![]() They had hung a sheet to symbolize the curtain in the Tabernacle that once set apart the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place. Jason adds that frequently these testimonies referred back to a skit the missionaries had done years earlier. … It was neat to hear so many testifying to how God had saved them and what it meant to them to finally understand and believe the gospel.” “Seeing how the Siawis can be a little shy, I asked one of them each night to share their testimony. ![]() “We would gather around the fire and just talk,” writes Jason. Opening their homes to extend Siawi hospitality, the people generously served things like cooked grub worms, pig meat, pumpkin, greens and fish that had “hundreds of bones,” Jason shares.Įach night, Jason and his German friends hiked to the village to eat with a different Siawi family. ![]() Jason watched and listened with growing wonder as the Siawi people reached out to share their lives and relate to the three young men, Mattias, Edgard and Thomas. Jason was accompanied by three young German men who are interns. “My last trip to visit the Siawis was a good reminder of what Jesus accomplished on the cross … a good glimpse into the work our Lord is accomplishing through the preaching of His Word as He builds His church.” ![]() We do serve a risen Savior, but we should never stop contemplating His saving work of redemption accomplished on the cross,” Jason writes. We should be rehearsing, rethinking and reaffirming the gospel. ![]() “We should never forget the work of Christ. Jason Swanson quotes 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 as he writes to summarize his recent visit to the Siawi people: “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” ![]()
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