Thanks be to God who has been doing wonderful things through us! Thank you, too, for your prayers and partnering with us through your financial gifts!

We are doing well by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord has kept us safe in this extreme hot weather where the temperature has been about 113 degrees. He is our refuge and strength.

   We are excited to see the Lord opening new doors of ministry!  We have begun Bible studies on Friday nights.  We have been studying the first epistle of John.  I have been enjoying teaching the book.  The number of participants in the Bible Study are increasing.  Last Friday, 19 people attended! Praise the Lord for the hunger for the Word that His people have!  I have been using PowerPoint to teach. This is a new experience for me, too.

I had an opportunity to preach and teach the Word in a three-day convention at a village in another state in our country.  This village is a six-hour drive from my home town. It is a small village in a remote place, but more than fifty percent of the people are believers in the Lord Jesus.  The ministry there began with one family.  The young man of the family is the pastor of the church. The people in this region are not well civilized.  Only two or three families in the village have a television. We stayed in a room that had no fan and no air conditioner, and it was about 115 degrees Fahrenheit.  At night, we slept in the open, under the blue sky. But I had a very blessed time. In the mornings, we had Bible study, and in the evenings, we had church meetings. There were about 200 people in the evening meetings. The evening meetings were attended by the believers from other villages in the area, too.  These believers walked more than 6 miles to get to the meetings, and then walked more than 6 miles home again, at 11PM. They walked through the jungle, where there are wild animals such as leopards and bears. I was so blessed to see the hunger and thirst in these believers for the Word. In many places, Christians have bicycles, motorcycles or cars, but still don’t come for Christian meetings.

We are also busy in translating some Bible study materials for the Pastors School students.  We have completed a translation of a commentary on Philippians, and we are now translating the Old Testament Survey and the New Testament Survey. This semester, we will have more students, so we are making more beds and other arrangements for them.

   We are planning and seeking God’s guidance in beginning a Sunday Service in the town that we live in. In order to start a Sunday Service here, we would need a hall/building to hold the meetings in. Please pray for this matter. 

   Thank you so much for your faithful prayers and support. We are excited about the things God is doing!
Co-workers in Christ,

Pastor 15 Family

   Thank you so much for your prayers! Praise the Lord! He has opened the door for me to visit Israel! I am going to Israel on March 28 for two weeks. I am so thankful to SGWM for sponsoring me on this trip. I am so blessed to be able to go! I will be joining a group from the United States in Israel. I have always desired to visit Israel at least once in my lifetime. Praise God! He fulfills the desires of our heart.  I am so excited to see the places where our Lord walked and taught the crowds. I believe that this trip will be a blessing to me and helpful in my teaching of the Word. Please pray for my trip.

   The Lord has been faithful in using us for His glory here. We are at the end of the second semester. The students were mostly new believers this semester. Some of them accepted the Lord here in the Pastors School! Praise the Lord! They have grown in their love and knowledge of the Lord and His Word. We take the students to Christian families for cottage meetings, and they have the opportunity to share the Word there. The Christian families are blessed by the Word shared by these students. People are astonished at the way the students expound on the Word. The students are also given the opportunity to share the Word in Sunday Services in some churches.

We rejoice in the Lord for using these students in such a powerful way. We are so thankful to you for your continued prayers for them. Please continue to pray for them, that they will bring many souls into the kingdom of God. Pray that the Lord will use them in a mighty way during their semester break, while they go home.  Some of their parents are not believers; they are still Hindus. Please pray that these students will be blessings for winning their families.   Please pray for our financial needs.  Our monthly support has been decreasing.  

  Thank you so much for your prayers and financial support.  God bless!

Co-workers in Christ,

Pastor 15 Family

 Happy New Year to you!!!!!!

We pray that the Lord would lead you, keep you, and be everything for you this year.

Thank you for praying for our Christmas outreach program. The weather was very bad for three or four days and it rained for the whole day two days before our program–but we had perfect weather on the 20th! (We had our Christmas program that day.) It was a very cold night–but about three hundred people came to see the program!

The Lord blessed us and used us to share the Gospel through drama, songs and a message. The head of the village, who is anti-Christian, accepted the invitation and attended the program! We gave him a copy of the NT and a small gift. We also prepared Christmas dinner for 125 people. We had a wonderful time sitting around the fire and having dinner and sharing. Everyone was blessed. Since the Hindus became anti-Christian in this state, this was the first time that such a Christmas outreach program was organized in the open in this village.

We want to thank you and SGWM for taking care of the financial needs for the Christmas outreach.

Please pray for the people who have heard the Gospel and for the village head leader and ex-village head leader (she has also been given a copy of the NT and a gift)–that they would put their faith in Christ.

        Thank you so much for your prayers and financial support!

God bless,

Co-workers in Christ,

Pastor 15 Family