Dear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters, 

Greetings to all of you. I thank God that He is really great. He is a God who makes everything possible. He is a faithful God. God has protected us from all kinds of trouble and suffering. Even though Christians are being targeted and persecuted because there is going to be an election here, God is giving us chances to share the Gospel with our people.

God gave me the opportunity to take the Good News to two new villages. 

I am always grateful to God that He has given me two areas where people are hearing the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the first time through us.

I see many churches stealing each other’s sheep and fighting for each other’s believers. But, God be praised, my father and I are going to every house in the area and taking the Good News. I like Romans 15:20 so much. Paul says that the passion of my heart is to go and take the name of Jesus to those places where the name of Jesus has not reached. 

Similarly, God gave us the opportunity to go to two villages where we prayed for the women of the village. I preached the Gospel through the Words of Jesus Christ. Most of these women live alone in their homes with their children. Their husbands have gone to big cities to work as day laborers. They come back only during big festivals. I thank God that when we preached the Gospel to them, they listened very carefully. Since then every Sunday they come from very far away to our church. They even have to switch vehicle rides about 3 different times each way.

A woman from our church was scolded and chased away by people from a violent radical Hindu group when she came to our Sunday service. When we went to her village, her own son started abusing her in front of us.

We went to the houses of all of the people who were scolded and chased away by the people of our village who are part of radical Hindu groups. When we went to the house of the woman who was chased away from our village on Sunday, she welcomed us very well. As soon as her son returned from work and saw us there, he started abusing his mother very badly right in front of us. The poor woman could not say anything to her son. She just kept crying. I was very saddened to see that the child to whom she gave birth to and raised by fulfilling his every need, abused his mother because of the name of Jesus Christ. His mother later told us that to stop her from coming to church, he once beat her so badly that he broke her hand. Please pray for this woman. She is the only believer in her village. Her daughter also has faith but she lives with her in-laws in a big city. Now this woman also went to a different city to work and be free from her son.

My dream came true when for the first time a pastor from Saving Grace came to our area to meet me. 

I thank God that He really fulfills the wishes of those who are devoted to Him. I have been wishing for many years that someone from Saving Grace would come to meet me here. God sent two people! Spending time with them was very good for us. For the first time, some white-faced foreigners came to our place. Because of that people stared at them. I took them to about three villages to see my ministry area. People stared at them and insisted on taking their photos.

We had arranged meetings in 5-6 more villages where we go monthly and also in some places that we go to weekly. We knew that to prevent problems, the story of them coming and their photos should not be put on social media. Because of the situation, we cancelled the other meetings and went to a place to study the Bible. There, Pastor J* taught us from 1 Timothy. I translated from English for my wife for the first time. Spending time with them was a great blessing for us. They also taught us how to give weekly reports. We were praying for many days before they arrived that neither we nor they would face any kind of problem. I thank God that so far, there has been no problem.

We had a great time at a conference with Pastor B* in another state.

I thank God that He gave me the opportunity to go to the conference. I got a viral fever, cough and cold after going there. But the teaching was very good. Pastor B* taught us how we can become God’s man. Pastor A* also filled us with enthusiasm and excitement. Spending time with the pastors from the North and the South was a very exciting. I thank God for giving me this wonderful opportunity.

A woman who was beaten and locked in the house by her entire family to stop her from coming to church.

The Lord Jesus Christ said in His Word that unless you take your plough and follow me, you will not be my disciple.

Jesus Christ also said that when people persecuted me, they will persecute you too. I am always thankful to God that He has given me a church that is still strong in the Lord despite suffering. There is a woman who always comes to our church. I also encourage her. During Bible study I give her a chapter of Psalms which she reads and talks about with us. Yesterday evening, when she was getting ready to come, her husband told her not to go to church. She said that she was going. Her husband gave her a lot of work to do so that she would not be able to come to church. But the poor lady completed all the work quickly and then came to to our church yesterday. As soon as she got home from church, her husband, mother-in-law and other family members beat her a lot, took away her children and sent her to her mother’s house. The poor lady was crying and praying. She called us to tell us. When her mother saw that she was talking to us on the phone, she grabbed the phone from her and broke it. Our entire church, prayed for her and God heard our prayers. She came to our church again last week, thanks to God!

Praise Points:

• Thanks be to God! This month God gave me the opportunity to bring the Good News to two more new villages. Many women heard the news of the Lord Jesus Christ for the first time!
• Praise be to God! God heard the prayers of my family and you all. My wife is pregnant now.
• Praise be to God! Some pastors from Saving Grace came to visit us. We had a very good time with them. God let everything happen safely.
• Thanks be to God! The conference was very good.

Prayer Points

• Please pray for my wife. May God keep my wife and child safe. I am thinking of sending them to another city in the coming days because there is no good doctor here.
• Please pray continuously. A woman named P* in our church was beaten up by her family members, her Bible was snatched away and she was locked in the house. When she spoke to us on the phone, they took her mobile too. May God release her quickly so that she can come to the house of God.
• Please keep praying that the believers in our church may be strong in God’s Word even through persecution.
• Please keep praying about the coming elections. May God give us a government that will not make any kind of deterrence in spreading the news.
• Please keep praying that God will open up doors to more villages where we can spread the Good News.

May God bless you all!

Pastor & Mrs. 11*

*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.