Light at the End of the Tunnel

This is the fourth Tuesday in a row I'm in UB. The daytime is gettng longer. Before long Mongols will be celebrating the Lunar New Year. The Mongolian New Year and Chinese New Year falls on the same day this year, on Valentine's day. Spring is knocking on the door soon! Everybody can take a break in the outdoors after a long freezing Winter.

Enkhee invited me to give a talk to the residents of Betel International in UB. I walked into an isolated apartment of the Betel International in the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar this evening. I was told that most of the residents were ex-prisoners.

Betel is a social network dedicated to restoring marginalized people to productive and independent lifestyles through the Gospel. The seminar room was filled with people. Every person has the bible in his hands. I asked who could recite John 3:16, the only teenage boy raised his hand and answered, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." in Mongolian. I gave him a small container of Chinese tea as a gift.

I was touched by the idea of Betel International, "we believe that if we can make one man whole, he will contribute to making a family whole; and each family made whole is a step towards leading a neighborhood, a city and a nation towards wholeness."