On Saturday Sarah and I went to her Tibetan friend’s house for a birthday party. I met lots of new Tibetan friends and to my surprise a few nice foreign travelers. I say it was a surprise because normally when other foreigners hear that I’m sharing the message of Jesus with others they get a bit upset. But at this party God did something amazing. As Sarah and I sat and talked, David, a traveler from Sweden, sat down beside us. Sarah, being her normal caring self, struck up a conversation with him. One of her first questions was, “Why did you come to Asia?” He then told her he was coming to find peace. Immediately Sarah jumped into the Gospel. For close to two hours Sarah and I share with David the peace that Christ gives. Over and over again David asked us questions that revealed his desire to know more about Christianity.
One of the things that shocked me was that his time in Nepal was his first real exposure to Christianity. He had a vague knowledge of what Christians believed but he had never been around those who were living out their faith. An even bigger shock was that we were not the first Christians he had met in Nepal. The Tibetan believers we were having a party with were the first. They had reached out to David in love and invited them to their home. Actually, when Sarah and I told him we were Christians he pointed to our Tibetan friends and said, “oh, like them.” It was so refreshing to hear him relate Christianity with Tibetans and not with white men from America.
Before we left I gave David my mobile number and asked him to call me when he had more questions. As we left the party that day I knew that God was working in his heart. I could see his desire to know peace now had a direction.
