For the last few days the Red and Silver team have split up on the Tibetan plateau, serving the only Christians in two little towns renowned for their Buddhist monasteries. They served in two little café’s and interacting and sharing the gospel with visitors. 
I stayed a few days with both teams, this is a story of a single Christian Chinese lady living in a small little town. 3500 meters above
sea level. For the purpose of her safety, we'll leave her name unknown.
She runs a little restaurant in town. No running water and she live in a tiny back room of the two room building. She is one of two Christians in this Buddhist town, and face persecution from time to time. Her husband is a non-believer and has been in prison for most of their married life. His Muslim family disallows him or their daughter to live with this Christian lady. She faithfully carves a living out day by day. Remaining faithful to the Lord Jesus, despite of the lack of any church or believers.
(Picture: Buddhist prayer wheels)
I remember well how she sang Gods praises in her tiny kitchen behind the pots and pans. I was stuck with her faithfulness, as after every day’s business, she carefully counts and records her tithe. Not tithe after expenses, but tithe of every cent she received that day! She wanted to give this to us!!!! We couldn’t accept it, but
she then resolutely made us take it to bless some ministry on our journey. Please pray for an opportunity to use this fruitfully.
The fellowship blessed us as much as it blessed her, as every time we would pray or talk about Jesus, her eyes would well up and streams of tears would roll down her face. The day I left I could not find her to say goodbye, but as I came to the bus she was standing there, she had already paid my bus fare, and resolutely started pushing me on the bus as I tried to repay her! I gave her a hug and tearfully we said goodbye. Before the bus pulled off on the
dusty Tibetan road, she came running with three bananas, a little snack for the road. We waved goodbye and the bus rolled on through the breathtakingly green mountains with countless little tents and Yaks that littered the panorama.
How can one so void of input, and so alone facing so many obstacles, still be so generous and faithful? This can only be the Spirit of God, He who is faithful to complete the good work he started in us.
What’s more is that God has blessed these to restaurants so much in the time we were with them, they has recorded some days twice or three times their normal sales! They had their best sales ever. We are so thankful for what God has done.
Please pray for the Tibetans in China, and more so for the few Christians who remain so faithful. We stand on the hills and proclaim His praises, and trust that God would send both harvesters and the harvest to these mountains!
My bus ride was not over, there was still more to come…….
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