I just got off the phone this morning having had a very encouraging conversation with Emmanuel Pothen of "Influence International."
Emmanuel is the 24 yr. old son of Abraham and Molly Pothen whom we "adopted" as our national missionaries to India about 28 years ago!
Emmanuel and his wife Allison took a team from our Oakland campus to the nation of India and walked with them into the various villages, cities and particularly the compound where they minister to orphaned children and people in need.
Emmanuel was sharing how encouraged the team was by their experience and how affected they were by the magnitude of the challenge that we face in meeting human need around the world.
It's a wonderful gift to have someone of the spiritual capacity and intellect of Emmanuel Pothen and his father Abraham (who has his PhD from Fuller Seminary) on the ground representing the gospel on a day to day basis.
It's the support of people at North Way and just a handful of others that have made this ministry an amazing and effective presence in the nation. As we speak, over 40,000 people belong to churches that have been planted by the Bible school established by Abraham and Molly Pothen (which I personally visited some years ago) and the ongoing work of meeting the basic human needs of food, shelter and clothing of so many people.
We are talking in these days, at North Way, about social justice, but this is a different level of "justice." This is survival at a human level and eternal destiny at a sovereign level.
We are indeed privileged to be part of such things which are too grand for us to fully understand, but essential for us to pursue if we are to fulfill The Great Commission.
Please learn more by going to http://www.influenceinternational.net/ or reply to this posting and include your email (which will not be posted) and I will see that you connect with Emmanuel and his team. (I applaud the people from Oakland who made the investment to take such an exhausting trip, but their lives will be changed and therefore so will ours!)
Blessings,
Dr. Jay
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