Now in its 22nd year, SEAPC Laos continues its great goal of changing lives through prayer. Today we'd like to introduce you to a friend and affiliate of SEAPC Laos, Sparq Asia.
As our team journeyed toLaos back in November, I clearly remember thinking, flying into Shanghai forour layover, “we just traveled by air 10,000 miles over the Pacific Ocean andthis was a huge milestone.” The sun was setting, there was a ring of red cloudssurrounding our airplane, feeling the greatness of God's presence gave me anoverwhelming sense of peace. It felt so surreal and wondrous, only God couldhave created such a beautiful sight. It represented over 30 years of believingand anticipating the promise that, one day, I would return to my home country. Itfelt like God had carried me through every storm. God is in the midst of us,always with us, and never leaves our side.
As we traveled to Laos, oneof the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, we saw many needs during our visit.While working with a local village chief, serving and loving on the locals andprayer walking over the land, a significant moment of spiritual breakthroughoccurred. The Village Chief accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Aswe partner other ministries and with local leaders in remote villages, ourvision for our ministry (Sparq Asia) is to create platforms for education,microeconomics, and sustainable housing.
We, as believers, are calledto reach the dark corners of the earth with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and weare committed to fulfilling this Great Commission. As children of God, we areto love our neighbor as we love ourselves. And because we “have” here in theUSA, we press towards eradicating poverty abroad in Asia, particularly in Laos,through education and other platforms. We believe we were made by God and forGod and because we understand that God is Love, we operate our daily livestowards extending that same Love towards those in Laos, who don't have any ideaof who He is! There are countless promises in the Bible that God has guaranteedto take care of all of our needs, therefore, we don't worry about the “how it'sgoing to happen”, but we focus our time and efforts towards “making sure IThappens.”
What is “it”? “It” is asmall word that encompasses a huge amount of task oriented work. We here atSparq Asia will use our resources to see to it that Laos embraces andunderstand that although they are a small sized country, they play a huge partof the “IT-factor” that makes God’s smile reach a million miles wide from Eastto West. We here at Sparq Asia are not just hearers of the word, but we findthe most satisfaction in being doers ofthe Word of God!