, and the team went to go visit her today at the hospital. She is expected to rejoin to the team on Monday.
The team has also been featured on local broadcast news twice - Ezra was interviewed at our first performance and Ryan from Florida was interviewed during the Nadaam festival performance.
The students will leave for the neighboring Bulgan province on Wednesday where they will stay overnight and also minister at a prison. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/15/2007 - 1 Comment(s) - 3 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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The students on the Mongolia team performed at a youth park right across the street from their apartments.
The park was full of children and young adults - a crowd of 132 people gathered to watch the program.
After the program, the local pastor that they are working with led a salvation prayer where 6 people were led to the Lord.
Afterwards, students went out and talked to the people. A total of 1,700 people have been ministered to thus far in the outreach and about 74 have committed their lives to Christ.
The team also spent a day out in the forests of the Mongolian hillside as the YWAM Erdenet team cooked mutton and sang songs for them.
The team also had a very unique taste of Mongolia in the form of fermented mare's milk. After taking a sip, the students were to lead the group in song.
Today, the students had a ministry program in front of the YWAM Erdenet base and also worked on building a fence around the premises.
The team has about ten more days before they leave Erdenet. They will be spending one day in Ulaan Baator before flying into Beijing and having a two-day tour of the lands, including the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/13/2007 - 1 Comment(s) - 1 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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The students on the EpicQuest Mongolia trip had an incredible week thus far.
On Sunday night, the students went to a sing karaoke for fun in Erdenet where they heard their leader Ezra sing every 80s song imaginable.
One of the girls, Eileen, also started getting sick that night. The next morning, she was taken to the Russian hospital where she was diagnosed with an inflamed appendix. Later that day, the doctors operated on her and removed her appendix. Since then, her fever has come down, she is becoming rehydrated and is on bedrest at the hospital until she is able to join the team again. She is still in good humor, and ready to join the team again as soon as she can.
On Monday, the students ministered in the Denj district, which is a hill on the outskirts of town. Their first program that day was inbetween two apartment buildings where about 80 people watched from their windows and on the streets. About 16 people were saved at that location.
Later that night, they performed on top of Denj hill, which was inbetween two villages and overlooked the entire city. About 140 people heard testimonies and saw the dances and dramas on top of that hill and about 8 people dedicated their lives to Jesus.
The following day, the students attended the Nadaam Festival, which is the national festival that consists of the three sports of wrestling, archery and horseracing.
The most exciting thing about this festival is that the EpicQuest students were able to do an entire ministry program on a stage at the festival and reach nearly 600 people with that one performance.
One of the local pastors that the team is working with informed them that their group was the first team to have an evangelistic presentation at a Nadaam festival in the history of that festival in Erdenet.
Today, students walked around the city and prayed over monuments of Communist, Buddhist and Shamanistic idols all over the city.
Erdenet still has some murals of Karl Marx, the founder of Marxism, as well as a monument of a Russian and Mongolian "brotherhood" in Communism. Students also prayed over ovoos, which are shamanistic rock piles with symbolic blue rags that people pray around. Ovoos line the countryside and the hills all over Mongolia.
Students also prayed over the foundations of a Buddha monument that will be built in Erdenet. The plans are to erect a sitting Buddha monument at the beginning of the town that will cost about $200 million in U.S. dollars. So far, the Buddha has not been constructed, but the foundation has been established.
Thus far, students have ministered to nearly 1,600 people and have seen 54 people dedicate their lives to a relationship with Jesus. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/11/2007 - 0 Comment(s) - 3 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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Thus far, the students on the EpicQuest Mongolia outreach have ministered to 769 people and brought 30 people to God's Kingdom. For their Sunday service, the students worshipped and ministered at the Jesus Assembly Church in Erdenet.
The Jesus Assembly Church is the first church that ever formed in Erdenet. Four Mongolian girls were saved and started the church with the help of YWAM.
The students are bonding more and more as the days go by. Rhonda has said that this EpicQuest group's maturity level more reflects students in a Discipleship Training School than a King's Kids program.
Pauline from North Carolina ministered to a woman who said she was a Christian, but whose husband had beat her and left her on the streets without her 9-month-old baby and two other children. Pauline prayed that things would turn around for the woman and her situation and that she would become more and more dependent on God.
Asia from Michigan has so far led two salvation prayers. Before this trip, she had never led someone in salvation. Viktoria from Sweden and Ian from Michigan led one person to the Lord together. It was Viktoria's first time leading someone to the Lord. She said that when she led that salvation prayer, she was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling and that the woman couldn't stop smiling either.
Students also have had interesting conversations with people holding onto Lamaistic Buddhist and Mormon beliefs. They have even talked to Mormon missionaries that are in the city as well.
In the coming days, the students will travel to the Ger district of Erdenet. Gers are the traditional Mongolian houses that are still scattered across the countryside. They will also be traveling to the Bulgan province, a neighboring province to the one in Erdenet, where they will be doing a few ministry programs. July 11 marks the beginning of the Nadaam Festival - a three-day "manly games" festival that all of Mongolia celebrates. The three manly games are archery, wrestling and horseriding. Students will take one or more of those days off to celebrate along with the Mongolians. The students will also be ministering at the festival on a stage.
Although the team has many amazing photographs they would love to share with everyone, the internet connection here in Erdenet is much too slow to upload any. As soon as faster internet access is available, we will have a photo update.
Many of the students are also fighting off sicknesses. Some students have had coughs and sniffles, while others have also had swollen bug bites. Although students are still trying to fight off the jetlag, pray that they can completely stave off sleep until ministry times are done for the day. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/8/2007 - 1 Comment(s) - 3 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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The Mongolia EpicQuest team safely arrived in the city of Erdenet after nearly 32 hours of traveling by air and land.
Although the flight from Orlando to Washington was not to strenuous, the 15-hour flight from Washington to Beijing, China, wore the team out. Their arrival in Beijing was followed by a seven-hour layover before their flight to Ulaan Baator, the capital of Mongolia.
After a brief's nights sleep at a local hostel, the Erdenet YWAM team drove the EpicQuest team nearly six hours through the Mongolian countryside, which was covered in steppes, verdant hills, mountains, goats, cows and gers - the traditional houses of Mongolians.
On Thursday, the students performed their first two ministry programs at the local food market and at the city fountains, which drew 178 and 73 people respectively. At the local food market, the students' dances, dramas and testimonies helped lead about 19 people to Christ.
The students - and the staff - however, are still trying to get used to the 12-hour difference in time zones here in Mongolia.
Because of the nature of the internet access in Mongolia, daily updates or photographs may not be available, but we will try to keep everyone updated as much as possible. | Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/5/2007 - 4 Comment(s) - 1 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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After a ministry program Sunday at the local The Potter's Hand Assembly of God Church, the Mongolia team prepared to leave Monday morning for that country.
Once the team has arrived at its destination, there will be a more complete update.
| Posted By: Tony Kim on 7/2/2007 - 6 Comment(s) - 0 Flickr - 0 Picture(s) - 0 Audio(s) - 0 Video - 0 Other File(s) |
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