[{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters,\nGreetings to all of you!\nI thank God that He has taken care of us. I want to thank all of you for always praying for us and that you are always ready to fulfill our every need in every way.\nJesus Freak!\nLike I often do, I am going to share the testimony of a believer of my church. Five years ago, my father and I went to a village. While sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we went from house to house, we met a woman named S*. She was very excited to learn about Jesus Christ. We invited her to come to our church. Gradually she started coming to church and started understanding more about our Lord Jesus Christ. She believed in Jesus and was baptized. Her husband also started believing in Jesus. He asked us to establish a church in his house also. We used to go to his house every month to have church. Because of that, the people around him started hating him.\nWhen they completely abandoned idol worship, their neighbors started making various plans to drive them out of the village. Even then they did not abandon the Lord Jesus Christ and kept coming to church. A few months ago, when the pastors from SGWM came, I took them to their village to meet them.\nLast month S*\u0026rsquo;s father-in-law insisted that they worship idols because the villagers were taunting him. The villagers were making fun of her mother-in-law and father-in-law because their son and daughter-in-law have converted to another religion. Even then, S* and her family did not worship idols. Her mother-in-law and father-in-law then beat up their son and daughter-in-law a lot. The villagers also beat them. Because of this, everyone in the entire village heard about what was going on. After that, the shopkeeper who was near their house also refused to sell them anything. That made S* and her husband very sad. They have three small children, and they had to go to another village to buy goods. Because of all of this, they have now left their village, society and relatives and have moved to a big city so that no one can stop them from believing in the name of Jesus Christ and their children can be brought up well. This is the eighth family of my church who have moved away- leaving their relatives, village, society, land, property etc. because of their faith in Jesus Christ.\nSunday Ministry\nI have always been thankful to God that He has given me such a strong church. Despite facing many kinds of mental and physical torture, people do not stop coming to church on Sunday. Every Sunday 40 to 70 people come to church.\nPeople from our village have always been against Jesus Christ. They have ostracized us from society because of the name of Jesus Christ. They stop people who are on the way to our Sunday fellowship. They brainwash them and threaten them in many ways so that they do not come to our fellowship. I thank God that the Holy Spirit gives the people of our church who are not educated the words to say. They answer those who try to stop them from coming to church and they shut their mouths. Only some new people get misled by them and stop coming to church. I am happy with my established believers. Despite facing many kinds of torture, they do not stop coming to church.\nBy God\u0026rsquo;s grace, I am starting to teach my church through the New Testament verse-by-verse. I have just reached the 6th chapter of 2nd Corinthians. 95% of the people in my church do not know how to read and write, yet they listen to God\u0026rsquo;s Word carefully, understand it and also share it with others.\nSunday School Ministry\nEvery week, Sunday School is also held in our church. It is led by my niece, who has lived with us since childhood. During our Sunday service, as soon as the worship ends, my wife and niece take all of the children to a separate room where they teach them action songs about Jesus Christ or help them memorize verses. Each Sunday, 15 to 20 children come to Sunday School. I thank God that the children also learn well. Sometimes they recite the verses they have memorized in front of everyone at church. Sometimes they also sing their action songs in front of church.\nHouse Church Ministry\nWhenever we read the book of Acts in the Bible, we find out how important house churches are for today\u0026rsquo;s time. By God\u0026rsquo;s grace, house churches are currently operating in four villages. Wherever we want, we spend time with people, do counseling, spend time in worship and prayer and study the Word together. By God\u0026rsquo;s grace, people understand God\u0026rsquo;s Word. Even though they do not know how to read, they are still able to understand God\u0026rsquo;s Word well by listening to it.\nEarlier, house churches were operating in about 10 to 12 villages. But when we would go to the villages, the house where the church was running started getting persecuted- some through their family, some through their neighbors and some through other people in the village. Because of this, we told them to come to our home for Sunday fellowship and Friday Bible study. So, now fellowships are running only in four villages.\nChildren\u0026rsquo;s Ministry\nAll of you who know me know that I love children so much. I have a special passion for children in my heart. In the future, I have a goal of opening an orphanage which God will fulfill in His time.\nWhenever I go to villages and wherever we have fellowship, I see children. I feel very sorry for their condition. Children do not have education, good clothes, or nutritious food. After seeing them, I always pray to God to open a door for them. Whenever I go, I take biscuits and chocolates for them. When I give them to the children, they become very happy. I also sometimes tell them stories from the Bible.\nEvangelism Ministry\nWe all know the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:18-20. That is why my father and I have, so far, taken the Good News to more than 500 villages. We have taken the Good News to villages where the name of Jesus Christ has reached their ears for the first time. Whenever we get a chance, we go out to share the Gospel. I thank God that the people of our church have become so strong in the Lord that they are also telling the name of Jesus Christ to their relatives around them and bringing them to our church as well.\nOver the next two days, I am planning to spread the Gospel in three states. This will be a journey of 2000 kilometers (1243 miles) by riding my motorcycle. Lord willing, during this journey, the Good News will reach about 10 villages. We will show the Jesus Movie through a projector in about four villages. Also, we will go to 5 to 6 tribal villages and distribute New Testaments and pray for them. Please pray that God fulfills all my needs.\nPraise Points\nPraise God! The woman I asked for prayer for, who was shut up in her house by her family is fine now and is coming to church again. Her brothers went to rescue her. Praise God! So far, all the medical reports for my wife are normal. Praise God, He kept me and my parents safe even though there is opposition all around. Prayer Points\nPlease pray for the family whose testimony I have written above- for S. and her children. May God keep them safe and keep them growing in faith. Please pray. I was preparing for about a year to send two students named R. and P. to Bible College. Before they could reach Bible College, their families sent them out of the state to work. Please pray for my wife. She is in the city and in the fifth month of pregnancy. She has to undergo dental treatment, for which I am going to the city again. May God keep my wife and my unborn child safe. Please pray for my mother and father. May God keep them safe from all kinds of pain and illness. Thank you all for participating in the news.\nMay God bless you all.\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2025/07/08/by-gods-grace/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God that He has taken care of us. I want to thank all of you for always praying for us and that you are always ready to fulfill our every need in every way.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pic-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJesus Freak!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike I often do, I am going to share the testimony of a believer of my church. Five years ago, my father and I went to a village. While sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we went from house to house, we met a woman named S*. She was very excited to learn about Jesus Christ. We invited her to come to our church. Gradually she started coming to church and started understanding more about our Lord Jesus Christ. She believed in Jesus and was baptized. Her husband also started believing in Jesus. He asked us to establish a church in his house also. We used to go to his house every month to have church. Because of that, the people around him started hating him.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"By God's Grace"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters,\nGreetings 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.\nGod gave me the opportunity to take the Good News to two new villages.\nI 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.\nI see many churches stealing each other\u0026rsquo;s sheep and fighting for each other\u0026rsquo;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.\nSimilarly, 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.\nA 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.\nWe 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.\nMy dream came true when for the first time a pastor from Saving Grace came to our area to meet me.\nI 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.\nWe 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.\nWe had a great time at a conference with Pastor B* in another state.\nI 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\u0026rsquo;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.\nA woman who was beaten and locked in the house by her entire family to stop her from coming to church.\nThe Lord Jesus Christ said in His Word that unless you take your plough and follow me, you will not be my disciple.\nJesus 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\u0026rsquo;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!\nPraise Points:\nThanks 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\nPlease 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\u0026rsquo;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!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2025/05/05/with-god-all-things-are-possible/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings 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.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/blog/news/with-god-all-things-are-possible-pastor-11-update-may-2025/\"\u003eWith God, All Things Are Possible\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Greetings to all of you!\nI want to thank God the Father and all of you. Thank you for always praying for us and encouraging us through God\u0026rsquo;s Word every day. I thank God that, despite the fog and cold here, my family has been protected from pain and illness. God has protected us from all kinds of opponents even as persecution is increasing here day-by-day. People are being tortured in various ways by the villagers and the society. Praise be to God\u0026ndash;despite the torture here, people are growing in their faith in the Lord and people are giving their lives to the Lord.\nI thank God that by His grace this month went very well. It was very cold here, but we still went to two to three villages every week and studied, prayed and worshiped together. Twice a week we also have fellowship at our home, a Bible study on Friday and a Sunday service on Sunday.\n\nHere are the testimonies of some people who gave their lives to the Lord and accepted the Lord Jesus as Savior last month.\nThe Lord chose a drunkard who used to beat his wife. The Lord completely changed his life.\nI thank God that He is really great and alive. He has the power to change people\u0026rsquo;s lives. This brother\u0026rsquo;s name is VY*. He has four children. He is a three-wheel (rickshaw) taxi driver. We hired him to take us to do outreaches. When he went from village to village with us for our Christmas outreaches, he kept listening to the Good News. God convinced his heart and he accepted the Lord.\nWhen we went to a place in his village in his rickshaw, he took us to his house also. The people who lived in his house told us that he beats his wife a lot after drinking alcohol. Then we preached the Gospel to him. He had already heard the Gospel from us during the outreaches he took us to.\nHe started crying and regretting his actions. We prayed for his whole family, then God brought peace to his family. He accepted the Lord that very day. Praise be to God! He is planning to get baptized soon. He now comes to our church with his whole family and listens to the Word of the Lord. I hope that in the coming days, like this brother, his entire family will also gradually believe and get baptized.\nA person who was despised by the people of the village for not having a son has been rescued from darkness by the Lord.\nI feel proud of God. God has chosen me and is using me for His work. God never discriminates between a son and a daughter.\nI am going to share the testimony of a person who has just given his life to the Lord during our Christmas Outreach. He is very poor and has 6 daughters. In our area, if someone has only daughters and does not have a son, then he is looked down upon. No one respects him. A lot of money has to be spent on the marriage of a daughter. No man will get married without being paid a dowry. People believe that the lineage continues only through a son.\nBecause of this, in the desire of having a son, many give birth to daughters even though they do not have the resources to feed them. People become more and more poor. Many people even sell their land to give dowry in their daughter\u0026rsquo;s marriage. Because of this, many people get an abortion if they are expecting a girl child. It is illegal to test whether a baby is a boy or girl, but everything can be done by giving a bribe.\nI thank God that when I reached his village and gave a New Testament to him, he was very happy to accept the New Testament. He listened to the true news of Jesus Christ. He started sharing about his life and that he was despised for not having a son. As soon as he heard the true news of Jesus, he immediately believed and handed over his life to the Lord. He accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior. Now he comes to our church and listens to the Word of the Lord.\nA young man, who heard the Word of the Lord, asked for so many New Testaments to tell the Word of the Lord to others!\nI thank God that He has been using me for His work and continues to use me. In November, when I went to a village that is 400 km away from my home, the Lord introduced me to this young man. His name is RK*. He does farming in the village and goes to the city to work. When I went to the village, I met him and showed the Jesus movie on a new projector. After that I also told him the Gospel. He slept in the same hut in which I slept. I talked to him about the Word of God throughout the night and encouraged him. As soon as he woke up in the morning, he said that he wanted to share the Gospel. I gave him some New Testaments and told him that if he wants to serve in the future, he can go to Bible college and gain the right knowledge of the Word of the Lord. Then he can go from village to village and share the Gospel properly.\nHe is ready to go to Bible college but his parents sent him to a big city to work. He often calls and asks, \u0026ldquo;When will Bible college start? I want to study the Bible.\u0026rdquo; He keeps asking for prayer for his parents to send him to Bible college. Because of his parents greed for the money he makes in the city, they will not let him go to Bible college.\nPlease pray that if it is God\u0026rsquo;s will, he will be able to study the Bible in the coming days and that he can go from village to village preaching about the Lord.\nPraise Points!\nPraise the Lord, God has kept me and my family safe. Praise the Lord, He is leading the people of our church forward in faith and in the Word. There was Hindu worship here and an idol was also installed in front of our house. By the mercy of the Lord, we were not attacked. Praise the Lord! Prayer Requests:\nPlease pray. In a state of my country some anti-Christian elements are planning to rape and massacre the daughters and daughters-in-law of Christians. The date is set for 1st March. May God give protection to all the brothers and sisters there. Please pray. In the coming days, there are many types of Hindu festivals in our area. May God give protection to our family and Christian brothers and sisters. Please pray. Our country has elections in a few months. May God give us a government that lets us worship and pray in peace. Pray that no law is made against spreading the Good News. Please pray. We are planning to do several types of outreach in the next few months. May God open the door to a village that has not heard the Good News yet. Please pray. A pastor is planning to come from the United States which will be the first time in our area. May God protect him and keep us safe too. Please pray for my wife. Three of her teeth are painful and hollow. She needs to get treatment. May God provide a good hospital here for her to get treatment. Otherwise, we will have to go somewhere else for her treatment. Please pray. Two students from my church are ready to go to Bible college. Pray that until the next Bible college year starts, there will not be anything that prevents them from going to Bible college. The last time I planned to send a student to Bible college, his parents called the police. May God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2025/02/23/testimonies-of-those-who-were-rescued-from-darkness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI want to thank God the Father and all of you. Thank you for always praying for us and encouraging us through God\u0026rsquo;s Word every day. I thank God that, despite the fog and cold here, my family has been protected from pain and illness. God has protected us from all kinds of opponents even as persecution is increasing here day-by-day. People are being tortured in various ways by the villagers and the society. Praise be to God\u0026ndash;despite the torture here, people are growing in their faith in the Lord and people are giving their lives to the Lord.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/blog/news/testimonies-of-those-who-were-rescued-from-darkness-pastor-11-update-february-2025/\"\u003eTestimonies of Those Who Were Rescued from Darkness!\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters,\n\u0026ldquo;But my heart\u0026rsquo;s passion is to preach the gospel where the name of Christ has not been spoken, lest I build on another\u0026rsquo;s foundation.\u0026rdquo;\nRomans 15:20\nHappy New Year to all of you.\nI am thankful to God from the bottom of my heart that He is opening up villages for me to spread the Gospel in where no one has heard about Jesus Christ before.\nOur First Christmas Outreach\nGod gave us two more villages where people heard the name of Jesus for the first time! One is a village that no one wants to enter. The people are very poor and of a lower caste. It is also very dangerous. People there beat up leaders and policemen. Even though the village is close to the city, the people had never heard the name of Jesus Christ before. When we got to the village we started inviting people to gather together. We then started explaining to them that we would pray for them. After that a huge crowd gathered.\nFirst, we taught them the Christian action songs. Then we preached the Gospel to them and prayed for them. We distributed New Testaments, biscuits and candies to them. We also showed the Jesus film on a big screen through a projector.\nAfter that we went to another village. There also we gathered everyone and sang an action song first. Then, we preached the Gospel and distributed New Testaments and biscuits. We also gave toffees to the children. Later we prayed for them. At that village one person accepted the Lord. After that we showed the film of Jesus Christ on the screen.\nPraise God, that day more than 1000 people, including children and women, heard the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the first time and prayed for the first time.\nAll this is the answer to your prayers. Pray that we are able to establish a new church in this area soon.\nOur Second Christmas Outreach\nThanks be to God! We celebrated Christmas in a home church where we have a weekly church service. Last year, some anti-Christian people came there and beat people up a lot. Because of that, many people stopped coming to the church.\nBut thanks be to God, we went there and invited everyone again and told them the news of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and encouraged them. We taught action songs to the children and distributed biscuits, balloons and candy. Those who had stopped coming to our home church came and joined in prayer once again and were prayed for.\nThe lady who is lying on the bed accepted the Lord Jesus Christ on December 25th. She has cancer. Please pray for her. The doctor charged her a lot of money and then sent her home saying that no one in this world can save her. But she has believed in the Lord and is coming to the church.\nShe sold everything in she had to get treatment but still could not get cured. When she first came, four people had to carry her to the church. But today I saw she came walking on her own feet with only one person helping her. Praise the Lord!\nAll the villagers in that village prepared a very tasty meal for us together. May God bless them all.\nOur 3rd Christmas Outreach\nThank you for praying for us and always encouraging us.\nWith God\u0026rsquo;s grace, we were able to do an outreach in three more different villages. As we reached the first village, we sat down and started worshiping. Some people came and one of them protested badly. I thank God that He prepared the people there to calm him down. We continued to sit there and worship.\nWe preached the Word to the people and then went from house to house. We spent time in 5 or 6 of houses and prayed for the people. While we were leaving the village, one man accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. He promised that he will come to our church.\nWhen we went to the second village, we preached the Gospel, distributed New Testaments and gave biscuits to the children. The people gave us a place to sit in front of there house. By God\u0026rsquo;s grace, one person accepted the Lord there also.\nWhile we were distributing New Testaments in the 3rd village, a teacher opened his door for us so that we could sit there and pray for everyone. A girl was suffering from an evil spirit. The sisters of our church prayed together for her and God freed her from the evil spirit. We prayed for many people and gave them New Testaments. We also distributed biscuits to the children. The people in that village invited us to come again. We all returned to our homes thanking God.\nOnce again I thank you all for your prayers and for participating in the good news.\nOur Christmas Celebration\nI hope that your Christmas was a joy and blessing.\nThank God! We were able to celebrate Christmas very happily. There was no protest of any kind. 500 people were invited but only 300 came.\nOut of those who came, more than 100 people heard the Good News for the first time. One person accepted the Lord during the celebration for Jesus Christ\u0026rsquo;s birthday.\nThe children of our church performed some action songs and dance programs. Gifts were distributed to the children.\nEveryone had Christmas lunch together. It took us about 3 hours to feed everyone. Thank God that everything went well.\nMay God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2025/01/21/my-hearts-passion/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders and Supporters,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;But my heart\u0026rsquo;s passion is to preach the gospel where the name of Christ has not been spoken, lest I build on another\u0026rsquo;s foundation.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRomans 15:20\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHappy New Year to all of you.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am thankful to God from the bottom of my heart that He is opening up villages for me to spread the Gospel in where no one has heard about Jesus Christ before.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=37608\"\u003eMy Heart’s Passion\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders, and Supporters,\nThe passion of my heart is to reach the places where the name of Jesus has not reached.\nWe did a 5-day outreach by motorbike in two different states to 5 new villages that are about 400 km (250 miles) from my home.\nAs we know, this is the end times. Billions of people are leaving the earth without hearing the Good News. I thank God that He gave me the opportunity to go to such an area where no one has heard the name of Jesus Christ before. It is far from my home.\nI began praying for a this village area about 3 months ago. Because of the floods, I could not go right away. As soon as the floods subsided, I planned to go there and spread the Good News in two villages.\nAs soon as I reached there and saw the love of the people and their hospitality and hunger and thirst for God\u0026rsquo;s Word, I decided to stay for 3 more days. I showed the Jesus film to them. I also read the Word of Jesus Christ to them, distributed New Testaments and 4 page Gospel tracts, and gave chocolates to the children.\nWhile I was on the trip, I entered another state where I met tribal people. I talked to them and told them about Jesus Christ. They invited us to come and show the film of Jesus Christ on our screen. After talking to them, I felt that they were very hungry and thirsty to hear the Word of God. All of the men, women and children were roaming around only half-clothed. I did not take their photo because they might have gotten angry, since it was the first time I went.\nOn the way back, I had to ride my motorbike for about 400 kilometers (250 miles), which should usually take about 12 hours. A boy from my church came back with me on my bike. I drove the bike for 6-7 hours, then I let him drive the bike for a while. He drove the bike into a drain, and I got a slight injury on my right hand. By the grace of God, the swelling is going down now. The pain has also gone away.\nMay God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/12/11/where-jesus-name-has-never-been-spoken/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders, and Supporters,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe passion of my heart is to reach the places where the name of Jesus has not reached.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe did a 5-day outreach by motorbike in two different states to 5 new villages that are about 400 km (250 miles) from my home.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG20241119161756-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs we know, this is the end times. Billions of people are leaving the earth without hearing the Good News. I thank God that He gave me the opportunity to go to such an area where no one has heard the name of Jesus Christ before. It is far from my home.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=37243\"\u003eWhere Jesus’ Name Has Never Been Spoken\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders, and Supporters,\nGreetings to all of you! First of all, I want to thank God and all of you for your prayers, Christian love, and support. By your prayers and love, we have reached over 500 villages that no one had reached before. In all of these villages, the people had never even heard the name of Jesus Christ before we shared.\nDuring these 12 years, we distributed over 12,000 New Testaments and over 50,000 four-page Gospel tracts. We played the Jesus movie on a screen in over 60 rural villages and distributed about 20 audio Bibles. We baptized more than 200 people.\nTogether, my dad and I planted churches in over 60 villages at different times. However, because of persecution and a lack of jobs, most of the churches have closed. There are not good jobs in my state, so people move to bigger cities to find work. Right now, three house churches are being held in different villages. We are planning to start another church in a village we did outreach in last month.\nRecently, over a hundred people began coming to our Sunday services. We do not have enough space to seat a 100 people. So, we divided the church into two parts. Those who were already baptized, we invite on Fridays. Those who are new and are not baptized, we invite on Sundays. This way we can all sit comfortably. It is all happening because of your prayers.\nWe had a great time sharing the Lord\u0026rsquo;s Supper together and having a fellowship meal.\nI thank God that He is increasing our people in faith and in the knowledge of His Word daily. The believers of our church are facing pain and trouble. They have a difficult time being able to come to the Lord\u0026rsquo;s house, yet they are not abandoning the Lord. God be praised!\nDuring our special gathering, we spent a lot of time with the believers of our church in fellowship and Bible study. We prayed throughout the day and also had the Lord\u0026rsquo;s Supper and a fellowship meal. This was a matter of great excitement for us. We prayed for the whole world, especially for the Gospel to be spread. There are still many places left where the name of Jesus has not even reached the ears of the people. We also prayed for our organization and for all of the servants, preachers and pastors who are imprisoned and persecuted for the name of Jesus. After having a fellowship meal, everyone went home.\nWhile I was in another city for a meeting, my neighbor called the police to arrest my father.\nI thank God that He is great! He gave me and my wife the opportunity to attend a meeting in another state. We were encouraged by Pastor G* and J*. God also gave us the opportunity to visit a Hindu pilgrimage city. There, my wife and I preached the Gospel to some Hindu priests and distributed candy to the children living in the slums.\nWhile I was gone, our neighbors, who are always against our church, broke the entire water drain in front of our house and church. When my father stopped them, they abused him and called the police. They told the police that my father converts people to another religion. However, because there is no special law here right now, the police did not say anything about conversions. However, the police sided with the people against us and scolded my father and mother.\nThe police told my parents, \u0026ldquo;The drain will be built again, so no one should trouble these people.” However, it has been more than a month, and the drain has not been rebuilt yet. Because of this, we and the people of our church have great difficulty coming into our home and fellowship. It is especially difficult when we need to take a motorbike out to do ministry. Two or three people are needed to help push the motorbike out across the area and also to help it come back in. We cannot leave the motorbike outside. It would be stolen within an hour if we did.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease continue to pray for our church family. May the Lord help them as they face persecution. Please continue pray for my parents. They both suffer with bone pain and still share the Good News. Please pray for my neighbors to believe on Jesus. Pray also that they will live peacefully and rebuild the drain quickly. The neighbor who led the breaking of the drain is a village leader. There are many outreaches that we are planning in November and December. The news about the outreaches needs to be spread in many villages. May God fulfill all of our needs for this. May He also grant us protection from those who are anti-Christian. Please pray that God gives us protection during Christmas. Many anti-Christians are planning to attack on Christmas. A very large Hindu festival is being held in our ministry area. So far, about 7 churches have been attacked. Those who do not participate in this festival are abused physically and mentally. May God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/11/28/i-am-not-ashamed-of-the-gospel/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders, and Supporters,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/November-3.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you! First of all, I want to thank God and all of you for your prayers, Christian love, and support. By your prayers and love, we have reached over 500 villages that no one had reached before. In all of these villages, the people had never even heard the name of Jesus Christ before we shared.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring these 12 years, we distributed over 12,000 New Testaments and over 50,000 four-page Gospel tracts. We played the Jesus movie on a screen in over 60 rural villages and distributed about 20 audio Bibles. We baptized more than 200 people.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=37097\"\u003eI Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders, and Church Family,\nGreetings to all of you!\nI thank God that He has kept us all safe. I also thank God for you. You keep praying for us and standing shoulder to shoulder with us, like a family, in every difficult time. Through your prayers and by God\u0026rsquo;s grace, we now have church in three villages. Also, Sunday services and Friday Bible studies are held in the hall of our house, which my father built after receiving a\nvision. In our Friday Bible study, I started teaching with Genesis Chapter 1, verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter. Now, I have reached\nExodus Chapter 18. In our Sunday service, I am teaching through the New Testament. Right now, we are in the second to the last chapter of 1st Corinthians.\nOne Day Outreach!\nWhy people said \u0026ldquo;God has come to our village today!\u0026rdquo;\nWe all know when Lord Jesus Christ met a Samaritan woman in John chapter 4 and\nHe went to her village, the people welcomed Him and accepted God. In this way we also got the opportunity to go to a village where no pastor or evangelist had ever before reached. This village is completely different from other villages, because it is a village of people of lower castes. Because of that, people of other castes hesitate to enter this village.\nA believer of my church grew up in this village. I have written about her many times in prayer requests. Her name is R*. Her father-in-law, the people of the village and the Hindu fundamentalists were ready to kill her for refusing to leave Jesus Christ, yet she did not leave Jesus Christ. She shared with us that the Gospel had not yet reached her mother\u0026rsquo;s village. I had been preaching from 1 Corinthians 15. Through that chapter, she got more excited to spread the Good News.\nWhen we reached her mom’s village, they gave us a very warm welcome and jumped with joy because it was the first time that someone had entered their village. Two women started saying, \u0026ldquo;You people are God for us.\u0026rdquo;\nWe explained to them, \u0026ldquo;We are not God, we are humans like you are, we have come only to share the news of Jesus Christ.\u0026rdquo; Initially only 10 or 15 people came. But as soon as we started worship, over 50 people gathered!\nI started sharing the Word of God. It was very hot. There had not been rain for a month and there was no wind. We were so drenched in sweat it was like we had taken a bath. I was also sick with a cold, cough and fever. Still, we were very happy and joyful as we shared the Good News. That day two people in that village believed in Jesus Christ!\nAfterward, the people prepared many types of food for us for lunch. When we were on our way back, some people walked with us part way. They told us that they would come to our Sunday service.\nWhen my father and I were on our way back, the tire of our motorbike burst. We had some trouble because of that. Later, we got a new tire put on the motorbike. I thank God that everything went well. The following week, 10 people from that village came to our Sunday service. I believe that God is going to plant a church in that village also.\nWhy a father called the police to get his son, daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter out of the village.\n\u0026ldquo;And your parents, brothers, relatives and friends will also hand you over; they will even get some of you killed.\u0026rdquo;\nLuke 21:16\nWe always thank God that the people of our church understand God\u0026rsquo;s Word deeply and are ready to bear the greatest sufferings in\nthe name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Recently, a family had gone to the capital after believing in Jesus. As soon as they came back from the capital city, their family members asked them to do idol worship. They refused and said, \u0026ldquo;We believe in Jesus Christ and we will not worship any kind of idol.