Jeremy and Renee Bergevin

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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

Praise the Lord our home in Bulgan sold.

We are now in the guest house in Darhan until our permanent residence becomes available.

Pray for good transition to ministering with local churches and believers in Darhan.

In those months, most of our energies were consumed with construction. Sill people were praying and God was leading us spiritually, and had been working here long before we started to build.

When we did begin building you could sense we were in a race to finish before our next-door neighbor. He started his house a couple months before us. This Mongolian man, his wife and brother were making fast progress. We finished our foundation first. They got their fence built first. We got our roof on first. They got their interior walls done first. The end of September, they called a Buddhist monk to come perform a blessing ceremony and they moved into their house. We had just installed our concrete heated floors, and it became time for the baby's birth.

About this time, another neighbor started building his house. We had borrowed tools from each other and said hello often enough, but hadn’t got to know each other. One day I stopped by his ger (small round felt tent) where he sat me down to tea. We asked each other’s age, which is a big part of getting acquainted here. He asked what I was doing in Mongolia. When he heard “Jesus”, he dug around in one of his trunks and produced some AA material, telling me how he’d been freed from alcohol addiction 5 years ago. Then he dug a little deeper and came up with a Mongolian Bible. We shook hands and agreed to read that Bible together.

Only 1% of Mongolians are Christians. So I was pretty amazed that one of my neighbors would own a Bible and have a heart’s desire to study it with me. Our relationship with our other neighbor is considerably less competitive now that we’ve both (mostly) finished our houses. In late October after we moved in, that family came and visited with candy for the kids and gifts for us. Their daughter stopped by again the other day to play with the girls and practice her English. Now they frequently ask us to come visit.

On one visit, that family asked our occupation. Hearing about Jesus, they said that one of our construction workers who is a believer, had witnessed to them about the power of Christ.

Our neighbors’ doors to God are open because God has been working here way before we arrived. People have prayed that God would act, and he has begun a work here! We feel God is leading us into the work he has already started: “My Father is always at work to this very day.” John 5:17 No matter who we are, or where we go, we can live in the expectation that God has prepared a work and a next step for us to take for his Kingdom.

Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

Pray for implementation of Food for Work program and relief council based in CAMA Services Project Center.

Mongolia

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