Hello {{alias | friend}}, 👋🏽

No, I'm not talking about a job at Facebook, though there may be something related. 🌚
Let's dive in to find out.

Shall we? 🤠

Every year, our church organises an outreach for children during their vacation, with the aim of teaching them the gospel from a young age.

This year, we gathered some of them and taught them about Redemption in Christ over the span of 2 days. ✨

Lately, I've been having convictions about getting back into the marketplace.

I just paused and listed about 6 different reasons that came to mind - I think the Lord is trying to tell me something. 🤔

If this happens, it won't be me taking a break off ministry - no. 🙅🏽‍♂️

Lord-willing and Lord helping me, I will be shining the light of Christ in my workplace ✨, pouring my spare time directly into ministry projects 👨🏽‍💻, and waiting on the Lord for a ministry role clearly discerned from within the context of my local church. 💒

Lastly, I've not been feeling too well lately - I've been having randomly recurrent stomach aches, but I think I'm getting better. 🤔

I ran a scan just yesterday, and the results suggested that there's no real need to panic 🌚, so praise God! 🙌🏽✨

So far, I've worked on exposing Whatchu Believe to search engines like Google. I've audited the platform and added content that Google and the robots need to know about it. 🤖

It still doesn’t show up on the first page yet 🥲, but its ranking will improve with more engagement and interactions, Lord-willing. 🤞🏽

I also investigated and resolved an issue where analytic events were not recorded for the live version. 🛠️

This verification is required because volunteers need to sign in with Google, so we can drop meetings into their calendars. 👌🏽

"Sam, there's a lot of meta stuff going on at the moment.
Why not just launch already?!"

I think I suddenly developed cold feet! 🥶🫣

BUT, soon enough, Lord-willing... 🤲🏽

One of the highlights of this month for me was: seeing young people learn about their bondage to sin, death and satan, and how Christ is the only One who can save them and reconcile them to God. ✝️

It particularly warms my heart whenever I remember a specific girl in my class who came in a hijab on the first day. The next day, she came in a suit 😅.

Now, I'm not really particular about the dress code transition - no! 🙅🏽‍♂️

More than that, I'm happy to know that this girl from a Muslim home has heard about Christ, and is actually able to correctly answer clear questions about God's righteous judgement, and the only way of Salvation. ✨

Now, I know being saved goes beyond knowledge and mental ascent, and as such, it is my prayer that the Lord will bless His word to her heart, and the hearts of others, such that they truly believe the gospel unto salvation. 🤲🏽

Here are a few specific ways you can pray with me 🙏🏽:

I pray intentionally for my partners regularly, and I'd love to know how I could be specifically praying for us. If you are interested, use the button below to share prayer requests, and I'd be happy to join you in praying for them.

Amid the many conversations I've had with people, I've seen so-called "wise" men, and "free-thinkers" going about flaunting garbage as truth. 🥲

I've even seen so-called "pastors" publicly (and vehemently) agree with rebels that the Bible is incomplete and has been corrupted. 😡

There's a lot of lies flying around, and AI is not really helping matters. 🥹

I've had conversations with people who talk about revivals, but are really fed up with church, and prefer to boycott fellowship. 😔

I've conversed with people who attend church regularly, but silently hold on to unhinged beliefs because of fear of judgement¹. 🫥

This breaks my heart! 💔

Does it bother you?

Your neighbour or colleague could be in one of the buckets above. 😞

How about we skip the small talk and ask more important questions? 🤲🏽

"What do you think about Jesus?" is not a bad place to start. ✨

If you’re silently holding on to something unhinged, please let's talk through it. 🤲🏽

I'll be happy to hear you out, and help discern what's true, using God's word, as His Spirit enables us. ✨

That’s all for now, {{alias | friend}}! 🤠
I'll catch you in the next one, Lord-willing 🤞🏽

Till then, may our mouths be filled the praise of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. 🤲🏽

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