\u0026rdquo; Upon hearing this, the man\u0026rsquo;s father got angry. He gathered the villagers and tried to kill him. His father then called the police.\nWhen the police reached there, the police saved the life of the believing family. The man said in front of everyone, as the whole village was gathered, \u0026ldquo;If you want to kill me, and then kill me, but we will not leave Jesus Christ.\u0026rdquo;\nWhen the policeman heard this, he said, \u0026ldquo;We cannot stop anyone from following any religion.\u0026rdquo;\nThe believer\u0026rsquo;s father said, \u0026ldquo;From today on, no one will have any kind of relationship with this family. No one will talk to them. No one will eat food in their house. No one will invite them for dinner.\u0026rdquo;\nThe believer said, \u0026ldquo;We are happy with our Lord Jesus Christ. You all do whatever you want to do.\u0026rdquo;\nI am thankful to God that this family is always coming to the church and listening to the Word of the Lord. No inquiry of any kind was made against us either.\nPoints of Thanksgiving:\nPraise God! A family from our church was persecuted as I wrote in the story above. His father, who did not believe, gathered the people of the whole village and called the police to get his son and his family out of the village. But the police fully supported our church family and said, \u0026ldquo;We cannot stop anyone from believing in Christ.\u0026rdquo; The family is still living in their village. Glory to God, there has been no flood in our area yet. Prayer Points:\nPlease pray that God strengthens our church members in faith and that they can understand the Word more deeply. Please pray. In the coming days we are planning to go to many new places to spread the Good News. May God help us and protect us and fulfill our every need. Please pray for our protection from fundamentalists. The season of Hindu festivals started in my area. During this time, Hindus attack churches and pastors. Please pray. A land survey is going to be done in our village. Many people are claiming that the land where our church is built is theirs. The case has been going on for about 20 years. May God help us so that no injustice happens to us. Please pray that God fulfills all of our needs. May God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/09/27/those-who-had-never-the-heard-good-news-are-now-hearing-it/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders, and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sep-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God that He has kept us all safe. I also thank God for you. You keep praying for us and standing shoulder to shoulder with us, like a family, in every difficult time. Through your prayers and by God\u0026rsquo;s grace, we now have church in three villages. Also, Sunday services and Friday Bible studies are held in the hall of our house, which my father built after receiving a\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003cstrong\u003eThose Who Had Never the Heard Good News Are Now Hearing it!\u003c/strong\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders, Supporters and Church Family!\nGreetings to all of you!\nI am sorry that I was not able to send an update last month. Thank God that I am home this month. I am sharing with you the wonderful work God has done in the last two months.\nWe had a wonderful time filled with encouragement and God\u0026rsquo;s Word!\nI thank God that He gave my wife and me the opportunity to attend a meeting in the North and arranged flight tickets for us to go there and come back. Thank God that my wife was able to travel in a plane for the first time. My wife and I\u0026rsquo;s hearts were filled with joy when we met the pastor and his wife at the meeting. It was very nice to see their love and hear the Word of God from them. My wife and I were really excited to go. When we went, our hearts were filled with even more joy than we had imagined!\nThe pastors taught us many things, including many spiritual tools for helping our church members and personal lives grow through the Word of God. I am very grateful to God that He has placed us in a family that always encourages us and loves us so much.\nI told the Good News to a friend who I knew 15 years ago. I also gave him an audio Bible and spent time with him.\nPraise the Lord! Many years ago, while we lived in the North for 18 years, we made a lot friends who have now forgotten us. But there is one family whose friendship we have not forgotten. Whenever we enter their home, they welcome us with an open heart. They do not let us leave without being their guest.\nThis time when my wife and I reached their house, they welcomed us very warmly. I brought them some gifts. My wife and I told them the Good News and gave them an audio Bible. We remembered old memories together and they prepared a very tasty meal for us. After we ate, we went for a walk and took a lot of pictures together. I thank God that people listen to audio Bibles when they get one in their local language. I believe that one day they will definitely accept the Lord.\nI am thankful that God gave me the opportunity to share the Word of God in 2 house churches in the North.\nOne of these is the church of my wife\u0026rsquo;s relative. He runs a church with great faith and also works a job. He goes door-to-door every week and shares the Word of God verse-by-verse and chapter-by-chapter. I was very excited to come to his church. Even though there were only 8-10 people, everyone knew the Word of God. He has completed a 6 month online Bible study at Calvary Chapel Bible Institute. I will always pray for God to take his ministry further. I am thankful to God for giving me the opportunity to share the Word of God in our colleague Pastor 12\u0026rsquo;s church also.\nMy wife\u0026rsquo;s gall bladder operation went well and God gave a new life to my elder sister\u0026rsquo;s newborn child.\nI thank God that He has given me a wife who helps in every activity of God\u0026rsquo;s work. It seems like God created her for me. My wife had pain in her stomach. I took her to the doctor and she got an ultrasound. They found a 15 mm stone in her gall bladder. The doctor said she should get the surgery done soon or else it would cause her a lot of problems later. God took care of our financial need for the surgery.\nOn the same day that the doctor had scheduled my wife\u0026rsquo;s surgery, I got a call from my elder sister who still lives in the North. The doctor had admitted her to a government hospital to deliver her baby. Because of that, my wife\u0026rsquo;s operation was put off for a few days.\nWhen my sister gave birth to her son, the doctor did not take good care of him. He became very ill. My wife and I told the doctor that we were concerned about him many times. We showed the doctor the trouble my nephew was having, but the doctor did not answer us. After three days my nephew stopped moving. He could not open his eyes, cry, or make any noise at all. When that happened, my wife and I took him to a private hospital. As soon as we reached the private hospital, the doctor gave him oxygen and started treating him. The doctor said that if we had arrived even a half of hour later, my nephew would not have survived.\nGlory to God! God gave him new life. The fees of the private hospital were very expensive. God opened the heart of so many Christians and also some who did not believe in Christ who donated to save his life. He was able to reach home safely with his parents after 21 days. After he was admitted to the good hospital, my wife also underwent a good, painless surgery, in the best hospital for her in the same city in the North. Praise the Lord! Now my sister\u0026rsquo;s child and my wife are both completely fine.'\nPoints of Thanksgiving\nI thank God that He helped me to reach my area of ministry safely. I thank God that He allowed my wife to have a safe operation and that she is absolutely fine now. I thank God that my sister gave birth to a son. Praise the Lord that he is safe now. I thank God that my mother\u0026rsquo;s health has improved a little. Prayer Requests:\nPlease pray for our safety. Please pray. There is projected to be a flood in our area this month. May God keep the unemployed and the homeless people who live on the footpaths safe. Please pray. There is 2 feet of water on the road in front of our house. Because of that, it is very difficult for us to go places. May God open the heart of the head of our village make a drain for the water to drain somewhere else. Please pray. Because of the rain, the roads are wet. While I travel to do ministry, my motorcycle\u0026rsquo;s tires slip. Sometimes I get hurt. May God protect us. Please pray. In the last week of September or the first week of October, my friends and I are planning to preach the Gospel in 4 villages. That village area is about 400 km away from my village. We want to go to the villages, show the Jesus film on the projector and distribute New Testaments. Pray that God fulfills our every need and that this plan becomes successful Please pray that the faith of our church members will become stronger. May they understand the depth of God\u0026rsquo;s Word and face all kinds of persecution firmly. Thank you for your prayers, support, Christian love, and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/08/23/god-is-always-faithful/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders, Supporters and Church Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am sorry that I was not able to send an update last month. Thank God that I am home this month. I am sharing with you the wonderful work God has done in the last two months.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/August-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/August-2.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe had a wonderful time filled with encouragement and God\u0026rsquo;s Word!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God that He gave my wife and me the opportunity to attend a meeting in the North and arranged flight tickets for us to go there and come back. Thank God that my wife was able to travel in a plane for the first time. My wife and I\u0026rsquo;s hearts were filled with joy when we met the pastor and his wife at the meeting. It was very nice to see their love and hear the Word of God from them. My wife and I were really excited to go. When we went, our hearts were filled with even more joy than we had imagined!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=36436\"\u003eGod Is Always Faithful\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Hello Saving Grace World Missions Team,\nGreetings to all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you for your prayers and the unlimited love you shower on us. You stand shoulder to shoulder with us in all kinds of sorrows and difficulties and always pray for us like a warrior.\nA woman rears 6 cows. Her son is 22 years old and 70% disabled since birth. Yet she does not stop coming to God\u0026rsquo;s house.\nThis woman\u0026rsquo;s name is R*. I have mentioned her many times in prayer requests before. She has been a believer for about 15 years. She comes to our church on time every week. On Thursdays, we hold another church service at her house. Right now, her society and the people around her are treating her very badly because she will not leave her faith in Jesus Christ. She is being mentally tortured in many ways. People accuse her of many different things. Some says she is a religious convert. Some say she has become a Muslim. Everyone has stopped talking to her. The saddest thing is that due to their belief, people have stopped buying cow milk from her house for a while. Because of this, her family\u0026rsquo;s financial condition has become very bad. She brings grass from the field from morning till midnight for the cows\u0026rsquo; food and takes car of the cows. She also has a young son who is more than 70% disabled. He cannot bathe or feed himself etc. Still she and her husband have complete hope in God that God will take care of them.\nPeople threaten them that if someone dies in their family, no one will even come to lift their dead body. By saying this, they mean that no one will have any kind of dealings with them. They say this because they believe that they have abandoned their religion and adopted a foreign religion.\nNow the people of their village will neither buy milk from them nor buy their cow dung cakes as fuel for their fires for cooking food. Because of this, their whole house is filled with cow dung cakes. There is no place to sit. Every Thursday, when we go there to have church, we have to move things around and find a place to sit with great difficulty.\nBecause of their poor financial condition, her husband rides his bicycle 12 kms (7 1/2 miles) in order to attend our Bible study every Friday. The woman walks half the way to our church and then takes an auto rickshaw the other half the way so that she does not have to spend money on fare. She has another son who has gone to a big city to work. I want him to go to Bible college and become a messenger of God\u0026rsquo;s good news, but due to their poor financial condition at home, he is not going to Bible college. He wants to work and support his family.\nThe Son of a Staunch Anti-Christian Gave a Pulpit to Our Church.\nA single believer gradually brought almost his whole family to faith in Jesus. His father, who was previously trying to hand him over to the police, also joined us in prayer this week.\nI thank God that he has given our church a young man who is always ready to share the good news of the Lord. His name is U*. When I was in Bible college, he also went with me for 6 months for Bible training. At that time he was the only believer in his family. But gradually he brought almost the whole family to faith by the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ and by his good behavior. Everyone except his father. His father has a very short temper. Whenever my father and I used to go to his house, his father always used to come in angrily to fight with us. He used to accuse us of making his son a Christian. I thank God that so far his father has not attacked us physically, because his father is against Christians.\nWhen U* went to Bible college, he wanted to complete the full coarse in Bible training. However, his father, who is a staunch opponent of Christ, did not let him return to Bible college after one semester. But U* did not stop studying the Bible. He studied the Bible by himself every day and came to our church. However, because of a lack of employment in our village, he had to go to a big city in the South to find work. He makes furniture there. Recently, he came to visit our village for a while. He gave a new pulpit to our church that he made with his own hands. Last week, when we went to his house, his father also came. Before his father would rather die than hear the name of Lord Jesus Christ, but this time joined us in prayer and sat quietly and listened! It was a very surprising thing for us! I thank God that He is changing people\u0026rsquo;s lives!\nMy younger sister finally got married! She had a Christian wedding.\nI thank God that He has chosen every person in my family to spread the Gospel of His kingdom. When we became Christians, people in our neighborhood used to tease us. They would make jokes about who would be willing to marry us. I thank God that He answered all of them. My younger sister served with a youth organization for about 12 years independently, without any financial support. God arranged a pastor\u0026rsquo;s son for her to marry. On May 16, she got married with a nice big celebration. Many people who hate Christians were trying to create obstacles for the wedding. Thank you for your prayers! God put fear in their hearts and they did not dare to create any obstacles.\nThis was my youngest sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding. We invited all of the Christian brothers and sisters in our village and city. People in our city and village were surprised at the huge crowd. They wondered where we found so many people to come to the wedding when we were ostracized from society. I thank God that He fulfilled our every need. The ceremony went very nicely. Even though it was very hot, by God\u0026rsquo;s grace, no one fainted or had any kind of problem. I want to thank all of you who prayed about this wedding.\nWe had a great time studying the Bible on Google Meet with our Aunty. I thank God that He provides us with all of the electronics and everything that is needed for His work. Through the internet, we are able to learn the Word of God more deeply, even when we are at a distance from each other. On the first week of the month, I asked Pastor 15\u0026rsquo;s wife to conduct a Bible study. Most of the people in our church are women, so whenever I ask her to share at a Bible study, the women of our church get very excited. They get a chance to learn many new things. She conducted the Bible study with us on Fridays. We started studying the Old Testament chapter-by-chapter beginning in Genesis. Now we have reached Exodus 15. We also share God\u0026rsquo;s Word with others.\nThe Holy Bible was given to the women who were baptized last month.\nI thank God that He never lets us have a shortage of Bibles and New Testaments. That is why we keep distributing New Testaments to everyone with an open heart. We also give the complete Bible (which includes the Old Testament) to those who want to know the Lord more and are interested in reading the Bible. I thank God that His Word is working in people\u0026rsquo;s lives. People are reading the Bible and understanding God\u0026rsquo;s love more deeply.\nPoints of Thanksgiving:\nI thank God that He has protected me, my parents and my entire family from those who are anti-Christian. I thank God that He allowed my younger sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding to go very well. I thank God that despite the extreme heat, He did not let my family get sick in any way. Prayer Points:\nPlease pray for R\u0026rsquo;s* family\u0026rsquo;s financial condition to get better. Pray that the people who have been boycotting them will buy milk from their house again. Please pray for U\u0026rsquo;s* father who is against Christians. Pray that God will also use him for His kingdom. Please pray that the people in our state and village will find jobs. Because of a lack of jobs here, more than 50% of the people from our church have moved to big cities. Please pray for my mother. Her bones are very weak. The doctor said that she will have to take daily injections for 18 months. Please pray that our Lord Jesus heals her. Please pray. In a few days we will be traveling to have fellowship in the North. May God protect us, and may our time go well. Please pray for the believers in our church to understand God\u0026rsquo;s Word more deeply. May they be able to face all of the suffering they are facing for the Name of Lord Jesus Christ with courage. Please pray for my wife\u0026rsquo;s health. She has a health problem for which I am taking her to get treatment in a bigger city in the North. Pray that God will help us. Thank you for your love, prayers, support and participation in the Gospel.\nMay God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/06/24/excluded-from-society-and-boycotted-because-of-their-faith/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHello Saving Grace World Missions Team,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you for your prayers and the unlimited love you shower on us. You stand shoulder to shoulder with us in all kinds of sorrows and difficulties and always pray for us like a warrior.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA woman rears 6 cows. Her son is 22 years old and 70% disabled since birth. Yet she does not stop coming to God\u0026rsquo;s house.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Excluded from Society and Boycotted Because of Their Faith"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders, Partners, and Church Family,\nGreetings from our church! I thank God that He has taken care of me, my family and my parents. Despite the extreme heat, God has not let me get any major illness.\nA few weeks ago when my father went out of the house for a morning walk, four people, including a doctor, threatened him. They said that if my father does not return to his old religion and stop spreading the Gospel, they will kill him.\nWe prayed a lot. We considered informing the police many times, but they do not listen to Christians. The police also will not do anything without a bribe. For these reasons, we did not inform the police and only prayed. By the grace of God, my father is safe until now.\nI keep thanking God for your love, prayers and participation in the Gospel. Through the grace of God and your prayers, the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ is reaching places we couldn\u0026rsquo;t have even imagined. God is strengthening those who are listening to His Word through His miracles and signs.\nWe Went to a Place Where the Good News Had Not Yet Reached. The Temperature Was 43 Degrees Celsius (109 Degrees Fahrenheit)!\nI always thank God that He has sent me to serve in a place where there is less than 1% Christians. Despite having many pastors in the city, there are many villages where the Good News has not yet reached. We got an invitation to fellowship in such a village which is about 30 kilometers from our house. We got the opportunity to go to this village through a believer of our church.\nWhen we went to that village, they welcomed us very nicely. We told the Good News to the people of that village. Three women believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Due to the extreme heat, we became very restless. The food that they had lovingly prepared for us had a lot of hot chili peppers in it. Because of the spicy food, the heat felt twice as intense as it did before we ate. But God gave us peace. We got comfort in the heart from the fact that by our coming, God saved three souls. I thank God for the love and hospitality of these people, who did more for us than they were able to.\nOur Lord Jesus Freed a Girl from an Evil Spirit.\nI thank God that He shows signs and miracles to strengthen His Word! We have been having a fellowship in the mango garden of a certain village for about 12 years. Last week, during the fellowship there, a young girl was brought who was possessed by an evil spirit. The evil spirits troubled her a lot. It would throw her anywhere and start shouting and saying things.\nWhile I and my father were worshiping, the girl started shouting loudly. We prayed and at that time the devil threw her and came out of her. Since then this girl is completely fine! The people of her family have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and are coming to the village church.\nThe church in that village was started with a boy who I mentioned many times in my newsletter. He had very long nails and the skin of his hands and feet kept bleeding. I took him to many hospitals for treatment but there was nothing that the doctors could do for him. It was not possible to get him treated medically, but God healed him through prayer! Now, he has been baptized. His mother has also been baptized. She regularly comes to our church. We also go to their house once a week for fellowship. This boy\u0026rsquo;s name is S*. Before, he wanted to commit suicide because of his illness, but God healed him. Now he is completely fine! His family is looking for a girl for him to marry.\nIf You Believe, Your Family Will Be Saved!\nThis is a testimony of a person who was the first person in his family to believe. After his faith, gradually the whole family believed in Jesus. His name is U*. While I was in Bible College, he also came to Bible College with me for 6 months. After that, his father would not allow him to go back to Bible College again, but he did not give up his faith. He remained engrossed in learning the Word of God day and night.\nTo bring the people of his family to faith, he kept showing God\u0026rsquo;s love through prayer, sharing the Word and living a godly life. Initially, the people of his whole family were against him, but he showed God\u0026rsquo;s love to them through his life.\nFirst of all, U* brought his wife to the Lord. After that, he brought his mother to the Lord. Whenever my father and I went to her house, his mother always used to scold us for converting her son. But he brought his mother to faith through love and sharing the Word.\nAfter that U* went to the South in search of a job. He did not stop going to church. He lived with his elder brother who opposed it. Gradually he started taking his elder brother to church and his elder brother also believed and got baptized. His elder brother\u0026rsquo;s wife, who was a very quarrelsome woman, was very afraid of her husband believing in Jesus Christ. She used to scold U* a lot about getting her husband converted to Christianity. She was ready to fight every day, but U* would ignore her words. Whenever I and my father used to go to his house, we used to tell his sister-in-law about the Lord Jesus Christ. Whenever she came to church, she used to listen to the Gospel. Gradually she started come to know about the Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to God! She also believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and got baptized last week. She is in the above photo.\nGlory to the Lord!\nGlory to God! He protects me and my family from all kinds of sorrows and troubles. Glory to the Lord! The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ has reached a new village. Glory to the Lord! Three women have accepted the Lord. Glory to the Lord! A woman has been baptized. Glory to the Lord! My wife has been cured of her thyroid problem. Glory to God! He is providing all kinds of resources for His ministry. Prayer Points:\nPlease pray for the safety of my father and me. There are many people who talk badly about us, saying that we have changed our religion and that will keep planning to convert people. Please pray that we can reach more villages with the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ. Please pray for the youth that we want to be prepared to go to Bible college, so that in the coming days they also can participate in the Good News of the Lord. Please pray for my mother. Her bones are very weak, because of which she has to take injections every day. Her thyroid levels also have increased about 18 points. May God help control her thyroid as well. Please pray. My younger sister is getting married on May 16. May God fulfill all of our needs. It will be a Christian marriage. Pray that no Hindu fundamentalists oppose it. Please pray for the registration of our church. There are some obstacles to registering. May God remove those obstacles. Please pray for God to give us a child. Thank you for your prayers, your love for Christ, and for your participation in the Gospel.\nMay God bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/06/04/go-to-a-place-where-no-one-has-taken-the-gospel/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders, Partners, and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/May-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from our church! I thank God that He has taken care of me, my family and my parents. Despite the extreme heat, God has not let me get any major illness.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/May-2.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few weeks ago when my father went out of the house for a morning walk, four people, including a doctor, threatened him. They said that if my father does not return to his old religion and stop spreading the Gospel, they will kill him.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/blog/news/go-to-a-place-where-no-one-has-taken-the-gospel-pastor-13-update-june-2024/\"\u003eGo to a Place Where No One Has Taken the Gospel\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear pastors, leaders, supporters and church family!\nWe hope you all had a good Good Friday and Resurrection Day.\nMy dear sisters and brothers, I thank you for your prayers and love. God is doing amazing work here through your prayers. By the grace of God, house churches are now running in many villages. Although there is a lot of persecution here, people are still giving their lives to the Lord.\nA Very Good Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday\nThank God that He is increasing the number of people in our church and that they are growing deeply in the Word of God day-by-day. Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter services were very blessed for us. People of our church went to many other communities who had never heard of Jesus Christ and shared the message of Good Friday and Easter. They invited many new people from the villages to come to the church. About 100 people came and we celebrated the day of our Lord Jesus Christ\u0026rsquo;s resurrection together. Breakfast was arranged for everyone. After listening to the Gospel, everyone had breakfast and left for their homes.\nGood Fellowship and Hospitality\nI thank God that He is taking the people of our church deeper into His Word day-by-day. This month, by the grace of God, a believer of our church\u0026rsquo;s wedding date has been finalized. He has been coming to our church for about 15 years. He is the only Christian in his entire family. I thank God that he is getting married to a Christian girl who is about 20 years old. They have been talking to each other for about 10 years. By the grace of God, their wedding date is June 11th. It was a great thing to fellowship with them as they planned their marriage.\nAn Attempt to Establish Conversation with the Village Again\nAbout 25 years ago, my parents accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. At that time, due to the name of Jesus Christ, the people in our village stopped talking to us. They stopped inviting us to any function. They also imposed a fine on anyone who talks to us of ₹ 10000. Because of that, no one has talked to us for all of these years. But God recently opened the hearts of a family that have started coming to our church. They are sending their children to our house to be tutored in school. Through them, gradually other children are also starting to come to our house. My niece, whom I have raised since childhood, teaches free school classes to these children. She also teaches them Christian action songs and Christian songs. I believe that in the coming days more children from the village will come here and learn about Jesus Christ.\nPoints of Thanksgiving:\nThank God that He has kept us safe till today. I thank God that He is fulfilling our needs. Prayer Requests:\nPlease pray that God keeps me and my family safe. Please pray that our church remains firm in their faith through crises and becomes knowledgeable of God\u0026rsquo;s word. Please pray. There are many festivals in the coming days in which Hindu people go on processions. Pray that they will not attack any Muslims or Christians. Please pray that our church can buy land for a Christian graveyard. This will make it so that the people who are leaving their homes, villages, societies, and relatives to accept the Lord, can be given a respectable funeral after doing so. Please pray for my wife, may God keep her safe from every kind of disease. Please pray for my mother, her bone density is very low due to which she has to take injections daily. May God heal her and fulfill our financial needs. Please pray for my sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding on May 16th. May God fulfill all of our needs for this, and may there be no hindrance in the marriage. Thank you for your prayers, supports and Christian love and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/04/22/god-is-working-in-amazing-ways/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear pastors, leaders, supporters and church family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG-20240401-WA0009.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG-20240401-WA0008.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope you all had a good Good Friday and Resurrection Day.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy dear sisters and brothers, I thank you for your prayers and love. God is doing amazing work here through your prayers. By the grace of God, house churches are now running in many villages. Although there is a lot of persecution here, people are still giving their lives to the Lord.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God Is Working in Amazing Ways!"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders, Partners and Church Families!\nGreetings to all of you from my church and family. I will always be thankful to you for continuing to pray for and encourage us to do the Lord\u0026rsquo;s work with even more enthusiasm. You always meet the needs of our ministry. May God bless you all.\nMental and Physical Torture for Attending Church\nTo stop her from coming to church, a woman from my church\u0026rsquo;s husband slapped her four-five times and pulled her by the hair, pulling out two handfuls of hair from her head.\nI want to share with you the testimony of a woman who has been attending our church for about 2 years. She is the only believer in her entire lineage. Her name is S*. She is always eager to learn the words of the Lord.\nIn February of last year, a team from the central government and people from the media went to her house. After that, they also came to our house. Thanks be to God and I also thank you for your prayers \u0026ndash; they did not file any false case against us (for doing Christian ministry). At that time, S* was scolded by a lot by the people of the village. The police and people from the media made various allegations against us and put a lot of pressure on S* to give false testimony against us. But she remained steadfast in her faith and continued praying.\nTwo weeks ago, when she was at our church, her husband was worked up by the villagers against Christ and her. When she reached home, her husband started slapping her. He said, \u0026ldquo;If you do not leave Jesus Christ, I will kill you! I will get this out of my house.\u0026rdquo; After that, he pulled her by her hair and threw her out of the house.\nShe kept crying and praying. She told her husband, \u0026ldquo;Whether you kill me or destroy me, I will not leave the Lord Jesus Christ.\u0026rdquo; While sleeping at night, her husband kept an ax under his pillow and said, \u0026ldquo;If my wife comes to the house, I will cut her down.\u0026rdquo;\nWhile she stayed at a friends house, through prayer, God gave peace to her husband\u0026rsquo;s heart. He then allowed her to come home again. I thank God that he has given us such believers in our church who are ready to lose their husband, family, and society and even die for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ.\nI cannot send the photo of this woman because the women here feel very uncomfortable getting photographed. A lot of fake news is being spread on social media saying that we send photos of people and ask for money but then spend it on ourselves. People also say that people convert people to another religion by sending their photos and asking for money. That is why I plan to send you only group photos.\nHere are some photos of our recent outreaches. They were in my friend\u0026rsquo;s phone, so I was not able to send them in my previous newsletter.\nThanksgiving Points\nThank God that I was able to reopen the churches that had been closed earlier because of the government, and that we were able to open them safely. Thank God that our institution has started again. Thanks be to God, people are moving forward in the Lord despite physical and mental persecution. Thank God for keeping me, my family and my parents safe. Prayer Requests:\nPlease pray continuously for our safety. Please pray for our college friends who believe in Jesus, may God protect them from the coming suffering. Please pray that God may provide land for a cemetery for Christ\u0026rsquo;s people. Please pray that peace can be established between the Hindus and Muslims. There are riots during every Hindu festival which cause the internet to be shut down for three or four days. Please pray for a 22 year old paralyzed boy in our church. About 60 to 70% of his body is paralyzed. May God heal him completely Please pray for my sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding on May 16th. May God fulfill every need for this. Thank you for your prayers, support and for sharing in the Gospel.\nGod bless you all.\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/03/07/mental-and-physical-torture-for-attending-church/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders, Partners and Church Families!