When Carmen sent me to from Tonga to New Zealand I stayed at a YMCA in
Christchurch and during a meal time after church
and someone asked me a question, are you a Christian? While we had the meal then I
said yes. And someone else asked me the second the second question, How do you
know? Then bit by bit I realized, I wasn't a Christian when the light of the
Scriptures sweeping through. So I knew a lot about God, but I realized I didn't know Him
personally. Some, some guys they helped me how to
share the gospel and he told me, see carefully how I do it, because one day
you're going to do it. It was great. I am very thankful that God bring Kelepi
around and then we ended up making arrangements to meet the following
morning and pray and read from the Bible and share. From then on we, we've been
meeting on a weekly basis talking away and sharing from the from the Bible and
praying. Sharing the gospel to people it was a delight, because God had already
modeled that through the guys in the Navs. And then he says to me, now you
see me doing it, you go do it. So the next time we went I had the
courage to share the gospel with that person and then I came back to him with
the guys and Kelepi, I'd like you to help this man.
See I led him to the Lord and I want you to help him like just like how you
helped me. Kelepi said, no you do it. You do it. And I said, how? And then he
said to me come on in, so he took me into his office, he grabbed his Bible,
he opened the Bible he showed me 2 Timothy 2:2, "From what you have heard
from me before many witnesses and trusted the faithful men who would be
able to teach others also." So what you've seen me do to you
you do to him. I did not care about how he does it,
what made me, what prompted me is your obedience to do it and you're not sharing
me or other mans, he's sharing Christ. Then I really believe then that God is using me,
and I want to surrender to Him to use me just to do that simple thing, what I know
has been done to me, just do it to him. I don't have to do anything new. Before we
met with Palasi, I told him that's it's my life, making disciples and
sharing Christ with others and it's the same with my husband too, and we are the
same. I want God to use me to raise up generations of laborers who would love to
live and work among the lost. We work together to encourage them and we have
Bible study so Palasi is working with the man so I work with the women.
God allowed Kelepi and Palasi to move me they're having a Bible study in our village and
I and my wife join him for the first time. They were happy to invite me to their
Bible study group in the next week so I went to the Bible study
and Palasi helped me, follow me up, from then teach me the basics. The scriptures
itself is power and it's living so the only thing that I have is to pass it, is
to pass it on to the next generation. Aisea is one of the guys
that we are meeting these days that was doing Bible studies then also he is
leading the Navigator work in the Eastern District, he is if I am to put it
my Timothy. I really thank the Lord for leading me to meet those people and
getting enrolling in this ministry of The Navigators for me is quite a blessing.
I cannot explain how helpful Palasi's life to myself not only in conducting a Bible
study, in discipling, but observing the truth of God's word and His life. And
he had several guys under him having different times and different places
with powerful Bible studies with these guys and he's so into disciplemaking on
a one-to-one basis. And I know that God
called me to be one of his laborers in making disciples.
Tonga is the smallest island in the map- it's a dot, its a period and we are the only Pacific
island we still have our thing. I think Tonga they know a lot about God,
but it's a pity not many know Him. One thing is coming to me because we
always say the way Tonga is a Christian country, but it's not a
Christian country, it's a religion country. And the people now they turn away into
traditions but not the truth of the gospel that Jesus one has to follow.
Our extended family is still strong, some we still call it like this the first cousin
we still call it brother or sister it's not a cousin and that's how close the
family is. Some of the Tongan and family still live together with extended family,
grandmother and grandfather still living together with son and all the
grandchildren. How close the family is when we come to the move with the Lord
in the gospel it's going through the families it is still strong when we list
down the family to pray and you move the gospel to the family or behaves of name.
I would like people from all over the world to pray for Tonga, that Tonga would
be a place where God is glorified, through multiplying disciples. It's a
blessing for me, it's honor for me to be witness in the share Christ with Tongan
people and that's my life, you know? We are asking God to raise up disciples
trustworthy laborers in all the other Pacific Islands. God is blessing Tonga
but need we need to keep sharpening. We are emphasizing these days with the Tongan
Navigators the Calling, that's our calling, and we claim that is our calling
from God to advance the gospel of Jesus and His kingdom into the nation's
through spiritual generations of laborers living and discipling among the
lost. So we claim that as our own from God.