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 to Laos back in November, I clearly remember thinking, flying into Shanghai for our layover, “we just traveled by air 10,000 miles over the Pacific Ocean and this was a huge milestone.” The sun was setting, there was a ring of red clouds surrounding our airplane, feeling the greatness of God\’s presence gave me an overwhelming sense of peace. It felt so surreal and wondrous, only God could have created such a beautiful sight. It represented over 30 years of believing and anticipating the promise that, one day, I would return to my home country. It felt 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, one of 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 and prayer walking over the land, a significant moment of spiritual breakthrough occurred. The Village Chief accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. As we partner other ministries and with local leaders in remote villages, our vision for our ministry (Sparq Asia) is to create platforms for education, microeconomics, and sustainable housing.
We, as believers, are called to reach the dark corners of the earth with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and we are committed to fulfilling this Great Commission. As children of God, we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. And because we “have” here in the USA, we press towards eradicating poverty abroad in Asia, particularly in Laos, through education and other platforms. We believe we were made by God and for God and because we understand that God is Love, we operate our daily lives towards extending that same Love towards those in Laos, who don\’t have any idea of who He is! There are countless promises in the Bible that God has guaranteed to take care of all of our needs, therefore, we don\’t worry about the “how it\’s going to happen”, but we focus our time and efforts towards “making sure IT happens.”
What is “it”? “It” is a small word that encompasses a huge amount of task oriented work. We here at Sparq Asia will use our resources to see to it that Laos embraces and understand that although they are a small sized country, they play a huge part of the “IT-factor” that makes God’s smile reach a million miles wide from East to West. We here at Sparq Asia are not just hearers of the word, but we find the most satisfaction in being doers of the Word of God!