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from my church and family. I will always be thankful to you for continuing to pray for and encourage us to do the Lord\u0026rsquo;s work with even more enthusiasm. You always meet the needs of our ministry. May God bless you all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMental and Physical Torture for Attending Church\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo stop her from coming to church, a woman from my church\u0026rsquo;s husband slapped her four-five times and pulled her by the hair, pulling out two handfuls of hair from her head.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mental and Physical Torture for Attending Church"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\nGreetings from my church to all of you!\nThank God that He helps us do all kinds of outreach. By the grace of God, the Gospel has reached 5 new villages! We were able to spread the news of the Lord Jesus Christ to a distance of about 1100 to 1200 kilometres (680 - 746 miles).\nSome of these further outreaches were done as follows:\nHanded out New Testaments. Distributed biscuits to children. Went from house to house preaching the Gospel and praying. Played the Jesus film in 2 new villages. Celebrated Christmas with 300 people and also fed them lunch and preached the Gospel. Gave gifts to the children of our church who performed Christmas dance and drama etc. If I were to write about each outreach in detail, it would take a lot of time, so I would like to share with you about three of these outreaches.\nWe showed the Jesus film, despite opposition, in a very rural and untouched village that is 400 kilometers away from my home!\nThank you for your prayers. Through your prayers and by God\u0026rsquo;s grace, I was able to reach a very untouched village. It took us about 8 hours by motorbike to reach this village. It was very challenging for me to ride a bike for such a long distance for the first time, but this was to share the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ.\nWhen entering the village, I felt as if I had reached another world, because very rural people live there. My heart was filled with the hunger and thirst for the Lord Jesus Christ in this place. When we arrived, we did a prayer walk through the village. In the evening, we showed films in the village. People brought their blankets. Despite the cold, they watched the movie under the blankets. They sat near the fire and asked many questions about the Lord Jesus Christ. Many people asked us to pray about their problems in their homes. But some of them, who had traveled before and worked in another state, opposed the Lord Jesus Christ and started arguing. The other villagers there supported us and pacified them. Thank God that two people in this village believed in the Lord Jesus Christ!\nWhen we were leaving, after showing the movie, it was very challenging for us to cross the bamboo bridge due to darkness. By the grace of God, we were able to reach another village safely. When we went to the next village, we were shown very good hospitality there, also. They had prepared good food for us.\nThe next day we showed them the Jesus Film, and people also came to watch the film in this village, as well. People sat down with their lotus flowers to watch the film and made a fire. Even in the cold, they stayed to watch until the end and it caused people to pray. In this village, people had installed big loudspeakers and had brought a sound system that they rented. I preached the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ on the microphone. The people of the entire village, about 5,000 people, heard the Good News of the Gospel! Two people accepted the Lord Jesus Christ in this village, also. Praise God!\nWe had a wonderful Christmas with 300 people, Christmas dances and Christmas skits!\nI thank God that like every year in the past, this year God kept all of us safe during Christmas. It was a time of joy and fun. We went to four villages before Christmas and preached the Good News, gave them New Testaments, and invited them all to come to our church on Christmas. They all came!\nTogether, we were about 300 people. The children danced very well during the birthday song of Jesus. After watching the play, we were able to celebrate the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ with great joy and happiness. The children who danced and performed were also given gifts. Food was arranged for all those who came. I thank God and all of you that with your help all this was possible.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray that the people who believed in Jesus where we did outreach remain steadfast in the Lord. Please pray that my mother\u0026rsquo;s health and bones get better. Please pray that the people of our church will remain grounded in the faith and know God\u0026rsquo;s Word more deeply. Please pray for our Admin’s father who is ill, may God heal him completely. Please pray for us as we are restarting the fellowship which was stopped two months ago due to opposition. Pray that God will protect me and my church. Please pray for my wife\u0026rsquo;s health. She has thyroid problems. May God heal her completely. Please pray that God gives us a child. Thanks for your love, support and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2024/02/02/you-will-have-joy-and-happiness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from my church to all of you!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/January-11.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThank God that He helps us do all kinds of outreach. By the grace of God, the Gospel has reached 5 new villages! We were able to spread the news of the Lord Jesus Christ to a distance of about 1100 to 1200 kilometres (680 - 746 miles).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of these further outreaches were done as follows:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"You Will Have Joy and Happiness"},{"content":"Hello dear pastors, partners, and leaders. Greetings from our church!\nI thank God that He has kept me safe. I also want to thank you for always praying for us. I hope that you will be blessed after reading this update and continue to pray for us.\nI had a very encouraging and heart-refreshing time with the visiting pastors.\nI want to express my gratitude to God that He has given me the opportunity to work in an organization where we feel like we are members of the same family! It was a very joyful time meeting with the pastors who came from America in November. We talked about how we can further the Gospel of Jesus. God filled our hearts with new enthusiasm through which we could carry the news forward with enthusiasm and force. We all shared the testimonies of our lives with each other. After hearing each other\u0026rsquo;s testimonies; we were greatly encouraged and looked forward to expanding the work of God. I thank God that we had this beautiful meeting and also that it happened in a very safe manner.\nA widow woman was thrown out of her village and threatened to be raped and killed because of the Name of Jesus Christ.\nA woman from our church is named DD*. She has three small children. Previously, her husband died suddenly. She is raising her children by farming on her own and by working in other people\u0026rsquo;s fields.\nAbout eight years ago, my father and I went to her village on a bicycle. At that time we told her about the Lord Jesus Christ. Right then, she believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and started coming to the house of God. Since then, she has been coming to church. She also brings her daughter who is now about 15 years old. Her daughter is also a very good believer and sometimes leads worship in our church.\nWe used to go to her village once a week and have fellowship, until 3 years ago. But the upper caste people in her village opposed us. They gathered a lot of people to stop the church. They wanted to kill me and my dad. But someone warned us, \u0026ldquo;Today they are planning to kill you. Do not go to the village.\u0026rdquo;\nBecause of the warning, we did not go to the village to have a worship service that day. But the people came to this woman\u0026rsquo;s house and threatened her. They said, \u0026ldquo;If you do not stop following Jesus Christ, we will do bad things to you and throw you out of the village.\u0026rdquo;\nThis poor woman stopped having church fellowship at her home, but comes to our church every Friday and Sunday and also participates in prayer. Please pray for her. She has been thrown out of her house because she is a widow who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of this, she has built her own hut in a field. She lives their with her three children. I gave them an audio Bible this week so that they can always listen to the Word and worship and pray. May God bless their family.\nA woman who is in pain and has weak bones is still preaching the Gospel.\nI want to share with you about my mother. She is about 65 years old. She always has pain in her waist, knees, legs and hands. For this reason, I took her to a bigger city in November so that she could get good treatment. They tested her and found out that her bone density is very low. Because of this, she will have to take injections every day for one and a half years. She also often needs to take pain medicine.\nHer bones are weak, but she is still young in faith and in the work of God. While we were in the big city, when I saw that she was in a lot of pain, I gave her pain medicine. About a half hour later, I saw that she was preaching the Gospel of Lord Jesus Christ to women her age. This was a great joy for me. I also see that when our church is over, she talks with the women, counsels them, tells them about the Lord Jesus Christ, and prays for them all. Please pray for her that God will heal her and fulfill every need for her treatment.\nI am continuing to distribute audio Bibles!\nI thank God that He arranged for some audio Bibles for our church. In order to get them, I drove about 300 km (186 miles) by motorbike and brought them back. Most of the people in our church are illiterate. They are very excited to learn the Word of God. I gave an audio Bible to a another family and I want to give more. I also gave Bibles to two believers who had been attending our church for about 8-10 years. They had been learning God\u0026rsquo;s Word but did not know how to read and write. I gave them audio Bible so that they can listen and understand well. Please pray that God will make more audio Bibles available so that I can give them to the uneducated people. The people who gave me the audio Bibles are now reluctant to give them to me. Because of the increase in persecution, many pastors have hidden their New Testaments. Some pastors have left their New Testaments at our house because they know that we are not afraid and will distribute them. So now we have 1,500 New Testaments. Please pray that we can distribute the New Testaments before Christmas.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray that our Christmas program and Christmas outreach will happen without opposition. Please pray that my mother\u0026rsquo;s health gets better. Please pray that it is possible for us to have children. We got a medical check-up done in a bigger city. All of the tests came back normal, except that my wife has a thyroid problem. May God heal her. Please pray for our South Asia Admin\u0026rsquo;s father who is ill. May God heal him. Please pray for our church to grow more in the Word of God. Please pray that God fulfills our every need. Thanks for your Christian love, precious prayers, and partnership in the Gospel!\nGod bless you all!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/12/28/the-testing-of-faith-produces-patience/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHello dear pastors, partners, and leaders. Greetings from our church!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/December-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God that He has kept me safe. I also want to thank you for always praying for us. I hope that you will be blessed after reading this update and continue to pray for us.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/December-6.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI had a very encouraging and heart-refreshing time with the visiting pastors.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI want to express my gratitude to God that He has given me the opportunity to work in an organization where we feel like we are members of the same family! It was a very joyful time meeting with the pastors who came from America in November. We talked about how we can further the Gospel of Jesus. God filled our hearts with new enthusiasm through which we could carry the news forward with enthusiasm and force. We all shared the testimonies of our lives with each other. After hearing each other\u0026rsquo;s testimonies; we were greatly encouraged and looked forward to expanding the work of God. I thank God that we had this beautiful meeting and also that it happened in a very safe manner.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=34563\"\u003eThe Testing of Faith Produces Patience\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders!\nOnce again I want to thank our Lord Jesus Christ that God has kept me and my father alive until now, so I am sending you our update.\nBeaten and Mocked for Believing in the Lord Jesus, but Still Preached the Gospel\n2 weeks ago, when we were going to a village to attend a Bible study as we do daily, some men followed us. They found out that our Christian fellowship was going on in a certain village. After we left the village, those men, along with about 100 other people went to the village and vandalized it. They forced the people to sing Hindu devotional songs. Many of the people who were new believers sang the songs.\nOne of believers there was a woman named R*. I have mentioned her many times to you in my newsletters and prayer requests. She was beaten and abused by the people who vandalized the village. Still, she did not bow down. Instead, she preached the Gospel in front of the bigoted people. The Hindu fanatics made fun of the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ and threatened R* with death.\nThey are pressurizing the people of the village to build a Hindu temple there, saying that everyone should worship in it and that those who will not worship in it will be killed. Long ago, our state was called the \u0026ldquo;graveyard of Christians\u0026rdquo;. There has been peace here for a few years. Now, we are concerned that our state is going to become the graveyard of Christians again. Please pray that God gives protection to me, my parents, and my wife and that the church family becomes stronger in their faith.\n1 Day of Each Month Is Dedicated to Intercessory Prayer from Morning to Evening!\nThank God that He is truly a gracious and loving Lord and provides for our every need. God is advancing all of us day by day in the knowledge of His Word. He is burdening us to pray for other sisters and brothers. I always thank God that He has given me such a church and for supporters who are always attentive to our needs and praying for us day and night. That is why we all decided to find one day in each month when we could all gather together from morning to evening and for intercessory prayer.\nAll of us spend time together in prayer and worship of the Lord from morning till evening on the first Friday of every month. In the evening we have dinner together. Because of this, people in our church are growing stronger in their faith and learning to depend on God while also praying for others. It feels great to hear their prayer requests and that God has given them the burden of preaching and spreading the news of Jesus. Many people from the church are going to other villages and sharing the news and bringing new believers to our church. We are also praying for them day and night and always encouraging them with the Word.\nPraise Points:\nPraise God that He has kept me safe. Praise be to God! A wonderful work has been done through your prayers. In my last update, I asked for prayer for a lady named P*. Her husband had kept her under house arrest, but through your prayers she has started coming back to worship! Praise be to God! S* was suffering from a very strange disease in which his hands would burst on their own and bleed. Because of this, the people of his village despised him. God has now cured him about 90%. He is doing much better and is doing electrical work. Praise God, the people of our church are deeply understanding God\u0026rsquo;s Word and persevering in the face of persecution. Prayer Requests:\nPlease pray for the safety of R*. Pray that God will protect her from all of the anti-Christian people who attacked her and her village. Please pray that our Sunday fellowship does not interfere with our Friday Bible study fellowship. Please pray that the logistical problem with the banks be solved as soon as possible. Please pray for me, my wife and my family. Everyone is suffering from a cold and fever. May God heal us. Please pray for P*. She has a skin problem and has been undergoing treatment for about 2 years but is not getting cured. Please pray for R*, he has been paralyzed for about 22 years and has been coming to our church for about 15 years. May God heal him. Also pray for A*. He has also been coming to our church for about 22 years but he is mentally handicapped. Please pray about our outreach plans for this coming December. Like we do every year, we want to do a lot of outreach to tell the Gospel in the areas where the name of Jesus Christ has not reached. We currently have about 1,500 New Testaments. We hope to distribute them, show the Jesus movie on projectors in rural areas, distribute blankets to the poor and widows, etc. If it is God\u0026rsquo;s will, please pray that He gives us protection and fulfills our every need. Thanks for your prayers, love, and partnership in sharing the Gospel.\nGod bless you!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/11/12/is-our-state-becoming-a-graveyard-for-christians-again/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce again I want to thank our Lord Jesus Christ that God has kept me and my father alive until now, so I am sending you our update.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeaten and Mocked for Believing in the Lord Jesus, but Still Preached the Gospel\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 weeks ago, when we were going to a village to attend a Bible study as we do daily, some men followed us. They found out that our Christian fellowship was going on in a certain village. After we left the village, those men, along with about 100 other people went to the village and vandalized it. They forced the people to sing Hindu devotional songs. Many of the people who were new believers sang the songs.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Is Our State Becoming a Graveyard for Christians Again?"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders and Church Families!\nGreetings from our church to all of you! I hope you all are well by the grace of God. My wife, mom, dad and I are all well by the grace of God. We remain engaged in serving and praying to God day and night. I thank God that the people of our church are growing day by day in the Word of the Lord and in prayer. They are facing every kind of persecution with stability and determination. I am currently teaching from the book of Genesis during our Friday Bible study at my church. We recently finished Romans during Sunday fellowship, so I am now teaching from 1 Corinthians on Sundays. Throughout the week, in each village I go to for home church or Bible study, I repeat what I taught during that week\u0026rsquo;s Friday Bible study and also what I preached on Sunday.\nThe wife of the man who tore the Bibles and threw them into the river was baptized.\nThank God that He is helping the people of our church grow in His knowledge. Several months ago,, I shared about a man who became a believer and was baptized after tearing the Bibles and throwing them into the river. This time his wife accepted the Lord and was baptized. It had not rained much here for about 2 years and there were not any floods. But I thank God and you all for yours prayers\u0026ndash;there was some rain here, which caused a flood. I was able to baptize her in the flood water!\nThis woman\u0026rsquo;s husband is a farmer. A few years ago, when we went to his village and distributed Bibles, he collected all of the Bibles and threw them into the river. But later, when we shared the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and came in prayer, he accepted Jesus. When we went to his house and started having fellowship there, the people of his village began to hate him and distanced themselves from his family, calling him a Muslim. The people of his village stopped talking to him. He used to work in the fields of the village people, but now the people of the village have sent him out of their fields also. Yet this brother\u0026rsquo;s family did not lose faith. He continued to encourage his wife to believe in Jesus and she too believed and was baptized this month. Thank God that now the whole family comes to Friday Bible study and is learning God\u0026rsquo;s Word.\nPraise points:\n1. Thank God another believer in our church was baptized this month.\n2. Thanks be to the Lord for the rain, so the farmers could plant rice.\n3. Thanks be to God for providing all of our needs.\n4. Thank God for giving me good health despite the heat. He did not let me get any major disease.\n5. Thank the Lord for strengthening the believers in faith and giving them the strength to face persecution.\n6. Thank God that Pi* started attending church again after her family stopped her from coming last month.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray for the family of my friend a former Bible college student, H*, who went to be with the Lord last week. About 2 months ago, my wife and I went to meet him at his house. That same day, he found out that he had end-stage cancer. Another brother (above) lives near our village. He has mouth cancer. His name is R*. He believes in God and has been baptized. Right now his condition is very critical. A few days ago he needed blood, so I and another friend of mine donated blood. Please pray for those who are having difficulty in sending monthly support. Please pray that God will increase our church in the knowledge and faith of His Word. Please pray for our country. May God give goodwill and love to the people here. May God give peace so that people will quit fighting and spreading hatred in the name of spreading religion. Please pray for R* who has been disabled for about 21 years and also for A* who has been mentally ill for almost 24 years. May God heal them both. Please pray for the believer of our church whose name is Pu*. Her husband locked her in the house so that she cannot come to church. May God release her soon. Please pray for it not so be so hot here. Because of the heat, my wife, my family and I got prickly heat. There are also frequent times of no electricity, due to which we are not able to sleep well at night. Also, because of the crowd, it is very hot in the church. May God give us quick relief from the heat. Thank you for your prayers, support and Christian love and for sharing in the gospel.\n\nGod bless you and your family very much.\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/09/23/serving-the-lord-day-and-night/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders and Church Families!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/September-1.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from our church to all of you! I hope you all are well by the grace of God. My wife, mom, dad and I are all well by the grace of God. We remain engaged in serving and praying to God day and night. I thank God that the people of our church are growing day by day in the Word of the Lord and in prayer. They are facing every kind of persecution with stability and determination. I am currently teaching from the book of Genesis during our Friday Bible study at my church. We recently finished Romans during Sunday fellowship, so I am now teaching from 1 Corinthians on Sundays. Throughout the week, in each village I go to for home church or Bible study, I repeat what I taught during that week\u0026rsquo;s Friday Bible study and also what I preached on Sunday.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/blog/news/serving-the-lord-day-and-night-pastor-11-update-september-2023/\"\u003eServing the Lord Day and Night\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders!\nGreetings to all of you from our church\nThank you for your help and support. With your help and support, the Good News is being taken to a place where it has not reached before. Neither have outsiders seen it, but now, with your prayers and help, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is reaching there. People are believing and devoting their lives to the Lord!\nBecause of her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, she was first beaten. Then her Bible was taken away and she was put under house arrest.\nHello dear friends, like I often do, I want to share with you the life testimony of a believer of my church. My heart starts crying after listening to her testimony. Eight years ago, a woman named P* came to our church. In the beginning, she came only to pray, but slowly after she heard the Gospel of the Lord and she started believing. She got baptized about 6 years ago. She started bringing her husband to church as well and made great strides in her faith and in the Word of God.\nBut her husband was threatened by the people of his village. They said \u0026ldquo;You have converted. You will be thrown out of the village.\u0026rdquo; Her husband got scared and started trying to prevent his wife from attending church. But she still went to church and took much of God\u0026rsquo;s Word to heart by attending Bible studies. She also started telling people the Good News of Jesus Christ. Then, her husband started always beating her and preventing her from reading the Bible at home. Even then she did not stop reading the Bible. Her husband took her Bible and left it at someone else\u0026rsquo;s relative\u0026rsquo;s house. Still the poor thing didn\u0026rsquo;t stop coming to church. Then her husband began locking her in the house on the day when there was a church. So she would talk to us on her cell phone and we prayed together. In the end, her husband also took her phone from her.\nPlease pray for her. We have had no contact with this lady for almost 1 month. May God take care of her and save her life and soul. Right now I do not have photo of this sister. As soon as she comes to church I will take her picture and share it with you.\nWe had a very good time of fasting and prayer all day!\nThanks be to God and thank you all for your prayers for my family and the church! Our churches are making great strides in the Word of God and in prayer. In our church on Friday August 4th, we had a day-long fast. It was a time of prayer and listening to the Word. Together we prayed for the whole world. We especially prayed for the places where the Gospel has not reached, that peace can be established in the whole world, and for God to give protection to the pastors, etc.\nIt was very nice and exciting to hear from V* Aunty. The women in our church listened very carefully and thanked God as she shared through online video. For the first time, they got a chance to learn many new things by listening to the Word from her. And in the end, we bid everyone farewell after having dinner.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray For P*. May God help her come back to church. Please pray R*. He has been a believer for about 10 years. He has been handicapped since childhood. May God heal him. He is now 22 years old. Pray for S*. He is suffering from a very strange disease. May God heal him also. Pray for a widow woman who always comes to church. Her son is 22 years old. He is insane. Please pray that the believers in our church can grow deeper in the Word of God and to spread the Gospel even more. Please pray for rain in our area. Due to lack of rain, the hand pumps are drying up. There is also extreme heat. There are signs that there will be famine in the coming days. Please pray that God keeps peace all over our country. Lately there have been riots and fighting between Hindus and Muslims. Pray that God will keep our church safe from all kinds of problems. Thank you for your prayers, for your love for Christ, and for sharing in the work of the Gospel.\nGod bless you!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/08/26/faith-tested-by-fire-part-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from our church\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you for your help and support. With your help and support, the Good News is being taken to a place where it has not reached before. Neither have outsiders seen it, but now, with your prayers and help, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is reaching there. People are believing and devoting their lives to the Lord!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Faith Tested By Fire - Part 2"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders!\nGreetings to all of you from my church! May God bless you and your family very much, because you guys are always praying for us and always ready to meet our needs. By the grace of God, there are now house churches running in 8 villages. Last week I went to the North and met my co-workers. It was wonderful to hear how God is working through them. God is adding people to their ministry day by day. Thank God!\nA Servant of God Suffered Persecution and Suffering\nI thank God that He has given me the opportunity to meet a faithful servants and his family in the North. He graduated from our Bible Institute in 2019 during the lock-down. He went through a lot of persecution together with Pastor 9*. But thank God for his faith and patience. He suffered in the name of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ and remained faithful in sorrow.\nWhen persecution came, many pastors stopped calling, meeting and talking to him, but he remained faithful. Now he is independently sharing the Gospel in his village. He is running a Sunday fellowship and 15 to 20 people come each week. Some servants of the Lord give them a tenth of their income. I was very excited to meet him. My wife was also very excited to hear his testimony.\nA Woman Takes Care of 3 Children Despite not Having a Husband!\nI thank God that He gave me the opportunity to meet a family who is very poor but strong in faith. When I went to the North last week, I met a woman who had 3 children. The father left the family. Earlier that woman used to live in a slum area with her 3 children. When my sister went there and shared the Gospel, she shared about how God took our family out of a similar slum and garbage dump. So that poor woman believed in God. Still, because of not having a husband, she used to pick up garbage day and night to sell it. But then my sister took her to her house and gave her a room to stay in. She introduced her to many Christian brothers and sisters. Different people started giving her jobs of washing dishes and cooking in their homes. They gave her a salary along with food. Through an American family, 1 of her children, who was handicapped, got leg surgery. Also, all of the children are now able to go to a very good school. God is also arranging for the payment of their school fees. Now she always listens to the Word of God and lives in the company of believers.\nI Had a Great Time with my Friends and Wife’s Relatives!\nI thank God that God gave me the opportunity to go to the North last week. Meeting friends is a great blessing. We went to visit many places in the mountain area with friends. I got the chance to learn many new things. I also got the chance to meet with my wife\u0026rsquo;s relatives. It was a great time to get to know them better and spend time with them.\nI also preached the Gospel to her relatives. My wife\u0026rsquo;s mother\u0026rsquo;s younger brother is a Jehovah\u0026rsquo;s Witness. My wife\u0026rsquo;s mother\u0026rsquo;s elder brother is a staunch Hindu. When I was sitting with him, he started telling me about his deity. Later I shared the Gospel with him. He did not believe at that time, but I believe that one day he will surely accept the Lord.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray that God fulfills all of our needs. Please pray for the people of our church to be strong in faith. Pray for a believing lady of our church whose name is Pi*. Her husband became mentally ill a few days ago. Because of this, her family members torture her mentally and blame her. They are saying that her husband became mentally ill because she is a believer. Please pray that one of my believing women\u0026rsquo;s name is Pu*. She has also been tortured very badly by her family members. They are preventing her from coming to church. They are forcefully taking her on a pilgrimage. Please pray. Now in our area also, persecution has started on pastors. Just a few days ago, 10 to 12 people beat up a pastor and put him in jail on false charges. Please pray. I want to organize a pastors\u0026rsquo; meeting. I want to invite all the local pastors and try to bring them all together to one table. Almost all of the pastors are scared because of the persecution that has started. Please pray for this cute baby (above) that is suffering from fits. He is about 10 months old. Thank you for being a part in spreading the Gospel.\nGod bless you!\nPastor \u0026amp; Mrs. 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/07/29/faith-tempered-by-fire/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pic-1-239x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from my church! May God bless you and your family very much, because you guys are always praying for us and always ready to meet our needs. By the grace of God, there are now house churches running in 8 villages. Last week I went to the North and met my co-workers. It was wonderful to hear how God is working through them. God is adding people to their ministry day by day. Thank God!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Faith Tempered by Fire"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders\nGreetings to all of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! I thank God the Father Lord Jesus Christ that until now God has kept me safe and that He is using me in my state. Even though people are being persecuted all over our country, there is very little persecution in my state. In our place, only the people of the village and neighborhood persecute us. We do not have any kind of problem with the law or political leader. This is all an answer to your prayers. Because of your prayers, people are having a deeper understanding of God\u0026rsquo;s Word and have surrendered everything to God. By the grace of God many villages have church fellowships and Bible studies.\nGod has given an American a unique heart for my city!\nToday, I am going to share the testimony of a man who left his country and came to my district for the sake of the Gospel of the Lord and to serve God. The man\u0026rsquo;s name is S*. He is from a country in Central America. Nowadays, the pastor lives in our city with his wife on a tourist visa. They are teaching people how to spread the Gospel. They try their best to teach in our language. He runs a home church in a village, and travels with his wife on a motor bike. Despite the unbearable heat, he does not hesitate to do the work of the Lord. His wife is always suffering from some or the other disease like a stomach ache, fever etc., yet both of them are engaged in the work of the Lord. I met him at a local pastors\u0026rsquo; meeting and invited him to my wedding. He came to my wedding even though it was summer and prayed for our marriage to be blessed.\nA man suffering from strange disease from birth dedicated his life to the Lord!\nI thank God that God provided Audio Bibles which I was able to give to many people who needed them and to whom I was led to let them listen to the Word of the Lord. I want to share the testimony of one more of the today. His name is S*. I have sent newsletters and prayer requests about him many times. He has been coming to our church for about 12 years. He is suffering from a very strange disease. His hands and feet start bursting on their own and blood starts coming out. His nails also become very big and hurts when bitten. I tried many places to get him treatment and took him to many hospitals so that he could be cured but he could not recover as much as he should have. He recovered a little with treatment at a hospital. The treatment was very expensive, so I helped him financially get some more treatment. Because of this disease, many people hated him. They were afraid to even talk to him lest this disease would spread to them as well. The poor thing tried to commit suicide several times. But I thank God that He gave me the opportunity to understand through the Word of God that He loves him very much. Last week, I gave him an audio Bible because he does not know how to read or write. He has never went to school. Ever since I gave him an Audio Bible, he always carries it with him day and night and listens to the Word of God.