Thank you, prayer partners and financial supporters, for your continued prayers and support. I want to apologize for not connecting with you for so long. I was going through emotional pain. My younger sister, who was next to me, hanged herself to death. I was so close to her. This was a big shock for me and for my parents as well. Because of the sorrow, my parents became ill. My father (right) is still undergoing medical treatment. It was not easy for me to teach and preach the Word to the believers, when I myself was broken in my heart. Thanks be to God who has helped me to overcome this sorrow and take care of my parents.

Since my parents are not well, I have to take over all the family responsibilities. I am doing the farming since it is the rainy season (the time we grow rice).

The church members are doing well. Some church members are the only believers from their family. They are being pressured by their family members to not attend Sunday services. One of these is S*. He has stopped coming to church on Sundays, but goes with me to visit other believers’ families during the middle of the week. I am also evangelizing a family. None of them have yet put their faith in Jesus.

Prayer Requests:

1. Please pray for my parents to be healed.
2. Please pray for S* to stand firm in his faith and that his family members would also be saved.
3. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will help the family I am witnessing to trust Jesus for their salvation.
4. Please pray for me to grow in the Lord and do the ministry with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Co-workers in Christ,

Pastor 2*

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

Jai Masih ki (Praise the Lord),

I thank God who has kept me safe and blessed me. 

In August 2021, my younger sister got really sick. She had severe pain in her stomach. She was sick for about 5 months. By last December she was doing better. Then this April she got sick again. We went to many different hospitals for her treatment. They could not find out what was wrong with her. All her test reports came back normal.

She was admitted in the hospital for many months. In May she died. This shook us all. We went through so much pain and emotional and mental suffering. She was married and has a son who is 4 years old.

I have three more sisters. Two of them are older than me and one is the youngest. I loved the sister who died. I was the only one who took her to doctors. She lived with us since she got sick. Thanks to our Lord who gave us His peace to overcome this pain.

Right now, in my church I am teaching from Corinthians. In my personal devotions I am studying form the book of Romans.

God opened a new door to a family in my own village. I noticed a man named Hari. He always looked depressed. When I asked some of the villagers about it, they told me that he is always downhearted because his family is going though a hard time. He is always worrying about it.

Whenever I saw him, I always would pray in my heart for him and that God would give me an opportunity to share the Gospel with him. One day, I was working on my farm and this brother came to me. We started talking. Then, he started sharing about himself. I told him that I would pray for him right there and I prayed for him. The next day when I saw him, I asked him how he was doing. He told me that he was doing good now. Then I shared the Gospel with him. He told me that this is all new for him. He used to think that church is just a place where people who are facing problems go, so that the pastor can pray for them.

Prayer Requests:

• Pray for my ministry. May God give me wisdom and understanding.

• Pray for my family. May they grow in the Word of God.
• Pray for each of my church members to grow in the Lord.

Co-workers in Christ,

Pastor 2*

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

Merry Christmas!  The Lord has brought us all to the end of the year. May the Lord bless you in this Christmas season. 

I thank God for His grace and faithfulness in my life. The Lord has been opening doors for me to share the Gospel. A family in another village asked me to pray for their family.  While I was sharing the Gospel with the family, some Christians from the same village also came there to hear me preach. These people sat and listened to God’s Word and when I finished praying they asked me to come to their village every week to teach them the Word. They are Christians but they do not know God’s Word.  

I told them that I could come, but I would need to talk to their pastor first. Please pray that, if it is God’s will, I would go there and teach the Word to the Christian families in that village as well as share the Gospel to the others in the village.

There is another village where I often go and share the Gospel.  When I went to the village, as I usually do, I was informed that a young girl was sick. Her family wanted me to come see the girl and pray for her.

When I went to visit the family, only the females of the family were at home. I was told that during the Hindu festival Diwali she got a small sore on her leg. She saw many doctors and she was also taken to sorcerers (witch doctors) but was not cured- instead she became sicker. When she is taken to the witch doctor, something like rice grains come out of her sore. I praise the Lord that He gave me the opportunity to share the Gospel with this family and pray for their daughter.  Please pray that this family may know the Lord and also for the girl’s physical healing.

The village people have harvested their rice and now are busy threshing.  We still thresh rice the traditional way. Please pray that I would be able to build relationships with the people and share the Gospel.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

In Christ,

Pastor 2*

*Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.

People in my area are mostly farmers. They still do traditional farming, using old implements. We grow rice in our fields. Rice fields are now ready for harvest. The farmers will be busy harvesting and threshing the rice for the next few weeks. Although it is not easy to share the Gospel with non-Christians, the Lord still opens the door to reach out to the people with the Gospel. I have to go to the people at their work place, to their fields, and as I spend time with them they begin to share their problems with me. That gives me an opportunity to share the Good News with them and pray for them.

Sometimes, the Lord brings people to me. A week ago, a woman came to me. She was weeping; her husband is addicted to alcohol, and he beats her. She is ill, but her husband does not care for her. Instead, he tells her to go away and die. I talked to her from the Word and shared the Gospel with her and prayed for her.

I met another man at my relatives’ house. He had come from another village to see a witch doctor here. He had a problem, and he thought that it was due to an evil spirit. I met this man for the first time that day.

When he came to know that I am a Christian, he said to me, “I have heard that by prayers people are healed–Is it true?”

I said, “Yes.”

I had nice time with this man, sharing so much from the Word and sharing the Cross. Then, I prayed for him.

Please pray:

• For me, that I will grow in the Word and in the knowledge of the Lord and be His bold witness. 
• That the Lord will open the hearts of the people whom I have shared the Gospel with.
• For my church’s growth, that more and more people will be saved and be added to the church.
• For God’s wisdom and strength to do the work of the Gospel.
• For my family members to grow in the Word.

Thank you once again for your prayers and support!

In Him,

Pastor 2*

*Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.