Batzaya

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Batzaya

Batzaya always comes on Sunday for a Bible lesson, to practise her English and to eat whatever I have in my 'ger'. She is a herdsman's daughter, with four other children in the family.

Batzaya is in year 6 at school and the children live in the school dormitory (if you can call it that) during the school days. Batzaya being the eldest, cares for her younger siblings there. The family is extremely poor and I have given Batzaya many clothes to cover her thin body. Yet she is very bright and active. She is also one of the few children amongst the 200 at school who can actually think in English.

Batzaya loves English and participated in the concert we held last December. She has also been helping me translate the short sentences of the notes accompanying the GRN Gospel recordings that go with the picture books which I use on Sundays. She really enjoys this and we are moving along slowly but steadily.

Batzaya's father is very abusive and often drunk. The family suffers a lot and Batzaya does not look forward to school holidays because she has to return to the desert 'ger' to work as a farm-slave for the family. We pray every week for her family.

Early one morning, I passed two drunk men on the street. One called out to me several times, "J... -teacher!" Usually I would not stop, but this day I did and asked, "Who are you?" He introduced himself as Batzaya's father and he thanked me for the small gift I had sent with Batzaya for their Tsagaan Sar holiday. He asked me to visit his ger next summer and I assured him that I would.

I was also able to tell him how special his family was and asked him to care for them. He was most respectful, though swaying a little on his feet! He took up his newspaper cigarette as I departed. Batzaya and I were greatly encouraged by this God-appointed meeting... and I am more determined in my 'call' to share Christ's love with the suffering herds-people of Mongolia, for it is God who continues to bring them into my life.

From J... in Mongolia.