\nOur day of fasting prayer ended after dinner!\nI thank God that by faith my church is getting stronger day-by-day in faith and in God\u0026rsquo;s Word. Because of the name of the Lord, they are persecuted day by day, yet their faith does not break and they are getting absorbed in the Lord. We planned for many days for fasting prayer. So our whole church family organized a fasting prayer meeting on June 2nd. 30 to 35 people came. We all together prayed for the whole world from morning till evening. We offered prayers for the missionaries who are imprisoned and suffering for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the believers to be steadfast in their faith and to be wise in the Word of God, for the church to be strong in persecution, and that the Good News can reach every corner of the earth etc.\nFrom morning to evening we prayed in many ways. We prayed all together, and also prayed in small groups. Having fellowship with God and with people was a reason for us to be very excited. We arranged dinner for them before they went home in the evening. I thank God that everything went well.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray that God meets each and every need of ours. Please pray for our church. The heat is so fierce that we often have to finish our services early. Please pray that God enables me to safely take my wife on a journey to visit her mother\u0026rsquo;s side of the family this month.. Please pray for rain here. Due to the lack of rain, all the rivers and streams have dried up, so I am not able to baptize the new believers. The baptism tank which we had built in the church is broken. Please pray for S*. May God heal him from whatever strange disease he is suffering from. Thanks for your love, prayer support, and partnership in the Gospel.\nGod bless you all,\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/06/19/growing-in-gods-word/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! I thank God the Father Lord Jesus Christ that until now God has kept me safe and that He is using me in my state. Even though people are being persecuted all over our country, there is very little persecution in my state. In our place, only the people of the village and neighborhood persecute us. We do not have any kind of problem with the law or political leader. This is all an answer to your prayers. Because of your prayers, people are having a deeper understanding of God\u0026rsquo;s Word and have surrendered everything to God. By the grace of God many villages have church fellowships and Bible studies.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Growing in God's Word"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders\nGreetings to all of you from my church! I thank you and God that God is great, living and gracious. He is the one who makes the impossible possible! I was married last month. God helped everything to be done very nicely and orderly. God helped me more than I had imagined!\nBy the grace of God, house churches are now running in 9 villages. In these house churches, we have Bible study, worship, prayer etc. On Sundays we have fellowship at our house. During Sunday fellowship, I am teaching every verse from the book of Romans. About 60 to 70 believers and new seekers come. I also have a Bible study at my home on Fridays which is attended by 20 to 30 very established believers. On Fridays, I teach from the book of Genesis.\nI am teaching from the book of Romans in my church on Sundays. Through this, God is filling the people of my church with wisdom and knowledge. They are learning many things about faith and giving God\u0026rsquo;s Word first place in their lives.\nThank God! For a long time, I have been working toward and praying about getting audio Bibles for my church. God arranged for me to get 12 pocket audio Bibles. I want to thank you for your help with this! To bring the Bibles, I traveled about 300 kms (186 miles) there and back on my bike. God helped me in every way so that I could reach my home safely with the audio Bibles. There are 60 to 80 illiterate believers in my church who need audio Bibles. But I was only able to get 12 audio Bibles. For this reason, I am giving audio Bibles to the people in whose house everyone is illiterate, or in whose house no one will read the Bible to them. Below are some small testimonies of those to whom I am giving audio Bibles.\nTestimonies of Some of the People Who Received the Audio Bibles 1. Ministry begins at homes.\nMy mother is very enthusiastic to listen to the Word of God. She does not know how to read or write at all, yet she talks very well with all the believers of the church. She comes and teaches them the Word of God. She keeps on telling everyone all the words she remembers after listening to them. She squealed with joy as I gave the audio Bible to her. Currently she is listening to her audio Bible all day long.\n2. Even a hoard of devils could not defeat single women- You must have heard about this sister many times. She is very strong believer. She worked very hard to be able read the Word of God. She even started taking classes so that he could learn to read and read the Word of God. But her mother-in-law quarreled a lot with her and chased away the teacher who used to come to teach her to read. Because she believed in God, she was persecuted a lot. The people of the village were about to kill her, but because of your prayers, God kept her alive. As I gave her the Audio Bible, she thanked God.\n3. Weak in body but strong in faith\nR* is a person with a disability. He is 21 years old. 60% of his body is disabled. He cannot speak clearly, but he can hear and understand everything. Together with him, live his mother, father, brother and grandmother. All of them believe in God with all their body, mind, and wealth.\nEver since he was 14 years old, his mother used to carry him and bring him to the church. He believed in Jesus after hearing the Word of God and was baptized 4 years ago. His family is very poor financially but very forward in hospitality. His father and mother raise cows and the milk that comes out of the cows is all that nurtures the house. R* used to get bored living alone at home, but since I gave him the audio Bible, he has been listening to the Word of God all day long!\n4. The person who donates everything for the church despite having nothing\nI thank God for this brother. He believes in God, I shared about him in an update before. He collected the New Testaments that I distributed among the people of his village and threw them into the river. He hated God very much.\nBut God chose him, so he believed and got baptized. Today he donates many things to the church. His wife is also a very good believer. She wants to get baptized. Because the river is dry, we are waiting for rain so that she can be baptized. When I gave the audio Bible to his family, he was very happy. He continues to listen to the Word with his family.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray that God gives good health to my wife. It is very hot here for her. Please pray that God heals Raju from paralysis. His father and brother have taken him to the hospital so that he can get foot clips made to help him walk. Pray for the elections that are about to be held in our country. May God give us a good leader who will fulfill God’s will. Please pray for me. There are a lot of expenditures in being married. May God help me to meet them. Please pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s to have good health.. In the last week of June, I am planning to take my wife to visit her mother. May God will fulfill all financial needs for this. Please pray that everyone, who became believers through my ministry, keeps their faith during persecution. May God give them wisdom and knowledge and help them learn. Thank you for your prayers, help, and support for the furtherance of the Gospel.\nMay God bless you, your family and your children abundantly!\nGod bless you all,\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/05/18/faith-comes-by-hearing/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Partners, and Leaders\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/May-1-244x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from my church! I thank you and God that God is great, living and gracious. He is the one who makes the impossible possible! I was married last month. God helped everything to be done very nicely and orderly. God helped me more than I had imagined!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the grace of God, house churches are now running in 9 villages. In these house churches, we have Bible study, worship, prayer etc. On Sundays we have fellowship at our house. During Sunday fellowship, I am teaching every verse from the book of Romans. About 60 to 70 believers and new seekers come. I also have a Bible study at my home on Fridays which is attended by 20 to 30 very established believers. On Fridays, I teach from the book of Genesis.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=32769\"\u003eFaith Comes by Hearing\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Greetings to all of you from me and my wife!\nI am very thankful to God and to all of you for praying for me from the beginning to find a life partner, who would join me in spreading the Gospel of God. Our God is the great Almighty, who has answered my prayer and given me such a wife. She has come to serve God with me. She has left every facility and is living with us in the village.\nI thank God the Father that there was no problem of any kind during our wedding ceremony. God made everything easier than we thought. By the grace of God, our relationship is going very well.\nThank God the Father! God is great! He has given us another new village where we can take the Gospel. 2 people have become believers there. This village is about 60 kilometers away from our house. It is a very backward and poor. Children roam without any clothes. They do not go to school. Most of the men here are unemployed. Those who work spend their money on alcohol. We run the church in the open place. Pray that God keeps us safe us from opposition and that many souls will be saved there.\nPlease pray for all of the churches and Bible studies that are going on in different villages Monday through Saturday. May God enrich the people of the villages with His knowledge and strengthen them in their faith.\nThank you for your prayers, Christian love, and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you.\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/05/02/god-is-great/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from me and my wife!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DSC%5F0107.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG-20230413-WA0005-135x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DSC%5F0151-224x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI am very thankful to God and to all of you for praying for me from the beginning to find a life partner, who would join me in spreading the Gospel of God. Our God is the great Almighty, who has answered my prayer and given me such a wife. She has come to serve God with me. She has left every facility and is living with us in the village.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God Is Great"},{"content":"Dear Partners, Pastors and Leaders,\nGreetings to all of you from our church! I thank you all and God from the bottom of my heart that you always take care of the members of the body of Christ and that you are constantly engaged in prayer and meet our needs. In the last week of January, there was a great persecution on our church and our church’s believers, which I will describe below. By the grace of God and your prayers, everything is back to normal.\nAn uneducated family was kept under house arrest for 10 days to break their faith in Lord Jesus Christ. They were tortured physically and mentally to testify against us!\nWhen we study the Acts of the Apostles, we learn that wherever the Gospel reaches people who believe in Jesus, there is also the work of Satan. Similarly, in the last week of January, persecution came upon us and our church. A political leader complained about us to the center. So a team was formed by the government to keep people from our church under house arrest for 10 days. They were tortured mentally and physically so that they would give false testimony against us. But none of them gave false testimony against us. Their faith was also not broken. They told the team of police investigators, \u0026ldquo;We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ by our own will. Whether we die or live, we will not leave Jesus Christ.\u0026rdquo;\nThe team also came to our house. During the time that they were there, I was away in another state at an SGWM conference. My father was at home. My father shared his testimony with the police investigators, but he did not allow the investigators to enter our home\u0026rsquo;s gate. The investigators left threatening that they would put people in jail.\nThe very next day, it was in the newspaper that we are associated with a group of terrorists. For this reason, a team was sent by the central government to investigate us. But I thank God and all of you for your prayers. The team, which was sent by the Central Government, did not return here again. Still, the believers of our church were put under a lot of pressure to give false testimony against us. But they did not. I thank God that on the first Sunday of March, they reached the Sunday service through the jungle, bowing down to the people of the village.\nIt was great to go to the high mountains and fellowship with the people there.\nI thank God for giving me the opportunity to go to the North in February. I got to travel around in 2 states there and spend time with my colleagues and friends. I especially thank God that we went to many new places that it was almost impossible to go to because there was no road. We had to hike through the mountains. God gave me the courage and strength through which I could go to the villages and preach the Gospel to the people.\nMany strict laws have been implemented in both of the states against spreading the Gospel. Because of this, many pastors are running restaurants, cafes and guest houses instead of preaching the Gospel. I really enjoyed visiting with the people there. It warmed my heart to see their hospitality.\nGod also gave me the opportunity to deliver the Word of God in Pastor 12*\u0026rsquo;s church. God gave me the opportunity to meet my old neighbors also, among whom we were once again able to share the Word of God. I thank God that He used me in the North as well. Always pray for the ministry in the North, that the name of God is spread faithfully. Please also pray for the pastor of the church I went to for about 18 years. There is a conversion (witnessing) court case against them. Pray that he is released from this court case.\nIn March God opened another new village to evangelize.\nAll things work together for good to those who love God!\nIn January, when the newspapers published my father\u0026rsquo;s testimony, many people read it. Many fanatics opposed us. But many others also heard it who were hungry and thirsty for God. Among them is one man who after searching, came to know that there is a church at our house. He came to our Sunday service and requested that we start a weekly fellowship in his village. So we started a fellowship there. He is like other believers here, who came to know Christ when they went to a big city. They go back and forth for work. Thank you for your prayers. Now, by the grace of God, house churches have been established in 10 villages. We go there every week for prayer, worship and Bible study.\nA Special Point of Thanksgiving and Prayer Request!\nI am very happy to tell you that God has given me a wife who will be helpful in furthering the kingdom of God with me. The area where I serve is a very unreached place. No pastor wants to come here. People make up lies and many different excuses to not serve the Lord here. But I thank God that He has given me a wife who will serve with me in my field. I have known my wife for 5 years. We have been dating for a year. He sister and brother-in-law are believers in who live in the same home with her and her mother. Her mother does not believe in God. Still God spoke to her mother\u0026rsquo;s heart, and her mother agreed for us to get married. She even assisted in our legal (court) marriage as a witness for her daughter. Our court marriage happened very smoothly. Her family members, especially one named P* helped a lot with it.\nPlease pray for our marriage reception which will be hosted by my wife\u0026rsquo;s family members in the North. All of my wife\u0026rsquo;s relatives will come. Pray that everything goes well.\nPlease pray for our planned marriage ceremony and marriage reception at my house. Pray that God fulfills our every need. About 200 people will come. Everyone in my house does ministry. But by faith, I have invited many friends, relatives and believers who have been praying for my marriage for almost 10 years. Please pray that everything goes well.\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray that my marriage goes well. May God fulfill our every need.\nPlease pray that my close friends are able to come to my wedding.\nPlease pray that the believers in our church will understand the Word of God more deeply.\nPlease pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s back pain to be cured.\nPray. Next month, after marriage, I am going to another city close by to get audio Bibles. May God give me protection when I get them.\nPray. Another believer wants to be baptized this month. May God protect us while we baptize.\nThere are some Hindu fundamentalists in our village also who are always trying to torture us. May God give them peace in their hearts.\nThank you for your love, prayers and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all,\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/03/26/thanks-be-to-god-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Partners, Pastors and Leaders,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/April-Pic-1-300x198.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from our church! I thank you all and God from the bottom of my heart that you always take care of the members of the body of Christ and that you are constantly engaged in prayer and meet our needs. In the last week of January, there was a great persecution on our church and our church’s believers, which I will describe below. By the grace of God and your prayers, everything is back to normal.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Thanks Be To God!"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\nGreetings to all of you in the sweet name of the Lord Jesus Christ!\nI thank God that He has kept me safe this whole month. Last month, an investigation team was formed by the central government that came to investigate us, by comparing us with a terrorist/insurgent group. But, thank God, they left after making inquiries and have not come again. Also, the newspaper did not publish anything bad about us again. All these are answers to your prayers.\nI thank the Almighty God specially that He has given me good health. And thank God that He is using me to fulfill His purpose. In January, where I do ministry, I didn\u0026rsquo;t see the sunlight for almost 2 weeks due to a very dense fog. Because of this, it got very cold. Many people are dying due to the cold. Due to the dense fog many road accidents are happening. Still, God has saved me and my family members. So, I thank God and also thank you who always keep praying for us.\nA Successful Effort to Bring All of the Pastors on One Stage\nIn present times, persecution is increasing day by day. Many churches are being vandalized. People who obey God are being beaten up. Women of pastors\u0026rsquo; families are being abused. Pastors and Christians are being jailed because of false accusations against them. Just a few days ago, there was an incident of a pastor being locked up in the police station after being falsely accused. Some people from an organization working against Christians bribed a policeman so they could enter the police station. They then beat up the pastor and kept on beating him till they started crying loudly. When I saw all these things, God spoke to me to hold a meeting with the pastors of all the local churches, so that we can unite and help each other during the coming persecution.\nWe called all of the pastors and held a meeting, Many decisions were made. They appointed me and one of my friends as the coordinators of the posters of the entire district of churches for 1 year.\nTogether, we also decided to make a Christmas Carol Festival. We worked together to put on the festival. We invited the pastors of all the churches. The people who had practiced Christmas programs for their churches were invited to come there and compete. The one who did the best won a prize. Around 12-13 churches participated in the competition. God gave me the chance to lead this whole competition. The youth of my church also performed dance, songs and drama. Glory be to God, our church is very happy to have won the third prize!\nVery Good Fellowship with Young People\nI had a great of fellowship with a young man from my church. Some other pastors and I had planned to organize a huge youth meeting on January 9th. Through this, all of the youth of the churches would come and get to know each other. They would be immersed in the Word of God, because in present day many youth/young adults are falling away from God. However, due to very cold weather and financial problems, the big meeting could not be held.\nI thank God that I called the youth/young adults of my church and had very nice fellowship with them. We studied the book of Daniel. I also showed a movie about Daniel to them so that the life of Daniel would be imprinted in their mind.\nStarting on January 1st, because of heavy fog the sun did not come out. Because of this, it was very cold. Some of my church’s youth could not reach the church. Only 7 youth came to the youth meeting. To warm them, a fire was prepared by burning coal so that they could keep themselves warm. We all had lunch together and then everyone went to their homes.\nPrayer Requests:\nI was engaged in prayer for many days for God to give me a wife who can further God\u0026rsquo;s work with me. It gives me great joy to share that God has given me a fiance who is a believer through Calvary Chapel and dedicated to God. I have just arrived in the North to have a court (legal) marriage. Please pray that my court marriage can be done soon. After that, I will go back to my state to do ministry. Then, on April 12, I will come back to the North to have my wedding. Our wedding ceremonies/receptions are planned on April 12th in the North and on April 20th in my home state. May God give us strength to prepare everything well and may God fulfill every financial need. Some Hindu fundamentalists are planning to break up/harm our church in many ways, after reading about our church in the newspaper. May God give them peace. Please pray that my mother\u0026rsquo;s health problem is cured. She always has pain in her back. Pray for the believers in my church to have a deeper understanding of the Word of God. Pray that God will protect some more believers who want to be baptized next month. Thank you for your prayers, Christian love, support and participation in the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/02/19/our-almighty-god-has-kept-me-safe/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you in the sweet name of the Lord Jesus Christ!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God that He has kept me safe this whole month. Last month, an investigation team was formed by the central government that came to investigate us, by comparing us with a terrorist/insurgent group. But, thank God, they left after making inquiries and have not come again. Also, the newspaper did not publish anything bad about us again. All these are answers to your prayers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=31967\"\u003eOur Almighty God Has Kept Me Safe\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Leaders,\nI thank God and all of you for your participation in spreading the good news of the birth of Jesus. Because of your prayers and support, we have been able to use a variety of methods and tools to spread the Gospel including:\nDistributing New Testaments Distributing Kids Comics that share about Jesus Distributing Biscuits Sharing the Gospel through Action Songs Showing the Jesus Film on a projector Sharing through worship songs Assembling together to pray for the healing of the sick Providing Christmas lunch This year, through our Christmas outreaches, the Lord Jesus Christ has also been born in the lives of rural, illiterate and religion-hungry people! I want to express my gratitude to God and to all of you. By your help and support and especially by your prayers, we have spread the Gospel to 6 new villages and some old villages as well. Some friends of mine and I distributed more than 500 New Testaments, and also comics that share about Jesus and biscuits to small children. We also showed the movie of the Lord Jesus Christ on a projector in 3 new villages.\nIn every village where we went with the Gospel, the people welcomed us very well. Some made us lunch and some made all of us supper. It swelled my heart to see people\u0026rsquo;s hearts open to hearing the Gospel. With your prayers and help, we will take the Gospel to villages that people may not even think of going to.\nThe Gospel reached people who did not know who Jesus Christ is. \u0026ldquo;Is this the name of an object? Or is it a person\u0026rsquo;s name? Or is it the name of the Lord?\u0026rdquo;\nThank God that the name of Jesus reached these ears for the first time and God changed hearts. About 20 more people received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior! Praise God, one of them who accepted the Lord Jesus Christ was also baptized. By the grace of God we have also been invited to do weekly fellowship in 2 new villages!\nBlessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness because they will be satisfied! Let me tell you in detail about one of these outreaches in a new village where people were moved by the hunger and thirst to hear the Gospel. The name of this village is S*. It is about 25 km away from our house. When my team and I reached there, the people welcomed us very well. They gave us places to sit and took us to a nice place where around 200 to 300 people could sit.\nAs soon as we reached there, a brother from my team started singing in the microphone and playing the guitar. Many school children came. The adults from the whole village also came to see. We all sang Christmas carols and shared the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We taught action songs to the children and distributed comics that share about Jesus to the children. We distributed New Testaments to the adults. Around 200 to 300 people including children came. After getting permission from the school teacher, we went to the school class and taught action songs to the children. We also showed the Jesus movie on a laptop. At the end, we distributed biscuits to the children. Afterward, the people of the village prepared lunch for all of us. There were 10 of us, and they fed all of us well. 5 new people accepted Jesus Christ. They invited us to do weekly worship in their village. All of this was possible by the grace of God and your prayers.\nSpiritual and worldly food for 400 people! I thank God that, like every year, this year God helped us when we went to new villages to do outreach, evangelism, Bible distribution, and healing meetings. We invited people from each place to come to our church. We also told them that they could bring their relatives and friends.\nLast year on December 25th, the news media came to our Christmas lunch because of the huge crowd. So this year we had our Christmas lunch on December 20th so that the people who are anti-Christian and the media would not know about it. Glory be to God, everything went well this year. Around 400 people and children came, participated in the worship, heard the Gospel of God, saw the dances by the Sunday school children of our church, saw a lot of activities, and finally went home after having lunch. It took almost 3 hours to feed the people due to the huge crowd. Many new people promised that they will continue come to Sunday services to come to know God deeply.\nPrayer Requests: Please pray that those who have heard the Word may one day receive the Lord. Please pray. On December 27th, all of the local churches are doing a Christmas program together. Arrangements have also been made for dance, drama and song competition. God may bring revival among the youth. I have been given the chance to lead this program, please pray that I lead it well. A youth meeting is being organized to take place on January 9th. Almost all of the youth of the church plan to come. Last time, about 150 people came. This time more people are expected than that. Pray that God will bless every one, provide the finances, and give wisdom to all of us so that we can organize this meeting well. Pray for our country. Persecution is increasing every day. Please pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health. Please pray for my marriage. My family and I want me to be married in February. May God fulfill our every need. Thanks again for your partnership in the Gospel!\nGod bless you!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2023/01/05/world-changing-outreach/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Leaders,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jan-2023-1-300x158.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God and all of you for your participation in spreading the good news of the birth of Jesus. Because of your prayers and support, we have been able to use a variety of methods and tools to spread the Gospel including:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistributing New Testaments\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistributing Kids Comics that share about Jesus\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistributing Biscuits\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharing the Gospel through Action Songs\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShowing the Jesus Film on a projector\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharing through worship songs\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssembling together to pray for the healing of the sick\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProviding Christmas lunch\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jan-2023-2.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003ch4 id=\"this-year-through-our-christmas-outreaches-the-lord-jesus-christ-has-also-been-born-in-the-lives-of-rural-illiterate-and-religion-hungry-people\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis year, through our Christmas outreaches, the Lord Jesus Christ has also been born in the lives of rural, illiterate and religion-hungry people!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jan-2023-4-300x174.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI want to express my gratitude to God and to all of you. By your help and support and especially by your prayers, we have spread the Gospel to 6 new villages and some old villages as well. Some friends of mine and I distributed more than 500 New Testaments, and also comics that share about Jesus and biscuits to small children. We also showed the movie of the Lord Jesus Christ on a projector in 3 new villages.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\u003ca href=\"https://sgwm.com/?p=31530\"\u003eWorld Changing Outreach!\u003c/a\u003e"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters, and Church Family!\nGreetings to all of you from my family and church! Thank God that He is fulfilling every single one of my family and I\u0026rsquo;s needs. Everyone is safe from trouble.\nIt is through love that people will know that we are disciples of Jesus. Thank God that He has put me in a place where 99% of people are illiterate and there are many villages and communities where the name of Jesus Christ has not yet reached.\nI am going to tell about a village where we have been going for about 5-6 years. 100% of the people there are completely illiterate and poor. However, seeing their love, it seems that even the educated and rich have nothing in comparison to them.\nThey live in a village where people of other castes will not go. The people of this village are despised by people of other castes. In this village, if a friend comes to visit, he neither will drink tea nor eat biscuits at his friend\u0026rsquo;s house, due to which these people felt very bad. That\u0026rsquo;s why I took my sister and her friends to them. They hugged these people, shared their lives with them, and preached the Good News of God, and taught action songs to the children. When the people of these villages saw the love of Christ through my sister and her friends and heard the Good News, two people gave their lives to the Lord. We gave biscuits to about 50 children.\nWhen all of the villagers saw that our group was talking nicely with them and even hugging them, about 20 of the villagers\u0026rsquo; families together donated the supplies and made lunch for me and my sister\u0026rsquo;s friends. They fed us well, and we went with them some distance on foot towards their homes. The people requested us to come again to their village with the whole team. Thank God that people in this village are growing more in the Word of God.\nA Destroyer of New Testaments was Baptized. We all know Paul\u0026rsquo;s story very well. First, he persecuted Christians and wanted to end Christianity. Then, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him and his life changed. Similarly, this story is about a person who was against Christ. He hated the books and the religion of Jesus Christ. This brother\u0026rsquo;s name is A*. He is a farmer.\nOnce, we distributed New Testaments to his whole village. When this brother saw that the \u0026ldquo;new rule\u0026rdquo; (Bibles) had been distributed in his village, he collected all the \u0026ldquo;new rules\u0026rdquo; and threw them in the river.\nBut the Lord Jesus Christ came in his wife\u0026rsquo;s dream at night and said that what your husband did is not good. For this reason, the next day he came to church and asked for forgiveness. We told him the Gospel and he started following the Lord by believing in Jesus Christ. His wife was also troubled a lot by an evil spirit. We prayed and the Lord Jesus Christ healed her. A* has been coming to Bible study and learning God\u0026rsquo;s Word verse-by-verse, for almost 1 year. He got baptized this month. House church takes place in his house every Wednesday.\nFor the first time in 10 years, someone from our organization came to meet me. Thank God! For the first time, 2 people who are from our organization came to my house. They stayed with us for about 3 days. All this was a matter of great pleasure for me. We went to visit 4 villages during their visit.\nIn one of the villages, Uncle 5* (right) shared the Word of God. In another village and during our Friday Bible study, Pastor 1* (above) shared the Word of God. God also arranged for a new movie projector. We had a great time with them; they encouraged us a lot by the Word.\nThe zeal of my heart is to go where the name of Jesus has not been heard. I thank God that He gave us a chance in a village to preach the Word and Gospel of Jesus Christ in that village and also that God has provided a new movie projector.\nAfter repairing the sound system and generator, we went to a village to show a movie where people watched the movie with great pleasure. It was starting to rain and the clouds were also roaring. We prayed together that it would not rain until the movie was over. God listened to the prayer and did the same! About 150 to 200 people watched the movie to the end. Afterward, I preached the Gospel. After listening to the Gospel, the people went to their respective homes. As soon as we loaded all the stuff on the taxi (the movie projector, sound system, and generator etc.), it started raining. We returned home by taxi after praising the Lord.