"Suffering was not just a consequence of the Master's obedience and mission.
It was the central strategy of his mission. It was the way he accomplished
our salvation. Jesus calls us to join him on the Calvary Road, to take up
our cross daily, to hate our lives in this world, and to fall into the
ground like a seed and die, that others might live." - John Piper

"We are like people living in the dark and all we need is someone to bring
us the source of light. We know even now that the words you bring are that
source of light! Bring us these words! Teach us these words! My wife and I
wait for the day that we can live in the light." This is what Amos (Top Left
Photo) said to us nearly 6 months ago after we had hiked two days down to
the village of Taomi to visit our Dao teachers that were there planting
gardens and preparing to teach Bible lessons from creation to Christ in that
area.

When Amos said these words to us he had just the week before lost his
daughter to sickness and so he and his wife spoke openly about how they
wanted to know what happens after death. It seemed that God had planted a
seed in their minds through the death of their daughter and Amos' wife
Etowaa said to Jennie that same week "My children keep dying and my heart is so sad that I feel like my spirit has left me altogether. I know however
that you carry the message of how to go up to the good place above the sky.
So when you come to teach us I will be there listening to the teaching every
day. I am waiting for the day that you will bring us these words!" [Continued... read the rest of the story]