In the month of March our main focus was to follow-up on the non-Christian girls who came to the evangelistic Ski camp. The Lord was so good to answer our prayers as about 5 or 6 girls started attending three evangelistic Bible study groups. We are very glad to see their interest to meet with us and study the Bible. We pray that these discussions from the gospel of Mark and the gospel of John would lead them to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is very interesting that two of the girls who almost did not get to come to camp seemed to be the most touched by the Holy Spirit. In one of the groups we studied about the healing of the paralytic (Mark 2) and about the parable of the sower (Mark 4).

We discussed the Gospel both times and pray it will not be in vain. In the other group we studied in John 1 and had a very good discussion on forgiveness. In my last report I shared about a non-Christian girl who stopped attending our meetings. The good news is that she started coming again and came to one small group Bible study! We know there is such a spiritual battle for each soul, but we also know that the Lord will gather His people to Himself, and this encourages us to keep working!

As a follow-up after the camp, we had an event called "Remember Ski Camp", when we met together to watched videos and pictures from the camp. At this meeting we had a very good discussion on suffering. We watched a video on the subject and in the light of the great calamities happening in Japan, we discussed suffering. At the end we had the opportunity to share about the cross once again, showing that God's Son chose to suffer more than any other human being and that He did it on our behalf. One of the non-Christian girls said she did not understand all these things we explained about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for us.  In the camp she had had many questions and did not understand why a good and loving God punishes sin. I was glad she asked me to give her a copy of brother Charles Leiter's book, "Justification and Regeneration". May the Lord have mercy on her and bring her to an understanding and believing the gospel.  A great encouragement for us are the Thursday morning prayer meetings. Although just a few of us are attending, we meet to be revived in our spirits after we pray together. May the Lord help us as we continue with these meetings!

We are also thankful to the Lord for our Tuesday night worship meetings. We are studying about the fruit of the Spirit this semester and the Lord gave us a couple of wonderful messages on humility, gentleness and goodness in the past several weeks. Also the sharing time when we share how the Lord is working in our lives was revived lately. We are so thankful to the Lord for answering our prayers and edifying all us when we meet together!

I am also so glad to see the girls in the discipleship groups growing in the Lord! We study from the book of Romans together. One of girls is going through a hard time as her mother has cancer, but the Lord is strengthening her and her family in a wonderful way! This girl told me she wanted to see how the Lord was working and what He was doing for them, and not focus on the problem and get discouraged. Praise Him for His faithfulness to His children!  I see how the Lord uses these hard times in their lives to bring them closer to Himself and mature them.  What a joy to see one of the girls I discipled taking care of two other girls. She has a great desire to serve the Lord in any way she can. She has many good ideas that proved to be very fruitful in our ministry. One of them was to encourage a couple of students for each meeting to give a testimony. This encouraged all the others to start sharing, and now our sharing time is edifying for all of us. We thank the Lord for bringing forth more laborers in His work of spreading the Gospel!