\nPrayer Requests: Please pray for my mother. She has been having headaches for a long time and pain in her shoulder and back. The pain is not getting better even with treatment. May God heal her. Last week, her own sister, who lived in our neighborhood, died. Because we are Christians, our neighbors didn\u0026rsquo;t allow my mom to see her sister and replied to her with insults. No one (in our village) talks to us, everyone is at enmity with us. It is the same way for all of our church believers with the people who live around them. Please pray that the believers of my church able to understand the Word of God more deeply. Pray that God strengthens the people of my church in their faith and protects them from all kinds of trouble and persecution. Pray that if the Lord wills, our church may be registered. Please pray that just as God has arranged for the projector, God can also arrange for a sound system and projector screen. Please pray. Last month in the village where our church used to run on Mondays, the upper caste people were waiting to kill us. So we stopped having church there and were trying to start it again in another village. But the upper caste people went and threatened the people of the other village also. Because of this, there is no church in that village right now. Some people from there still come to our house on Fridays for Bible study and Sundays for church fellowship. Pray that God gives peace to the people there and that God talks to those who are persecuting, that they too can receive the Lord. Pray that God give peace to our neighbors and those who are the political leaders of our village who hate us, may God give peace to them too. Pray. There are still many villages in my state where people have not yet heard the name of Christ. Pray that those people can also hear the name of Jesus Christ and that God uses me abundantly for His pleasure. Thank you for your prayers, Christian love, financial support, and partnership for the Gospel. God bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2022/10/13/those-who-have-never-heard-are-listening/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters, and Church Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from my family and church! Thank God that He is fulfilling every single one of my family and I\u0026rsquo;s needs. Everyone is safe from trouble.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"it-is-through-love-that-people-will-know-that-we-are-disciples-of-jesus\"\u003eIt is through love that people will know that we are disciples of Jesus.\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/November-1-300x295.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThank God that He has put me in a place where 99% of people are illiterate and there are many villages and communities where the name of Jesus Christ has not yet reached.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Those Who Have Never Heard Are Listening!"},{"content":"Dear Pastor, Leaders, Supporters and Church Family,\nThank God that He is truly great, living, gracious and mighty. He makes the impossible possible and keeps everyone out of trouble.\nHow God Saved Us From Being Killed or Imprisoned by a Phone Call As a lion drags the wicked into his bush, so does the wicked lie in ambush; He keeps ambush to catch the day, he drags the day into his net, and then captures it.\nPsalm 10:9\nI thank God that He is really great, loving, and ever loving. Every Monday, there is a house church which we started about two or three years ago. About 10 people were baptized there. Many others also come to hear the Gospel. As I was preaching from the book of Acts about how God\u0026rsquo;s work was progressing, there was a lot of opposition. The same thing happened when we preached from Acts here also.\nWhen we used to go to our house church every Monday, some upper caste people used to watch us attentively. When they inquired about us, they came to know that we are preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Because of this, they became angry and misguided the people of the village against us. In the beginning of the month of August on Monday, they were waiting on our way to the village to kill me and my father.\nBut some good people of the village came to know that they were waiting on the way to kill us. They then went and told the people of our house church. Right when we were about to leave on Monday to preach at the house church, a call came from the village. They told us everything, and told us not to come.\nI thank God for saving us from getting killed, beaten, or going to jail. The fellowship there is still going on. The people there who are established believers have all been continuing to have fellowship together, studying the Word of God verse by verse. All of us, together, have decided that we will start the house church again in a certain village that is next to that village.\nGod Has Given an Evangelist Who, Even at the Risk of Her Life, Preaches the Gospel! I thank God that He is strengthening my church members in their faith and in the Word of God. Ever since we started Bible study and started preaching the whole Bible without leaving out a single word, the people of my church are understanding deeply and preaching the Gospel very well. Through them, many new people come to our church.\nOne such woman from my church, who I have shared about many times in prayer requests and newsletters, is R*. She is completely illiterate. I tried to educate her, but his mother-in-law protested a lot. She very firmly narrates the Word of God and all the news in the village.\nThis month, she went to the bank for some business. There she recited the Word of God among the ladies and the staff. The security guards of the bank saw her t preaching the Gospel. Because of this, they harassed her and took away everything from her, including her bank passbook and ID card. Later, after many requests, the bankers returned her bank passbook and ID card and warned that she may never come to the bank again. Thank God that they didn’t call the police.\nShe is even now continuing to preach the Gospel with steadfastness and adding so many new people to our church. Please will all of you pray that God will use this sister more and may she continue to preach the Good News with steadfastness. Our house church goes on at her house every Tuesday, please pray that it will always keep going.\nI Had a Very Nice Time at a Medical Refresher Camp Thank God that He gave me the opportunity to attend a medical refresher camp for 3 days. This training is very beneficial for me because of the area in which I serve. The people here are very illiterate. They do not know anything about physical health. 50% of village women have child birth at home, because they have a wrong belief that if they go to the hospital, the doctor will replace their son with a daughter. Rural women do not know anything about cleanliness. They do not keep their children clean, nor do they cook food properly. Because of this, they get sick and go to the local practitioner doctor. Even when they have a viral fever the doctor treats them by injecting antibiotics and charges them thousands of rupees.\nIf someone is bitten by a snake, people go straight to witchcraft. If they were bitten by a non-poisonous snake, then they are okay. But many times, because the snakes are poisonous, they die before being able to see a doctor. For this reason, I always run awareness campaigns among the villagers, so that people can understand and go directly to the doctor.\nBy receiving training, I learned a lot about medical things. I also learned how to do many tests including blood pressure, blood sugar, temperature; to check for malnutrition, and anemia; to perform eye examinations; and to tie crepe bandages. Whenever I go to rural areas to host church services, I continuously teach people health, along with the Bible, so that people\u0026rsquo;s bodies can be helped as well as their souls saved. Many people listen to my words, follow them, and remain safe from disease.\nPrayer Requests: Please pray for the pastors of the North. During the first week of August, I met with them. May God give them protection and also provide pastor 12* with land or a house for God\u0026rsquo;s church. Pastor 12\u0026rsquo;s landlady stops his Sunday services and prevents believers from entering his house. He has been talking to many people to find another place to rent, but he is not finding a place for the church. Whenever the police arrest people while their is a church service, they also take action against the landlord.This is why no one wants to rent a room to Christians. Pray that the Lord will provide a house, land, or rented room if it is God’s will. Please pray and pray for the members of our church. May God give them protection. Especially pray on Mondays (for the Monday church service). Some upper caste people of the village where the church used to run are persecuting those who believe in Jesus. Please keep praying that our church can be registered. Please pray. There are many Hindu festivals during these few months. During them, Hindu people have processions. Processions keep attacking many churches. Please pray this month for two churches that were attacked and their pastor. The pastor was badly beaten and is in the hospital. Some pastors from the south are planning to come to visit. May God protect them. Please pray for my little sister. She is coming to my house for about 3 weeks with some of her friends. We are planning to preach the Gospel together in more than 10 villages. May God fulfill our financial needs and may He help us all keep away from evil people. Please pray for my area. It is getting very hot here. The electricity is cut off at any time. May God arrange for an inverter and battery. Thanks for your Christian love, support, prayers, and partnership in the Gospel.\nGod bless all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2022/09/12/the-lord-is-my-deliverer/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastor, Leaders, Supporters and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank God that He is truly great, living, gracious and mighty. He makes the impossible possible and keeps everyone out of trouble.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"how-god-saved-us-from-being-killed-or-imprisoned-by-a-phone-call\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow God Saved Us From Being Killed or Imprisoned by a Phone Call\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs a lion drags the wicked into his bush, so does the wicked lie in ambush; He keeps ambush to catch the day, he drags the day into his net, and then captures it.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The Lord Is My Deliverer"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family!\nThank God that He has saved me from every crisis. He is taking care of my every need. God is doing amazingly wonderful things with those I know and He is giving me the chance to preach the Gospel in new places. Church fellowships are going on in 5 villages, by the grace of God. There is also a Bible study on Friday and a fellowship on Sunday here. In the Bible study we are studying Genesis and on Sunday we are studying and preaching verse by verse from Acts. Through God, people\u0026rsquo;s faith is growing more and they are getting stronger in persecution.\nI have not shared with you a testimony from a believer for a long time. So, I prayed that the Lord would lead me to a person whom the Lord brought into the faith in a very strange way. Hearing their testimony, you will glorify God.\nHow a Hindu Priest and Temple Builder Became a Pastor and Church Builder When we read about Paul\u0026rsquo;s testimony in the Acts of the Apostles, we see the way the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to Paul. Jesus changed the life of Paul who had previously persecuted for the Lord, and Paul began to preach for the Lord. I feel happy to testify that there is only one man I know with such a testimony. He is my father. He was a temple priest and leader, when he did not know the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a small temple in our village, which had earlier been a hut. When my father became the leader of the temple, he collected a lot of donations for the construction of the temple. He also stole sand and other material from the road which was being built, to build the temple. This temple is still present in our village. After collecting a lot of donations, he used to call outside priests to perform big conventions. Millions of people used to participate in that worship.\nBut my father never got peace by doing this work. There were always fights in our home and a lack of food. Raising 6 children was not an easy thing. For this reason, my father left all of this worship. He then got into an accident while going to another state to find work. Due to a poor financial condition, he could not get the proper treatment and so his hand was damaged.\nBut, the second time he went to the other state, he started doing trash/litter work. At the same time a man from England met him. This man got my father treatment for his hand. At the same time, an elderly woman told my father about going to church. She sent him to the church in which our pastors from Calvary Chapel and Pastor 15* held many marriage conferences etc. and Amy and Diana used to go. Our family went to this church for about 18 years. Then, God called my father to go to our home village . God blessed us so much in the business we used to do. We ourselves built a church in our village through our own business. It is the church I use now.\nWhen God spoke to him to go and preach in the village, he left his business and work and went to a village and started preaching the gospel. At first, he would walk 15-20 kilometers on foot to preach the Gospel and invite those who believed to come to the church. I was studying in Calvary Chapel Bible College when someone heard the testimony of a pastor\u0026rsquo;s father who preached the Gospel on foot for 20 kilometers. He gave my father his bicycle.\nWhen I came here, after finishing Bible college, I also started preaching the Gospel by bike for 60 kms. But later, God decided to provide us with a motor bike. Now we can spread the Gospel further. We have now preached the Gospel in more than 200 villages. We are having church services in 5 villages. Some time ago, after seeing our service, some pastors from the South came who wanted to give monthly support to my father. However they refused to give him support because of their difference in Bible doctrine/principles. My Papa loves the principles of Calvary Chapel and loves to preach the Word of God verse by verse. He has now studied the entire Bible about three times.\nBible study with Pastor 9*! As I mentioned in the last newsletter we do Bible study on Fridays. The first Friday of the month we are taught Bible study by different outside pastors. Last month we invited pastor 12* from the North. This time we invited a zealous, young pastor to teach Bible study. You know the pastor very well, his name is Pastor 9*. Studying the Bible with Pastor 9* has been a great blessing to us. Our group is becoming very strong in faith by doing Bible study. Even the illiterate believers are growing in faith by hearing the Word from the Bible study. They also explain to the people of their village society through the Word of God and preach the Gospel.\nPraise Report: Praise the Lord and thank all of you! Last month I gave a prayer request about a woman whose name is R*. She had suffered a lot and you prayed. Her neighbors and villagers had made complete plans to kill her, but God saved her and gave her a new life. The church fellowship was closed at her house for almost a month and we were all praying together that the people of the church\u0026rsquo;s faith would remain stable. R*is very strong in prayer and in faith. Although she was not educated, she used to go from village to village to recite the Word of God and keep encouraging people. But thank God! 2 weeks ago the fellowship started again. They can\u0026rsquo;t openly fellowship like before, but now they worship God together in a small room. May God bless and strengthen all these people in their faith.\nPrayer Requests: Please pray! There is an anti-Christian organization working in our village. During last Sunday\u0026rsquo;s fellowship, a person from his group came and looked at our company and left. Pray that God will give them peace and they do not do anything against God. Please also pray for my to have a chance to preach the good news to them. Kindly pray continuously that my church can be registered and cc camera can be installed. Please pray for my country. There are many types of riots happening here. Trains were burnt at many places and a bus was set on fire. The government shut down the internet for about 4 days. Pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health. May God will heal her. Her hands and feet are always in pain. Thank God that He gave me a chance to preach the Good News to a village where many people are illiterate and who had not even heard the name of Jesus Christ before. In one of the families almost every person in the family is haunted by an evil spirit. Pray for a believer in my church who is suffering from a very strange disease. May God would provide the financial needs for treatment for him or even heal him. Please pray and pray for a child who is orphan and mentally ill. His aunt cares for him. May God heal this child. Last time when he was suffering from TB, the people of our organization helped pay for his treatment. Please pray for a new movie projector for my church. My old projector broke because of high surge of electricity while I was showing Jesus movie during a Christmas outreach. Thanks for your Christian love, support, prayers and partnership in the Gospel.\nGod bless you!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2022/08/10/spreading-the-gospel-near-and-far/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank God that He has saved me from every crisis. He is taking care of my every need. God is doing amazingly wonderful things with those I know and He is giving me the chance to preach the Gospel in new places. Church fellowships are going on in 5 villages, by the grace of God. There is also a Bible study on Friday and a fellowship on Sunday here. In the Bible study we are studying Genesis and on Sunday we are studying and preaching verse by verse from Acts. Through God, people\u0026rsquo;s faith is growing more and they are getting stronger in persecution.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Spreading the Gospel Near and Far"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\nI thank God that, like every month, God has saved us from many kinds of sorrows, troubles and diseases. God is great, almighty and trustworthy. These days, I am preaching from book of Acts, verse by verse. Whenever I study the book of Acts, I am filled with renewed vigor and enthusiasm. If I look at our present situation and compare it with the circumstances of Paul\u0026rsquo;s time, then the present crisis is nothing in comparison to their present crisis. When I read about Paul’s life and study about his ministry, my heart fills with joy and a different kind of enthusiasm.\nWe are studying from the book of Genesis in our Bible study on Fridays. God is encouraging many people to join this study. Although many people in this Bible study are illiterate, the Holy Spirit is helping them to understand and obey words. They are starting to share the Word of God with their neighbors, village and community. Christians in my state are less than 0.5% of the population. I believe that many souls will be saved by the Lord.\n\u0026ldquo;Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days\ncome not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure\nin them\u0026rdquo;\nEcclesiastes 12:1.\nThank God that on June 1st, about 10 of us pastors organized a youth meeting together. About one hundred and fifty young people participated. They deeply understand the Word of God, worshiped together and met the youth of other churches. Many young people are moving towards worldliness. The purpose of us pastors was that the youth of each church should understand and recognize the youth of each other church so that if the Lord leads, then they will marry a Christian only. In these days, many Christian young adults are marrying Hindu boys and girls because of not getting in the right relationship. Due to this many Christian girls have gone back to the old life. They have deviated from the faith due to marrying a Hindu boy. Here, it is a male dominated area. For this reason, men put pressure on their wives to follow the orders of their husbands.\nGod Sets the Solitary in Families (Psalm 68:6a) Truly our God is very great, powerful and gracious. God always takes care of orphans and widows. I keep reading it in the Word of God everywhere like Deuteronomy 14:29, 16:11, James 1:26, and Isaiah 1:17, 23. There are many other verses by which we understand that God loves and cares for orphans, widows and foreigners very much. When I was in Bible College, I was taught by two sisters who taught at a Bible college. They encouraged me, \u0026ldquo;God has given you a heart for orphans and widows. You should open an orphanage in the future.\u0026rdquo;\nAt that time that I came from Bible college. My eldest sister has 4 kids. Her husband is mad. Her son lives in a boy\u0026rsquo;s home. It was very difficult for her to take care of 3 children and provide them education. She washed dishes, cooked, and swept houses for others for her job. For this reason, I started having my 3-year-old niece study at my home about 10 years ago and started paying for all of her school supplies, books, school fees, etc. Today, she has turned 13, and is studying in the seventh grade. She plays the small drums during our Sunday service and home church and teaches Sunday school. She has the children memorize Bible verses and teaches them action songs. She is increasing day-by-day in the Word of God and in the fear of the Lord. I am requesting you all to pray that if it is the Lord\u0026rsquo;s will, then in the future, I will be able to keep some more orphan children and move them forward in education and in the fear and Word of God.\nFaith is Incomplete Without Works! Whenever we wake up in the morning, we look at our face in the mirror and thank God that God has made us beautiful. There is one believer in our church, named Surrender (right), who, before he knew Jesus, cursed himself whenever he saw his face. His hands and feet blistered in a strange way and blood and pus came out of them. I have shared about him so many times in prayer requests. One of his wounds smells very bad. Because of this, no one wants to talk to him or even come near him. This has been going on in our church for a long time. We are praying that God will heal him soon. Lately, God has led me to help him get treatment again. Just praying is not enough for him. I thank God that I have taken him to the doctor to get him treated again. He has been taking medicine for about a month. Now his wounds have stopped smelling foul and they have stopped having pus. Please also remember this brother in your prayers that God may give him complete healing.\nOne More Village Open for Fellowship! Thank God! This month God has given an opportunity to preach the Good News in another village where no one has heard the name of Jesus Christ until today. Because the people cannot read and they also are not on social media, the name of Jesus Christ has not yet reached the ears of the people. They do not even know who Jesus Christ is. I wrote above about Surendra, who is suffering from strange disease. This village is where his elder sister lives. We took Surender to his elder sister’s house to preach the Gospel to his elder sister. When we reached there, his elder sister had called the people of the whole village to come listen to the Gospel. When I started preaching, the Lord did a great miracle there. There was a person who was suffering from an evil spirit. He suddenly started crawling on the ground like a snake and started speaking many different dialects. We all prayed for him and God healed him at that very moment. When the people around saw this miracle, they believed in Jesus Christ. The driver of the taxi in which we went also believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and took us to his home. He believed in Jesus Christ with the whole family. Lately, I see that Lord Jesus is helping us all to spread the Gospel like this in so many ways.\nMany Believers are Fleeing Because of Unemployment I thank the Lord that He called me to serve in a state where people are very poor and are in debt. The population here is very high. Because of this, the government is not able to give jobs to everyone. About 50% of the people work in big cities away from this state. Some do physical labor; some do dishes; and some work in factories. Here the government gives some grain every month to people to eat, but due to lack of jobs, people are still falling prey to malnutrition. There is also a believing family of our church, in whose home there used to be a fellowship every Monday. They also left our state and went to work in a big city due to being poor and not finding a job. Because of this, we started a fellowship in a different house. God is blessing it. The believers are engaging in the Bible study and God is helping them grow in the Word of God.\nPrayer Requests: Please pray\u0026ndash;there is a flood in the village which is affecting all of the believers outside our village. This flood usually lasts for about 3 months. Pray that God will make arrangements for all of the people to live, eat, and have clean water. Please pray for a boy named Raju (right). He is about 21 years old. He was born paralyzed. He is neither able to walk nor speak. His parents have to take care of him like a child drinking milk. His whole family accepted the Lord about 10 years ago and always keep coming to the Lord\u0026rsquo;s house. We also have a home fellowship at their house. His parents carry him in their lap despite being 21 years old. Please, all of you, remember this child in your personal prayers. Please pray! There is an anti-Christian organization working in our village. During last Sunday\u0026rsquo;s fellowship, a person from this group came and looked at who was attending and left. Pray that God will give them peace and that they will not do anything against God. Please pray that God will give me a chance to preach the Good News to them. Kindly pray continuously that my church can be registered, and that a security camera can be installed. Please pray for my country\u0026ndash;there are many types of riots happening here. Trains were burnt in many places and a bus was set on fire. The government had to shut down the internet for about 4 days. Pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health\u0026ndash;that God will heal her. Her hands and feet are always in pain. Thank God that He gave me a chance to preach the Good News to a village where many people are illiterate and who had not even heard the name of Jesus Christ. In one of the families there, almost everyone in the family is haunted by an evil spirit. Pray for a believer in my church who is suffering from a very strange disease. Please pray that God provide the financial needs for treatment or even healing. Please pray and pray for a child who is an orphan and mentally ill. His aunt cares for him. May God heal this child. Before, when he was suffering from TB, the people of our organization helped provide for his treatment. Please pray for a new movie projector for my church. My old projector broke because of a surge of electricity while I was showing the Jesus movie during Christmas outreach. Thanks for your help, love and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2022/07/07/one-more-village/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI thank God that, like every month, God has saved us from many kinds of sorrows, troubles and diseases. God is great, almighty and trustworthy. These days, I am preaching from book of Acts, verse by verse. Whenever I study the book of Acts, I am filled with renewed vigor and enthusiasm. If I look at our present situation and compare it with the circumstances of Paul\u0026rsquo;s time, then the present crisis is nothing in comparison to their present crisis. When I read about Paul’s life and study about his ministry, my heart fills with joy and a different kind of enthusiasm.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"One More Village"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\n\nGreetings to all of you from my church family. I want to thank God, Who has protected me and my church from every disease and from all kinds of the devil\u0026rsquo;s tricks. Also, I thank God that I have been working with Calvary Chapel for ten years! Calvary Chapel has always fulfilled our needs. They have been with us like family members in every situation. You continually pray for us. I appreciate your encouragement. I wish that someone was able to come visit my area; I am a little bit sad that no one has been able to come in almost 10 years. Thank you for your wonderful love and faith in me. God\u0026rsquo;s ministry is going on in 6 villages, by the grace of God. Along with the fellowships there are also Bible studies, and God is giving wisdom and knowledge to all of these people. They are deeply understanding the Word of God. Thank you for always remembering us in your prayers and encouraging us with the Word of God all the time.\nThis is an answer to 15 years of my prayers, and it\u0026rsquo;s an incredible day! Thank God! My sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding was on February 28th. It was the answer to my family’s prayer. God met every single need, and I saw that God is truly faithful and fulfills every one of our needs beyond what we can imagine. When I went to talk about preparing for my sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding, I was thinking, \u0026ldquo;How will this marriage happen? It is too far away and there is not enough money.\u0026rdquo; No one supports my sister or parents monthly. But everything was accomplished in an orderly manner by God.\nMy sister\u0026rsquo;s new husband\u0026rsquo;s parents are Hindu, and they do not believe in the Lord. For a while they were against the marriage. But God put it on my sister\u0026rsquo;s husband\u0026rsquo;s heart, that they should be married, and he prepared for the marriage. He had attended Bible College, but, due to the lack of monthly finances, he started working in an outside industry. After he and my sister were married, he decided that they should serve the Lord and resigned from his job. Pray that God will fulfill their needs and guide their plans; may God bless them for their ministry.\nSuch a great joy that I have no words to describe it! I had an incredible time with my dearest friends in the North. It was very nice to hear their testimonies, of what has happened with them during these past 3 years and how they are serving the Lord faithfully. Their testimonies were really the reason for so much excitement for me. Even after coming under persecution, one of my dear brothers stood with the Lord and faithfully worshiped the Lord. Spending time with him, camping and traveling was a blessing to me and to him.\nNo one visited these friends for almost 3 years. Since the persecution started, many people blocked them on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp because of fear. But when I went, they liked it very much. I also made a lot of memories that I will never forget. I was so happy to see my brother\u0026rsquo;s heart, and he helped with my sister’s marriage like it was his own sister\u0026rsquo;s wedding. God bless these friends!\nTwo more people were baptized last week! Thank God that He has given me new believers. For the first time, they heard the Word through us, and now they believe in the Lord with all their heart and soul. Because fuel is so expensive, taxi fares have almost doubled; but still, these poor people come and listen to the Word of God and apply the Word of God in their lives. Lately, we have a Bible study from the Acts of the Apostles during Sunday fellowship and a Bible study from Genesis on Fridays. A lot of people believe. We thank God that the two women were baptized last week. One of the women is the mother of a boy who is suffering from a very strange disease, which I have written to you about many times. The second woman is the mother of another believer. When that believer told her mother that salvation was only through Jesus Christ, her mother believed and gave her life to the Lord and was baptized. Thank God that more than 42 people have been baptized so far!\nA huge sacrifice for the Lord! I thank God that He has given me the best church family in the world. Along with the uneducated, there are the poor, and the unemployed. They are very hungry and thirsty for God.\nWhen people come to believe in the Lord, the people of their village society hate them and separate themselves from the believers. Many believers have also been excommunicated from their communities, becoming outcasts. Being out of cast means that no one will talk to them, nor do any kind of financial transaction or provide professional services. No one will attend their marriages or funerals. Still, I am very surprised to see the faith of these believers, that they even leave their village community family for the sake of the Lord. It is not an easy thing here.\nMy church is not registered yet; pray that I can get church registration. Then, I can make a case that the cemetery here is for all Christians and not just for two families. Or else, please pray that God will provide for us enough money to buy land for a separate cemetery for my church so that those who believe in God will not face any kind of problem at the last moment before death against their entire village community family. Also, it is very important for me to register so that if I have any problems in the present or future, then I can tell them that my church is registered. Because in this matter I can\u0026rsquo;t rely on any other person except God to help me.\nPrayer requests; 1. Everyone please pray that the Lord will provide a cemetery for our church.\n2. Pray that God will help us with the registration of our church if it is His will, and that I will be able to install a security camera in our church.\n3. Please pray about the price of fuel; it is getting more expensive here every day, and about 30 to 40% of our support is going to pay for fuel.\n4. Pray that my mother will be in good health.\n5. I want to preach the Gospel at Easter time in an unreached area about 220 miles from my village. If the Lord wills, then He will help and meet our financial needs.\n6. Pray for our believers to understand the Bible more deeply.\n7. Pray for a movie projector. My projector has suddenly broken, due to an electrical power surge.\nThank you for your prayers, love, support and partnership for the Gospel!\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2022/04/22/no-words-to-describe/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/9-April-2022-300x168.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to all of you from my church family. I want to thank God, Who has protected me and my church from every disease and from all kinds of the devil\u0026rsquo;s tricks. Also, I thank God that I have been working with Calvary Chapel for ten years! Calvary Chapel has always fulfilled our needs. They have been with us like family members in every situation. You continually pray for us. I appreciate your encouragement. I wish that someone was able to come visit my area; I am a little bit sad that no one has been able to come in almost 10 years. Thank you for your wonderful love and faith in me. God\u0026rsquo;s ministry is going on in 6 villages, by the grace of God. Along with the fellowships there are also Bible studies, and God is giving wisdom and knowledge to all of these people. They are deeply understanding the Word of God.  Thank you for always remembering us in your prayers and encouraging us with the Word of God all the time.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"No Words to Describe"},{"content":"Praise Points Praise the Lord! My sisters’ wedding was on the 28th of last month. The marriage went very well. God has fulfilled every need! Praise the Lord! I was able to reach my ministry well and begin fellowship again! Praise the Lord! There are currently about 6 villages here where we are having fellowships and Bible studies! Prayer Requests Please pray for us as summer is beginning. I need 3 wall fans and 3 standing fans for our church. Please pray that God will provide for our needs. Please pray for the many illiterate people who come to study the Bible to be able to understand God\u0026rsquo;s Word more deeply. Next month, there are more people who want to publicly show that they follow Jesus during a church service. Please pray for this; about 40 people have done this. Please pray during the Easter month. I want to do an outreach in an unreached village about 350 km from my home. People of that village have been inviting me since Christmas. I am planning to show the Jesus film, preach the Gospel on a loudspeaker,feed about 200 people and give out New Testaments. If God wills, pray that He will fulfill the financial needs. Please pray my church can be registered and that cc tv cameras can be installed. There is a mentally ill woman next to my house whom the boys of my village keep pelting stones at. They do very wrong things at times. May God save her life and let the police take the words very seriously. Please pray that there can be a graveyard for my church. All of the people who are coming to faith are not allowed by the people of the society to participate in any of their public things. Thank you all for your prayers and for participating in the good news!