"Chinny uc nogoon ungtay!" That's how you say: "Your hair is green!" in Mongol...in case you were wondering. This past Sunday we learned about the "Land of Blue Sky," Mongolia. What an amazing country! Did you know that Mongolia has more horses than people? That as soon as you're old enough to walk, you're old enough to start learning horseback riding? Did you know that instead of reading left to right like we do they actually read up and down the page? Pretty cool facts!
How about this fact: In 1990 Mongolia only had 10 Christians in the whole country! That's not a lot when there's 3 million people in the country. For many years missionaries were not allowed in the country and people rarely had the chance to ever hear about Jesus. It wasn't until 1993 that Mongolia opened its doors to missionaries and to BGMC.
Here's a sad story... When Marco Polo's father visited Mongolia more than 700 years ago, the ruler of Mongolia actually asked him to send them missionaries! But the missionaries never came, people never heard about Jesus, and as a result, the country's main religion to this day is Buddhism. How different would things be today if those missionaries would've come? It's so important to send a country missionaries when they ask...and it's even more important to say "YES" to Jesus when He asks you to be His missionary!
Remember to pray for Mongolia!
- For the Assemblies of God Missionaries,
- For the people who live in fear of spirits and who don't know that Jesus loves them,
- For the 5,000 children who live on the streets with no home.
What is God calling you to be? Where is He calling you to go?
See you Sunday!
Pastor Carrie
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