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Ryan is the newly appointed Team
Leader of the South Asia team , and Suzie is a candidate preparing to join the team . Here , Ryan shares about the exciting and unexpected opportunity COVID opened up .
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Nandan
A year of discipleship
A word or two here , a phrase there … that ’ s about all I understand at this early stage of my language learning . But our weekly meeting has quickly become one of the highlights of my week !
Every Sunday afternoon at 2pm , I jump onto Zoom to meet with my brothers and sisters in South Asia for our weekly ‘ Big Book ’ meeting . Joining each week are a dozen or more ( sometimes up to 30 ) of our local development staff scattered across the country , getting together to study the scriptures and to pray .
It is all conducted in the local language , so much of what is shared still goes right over my head . But I can sense the presence of the Spirit .
Ryan
This weekly Zoom meeting started around 18 months ago , when COVID made travel to South Asia impossible . From the earliest meetings with just a few participants , and lots of awkward Zoom silence , to the dynamic and encouraging time it is now .
At a recent meeting we explored the story of the woman at the well in John 4 . Each of the believers shared how they came to know Jesus , which was mostly through friends . When the question was asked , “ How then will others come to know ?” Immediately and unanimously they responded , “ We will have to tell them !”
The B people of South Asia are one of the largest least-reached people groups in the world . Numbering more than 150 million people , most still have little or no access to the good news of Jesus in a way that makes sense to them .
But progress is being made ! A new , culturally appropriate version of the Bible was completed with the support and advice of team member Morris .