\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2022/03/28/praise-and-prayer-update/","summary":"\u003ch4 id=\"praise-points\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise Points\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/wedding-300x174.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise the Lord! My sisters’ wedding was on the 28th of last month. The marriage went very well. God has fulfilled every need!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise the Lord! I was able to reach my ministry well and begin fellowship again!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise the Lord! There are currently about 6 villages here where we are having fellowships and Bible studies!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"prayer-requests\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrayer Requests\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for us as summer is beginning. I need 3 wall fans and 3 standing fans for our church. Please pray that God will provide for our needs.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for the many illiterate people who come to study the Bible to be able to understand God\u0026rsquo;s Word more deeply.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNext month, there are more people who want to publicly show that they follow Jesus during a church service. Please pray for this; about 40 people have done this.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray during the Easter month. I want to do an outreach in an unreached village about 350 km from my home. People of that village have been inviting me since Christmas. I am planning to show the Jesus film, preach the Gospel on a loudspeaker,feed about 200 people and give out New Testaments. If God wills, pray that He will fulfill the financial needs.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray my church can be registered and that cc tv cameras can be installed.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is a mentally ill woman next to my house whom the boys of my village keep pelting stones at. They do very wrong things at times. May God save her life and let the police take the words very seriously.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray that there can be a graveyard for my church. All of the people who are coming to faith are not allowed by the people of the society to participate in any of their public things.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you all for your prayers and for participating in the good news!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Praise and Prayer Update"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\nI hope you are all safe and that your family is protected by God from the epidemic. I thank the Lord that He has given me a helper like you. You who are with us in our every sorrow, support us in trouble and never let us lack anything.\nThank God for His faithfulness. During these last three or four months, I have had a lot of problems. We had to stop the church fellowships in two places; one of these was at Sister P*\u0026rsquo;s house, about who I told you in my previous newsletter. Her village neighbors gave her so much trouble because of her faith. They gave her the option: if she does not leave the Lord, she will have to leave the village. But she remained firm in the Lord and the policemen also helped her.\nAfter some time sister P* left the village. She had to leave because her husband was mentally ill and there were a lot of financial constraints to run the house. Because of this, she went to the big city to work to support her house. Thank the Lord, she continues to have a heart for the Lord and fears God.\nAt the same time, there used to also be a fellowship on Wednesdays in another place. In that village, some people who belong to a Hindu organization (who keeps troubling Muslims and Christians), provoked, intimidated and really upset the new believers. The new believers wondered why they were not welcome in a another village. However, thank God that two people from this village, who are established believers, are standing strong in the Lord.\nTwo More New Fellowships Started! Thank God! Two or three months ago the fellowships were stopped in two places. Because of this, we were free on Mondays and Wednesdays. Only then, God opened the doors in two more villages so that we could start church fellowships in them.\nI want to tell about one of these fellowships. A family opened their door so that we could have a fellowship in their house. People from all around the village come to their house to pray and to hear the Word of God. The Woman\u0026rsquo;s name is R*. She has 5 children: four girls (one is not in the photo) and one baby boy. R* and her older daughter have been baptized. They always listen to the taunts from people (against their faith), yet they do not back down from their faith in God. Her husband left to go to the big city to do work. Before she came to know the Lord, she was always sad. Her husband used to beat her a lot after drinking alcohol. She had 4 daughters, because of which her husband used to torture her a lot.\nIn our region, it is considered very important to have a son in every family so that their lineage can go on. There is a problem here. Illiteracy is very high in my area. So, the people consider the sons important, but the daughters are considered insignificant. People face a lot of problems when they have a daughter get married. If you want her to marry a boy with a government job, then she will have to give a dowry of about three million to five million. If the boy is a doctor or an engineer, then they get a dowry of five million to ten million. It is all fixed here. It is illegal, but the people here do not obey the law. If a girl wants to marry without a dowry, then the boy will be handicapped or will be unemployed and will not have a home to live in. That\u0026rsquo;s why the population of girls here is very high, and there are about 6 to 8 children in every family. If there are one or two or three boys in the family, then they stop having children. If they have girls first, then they give birth to 8 to 10 children while waiting to have a boy.\nDue to the high population of girls. People have girls who are minors marry, and have mismatched marriages. For example, if a 50 or 60 year old rich man marries a 16-17 year old girl, her family does not have to pay dowry. Families also sell their daughters, or outsiders come and steal them to do prostitution, sell their organs, etc.\nWhen R*\u0026rsquo;s family came to our church to pray for a son, we told them from the Word of God that men and women are equal in the eyes of God. We told them a lot from the Word of God. That God does not discriminate between boys and girls. We also told them the Gospel. They believed in God and started following God by getting baptized. When she was expecting her baby, she said, \u0026ldquo;Even if God gives us a girl, we will happily keep it.\u0026rdquo; But when a son was born, they were very happy. Her husband, who used to beat her a lot, used to say \u0026ldquo;If there is no boy, then I will marry again so that I can have a boy.\u0026rdquo; Now, slowly her husband has also started believing. They have opened their home to start a fellowship.\nBy the grace of God, one other new village has also opened for a church fellowship. I will share about it in my next newsletter. Now, I have 5 house churches going on.\nThe Future Is Getting Dark! Every year, millions of children die from cold in the winter, heatstroke, diarrhea, and dysentery in summer, and drowning in the rainy season. Here the government brings many plans for the future of the children, but that plan does not reach the children due to corruption. The government has opened a government school in every village here so that the poor children can study. However, the teachers do not teach the children properly. There are many teachers who do not know how to write their own names. They give bribes to get the job. When any officers come to check on them, they are also silenced through the bribe. Because of this, the future of these children is being ruined. I pray that God works here more and more, and for Christian NGOs that work faithfully.\nOne of these is a child, who works in a four wheeler repairing center, named Sh*. He is just 8 years old and has 6-7 siblings. His father lives far away in the big city to do physical work, and his mother stays at home. They keep themselves alive by eating the 5 kg ration that the government gives. The last time I saw him, he was telling me how his mother tried to kill him. So I asked why. He said that he had borrowed cooking gas. Because he did not pay the people in time for the cooking gas, they took their gas back. So, his mother could not cook. Wood could not be found due to the floods, so he could not even light a fire. When he went home, he asked for food from his mother, then his mother got angry and beat him a lot. Since then, he works in this workshop.\nI was very sad to hear this and I bought him some biscuits. I explained to this child that now he is the age to study. If he does not go to school now, then he will regret it for life. The government school gives them food and some money. Uniforms and books are all available for free. I also told the owner of the shop in which he works, that if I see them working again, I will complain to the police. Because, it is illegal to give a job to children below 14 years old.\nHe got a little angry, but later agreed. Now this boy goes to school and studies well. There are many such families whose children\u0026rsquo;s lives are being ruined. Children spend their time, catching fish with friends from the very beginning. Then they get in fights, drink alcohol, and learn to smoke cigarettes. Because of this, they grow up to commit murder, steal etc.\nI thank God for all of the people who have believed in the Lord at our church. I always encourage everyone to teach their children to go school so that their future can improve. The other believers also say that. I thank God that where the Word of God reaches, there the mind, soul and body of people-everything changes. Living, getting up, sitting, eating and drinking changes from the old life to a new life.\nGreat Awareness Program About Human Trafficking! As I have been telling you from the beginning, since the lock-down a lot of illegal work has started here. People kidnap girls to earn money and sell them for prostitution in big cities. They also kidnap small children and take out their eyes or cut off their hands and feet, then they force them to beg. They also take out their liver, kidneys etc. and sell them. Last month, 2 children were stolen from my village who could not be traced.\nI thank God. I have been praying for many years that God would send a non-profit organization here that will make people aware of these things.\nRecently, I found out about one such organization which goes from village to village to make people aware that they should not send their children to work somewhere, without testing for it\u0026rsquo;s validity. Many times, I have read in the newspaper about their work, and that with the help of the police, they rescued many children who were being sent to Nepal to do slave labor.\nAlso, through many videos, the organization explains to illiterate people that many people come and lure them with a lot of money. They are asked to work somewhere outside the village and are given some money in advance. Then they are taken somewhere and sold for slave labor. Either by taking out the eyes of the children or by cutting off their hands and feet (and forcing them to beg) in big cities. If it is a girl, then they sell her for prostitution. The area where I work is the border of India and Nepal. Here, many girls are smuggled into India and also smuggled from India to Nepal. That\u0026rsquo;s why I also invited this non-profit organization to my church to make the people of my church aware. I thank God and that about 70 people participated in this together with their children and glorified God.\nPrayer Requests: Please continuously pray for my father. He fell and broke his hand. May God heal him as soon as possible and arrange for money for his treatment. He has been working for the Lord with me for eight or nine years now without any support. Pray that God will fulfill our every need. Since the lock-down, the price of almost everything has doubled. Especially the price of car fuel has become very expensive. About 30% of my monthly support is spent on fuel. God satisfies all of our needs. Please pray and pray for the family of my church to grow deeper in the Word of God and stand firm in the Lord in times of persecution. Pray for a pastor who is my friend. He was captured by 2 people and forcibly taken on a bike to a place alone. They beat him badly and threatened that if he continues to run his church, they will break into his house and kill the believers. Pray that God will give them protection. Pray for S* who is suffering from a very strange disease, may God heal him. Thanks for your help, support and partnership for the Gospel.\n\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2021/10/21/lead-me-oh-lord/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Supporters and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hope you are all safe and that your family is protected by God from the epidemic. I thank the Lord that He has given me a helper like you. You who are with us in our every sorrow, support us in trouble and never let us lack anything.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank God for His faithfulness. During these last three or four months, I have had a lot of problems. We had to stop the church fellowships in two places; one of these was at Sister P*\u0026rsquo;s house, about who I told you in my previous newsletter. Her village neighbors gave her so much trouble because of her faith. They gave her the option: if she does not leave the Lord, she will have to leave the village. But she remained firm in the Lord and the policemen also helped her.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Lead Me, Oh Lord"},{"content":"Dear Pastors, Leaders and Church Family,\nGreetings! I appreciate your prayers, support and love for the Gospel. During this pandemic, so many organizations closed. Pastors are struggling for their daily needs. Praise God for Calvary Chapel! They always take care of me as a mother and fulfill all of my needs. I always thank our Lord Jesus for having me partner with a great church family.\nLast month, 4 church members died due to Covid-19. Before dying, they told their family members and relatives to do their funeral in a Christian manner, but we do not have a Christian graveyard. Their families came to ask us to do the funerals like Christians do, but the Hindus will not give us permission to use their graveyard. So many problems came during their funerals, because all of the people’s family and relatives are Hindus. But praise God for His grace upon us, everything went smoothly.\nA lady faced persecution boldly even when 400 people were against her. Once again, I am going to share a testimony of a woman named P*. She is the only believer in her family. She accepted Jesus about 5 or 6 years ago, and was baptized on June 26th, 2018. She has two kids and a husband.\nSister P\u0026rsquo;s* husband became mental last year because he overdosed on drugs. Now he is roaming in different villages. Sister P* sold a little part of land for treatment, but he did not get better.\nSister P* is very faithful and strong in her faith. Every Tuesday, for the last 4 years, Bible study has been taking place in her home. Last month, her father in law died so everyone tried to force her to do idol worship because, according to the culture and tradition, after funerals families have to do idol worship for 14 days. But, she boldly said, \u0026ldquo;I am Christian. I will not do idol worship.\u0026rdquo; Her family members and neighbors became angry. Then, her neighbors and family members started to insult, abuse and curse her. They took her in the village court and accused her of changing her own religion and insulting their gods and goddess and not worshiping idols. The village court gave the order “to leave the village or leave Jesus”. But she firmly said, in front of 400 people, \u0026ldquo;I will never leave Jesus and I will not do idol worship.\u0026rdquo; We suggested that she go to the police station about this order. She went to the police and, praise God, the police helped her.\nThe people of her village and relatives are planning to kill me and my dad because of her. It\u0026rsquo;s the same thing that happened with all believers in my ministry place. When my family accepted Jesus in 1998, more than 5,000 peoples from 10 villages took my Dad into the village court and the village court gave the same judgement and declared that they were taking possession of my land. We went to court. We fought the case in court for 20 years. During this time, the village court told everyone that if anybody talked to us, then they would be fined 5 thousand rupees. Still, none of our neighbors talk to us. Now, we don’t hold worship at Sister P*’s house, but she regularly comes to the Sunday service.\nWe had an amazing Good Friday and Easter service! On Good Friday and Easter Sunday, we had a service at the church at my home and we invited all house church believers and more than 100 people came to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It was amazing to share that Jesus died for our sins and the same day, two more people gave their life to Jesus as their Savior. My nieces performed dance at the Easter Sunday service. After service, we had some sweets, juice and biscuits for all the people.\nBible study and fun night with Youth! We had a great night with the youth. We invited our church youth and we spent lots of time in worship, Bible study, games and a movie night. It was encouraging to hear the testimonies of each other. In January and February, we had youth nights three times and two boys accepted Jesus.\nOn April 14th, it was my sister\u0026rsquo;s birthday. So, I invited all my church’s youth and I cooked dinner for everyone. After worship, we did Bible study and prayed for the whole world, then we played games. I gave a small gift to the winner. All night we showed movies on the projector. In the morning, after breakfast, they went home. Some youth did not have travel money, but praise God, He provided for all. Now, all the youth are growing in the Word of God and are keeping themselves separate from worldly things and sin.\nPraise Points: Praise God for healing Sunjay*! In the last newsletter, I mentioned about him. He wanted to commit suicide because he is suffering from a rare disease called Olmsted disease. His foot and hands were smelling so bad. They were bleeding and it was very painful. Now, the pain is gone, the bleeding stopped, and smell is also gone. Praise God! Thanks for your prayers- he is getting better every week. He is growing in the Word of God and coming to our Bible fellowship twice a week. Praise God that He provided a new motor bike! I had a motor bike I was using for 6 years, but that bike was breaking every month and every month I had to spend lots of money to fix it. So many times, I was too late to a village fellowship because the motor bike would get stuck on the way. But, praise God, He provided a new motor bike for spreading the Gospel. During this pandemic, it was not easy to provide a new motor bike. I thank the Lord for this. Thank you for your help and prayer for the new motor bike. Prayer Requests: 1.Please continue to pray for sister P.* and her husband.\n2. Please continue to pray for Sunjay\u0026rsquo;s* healing.\n3. Please continue to pray for safety from anti-Christian groups and covid 19.\n4. Please continue to pray for the church members to face persecution boldly and understand the Word of God deeply.\n5. Please pray for a little piece of land for a Christian graveyard.\n6. Please pray for some audio Bibles for the believers who don’t know how to read or write.\nThank you so much for your prayers, support and partnership for the Gospel.\nThank you so much for your prayers, help, support and partnership in spreading the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2021/07/17/no-turning-back/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Pastors, Leaders and Church Family,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Pastor-11-July-2-253x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings! I appreciate your prayers, support and love for the Gospel. During this pandemic, so many organizations closed. Pastors are struggling for their daily needs. Praise God for Calvary Chapel! They always take care of me as a mother and fulfill all of my needs. I always thank our Lord Jesus for having me partner with a great church family.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLast month, 4 church members died due to Covid-19. Before dying, they told their family members and relatives to do their funeral in a Christian manner, but we do not have a Christian graveyard. Their families came to ask us to do the funerals like Christians do, but the Hindus will not give us permission to use their graveyard. So many problems came during their funerals, because all of the people’s family and relatives are Hindus. But praise God for His grace upon us, everything went smoothly.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"No Turning Back"},{"content":"Dear pastors, leaders and church family!\nGreetings to you all from our church! Thank you for your love, prayers and support for the Gospel. I am so thankful to God because He sent me to this place where pastors and leaders do not want to come to minister or even visit because of the persecution and lack of basic facilities. Praise God for providing financially for the Christmas outreach with which we were able to celebrate Christmas in two of the villages and we were able to show the Jesus movie in 3 unreached villages and distributed blankets to widows, poor and helpless peoples. Praise God that more than 10 thousand people heard the good news in our Christmas outreach and 6 people took baptism. Everything was safe and smooth because of your prayers and dedication to Christ.\n“No one loves me I am going to commit suicide!” Today, again, I am going to share a story of my church member who was going to commit suicide but God saved his life. This guy\u0026rsquo;s name is Sunjay* and he is 23 years old and not very educated. In 2014, my dad and I went to distribute Gospel Bible textbooks in a village; that\u0026rsquo;s where we met this boy. He is suffering with a rare disease known by the name of ‘Olmsted Syndrome\u0026rsquo;. His hands and feet are so diseased that his nails are 2 to 3 inches long and are as hard as stones and his hands and feet’s skin automatically tear and bleed every day since his birth. Because his hands and feet smell bad no one wants to be friends with him and everyone stays away from him. Because of this he went into depression and started using drugs, many times he tried to kill himself.\nHis parents are very poor and daily wagers. They took him to so many doctors and skin specialist but he could not get any better with their treatment. When we shared the Good News and the love of our living God, he accepted Jesus as his Savior and took baptism. In the beginning, he came to the fellowship continuously and God started to heal his hands and feet, but after two years he again started to use drugs with some of his druggie friends and stopped coming to the fellowship. He refused to come to the fellowship and for two years I and my dad encouraged him so many times. His hands and feet started to tear and bleed again more than before. His parents, neighbors and relatives started to scold him and sent him to the fellowship. So, before Christmas, he again started to come to the fellowship. His mother is also a believer in the Lord, but his father is still a non believer. I took him to the hospital this month. The doctor gave him medicine and told him if there is no improvement, they will have to cut his toes. Please remember to keep him in your prayers; with our God nothing is impossible.\nYouth’s night for worship, Bible study \u0026amp; prayer! During this pandemic almost every school and college was closed, so many teenagers were free in their houses. Many started using drugs with their friends, and some teenagers started to rob in the villages. That’s why everyday’s news starts with murder, robbery and people dying from drug overdoses.\nBut, praise God, my church’s youth are safe from these drugs and growing in the Word of God. They are helping in worship and sharing. Learning memory verses from the Bible every week earns them some gifts of necessary items.\nI had youth camp 3 times in January and February and we had great fellowship with the youth in Bible study, worship and prayer with some delicious dinner and chicken barbeque. Praise God for two young brothers, Abhishek and Vivek, who accepted Jesus as their Savior. They also came to the youth fellowship with church the youth. Please pray for my state’s teenagers to know Jesus Christ. I plan to fellowship with them every month. Please pray that God would guide me and provide for every financial need.\nPlease pray for a new motor bike to reach unreached villages! But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. (2 Timothy 4:5).\nI thank the Lord for sending me to a state where there\u0026rsquo;s darkness, where people worship 33 million different gods and goddesses- trusting in witchcraft more than doctors or scientist; illiterate, poor, untouchable, affected by malnutrition, they sacrifice their elderly parents to please their goddesses. They believe that their right hand is holy and their left hand is unholy. If any child uses their left hand to eat food, their parents break their fingers on the left hand. People love cows more than their own mother and they are killing those who eat beef. I thank God for sending me to this place with His Gospel. People are hearing the name of Jesus Christ for the first time and so many people are accepting Him and it’s all been possible because of your prayer and support.\nI want to share a prayer request about a new motor bike for the ministry. When I came here, after finishing Bible College in 2014, I had a bicycle (bike without a motor) to do ministry. My dad and I went to distribute Gospel tracts from village to village using a bicycle. After some time, God provided me with a motor bike, with which me and my Dad where able to go to many more unreached villages where there are no roads, no clean water, no electricity and not any other type of facilities. My dad and I have to carry a generator on the bike to show the Jesus movie in the unreached villages where there is no electricity. That motor bike really helped me to spread the Gospel to the unreached villages, to visit the house churches, to show the Jesus movie on the movie projector. And continuing going to the villages when there was flooding and to take paralyzed church members to their home, etc.\nBut, for the last year, the parts on this motor bike have started breaking because they are old. It is very disturbing when I am on my way to have fellowship with the unreached. Every time I go to fix my bike, it breaks down again. Please pray for God to provide me with a new motor bike for the ministry to keep on spreading.\nPrayer Requests: Please continue to pray for a new motor bike. Please continue to pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health- she has a problem with her throat and nose. For the last 2 years, she hasn\u0026rsquo;t been able to smell anything. I took her to the hospital, but doctors said they don’t have any treatment for her. Please pray for Sunjay\u0026rsquo;s* healing. Please continue to pray for our 5 house churches- that they grow deeper in the Word of God. Please pray for the upcoming baptism service, as some more people are ready to get baptized. The government made a new law that if anybody wants to be baptized, they need to give an affidavit to the pastor for their baptism of their own will and without pressure, which is safer for the pastors. Thank you so much for your prayer, help, support and partnership in spreading the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2021/04/01/my-king-and-my-god/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear pastors, leaders and church family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Pastor-11-church-256x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to you all from our church! Thank you for your love, prayers and support for the Gospel. I am so thankful to God because He sent me to this place where pastors and leaders do not want to come to minister or even visit because of the persecution and lack of basic facilities. Praise God for providing financially for the Christmas outreach with which we were able to celebrate Christmas in two of the villages and we were able to show the Jesus movie in 3 unreached villages and distributed blankets to widows, poor and helpless peoples. Praise God that more than 10 thousand people heard the good news in our Christmas outreach and 6 people took baptism. Everything was safe and smooth because of your prayers and dedication to Christ.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"My King and My God"},{"content":"Praise the Lord!\nPraise God for His love, grace, faithfulness and guidance in my life! He always cares for us like a son!\nPraise God! Still no notice, of any kind, has come from the court! I think maybe the court did not accept my neighbors\u0026rsquo; and uncle\u0026rsquo;s case against us (about the land the church is on). It could have happened by your incredible prayers. Praise God for fulfilling all of our basic needs! Please Pray: Please continue to pray for a new motorbike for me. I have been using my motorbike for 6 years. However, now it is having problems as I take it to share at the house fellowships. I am having to fix it most every month. Please continue to pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health. She is not doing well. Please pray for a member of my church. She is the second wife of her husband. Her husband already killed his first wife. Now, he is warning her that if she does not stop going to church he will kill her too. Please pray for another member of my church. He is suffering from a rare disease called \u0026lsquo;Olmsted Syndrome\u0026rsquo;. Before he knew Jesus, he attempted suicide so many times, but God saved his life. Please pray for our safety. Since this pandemic, criminal activity has been increasing day by day. Please pray for my 5 house churches and all of the church members to understand the Word of God deeply. Please also pray that they can stand strong in all of the persecution. Thanks for your prayers, support and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11*\n*Names and faces have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2021/02/21/praise-and-prayer-report/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise the Lord!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise God for His love, grace, faithfulness and guidance in my life! He always cares for us like a son!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise God! Still no notice, of any kind, has come from the court! I think maybe the court did not accept my neighbors\u0026rsquo; and uncle\u0026rsquo;s case against us (about the land the church is on). It could have happened by your incredible prayers.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise God for fulfilling all of our basic needs!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"please-pray\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease Pray:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Rajendra-Feb-2021-300x277.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease continue to pray for a new motorbike for me. I have been using my motorbike for 6 years. However, now it is having problems as I take it to share at the house fellowships. I am having to fix it most every month.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease continue to pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health. She is not doing well.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease pray for a member of my church. She is the second wife of her husband. Her husband already killed his first wife. Now, he is warning her that if she does not stop going to church he will kill her too.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for another member of my church. He is suffering from a rare disease called \u0026lsquo;Olmsted Syndrome\u0026rsquo;. Before he knew Jesus, he attempted suicide so many times, but God saved his life.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for our safety. Since this pandemic, criminal activity has been increasing day by day.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for my 5 house churches and all of the church members to understand the Word of God deeply. Please also pray that they can stand strong in all of the persecution.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks for your prayers, support and partnership for the Gospel.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Praise and Prayer Report"},{"content":" Greetings to you from my church family!\nThanks for your help, prayers and support. I would like to share with you about our outreach programs, baptism service, Christmas programs, and Jesus movie programs. First, I would like to thank God that everything went smoothly and great because of your prayers. We had a baptism service on the morning of December 21st. Six people were baptized. They were three teenagers and three women who are regularly attending our Bible study.\nThree unreached villages allowed us to show the Jesus movie. More than 2,000 people heard the Word of God. Five people accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior!\nThank you for your financial help that made it possible for us to do the Christmas programs. The children in my church family did a dance at the program. I shared the Word of God about Jesus\u0026rsquo; birth and distributed gifts to the children in our church. We were expecting 200 in my home village to attend, but more than 350 people came and heard the Word of God and ate lunch. We cooked Christmas lunches 2 times- once at my home and once in a village 350 kilometers away. Thanks to the Lord, everything went smoothly and great.\nI thank God for providing support for blankets and saris (women\u0026rsquo;s clothing) to give to widows. This made it possible for us to distribute them. The people who received them are really thankful to the Lord and all of you. Two people\u0026rsquo;s health conditions were very critical and I am thankful to God that He used me to help them and give them blankets and saris.\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11*\n*Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2021/01/22/thanks-be-to-god/","summary":"\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Rajendra-Jan-2021-7-300x281.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings to you from my church family!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks for your help, prayers and support. I would like to share with you about our outreach programs, baptism service, Christmas programs, and Jesus movie programs. First, I would like to thank God that everything went smoothly and great because of your prayers. We had a baptism service on the morning of December 21st. Six people were baptized. They were three teenagers and three women who are regularly attending our Bible study.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Thanks Be To God"},{"content":"Greetings to you from my church family! Even though we live far from each other, we are always near through our prayers. Physically we are in all different places, but we are in the same body\u0026ndash;the Body of Christ. Thank you for your prayers, love and support. Right now, I am teaching through the Gospel of John at all 5 house churches. I am preaching slowly and simply because 90% of the believers in the churches are illiterate. They never went to school, but they listen to the Word of God carefully and apply it in their life. Today, I am going to share some updates about the work God is doing through me. My English is not good, but I am thankful that Jana, Joni and Pastor 9* correct my newsletters of there spelling and grammar mistakes. Pastor 9* is a great example for everyone. He faced mental and physical persecution alone and no one stood with him.