Thanks for your prayers and amazing love in Christ! Praise God for His faithfulness to our family.     In the month of May, I had a great time visiting 10 villages. It was especially exciting having the YWAM (Youth with a mission) outreach team come to my home for two weeks. I hosted them and took them to visit all the house churches where our fellowships are going on. They did skits with dances and shared their testimonies. I preached the Word of God everywhere, chapter by chapter and verse by verse, from the Gospel of Luke. I was really impressed to see their practical lives. I had no mattress and bed for them- even me and my family have no mattress, but they never grumbled to us.     It is extremely hot here. Sometimes the temperature gets to more than 113 degrees Fahrenheit. We do not have good electricity. The walls of our home get hot and it feels like a heater. There is no cooler or AC. The fans just blow hot air. Because of this, we sleep on the rooftop. While the YWAM team was here, we divided the rooftop into two parts; one side for the men and the other side for the ladies. My heart was sad because I could not give them better hospitality, but they were still happy in Christ. 

Villagers listening to the Gospel

Visiting Villages in the Area

I was able to take the YWAM team to 10 villages. There were no good roads to reach them, no fans in the villages, and some of the villages had no electricity, but I never felt that the team was not happy. In every village, they shared their testimonies. All the villagers listened to their testimony quietly and intently with great interest.  Everyone was encouraged to hear their testimonies.     The team also performed skits that were a blessing to us. I took them to one new village where we performed skits and danced. I showed them the Jesus movie on the projector, and at last I preached to the village from 1 Corinthians 15:1-6, “how 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”. God opened the hearts of three people and they accepted Jesus as their Savior, praise God! Now these three who accepted Jesus are continually coming to the fellowship and learning the Word of God- verse by verse and chapter by chapter. I am planning to do Bible study with all the believers as they are growing in the Word of God. It will be good to learn the Word of God deeply, spend time in prayer, and hear their struggles and encourage them.  

Five More People Gave Their Lives to Jesus!

My dad and I are continually traveling and holding house church services in the villages. 8 house churches are going on. In some houses we have a weekly service and some house churches we do once every two weeks.     Last month, I went with the YWAM team to one of the villages where we have a house church going on. One of the brothers from the team shared his testimony and I shared the Word of God from the Gospel of Luke. After preaching, I always share the Good News, so that day I also shared the Good News. Three kids and two men gave their lives to Jesus. Praise God for His faithfulness in the ministry and for adding new believers day by day. Thank God for His awesome love!

Showing God’s Love at a Medical Project

In February, I did 20 days of medical training. I learned so many things about diseases; how we can stop diseases in the first stage and how we can treat these diseases. So many diseases come from the dirty water, unhealthy food, not living in a clean house, and being careless about caring for one’s self. If we are aware of these things we can stop diseases before they come. All my house churches are going on in rural areas where 90% of the people are illiterate. They have not learned about all these things. So, praise God for giving me the opportunity to do this medical training! After sharing the Word of God, I teach an awareness class for 5 minutes. It is helping the people to live cleaner lives and it is also helping me to enter into new villages.

Praise points:

1. Praise God for His faithfulness in my family and ministry.

2. Praise God for keeping me and my family safe through all the persecutions. Even though no one is standing with us, He always stands with us in every situation.

3. Praise God, we still have not had the meeting at the police station, and the meeting keeps getting delayed.

4. Praise God that my mother is getting better! She was sick for two months.

Prayer points:

1. Please continue to pray for our safety.

2. Please continue to pray for the registration of my church. Last week, I met with a pastor who was in jail one and a half months, along with his wife and wife’s sister. He advised me to register my church because he had no registration of his. That is why it was not easy for him to get out of jail. I need 20,000 in our money for the registration fees and there needs to be 50,000 in our money in the account. The total I need is 70,000 in our money for the registration. Please keep this in your prayers.

3. Please continue to pray for my uncle- that God will change his mind and cause him to cancel the police case.

4. Please pray for my neighbors. They are throwing stones on the roof while we are sleeping on the roof (due to the heat). The local pastors are advising us to file a police case on the neighbor, but we do not want to do this because my family is praying that God will change their minds. Please pray that they will accept Jesus as their Savior.

5. Please pray for the believers in my churches to stand in persecution and to be strong in the faith.

6. Please continue to pray for my marriage. I am going to be marrying an orphan girl. Especially, please pray for the finance. The total cost will be 250,000 in our money. More than 1000 people will come to my marriage ceremony. This will be the first Christian marriage in my area, so all the believers and relatives are excited to see it.

7. Please pray for two young boys. I have encouraged them to go to Bible College. They want to go, but their parents are not allowing them to go because their parents are not believers.

8.) Please pray for my nephew’s son. He is suffering from Encephalitis and was admitted in the ICU.

Thank you so much for your prayers and love in Christ! Pastor 11