A New York styled summer

The summer is quickly drawing to an end and I for one am shocked at how fast it flew by. Our staff and interns have been so busy with teams, ESL classes and VBS and I cannot believe it will all end shortly. Most of the interns are leaving this upcoming week and they will be greatly missed by the students and staff. All of them have worked so hard and become such valuable assets to our ministry it is going to be hard to take over all they have been doing.Our ESL classes are still going and I am still finding great opportunities to share. My male intern have also had some incredible talks with our male Tibetan students and you can tell the Father is definitely at work here. Our VBS events in community started out a tad stressful but have been a huge success especially in the park down from our center. Many of the children have been Tibetan and I have enjoyed spending time building relationships with them. The summer has been good and all here have learned and grown a lot. I will be sad to see the interns go but I cannot wait to here what God will do in their lives next.
As we prepare to say goodbye to these interns, our staff needs a lot of prayer. We will go from 20 sets of hands to 8 and with two more weeks still in our summer semester we will have to juggle many different responsibilities as well as deal with the next two teams coming in.
Also pray for our Muslim students. Even though my ministry focuses mainly on the Tibetans, we do have a lot of Muslims at all three of our centers. This month in Ramadan and either our students will drop out completely or even if they were open before, they will become very antagonistic towards the Gospel. Please pray for the students as they deal with this spiritual warfare and that some will come to know Him in this month.
I cannot believe the summer has come and gone because it also means my time here is coming to an end. I have roughly 8 more weeks left before I head back to the South. I am not ready to leave yet so please pray I will get good sharing time with my students.

The Fireworks of Everyday Celebrations

Day at the Beach!

The past few weeks have been one celebration after another. For our country we celebrated our day of freedom and I was able to be a part of New York's traditional firework celebration after a beautiful day at the beach.
In ministry in came in many ways. First, one of my students who had moved and not only didn't tell me but also left me no contact information, dropped by the center. She was in the city with her friend and said she has missed me so much she had to come see me. We now have a volunteer at the South Asia Center that has a heart for Tibetans and she lives quite close to this student. I was so excited not only to see her again but to be able to connect her with my friend. It was such an answer to prayer. Another answer to prayer is that even though I have not been able to met with Kelsi on Tuesday, when we have our class wide Bible story lessons she has been sharing the stories with our new Tibetan lady in their own dialect. It is so cool to be able to see her not only understand the stories but also share them with others. I was also able to tell my friends at the restaurant that I would be praying for her sister who had been in the hospital. I praise God for all the opportunities that God is giving me and my interns to serve and minister the Tibetans of New York City.

the daughter of my restaurant couple

our new Tibetan student

My own personal victory, I know most of you know about my struggle to loss weight. This past week I was able to achieve the needed amount of weight loss in order to finish my application to go overseas! Since August, I have lost 80 pounds and it is such a God thing. I cannot tell you all how thankful I am for your prayers.



As this month this progress, please pray for continued opportunities with Tibetans for me and my interns. Also, please pray for my continued weight loss. I have to maintain it for 3 months. I know this is possible but I am so close and I don't want to slip now.