\nA Pastor\u0026rsquo;s Daughter Committed Suicide Almost 5 years ago, I met with a Pastor named Mani*. He is married and has 4 children of his own and has taken in 3 orphan children. He lives almost 200 miles away from my village in the same state where I live. He has been serving the Lord in unreached villages as we do. Before he became a Christian, he was a cook in a Christian Outreach Center in the capital. There he came to knows Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.\nA few years later, he decided to do ministry in his village. He left his job and came back to his village to preach the Gospel. He started to share the Good News in his village and God opened the heart of an organization to support him financially. The support was not enough to meet his family\u0026rsquo;s basic needs. I stayed in his home so many times. That is why I know him very well. He invited me many times to teach the Word of God in his church fellowship. He loved to hear the Word of God taught verse by verse and his church members did also. His financial situation was not good, but he was doing ministry faithfully.\nSuddenly, the government banned his supporter organization and they were no longer able to support him. He borrowed money to buy a cow as a way to earn income. But, a few months latter the cow died. He again borrowed money from another friend to start a part time business. But, the business also failed. He again borrowed more money to feed all of his 7 kids.\nBy this time, he was in a lot of debt. The people who lent money to him came after him, demanding their money back. Before this pandemic, he had decided to go to the South to search for a job. But he could not go because the lock-down was imposed in the country.\nWhen the lockdown was lifted, he did go to the South, and got a job. Back here, at his home, his wife and children were alone and they did not have food. His wife started to work in a neighbor\u0026rsquo;s home. While she was gone to work, the children would start fighting with each. When the mom would come back from work, her son would falsely accuse his sister for beating him. But in my state, parents always favor their sons. So the mom would scold her 13 year old daughter.\nOne day the same thing happened, and the mom scolded her daughter and went back to work. While the daughter was alone at home and her brothers and sisters were playing outside, she hung herself and died. When her brothers and sisters saw her hanging they started crying. Neighbors came and took her down and called the mother and also called the police. But, a Hindu priest saved the Mom from the police case. Then the Hindu priests pressured the mother to cremate the dead body and she had to, because they saved her from police. The father, who had gone to the South for work, arrived home after a 4 day journey. I am in touch with the pastor and encouraging him on the phone. Please keep them in your prayers.\nContinue Preaching the Word of God In the House Churches! \u0026ldquo;The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth\nunderstanding unto the simple.\u0026rdquo; Psalm 119:130\nIn a certain village we have been holding worship services every Thursday for the past 7 years. We meet in a believer\u0026rsquo;s house whose family is strong in their faith in Christ. The family is facing much persecutions by the community and their neighbors, but they stay strong by the grace of God. Their 18 year old son (who is sitting by me in the photo) is paralyzed from birth.\nTheir neighbors say to them, \u0026ldquo;Why is Jesus not healing your son?\u0026rdquo; They always answer them, \u0026ldquo;Jesus is the Savior of our sin, healing is not important for us\u0026rdquo;.\nThey always share the Good News with their neighbors and friends. I regularly preach there verse by verse and chapter by chapter. The family is very hospitable. They make fires for us and make us tea and sometimes lunch. This is my very favorite house church. They love to hear the Word of God and they obey the Word of God. Thank God for saving these lives!\n\u0026ldquo;Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to\nfulfill the word of God;\u0026rdquo;\nColossians 1:25\nGod\u0026rsquo;s Word is really so powerful to change the lives of people\u0026ndash;even those that are not literate. They had never heard the name of Jesus Christ, but they are hearing. In this village, we are coming to hold house church every week on Tuesday for the last 4 years. They are all illiterate. More than 100 families live in this village. 10 ladies and 3 boys have committed their lives to Jesus. Lots of kids are suffering from malnutrition. I give biscuits to these village kids, their smiles make my day.\nPrayer requests: Please pray for Pastor Mani\u0026rsquo;s family\u0026ndash;that they would be strong in their faith in Christ. Please continue to pray for our safety from all kinds of persecution and road accidents. Last month, me and my Dad got in three accidents. My hand was injured and my dad\u0026rsquo;s back was injured, but God helped us recover quickly. Please pray for my church family to be strong in their faith and in the Word of God. Please pray for my church family. Over 50 percent went out of state in search of jobs. After the lock-down, they lost their jobs and a flood destroyed their rice crops. Pray that they will find work. Please continue to pray for my church to be painted. We have not painted it for the last 8 years. Pray that God would help us have the funds to paint it before Christmas. Thank you so much for your prayers, support and partnership in the Gospel!\nGod bless you all!\nPastor 11*\n*Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2020/11/25/235/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eGreetings to you from my church family! Even though we live far from each other, we are always near through our prayers. Physically we are in all different places, but we are in the same body\u0026ndash;the Body of Christ. Thank you for your prayers, love and support. Right now, I am teaching through the Gospel of John at all 5 house churches. I am preaching slowly and simply because 90% of the believers in the churches are illiterate. They never went to school, but they listen to the Word of God carefully and apply it in their life. Today, I am going to share some updates about the work God is doing through me. My English is not good, but I am thankful that Jana, Joni and Pastor 9* correct my newsletters of there spelling and grammar mistakes. Pastor 9* is a great example for everyone. He faced mental and physical persecution alone and no one stood with him.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Standing Firm"},{"content":"\u0026quot; The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the lord hath anointed me to preach good tiding unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;\u0026quot; (Isaiah 61:1)\nGreetings from our church!\nWe appreciate your prayers, support and thank you for being a partner in the furtherance of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is really awesome, incredible and worthy of praise. God is faithful and cares about all our troubles. Last week, many believers in my state were persecuted by the political leaders that are against Christians, but we were safe! Praise the Lord! The month of January was a blessed month for us. God opened the door to two new villages where we were able to share the Good News and distributed 100 New Testaments.\nGod Opened the Door to A New Village Praise God for the awesome opportunity to share His Word in a new village- where more than 50 people sat together, worshiped and listened to the Word of God.\nThis village is almost 30km (18 miles) from my village and because the roads are not good it takes more than one hour to reach it. A lady who lives in this village is a believer and she continually comes to our church fellowship. She invited us to her home and she called all her neighbors together to join us while we worshiped and shared the Good News with them. Then, my friend shared their testimony and it touched the heart of 2 people who have now started to come to our fellowship with her.\nAfter worshiping and sharing the Word of God, we all prayed about their trials and distributed New Testaments in their language. Most of the ladies are illiterate, but their kids know how to read, so they took the New Testaments from us and gave them to their kids for them to read to them and their family. Most of the men are living in another part of the country for job reasons because in my state there are little opportunities for jobs. That is why 90% of the people who attend our fellowship are ladies. The woman, who invited us, is very poor and her husband has eye problems. He is living in another part of the country and searching for a job. Praise to Jesus, who saved her life!\nChildren Hard at Work I want to share about a little boy named Rajesh*, who is 14 years old. He is Rani\u0026rsquo;s* son, whom I mentioned above. Although he is 14, he looks like he is 8. At first, he did not like to study and due to his parents being poor, Rajesh was sent to a government school where he tried to run away. Soon after, his parents put him in the bike repair center to learn repairing, in my village. When I went to the shop to repair my bike I was surprised when I saw him, because I recognized him as he started to make tea for me. I knew he had come to the fellowship a couple of times with his mom. He sleeps in the shop alone and cooks food for himself inside the shop.\nAfter drinking the tasty tea he made for me, we start ed to talk and he told me he was not interested in studying. My friend and I tried to encouraged him but he was resistant. Then, I told him, \u0026ldquo;Don\u0026rsquo;t sleep alone in the shop, you can come to my home to sleep.\u0026rdquo; His mom agreed to it as well. So, he began coming to my home and every night my family, his mom and I prayed for him to have a desire to study. My niece, who is living with us and is studying in 3rd grade, said to him, \u0026ldquo;Please come to my school for one day to see my friends?\u0026rdquo; and Rajesh agreed to go. When he came back from school, I then asked him how it went. Rajesh mentioned how great it was and I then asked him again if he would like to study. To my surprise, he said yes! Then, I called his parents and they were so happy they started to praise God. Rajesh has now been going to school for a month. We were able to get him admitted in the 4th grade. Thanks to our Lord who saved his life and took him out of darkness. So many kids here are working in restaurants, garages and rag picking. When they grow up, a lot of them will become drunks, gangsters, drug traffickers, etc.\nGreat Opportunity to Reach One More New Village! Thanks to God, who made a way for an opening to a new village for ministry! A believer in my church invited us to share the Gospel in this village, so my dad and I went. We were able to do worship, share the Word of God, share a testimony, and show a Christian movie, \u0026ldquo;Jesus\u0026rdquo;, on the projector where more than 300 people attended. In this village, 99% of the people are illiterate and the kids do not attend school. They spend their days playing in the dirt and later in life start to take drugs. Most husbands here are drunks and beat their wives. The people are malnourished, babies are carrying babies, and they do not have good clothes. Despite all this, they have loving hearts, and they welcomed us with incredible hospitality. They cooked dinner for all of us. When we sat at dinner together with them, they were overjoyed because many people do not like getting near them. Praise God that we were able to show the Jesus Film and a lot of the village people came out to see the movie and three ladies accepted Jesus!\nWe Started A Bible Study on The Roof! Praise to God- who has provided an opportunity to start a Bible study in another village as well! In this village, not many people are open to having a Bible study, due to the mass persecution going on here. A man who attends our church fellowship shared how we could start a Bible study on the roof of his home in this village (his home is really small). As we started, only about 2 or 3 people were coming. Soon, after word got out to the people, about 10 to 12 people began to join the Bible study. I began from Genesis 1 and then we just go verse by verse, chapter by chapter. Praise the Lord for this open door and for the people who are wanting to learn from God\u0026rsquo;s Word.\nPraise points: Praise God, Who takes care of us even in the midst of persecution. Praise God, Who has been bringing people to faith weekly! Praise God for my neighbor who suffers from mental issues (she was shouting from morning to midnight) but now she is better. Prayer points: Please continue to pray for our safety and my mother\u0026rsquo;s health. Please pray for the financial need for Rajesh\u0026rsquo;s school, dress and books. I know our God is a provider and he will provide his needs. Please continue to pray for a new motorcycle or a four wheeler for me. I have had my motorcycle for 5 years, and every month it has new problems, and I have to spend a lot of money on repairs. This bike has been so helpful for me to reach unreached villages, to take paralyzed believers to and from church, to drop Sonja* and Rajesh off at their school, to bring groceries and so many other things. Please continue to pray for 3 of the villagers in my church. Their villages are being persecuted and people are trying to make them leave their homes because of their faith in Christ. God bless all of you and thanks for your partnership in the Gospel,\nPastor 11*\n* names have been changed or omitted for security reasons\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2020/03/26/what-a-day-of-rejoicing-that-will-be/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026quot; The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the lord hath anointed me to preach good tiding unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;\u0026quot; (Isaiah 61:1)\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreetings from our church!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe appreciate your prayers, support and thank you for being a partner in the furtherance of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is really awesome, incredible and worthy of praise. God is faithful and cares about all our troubles. Last week, many believers in my state were persecuted by the political leaders that are against Christians, but we were safe! Praise the Lord! The month of January was a blessed month for us. God opened the door to two new villages where we were able to share the Good News and distributed 100 New Testaments.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"What a Day of Rejoicing That Will Be"},{"content":" Thank you for your prayers, support and encouragement. Praise God for opening the lock-down! Since February, we were hiding doing worship, having house church, and visiting. But now (since September 21), we are free to have worship!\nGod\u0026rsquo;s Word Is Changing Peoples Lives! Thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for sending me and my dad to this village. We have been conducting house church in this village for three years. There are over 100 families in this village, but no one knows how to read and write. They are too poor and so backward. So many kids are suffering from malnutrition. Because of the lock-down, everyone lost their jobs, because before they were only hired day by day. Now, they are leaving the state to search for a job.\nMy dad and I go to this village every Tuesday to lead a house church. Right now, I am preaching in this village from the Gospel of John, verse by verse. God\u0026rsquo;s Word is changing their lives! Ten women and three men have given their lives to Jesus Christ! One of the ladies in this village, who is a strong believer, always leads the other women. Her sister was killed by her own husband. (Her sister\u0026rsquo;s husband killed his wife.) He threw her dead body onto the train track. But, someone saw him throwing her dead body. He told the village people and the village people called the police. He is now in jail. The woman is always crying for her sister. Please keep her in your prayers.\nOne More Brother Was Baptized During the Lock-Down! Praise God! One more soul was saved for Heaven! During the lock-down, most churches were closed. But, we never closed church or stopped sharing the Word of God. That is why God gave us the fruit of one new brother, who got baptized during lock-down!\nHe is 19 years old and uneducated. I shared the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 5: \u0026ldquo;Jesus answered, Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.\u0026rdquo;\nWhen he heard this living Word of God, God changed his heart and He accepted Jesus as his Savior! He was so excited to get baptized! But at that time, all the roads and villages were flooded with water. He was saying, \u0026ldquo;I want to get baptized in the flood water!\u0026rdquo;, but for security reasons we did not baptize him in the flood water. We invited him to our main church and baptized him there. Now, he is happy and continuing to hear the Word of God. He wants to leave the state to search for a job.\nGod bless you all,\nPastor 11*\n* Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2020/10/05/a-brother-is-born/","summary":"\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Rajendra-pic-1-Oct-2020-300x173.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThank you for your prayers, support and encouragement. Praise God for opening the lock-down! Since February, we were hiding doing worship, having house church, and visiting. But now (since September 21), we are free to have worship!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"god\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGod\u0026rsquo;s Word Is Changing Peoples Lives!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for sending me and my dad to this village. We have been conducting house church in this village for three years. There are over 100 families in this village, but no one knows how to read and write. They are too poor and so backward. So many kids are suffering from malnutrition. Because of the lock-down, everyone lost their jobs, because before they were only hired day by day. Now, they are leaving the state to search for a job.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A Brother Is Born"},{"content":"Praise the Lord! Praise God for His grace and love upon my family and church family. Praise God! One more person was baptized during the lock-down. Praise God for His safety during the lock-down! For 7 months they have not allowed any temples, mosques or churches to open because of Covid-19; but we never stopped having our Sunday service and house fellowship. God has kept us safe during every situation. We could not have online services because the people in my church family do not have smart phones or internet facilities. Prayer Requests: Please pray for the families in our church. They are being persecuted by their own families, communities, and political leaders. One of them, Jamesh*, and his brother are being persecuted by their own father. Their father wants to take them to the village court because of their faith in Christ. Please continue to pray for my state. Since the lock-down, crime is increasing day by day including; murder, robbery, fighting, suicide, etc. Please pray for my church family\u0026ndash;that they can be strong in the Word of God, and that God would provide them all of their basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. During the lock-down, they all lost their jobs and spent all of their savings. They planted rice, but a flood came and ruined the crops. Now, since they don\u0026rsquo;t have jobs, they are trying to leave my state to try to find a job. Please continue praying for safety for me and my parents. Please pray for our church to be painted. For 8 years we have not been able to paint it. Pray that God would provide for the finances needed for paint. Please continue to pray for my marriage, that God would provide a girl who can partner with me in spreading the Gospel. Thank you for your prayers, help and partnership in the Gospel!\nGod bless you all,\nPastor 11*\n* Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2020/09/17/praises-and-prayer-requests/","summary":"\u003ch4 id=\"praise-the-lord\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise the Lord!\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rajendra-sep-2020-motorcycle-in-flood-282x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise God for His grace and love upon my family and church family.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise God! One more person was baptized during the lock-down.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise God for His safety during the lock-down! For 7 months they have not allowed any temples, mosques or churches to open because of Covid-19; but we never stopped having our Sunday service and house fellowship. God has kept us safe during every situation. We could not have online services because the people in my church family do not have smart phones or internet facilities.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"prayer-requests\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrayer Requests:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for the families in our church. They are being persecuted by their own families, communities, and political leaders. One of them, Jamesh*, and his brother are being persecuted by their own father. Their father wants to take them to the village court because of their faith in Christ.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease continue to pray for my state. Since the lock-down, crime is increasing day by day including; murder, robbery, fighting, suicide, etc.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for my church family\u0026ndash;that they can be strong in the Word of God, and that God would provide them all of their basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. During the lock-down, they all lost their jobs and spent all of their savings. They planted rice, but a flood came and ruined the crops. Now, since they don\u0026rsquo;t have jobs, they are trying to leave my state to try to find a job.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease continue praying for safety for me and my parents.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease pray for our church to be painted. For 8 years we have not been able to paint it. Pray that God would provide for the finances needed for paint.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease continue to pray for my marriage, that God would provide a girl who can partner with me in spreading the Gospel.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you for your prayers, help and partnership in the Gospel!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Praises and Prayer Requests"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sin.\u0026rdquo; (Matthew 1:21)\nMerry Christmas, dear pastors and supporters! Praise God for His grace upon us and the strength He gave us to do so many programs this Christmas. Everything went smoothly and safely. I would like to thank each one of you who has helped me with your prayers and financial support to make these Christmas programs possible.\nFour New Believers were Baptized! \u0026quot; For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.\u0026quot;(Galatians 3:27)\nPraise God! We had a baptism service on December 21. Everything happened safely. The same day, our whole state was shut down to protest for CAA and NRC. The protestors had blocked every road and did not allow anyone to drive or ride any kind of vehicle. If anyone tried to use their vehicle, the protesters set the vehicle on fire. All of the roads were full of police and army forces. My dad and I decided to reschedule the baptism service to a different date, but praise God three of the ladies came walking five kilometers (over 3 miles) to the church! Then, we worshiped and spent hours in Bible study. I had been teaching them about baptism for one and a half months. The Holy Spirit spoke to them and prepared their hearts to get baptized, and then we baptized them.\nAnother lady was trying to get to us on the same day to be baptized, but she was not able to get there because of the protesters. They had burned down so many vehicles on her street that the roads were totally closed for her; so, we had her baptism on December 22. Both of the baptism days were very cold and foggy; everyone who got baptized was shivering from cold after the baptism. We made a fire to make them warm. They sat near the fire for some time and slowly got better and stopped shivering. Praise God they didn\u0026rsquo;t get sick!\nShowing the \u0026ldquo;Jesus\u0026rdquo; Movie in a New Rural Village! Praise God for giving us an opportunity to show a Christian movie, \u0026ldquo;Jesus\u0026rdquo;, in our language in a rural village without any disturbance. December 20-24, our whole state was shut down to protest. (There is a new law in our country that every person must prove their citizenship.) Police and the military were everywhere. On the morning of the program, my dad went to the village to look for a place to show the movie. He asked the village people if we could show a movie in their village. Some of them made excuses of reasons that we should not, but other people among the villagers invited us. They wanted to see the movie, so my dad and I went to the village with some of the youth from our church. We were thinking that the village people and police would disturb us, but when we reached the village, all of the village people had come to see the movie\u0026ndash;even those who were making excuses in the morning! Praise God that no one disturbed us while we were showing the movie. Then, we invited everyone to come to our Christmas program, and some of the people showed up at my house for Christmas.\nSharing the Love of God Through Clothing Thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ! He always provides us with everything we need. My family had been saving for a small donation fund every month for Christmas. On Christmas, we used that fund to buy saris (local dresses), blankets, jackets and shawls for the poor and widow families. My family has been doing this for 20 years now. This year, we were again able to buy 5 saris and 5 blankets for the widows. We have more than 200 believers from all 8 house churches, so we are not able to provide them to every believer. For this reason, my dad and I chose only five widows who are too poor and needy. We gave them a sari and a blanket each.\nThe woman who is in the red sari is my neighbor. She is the only woman from my neighborhood who has been coming to my house for prayer. Her name is S. and her husband died after a 10 year long illness. She has two children, and she is a bit mentally challenged. She always comes to charge her mobile phone at my house because she does not have electricity. She is from the lowest cast in my area; no one will eat at her house or help her. Some people do not even allow her to enter their homes. One of my neighbors is trying to take her land forcibly because she does not have a husband or a helper. Her mind is slowly growing worse day by day because of what is happening to her. She does not sleep at night, cursing the neighbors who are stealing her land. She went to the police and the village leader many times, but they send her back giving her a very small amount of money every time. My mom is always sharing the Word of God with her. She is understanding the love of God a little bit. She always asks us to pray for her and her land.\nCelebrating Christmas with 350 People! Thank you so much to everyone who helped us through your prayers and support for our Christmas program! We invited 300 people and prepared lunch for them\u0026ndash;but 350 people came! Our whole church, all of our rooms and our backyard were full of people. Praise God everything went so smoothly! It was really a great time to share the Good News with everyone. My niece who has been living with us since she was very young danced, and all the people were blessed. Some people who were not able to fit inside began to peek in through the gate and the windows. Everyone heard the Word of God and had lunch with us. Thanks to God, nothing fell short and all the people could eat lunch on Christmas!\nPrayer Requests: Please pray for my family\u0026rsquo;s safety and good health during this cold season. Please pray for protection when we go to more new unreached areas in January. Please pray for good weather, because it has been very foggy here for a week. Please pray for the woman mentioned above to know God and to find healing from her challenge/ problem. Please pray for the believers to be strong in persecution. Thank you for your prayers, love, help and partnership for the Gospel.\nGod bless you all,\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2020/01/11/no-matter-what/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sin.\u0026rdquo; (Matthew 1:21)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMerry Christmas, dear pastors and supporters! Praise God for His grace upon us and the strength He gave us to do so many programs this Christmas. Everything went smoothly and safely. I would like to thank each one of you who has helped me with your prayers and financial support to make these Christmas programs possible.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"No Matter What"},{"content":"Greetings from my state! Thank you for your prayers, support, and love in Christ. Thanks to our Lord Jesus who always stands with us in every situation and keeps us safe with His almighty hand.\nLast month, I finished my health training by the grace of God and learned about so many diseases. I learned about how to diagnose and treat short-term disease. God also gave me the opportunity to share my testimony and the Word of God among the doctors, nurses, hospital staff and health trainers.\nAlmost every doctor and staff member knows me because in 2012, when I finished high school, my church pastor and all of the hospital staff encouraged me to take a male nursing course. They wanted to help me and my family to get out of the rag picking business (begging and selling trash). They filled out my form and sent me to another city for a written test with 5 more students. (One of the students is my present health trainer.) I passed the written test, and then all of the hospital staff and my Pastors raised money for nursing fees for me. However, at that time God spoke to me through so many Bible verses and led me to do ministry in my home state. When I told the hospital staff that God wanted to send me to my home state to do ministry, they were sad and a little angry. But last month when I shared my testimony and the Word of God, they were so happy and blessed. They encouraged me, and said that I made a good decision for ministry and that I should keep going on.Greetings from my state! Thank you for your prayers, support, and love in Christ.\n\u0026ldquo;My little children let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.\u0026rdquo; 1 John 3:18\nThrough this health training, our ministry is going very well! Now, I can show the love of God to others. Another believer in my church and I did a camp, giving free blood pressure and diabetes checks for anyone older than 35 years old. Before we began the check-ups, we held 20 minutes of worship, and I shared the Word of God from 1 John chapter 1. My purpose for holding the medical camp was to invite every church member\u0026rsquo;s unbelieving family into the church and make friends and share the Word of God with them. Twenty-five people came to the camp we held at my church-20 people were believers, and 5 people came inside our church for the first time. In the past, these 5 people had been disturbing the believers when they came to the church, but now they are not disturbing us! Even when we are doing outreach in their villages, they are really welcoming. Praise God for His great love!\nGod Brought Her Out From Selfish People \u0026ldquo;Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.\u0026rdquo; James 1:27\nI want to share the testimony of a lady. She is a 30-year-old lady. She has two children-her son is 6 and her daughter is 3 years old. Her husband had become mental after the two children were born. No one was helping her to care for her children. Her parents are dead, and her husband is not living with her because he has a mental problem. He roams on the roads and in the jungle. She is always crying for food for her children.\nFor a short time, the people of her village gave food, but slowly, they began to ignore the family. After a month, there was no one left helping her. The men of her village began to misuse her and pay her with food for her children. One day, my cousin called me for prayer. My dad and I went to my cousin\u0026rsquo;s house. She told us about her, because she is my cousin\u0026rsquo;s neighbor. My cousin sent her son to bring her to meet with us. She came, and when I asked about her prayer request, she began to share her story of how people have been misusing her. She was crying. Then, I called my sister, who works with another mission and is always ready to help needy women. My sister told me to send her to her base. So, my dad and I encouraged her to go to my sister\u0026rsquo;s base. She prepared to go to my sister\u0026rsquo;s mission base. I gave her my sister\u0026rsquo;s full address and contact number. A week later, she went to the mission base with both of her children.\nAfter they had been at the base for a week, my sister told me that her son is 6 years old, and he needed to go to school to learn, but they had financial problems and could not send him to school. Then, I told her that she should bring her son to my home, and I would take care of him. My sister brought the little boy to my house, and I cared for him for a month. I tried to get him admission in schools, but he could not get admission in school right away because the schools were having exams. He was missing his mom very much, so I called my sister and sent him back to be with his mom. Praise God, who saved her and her children\u0026rsquo;s lives-both physically and spiritually!\nPrayer requests: Please pray for me and my family\u0026rsquo;s safety. Please pray for my mother\u0026rsquo;s health. She often becomes ill. Please pray for Christmas time; almost 300 people will come to celebrate Christmas at my church. Pray that God will provide food for them. I am also planning to reach more unreached villages before Christmas to share the Good News by showing the Jesus Film, giving Gospel tracts, and holding medical camps. Pray that God will provide every financial need. Please pray for one of the believers in my church. He accepted Jesus six years ago, and he even attended our Bible College for 3 months. He stopped worshiping idols in Hindu festivals six years ago. This year, his mom, older brother and wife also accepted Jesus and stopped idol worship. However, his dad will not accept Jesus. He was getting very dangerous last week when my dad and I went to visit their house. He started fighting with us, but we did not fight with him. He wants to bring his son to a village court for trial (panchayat), but he is still strong in his faith. Please continue to pray for the registration of my church; 8 house churches are going by the grace of God, but I still do not have registration. Thank you so much for your prayers and partnership for the Gospel. God bless you everyone.\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2019/12/02/i-know-jesus-is-with-me/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eGreetings from my state! Thank you for your prayers, support, and love in Christ. Thanks to our Lord Jesus who always stands with us in every situation and keeps us safe with His almighty hand.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/pastor11/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2019/12/Rajendra-pic-1-Nov-2019-b-300x288.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLast month, I finished my health training by the grace of God and learned about so many diseases. I learned about how to diagnose and treat short-term disease. God also gave me the opportunity to share my testimony and the Word of God among the doctors, nurses, hospital staff and health trainers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I Know Jesus is With Me"},{"content":"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.\nVisiting 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, \u0026quot; 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\u0026quot;. 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.\nFive 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.\nLast 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!\nShowing God\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;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.\nPraise points: 1. Praise God for His faithfulness in my family and ministry.\n2. 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.\n3. Praise God, we still have not had the meeting at the police station, and the meeting keeps getting delayed.\n4. Praise God that my mother is getting better! She was sick for two months.\nPrayer points: 1. Please continue to pray for our safety.\n2. 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\u0026rsquo;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.\n3. Please continue to pray for my uncle- that God will change his mind and cause him to cancel the police case.\n4. 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.\n5. Please pray for the believers in my churches to stand in persecution and to be strong in the faith.\n6. 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.\n7. 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.\n8.) Please pray for my nephew\u0026rsquo;s son. He is suffering from Encephalitis and was admitted in the ICU.\nThank you so much for your prayers and love in Christ! Pastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2019/06/22/thrilling-things-god-is-doing/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThanks for your prayers and amazing love in Christ! Praise God for His faithfulness to our family.\nIn 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.\nIt 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.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Thrilling Things God is Doing"},{"content":"Praise the Lord! After a long time, I want to share how God has been changing lives here.\nAwesome Faith of a Blind Man! I am going to share a story with you about a blind man and how he accepted Jesus. This man\u0026rsquo;s name is \u0026ldquo;brother P\u0026rdquo;. Brother P has been blind from birth. He has never seen the world.\nHe is almost 40 years old and he is not married. He is too poor. No one respects him. No one loves him. My dad and I went to share the Gospel in his village. We shared the Good News with him, and he listened with passion and accepted Jesus as his Savior! Now, brother P has been coming to our fellowship continually, even though he cannot see. He comes with his youngest brother, who is only 10 years old.\nOne time he heard me preach from the Gospel of Mark, chapter 16 verse 16, (He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned). After our church fellowship, brother P told me that he wanted to be baptized and that he wanted to know more about baptism. I told him I would teach an extra class for him about baptism. The next week I made an announcement for those who wanted to be baptized to give me their names and contact numbers. I called everyone and taught a class for them about baptism. Brother P was also baptized, with the others. Brother P is always so excited to hear the Word of God, and he is growing day by day in the Word of God! Because of this, I decided to give him a proclaimer (an audio Bible). Now, he has been coming to our church faithfully for 2 years, even though his family always scolds him when he comes to our fellowship with his youngest brother.\nGiving a message from the Gospel of Luke Praise God for His faithfulness in my life! Last month and this month, I had so many troubles and problems, but God brought us out by His almighty hands. He keeps us safe from every enemy who wants to kill my dad, just for the land where we have built a little house church.\nLast year on December 12, 2018 when God freed us from all false police cases, we were really happy. But then, my uncle and another person came (who is from a different village, and who I have never seen before). My uncle and that person went to court to try to get the land where our church is established, but God has filled us with His peace. I have full documents of that land. Either way, our God is an awesome God and He is with us! Praise God\u0026ndash; our house churches are continually going on, and God is adding new believers day by day. I am giving the messages from the Gospel of Luke. I love to preach book by book and chapter by chapter!\nLast month, God gave me the opportunity to go to a health training in another city. It was an awesome class. I learned so many basic things about health that were especially tailored for rural and poor people who do not have healthy food and good hygiene. What I have learned is helping me to reach people in the villages. They gave me vitamin A capsules for the kids who are too poor, the children who do not have healthy food and lose their sight when they are still growing. So, I am giving the children vitamin A capsules on Sundays after worship. These capsules are only for 1 to 5-year-old children. I only need to give them a dose once every six months. This is helping us to go to new villages. Thank God for this training!\nPlease continue praying for an orphanage! \u0026ldquo;Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.\u0026quot;(James1:27). I have been praying for an orphanage to be in my area for 6 years. Here, there is no one to hear and care for the orphan children. There are so many people who are too poor-they can\u0026rsquo;t give their children healthy food or send them to school. The children spend the whole day playing in the dirt, and they begin doing drugs from childhood. When they get older, they become murderers, gangsters, robbers and drunkards, etc.\nI prayed for a long time, and God has given me two kids. Their father is mental. His mother married a second man, who left her. Now, his mother is always roaming. She has two children; one of them is 6 years old, and the other is a 3-year-old. Last year in December, when I visited her, she was really crying. She shared with us about her situation. I told her that I want to start a children\u0026rsquo;s home. So, she gave me her son\u0026rsquo;s photograph and birth certificate and asked me to find a children\u0026rsquo;s home for him, and said, \u0026ldquo;If you will start a children\u0026rsquo;s home, please take this son, too.\u0026rdquo;\nAnother child is 8 years old. His parents died in a road accident. Now, he is living with his uncle, but his uncle is very poor. He already has five children, and he is not able to care for him. He wants me to take care of him, because a year ago, I asked him to pray about me starting an orphanage.\nI have one more child. She has been living with me for 4 years. She is my oldest sister\u0026rsquo;s daughter. Her father is mentally unstable, so he is not living with my sister. My sister works in some houses to clean and wash dishes, etc., so she is not able to care for her daughter. Because of this, my sister gave me her to take care of. Now, my niece is in 3rd grade, and she is 8 years old. She plays the bongo drum for our Sunday worship, and she will be a good worship leader. I take care of her with my own support. Thank God for His faithfulness in my life!\nPrayer points: 1 Please pray for my mom; she has been sick for a month and a half.\nPlease pray for me, I am praying that I will get married to an orphan girl. Please pray that if she is really from God for me, that God will open all the doors and provide every financial need for our marriage. 3. Please continue to pray for every kind of persecution.\n4. Please continue to pray for an orphanage to be in my area.\n5. Please pray for brother to see the world because he is blind.\nThank you for your prayers, support and love in Christ.\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2019/05/06/our-god-is-an-awesome-god-and-he-is-with-us/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePraise the Lord! After a long time, I want to share how God has been changing lives here.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"awesome-faith-of-a-blind-man\"\u003eAwesome Faith of a Blind Man!\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am going to share a story with you about a blind man and how he accepted Jesus. This man\u0026rsquo;s name is \u0026ldquo;brother P\u0026rdquo;. \u003cstrong\u003eBrother P has been blind from birth.\u003c/strong\u003e He has never seen the world.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is almost 40 years old and he is not married. He is too poor. No one respects him. \u003cstrong\u003eNo one loves him.\u003c/strong\u003e My dad and I went to share the Gospel in his village. \u003cstrong\u003eWe shared the Good News with him, and he listened with passion and accepted Jesus as his Savior!\u003c/strong\u003e Now, brother P has been coming to our fellowship continually, even though he cannot see. He comes with his youngest brother, who is only 10 years old.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Our God is an Awesome God and He is With Us!"},{"content":" I always love to see the smile of kids. I went to a new village and saw so many people and kids who are so poor and illiterate. The kids are not going to school to study. They have never heard the name of Jesus. So, I am praying and planning to go to this village weekly to share the love of God and help some of them go to school. Please pray for this village and me.\nPersecuted Not Abandoned Thank you so much all of you friends! For your incredible prayers and love in Christ!\nThe lady who said that she was my grandfather\u0026rsquo;s second wife\u0026rsquo;s daughter is still claiming that she is the rightful owner of our property and has demanded half of my property and house (we have turned into a church). I had never met her or heard of her before this. This lady\u0026rsquo;s husband was recently released from jail. He is a famous robber and murder.\n3 days ago, they came again to claim the land where we have our church. Yesterday, we had a meeting with them and all my neighbors came. The village leader and so many people were there. Praise God, some of my neighbors, who were previously against, us took our side. It\u0026rsquo;s all answers to your prayers. Everyone scolded the man who is fighting for my land. But, this man is so dangerous. He tried to fight with my dad, but one of the villagers stopped him. My dad\u0026rsquo;s brother is encouraging this man to kill my dad. Today my uncle (my dad\u0026rsquo;s real brother-who is not a Christian) and Vijay (the man who is fighting for the church\u0026rsquo;s land) went to the police and Court. Please pray for them! God can change their minds and cause them to know the love of Christ! Please pray for our safety!\nPraise Points:\n1)Praise God for keeping us safe during all kinds of persecution.\nPraise God\u0026ndash;He has taken care of all my needs!\nPraise God for His love and faithfulness in my life and family!\nPrayer Points :\nPlease pray for my mom. She has been suffering from a lung infection for a month.\nPlease continue to pray for a believer in my church and her family. She has been a believer for 5 years. Her village people are persecuting them and trying to remove them from their village.\nPlease pray for a new village I visited 2 days ago. God is opening doors for us to do children\u0026rsquo;s ministry there.\nPlease pray for a believer. She is a widow and she is suffering because of it. Last month, her relatives strictly warned us and said not to come again to her village. Her relatives are persecuting her so much, but she continues to come to church.\nPlease pray for my ministry and house churches.\nPlease pray for us. We are planning to baptize more believers soon. Please pray that everyone will be safe, as it is very dangerous to be baptized here.\nThank you so much for your prayers and love in Christ.\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2019/03/31/prayer-update/","summary":"\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/54420940%5F1013840918811649%5F5283726139712339968%5Fo-244x300.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI always love to see the smile of kids. I went to a new village and saw so many people and kids who are so poor and illiterate. The kids are not going to school to study. They have never heard the name of Jesus. So, I am praying and planning to go to this village weekly to share the love of God and help some of them go to school. Please pray for this village and me.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Prayer Update"},{"content":" Emergency Prayer Request\nI have an emergency prayer request! Please pray for us. A woman I never met before just came to my house. She claimed that she is my relative and that she is the rightful owner of half of our property and house. She warned us that if we will not give her half of our property she will go to the police and take us to court. She lives 20 km from my home. She said that she will return with the village elders and people. No one is helping us. My neighbors are making plans to stop the church and remove us from my house and village. Please pray for me and my parents. That God will give us strength to face every persecution.\nIncredible Christmas\nPraise the Lord! We had an incredible Christmas with believers and Hindu friends! As I showed Christian movies in remote, unreached villages, I invited everyone to my church for Christmas. So some people came to my home! It was a great time to make friends. Praise God!\nAll the church members brought their unbelieving neighbors. They all heard about Jesus and His love! Thank God!\nThank you so much for your financial help! We were able to give everyone a delicious lunch. Our budget was for only 300 hundred people\u0026ndash;but thank God\u0026ndash;more than 350 people had lunch! And thank God\u0026ndash;no groups came to disturb us! Thank you so much for your help and prayers!\nShowing the Jesus Film\nPraise God! God gave us another opportunity to show the Jesus movie in a believer\u0026rsquo;s village on the night of December 31st. We showed Christian movies at the believer\u0026rsquo;s home. His village is 3 km from my village. We took the generator and projector to his village. He invited all his neighbors to see the Jesus movie. Almost 30 people saw the movie.\nIt was very cold. As we showed the movie outside in the coldest of our winter temperatures\u0026ndash;5 degrees Celsius. Some people had warm clothes, but we could not keep warm. So, I and all the people watching the movie made a fire and then we felt warm.\nPraise God! All of the people watched the whole movie to the end. No one accepted Jesus, but God opened the way so that we can visit the people. They invited us again. So, Lord willing, me and my dad will visit them and show them the Jesus movie again in the hot season. Praise God!\nThank you for your prayers!\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2019/01/09/pleading-for-your-prayers/","summary":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmergency Prayer Request\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have an emergency prayer request! Please pray for us. A woman I never met before just came to my house. She claimed that she is my relative and that she is the rightful owner of half of our property and house. \u003cstrong\u003eShe warned us that if we will not give her half of our property she will go to the police and take us to court.\u003c/strong\u003e She lives 20 km from my home. She said that she will return with the village elders and people. No one is helping us. \u003cstrong\u003eMy neighbors are making plans to stop the church and remove us from my house and village. Please pray for me and my parents. That God will give us strength to face every persecution.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pleading for Your Prayers"},{"content":"Thank you so much for your prayers and help! I\u0026rsquo;m doing well by the grace of God and ministry is also going well!\nPraise God! Yesterday we went to court and our neighbor (who put false charges against my parents) also came secretly to court. He told the judge that my parents are innocent\u0026ndash;that all the villagers are pressuring him and that is why he put false charges against my parents. So, yesterday 50% of the paper work was done to release us from the case! Now my parents need to present in court only one more day\u0026ndash;December 8th. This court case has been going on for several years. Please pray that the court case will be over on December 8th! Then, both cases will be finished! Praise God! Please pray for the continued safety of this man because my other neighbors, other villagers and his wife are pressuring him to keep the case against us. He had to hide when he came to court. Thank you so much all of you for your prayers and love in Christ!\nHere, it is extremely difficult to be acquitted from a case, if you do not pay a bribe. We can only pray for the judge and my neighbor. In my state, corruption abounds. Some years ago, my neighbors fought each other. One of my neighbors killed my other neighbor with a knife. The police came and arrested my neighbor who had committed the murder. After one hour, my neighbor gave a bribe to the police officer. Then, the police officer left him alone. A few days later, my neighbor went to court and gave a bribe to the judge. So the judge released him.\nHere it is very easy to kill a man and not be charged, by paying a bribe. This is one reason that no one wants to come to this state for ministry. My parents and I decided to do ministry here\u0026ndash;even though the non-Christians do not like us. We don\u0026rsquo;t know how long we are alive, but we are living only for Jesus.\nPlease pray for our plans for a Christmas lunch! Me and my dad are planning to invite believers and their relatives and every single neighbor and all of the villagers for Christmas. If, Lord willing, they will come to the Christmas celebration, it will be a wonderful time to share the Good News with all of the people! Last year, 300 people came to the Christmas program! Thank you for your support\u0026ndash;we wer e able to give them all lunch! This year we are planning to do the same and more! Also, on the night of December 24th, I will invite all youth. We will have a campfire and will worship and praise God all night long!\nAlso, please pray as we want to go to new villages to share the Good News and show the Jesus Movie. I am planning to also take the youth (Christian teenagers). I want to go to a village named R.. There is no proper way to get to that village, so we cannot take a 3 or 4 wheeled vehicle, only a motorcycle. There is no electricity in the village, and it is very challenging to carry the generator on our motorcycle. I am taking the young people with me, because I want to teach them how to share the Gospel in the rural areas among the illiterate people. Please pray for us\u0026ndash;that we can reach village R. safely and that God will greatly use us!\nPrayer Requests:\nPlease pray for our safety\u0026ndash;we are planning to baptize some more believers! Please pray for us\u0026ndash;we are planning to reach more unreachable villages to share the Gospel and show the Jesus Movie before Christmas! Please continue to pray for the judge who is handling the false police case against my parents. God can change his heart and he can free us from both false charges! Please continue to pray for the financial needs for our Christmas lunch! Please continue to pray for our 5 house churches and for the believers to be strong in every kind of persecution. Thank you for your prayers and partnership for the Gospel!\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2018/12/27/living-only-for-jesus/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThank you so much for your prayers and help! I\u0026rsquo;m doing well by the grace of God and ministry is also going well!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/rm2southasia/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2018/12/Rajendra-Church-b2-300x142.jpg\" width=\"300\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise God! Yesterday we went to court and our neighbor (who put false charges against my parents) also came secretly to court. He told the judge that my parents are innocent\u0026ndash;that all the villagers are pressuring him and that is why he put false charges against my parents. So, yesterday 50% of the paper work was done to release us from the case! Now my parents need to present in court only one more day\u0026ndash;December 8th. This court case has been going on for several years. \u003cstrong\u003ePlease pray that the court case will be over on December 8th!\u003c/strong\u003e Then, both cases will be finished! Praise God! Please pray for the continued safety of this man because my other neighbors, other villagers and his wife are pressuring him to keep the case against us. He had to hide when he came to court. Thank you so much all of you for your prayers and love in Christ!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Living Only for Jesus"},{"content":"One Woman\u0026rsquo;s Amazing Faith! But as it is written, to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand. Rom.15:21. I recently met a lady. She is from the lowest caste. From the group she belongs to, no one is literate, no one has a good home, the children do not go to school, no one has a permanent job, and all the men are alcoholics. They are a very poor group.\nShe has two children. Her daughter is 1 ½ years old, and her son is 5 years old. Her husband is a heavy drinker. Her husband beat her after drinking daily and broke her teeth. Last year, when her husband beat her, she was admitted in the hospital for 6 months because she had head trauma. However, she didn\u0026rsquo;t receive full treatment. Her parents spent their whole life savings for her to be in the hospital for 6 months. When my dad and I visited her village to share the Good News with them, she listened and shared about her problem with us.\nWe prayed for her husband and invited her to the fellowship. She began to come to the fellowship and continued. As she opened her heart to the Word of God, she began to pray for her husband. After a month, her husband stopped drinking wine, so she went to her parents\u0026rsquo; village and shared about how Jesus changed her husband\u0026rsquo;s life. As a result, more than 20 women from her village began to come to the fellowship!\nAfter a month, my dad and I decided to go there and teach in her village every Wednesday. When I saw their thirst for God\u0026rsquo;s Word, I gave them a \u0026ldquo;Proclaimer\u0026rdquo; (an audio Bible, since they are illiterate). This woman is listening to the Word of God with all of her neighbors. Now she has been baptized and is fully trusting in God. Every day, she prays with all of the neighbors and listens chapter by chapter from the Proclaimer. Thanks be to God for the change in their lives!\n\u0026ldquo;If you get baptized, I will commit suicide\u0026rdquo; He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. (Mathew 10:37) I want to share some exciting news-we had a baptism service on February 19, and 8 people gave their lives to Jesus, praise God! They ignored all of the persecution that will come from their family and neighbors.\nOne brother among them decided to follow Jesus. He is 16 years old and studying in the 10th grade. His parents are nonbelievers; they do not like Christian people, and they persecute him whenever he comes to the fellowship. He stopped doing all idol worship, so his parents are scolding him and are against him.\nLast month, when he told his mother he wanted to be baptized, his mother also scolded him and warned him that if he was baptized, she would commit suicide. He has been coming to our fellowships for two years, and has been hearing the Word of God. When he heard the truth in Mathew 10:37, he decided to obey Jesus\u0026rsquo; command and was baptized. He did not share with anyone that he has been baptized, not even his mother. If he shares about this, he will face much persecution. He has continued coming to church and learning the Word of God.\nAwesome Faith of this Family and Their Paralyzed Son! One day, my father and I went to share the Gospel and distribute 500+ Bible tracts in five villages. While we were doing this, we met a man and I gave him a Bible tract and invited him and his family to my home.\nOne week later, they came to my home with their paralyzed son. We shared the Good News with them, and they have started to come to our fellowship. The whole family accepted Jesus as their Savior!\nThey are very poor. The man\u0026rsquo;s name is V.T. He has no proper job, but they have a little barber shop. His daily salary is 100-120 rupees (about $3.00). His customers give 10 rupees (20 cents) for one haircut. It is so difficult for him to provide three meals a day for his family.\nHe has two sons. The oldest is 18 years old, and the second is 14 years old. The oldest has been paralyzed since his birth. His father and mother take out loans and spend lots of money for his treatment, but he does not show any improvement. Now his father has lots of loans to pay back to his friends. But he totally depends on God and trusts in God; he is praying for everything.\nHe left idol worship and threw every idol in the river. He has a house church going on in his home. I gave him an audio Bible (the Proclaimer); they are listening to it with all of their family and neighbors. They continually pray for his paralyzed son, and God is healing his son now.\nHe can now say \u0026ldquo;yes, no, mom, dad, brother, Jesus\u0026rdquo; etc. He can even walk on the rooftop on his knees! When I shared the Word of God with him, he accepted Jesus as his Savior! He said in sign language that he wanted to be baptized, and we baptized him on February 19! His father was also baptized the same day. His mom is a good worship leader. She is always composing Christian worship songs in the local language and helping with worship.\nPraise God they are learning the Word of God and sharing the Good News with whoever comes into their barber shop! He is being really persecuted, but he is stable in his faith. One day, some of his neighbors gathered together and tried to beat my father, but God saved me and my father. Thanks be to God for this family\u0026rsquo;s stable faith in Christ.\nPrayer requests:\nPlease pray for the new fellowship group to grow in the Word of God. 2.) Please pray for the Christians in the village to stand strong in all persecution.\n3.) Please pray for the children in the village to go to school.\n4.) Please pray for my father\u0026rsquo;s finances; he has been doing ministry for 6 years now, and we have lots of loans.\n5.) Please pray for the teenage boy who was recently baptized, and his unbelieving parents.\n6.) Please pray for the 18 year old who was paralyzed, that he will receive full healing from God.\n7.) Please pray for the paralyzed boys father because he has many financial loans for his son\u0026rsquo;s medical treatment.\n8.) Please pray for the believers here, that they will be stable in persecution and grow in the Word of God.\nThanks for your prayers and partnership for Gospel!\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2018/10/05/one-womans-amazing-faith-if-you-get-baptized-i-will-commit-suicide/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"one-womans-amazing-faith\"\u003eOne Woman\u0026rsquo;s Amazing Faith!\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4 id=\"but-as-it-is-written-to-whom-he-was-not-spoken-of-they-shall-see-and-they-that-have-not-heard-shall-understand-rom1521\"\u003eBut as it is written, to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand. Rom.15:21.\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI recently met a lady. She is from the lowest caste. From the group she belongs to, no one is literate, no one has a good home, the children do not go to school, no one has a permanent job, and all the men are alcoholics. They are a very poor group.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"One Woman's Amazing Faith; \"If you get baptized, I will commit suicide.\""},{"content":" Praise the Lord! Ministry is going well by the grace of God. These days, I am continuing to teach from the Gospel of Mark, and the believers are growing up in the Word of God! Now it is monsoon (rainy/flooding) season. All of the roads are full of rain water. It is so difficult to ride anything with two wheels. Last month, my dad and I were on our motorbike on our way to lead a house church in the village, and we fell down on the road in the floodwater. I got pain in my right shoulder, and my dad got knee pain, so we are unable to go to the house church in the villages where the roads are full of floodwater. For this reason, we are only able to get to 4 of our house churches right now.\nLast week, I went to a village 300 km (186 mi) away from my village. I went with my older sister to my friend\u0026rsquo;s house. First, we got on a train, then a bus, then a 3-wheeler. Then we crossed two rivers by boat. Then we reached the village. It was a great time to share the Word of God with them, and we stayed there for three days. They were hungry for the Word of God, and they invited me again. Praise God for their love and hospitality.\nPraise Points: Praise God for His faithfulness and love in my life.\nPraise God for His protection from my neighbor and anti-Christian groups.\nPraise God for growing believers in the Word of God.\nPraise God for using me to share the Good News in the un-reached villages.\nPrayer Points: Please continue pray for the men who placed false charges against my parents. Last month, the man said he would compromise, but he did not show up in court. The next hearing is on August 27th. Please pray for him, that he will come to court. 2)Please continue pray for local pastors who are still suffering from the anti-Christian groups.\nPlease pray for a man; he is a member of an anti-Christian group. He came to my home to get information about all of the churches, but I did not tell him anything. 4) Please pray for the registration of my church. If anyone puts false charges against us, this could help us to be released from prison on bail.\n5) Please pray for the financial needs for a youth retreat, women\u0026rsquo;s conference and local pastors meeting.\nThanks for your prayers and partnership for the Gospel!\nGod bless you!\nPastor 11\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/2018/09/01/sharing-gods-word-during-monsoon/","summary":"\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/rm2southasia/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2018/09/39298822%5F657470847985588%5F8426060441238634496%5Fn-239x300.jpg\" width=\"239\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise the Lord! Ministry is going well by the grace of God. These days, I am continuing to teach from the Gospel of Mark, and the believers are growing up in the Word of God!    Now it is monsoon (rainy/flooding) season. All of the roads are full of rain water. It is so difficult to ride anything with two wheels. Last month, my dad and I were on our motorbike on our way to lead a house church in the village, and we fell down on the road in the floodwater. I got pain in my right shoulder, and my dad got knee pain, so we are unable to go to the house church in the villages where the roads are full of floodwater. For this reason, we are only able to get to 4 of our house churches right now.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Sharing God's Word During Monsoon"},{"content":"_Desperate Times _\n[caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_62\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignleft\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;300\u0026rdquo;] Millions leave this state of my country searching for work. Above: Men pile in the back of a truck.[/caption]\nMy father was a Hindu temple leader. He collected lots of money by doing idol worship. Because of this, my father was very famous in my village.\nBut we were still very poor. We only had enough money to eat one time a day. Because of this, my father rejected being a temple leader and went to the North to search for a job.\nOn the way, my father got in an accident on the road. He broke his left hand. We did not have money for proper treatment. We borrowed money to pay for some medical treatment, but his hand did not heal.\nSo, my father decided that we would go to a city in the mountains. There, we could beg for money.\nWhen my family reached the city, my father started to collect trash and sell it for recycling. His daily wages were equal to 15-30 cents. It was only enough for us to have a small amount of food once a day, because there are 8 people in my family (I have 5 sisters). My father made a tent on a walking path for us to live in.\nA Modern-Day Samaritan [caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_61\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignleft\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;300\u0026rdquo;] Over half of the children in my state are malnourished.[/caption]\nOne day, when my father was collecting trash from a dustbin with his one hand (the other hand was broken), he met a man from England. The man hugged my father and shared the Good News. This was the first time my father heard about Jesus!\nThen he invited my father to his house. When father reached his home, the man gave him lots of trash. The man asked him, \u0026ldquo;Do you want treatment of your hand?\u0026rdquo;\nMy father replied, \u0026ldquo;Sorry, I have no money for treatment.\u0026rdquo;\nThe man said, \u0026ldquo;God will provide everything for you.\u0026rdquo;\nThe man took my father to the hospital and helped him be admitted there. After an operation, my father\u0026rsquo;s hand healed completely. Praise God!\nNow my father could do hard work! He started to go to church every Sunday, no matter what was happening! I was 5 years old when my parents accepted Jesus.\nA Complete Personal Change [caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_60\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignleft\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;300\u0026rdquo;] Above: Villagers gathered as I prepared to show the \u0026ldquo;Jesus Film\u0026rdquo; in an area where Jesus\u0026rsquo; name was never before spoken.[/caption]\nWhen I was a teenager, I went too far from Jesus. I wanted to become a rich man. I wanted to help my family no longer be trash pickers. I hated this work because all of the time police were coming, breaking up our tent, and putting me in custody.\nMy pastor helped me be accepted into nursing school. All of my tuition would be paid through a Christian hospital! I passed the written test!\nBut, my heart was not satisfied to do this work. I was so confused about what I should do.\nThen, I fell into doing wrong things. I tried to quit, but I couldn\u0026rsquo;t. So, I tried to destroy myself. I attempted suicide three times. But God saved me! Then, I went to a discipleship school. Now, I personally know the love of Jesus, and His love compels me to live for Him!\nAnswering God\u0026rsquo;s Call One day, I asked Jesus, \u0026ldquo;After this training, what should I do?\u0026rdquo; Jesus gave me a word: Romans 15:20, \u0026ldquo;\u0026hellip;I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man\u0026rsquo;s foundation.\u0026rdquo; Right then, I decided to do ministry.\nThen a letter came from nursing school. Now I would be able to take the physical test. (It took extreme preparation to be able to take this test.) I threw the letter in the dustbin! I was determined to do ministry!\nMy father decided to return to our home state to tell people about Jesus. After I graduated from the SGWM Pastors School, I also returned to my state.\nThirty years ago, my home state became known as the \u0026ldquo;Graveyard of Christians\u0026rdquo;. So many missionaries came here. They worked hard to spread the Good News. But they didn\u0026rsquo;t get any fruit. Instead, they were killed because of the name of Jesus.\nSo many pastors and their families were murdered by anti-Christian groups. Many others ran away from here when they were persecuted. Pastors are scared and do not want to come here. Since we came here, my family and I have also faced great persecution. But, praise God He has kept us alive until now. He put me and my family here safely. He is helping me to do ministry. Now more than 12 house churches have started through our ministry and God is adding new believers day by day! Praise God!\n-Pastor 11*\n* names changed or omitted for security reasons\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor11/pastor11/sample-page/","summary":"\u003ch3 id=\"_desperate-times\"\u003e_Desperate Times\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e_\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[caption id=\u0026ldquo;attachment_62\u0026rdquo; align=\u0026ldquo;alignleft\u0026rdquo; width=\u0026ldquo;300\u0026rdquo;]\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/rm2southasia/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2018/06/IMG_1491-300x225.jpg\"\u003e Millions leave this state of my country searching for work. Above: Men pile in the back of a truck.[/caption]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy father was a Hindu temple leader. He collected lots of money by doing idol worship. Because of this, my father was very famous in my village.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut we were still very poor. We only had enough money to eat one time a day. 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