[{"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/pastor13/pastor13/2024/06/04/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":"Hello Everyone!\n\nJai Christ! (Praise the Lord!)\nMay God bless you all! Thank you for your prayers and for your love that you have for us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you also for helping us financially. God bless you all. We are all fine. We pray for you all.\nThank God! This month He has given me the opportunity to meet many people. As you know, we are doing ministry in the village area in the North. There are people of different castes living all around, and among them I am doing service.\nThis month, God gave me the opportunity to go to a new village. Before reaching that village with my friend, I prayed to God, \u0026ldquo;Dear God, when I reach this village today, give me a person to reach out to - so I can explain your promise; so I can tell your love.\u0026rdquo;\nAs we came near the village, we saw an old man sitting in the way, feeding his cow. We greeted the old man and asked about how he was doing. As we started talking to him, we could tell from his face he was very sad. So I said, \u0026ldquo;Uncle, is there something wrong?\u0026rdquo;\nThen he told me about the situation that he is in. He said, \u0026ldquo;I live in the village that we are close to. No one listens to us. My house is about to collapse. What should I do, son?\u0026rdquo; He continued talking like this on and on.\nI said \u0026ldquo;Uncle, I want to talk to you about something.\u0026rdquo; and I shared with him from the Word of God. I told him, \u0026ldquo;If no one in this world will listen to you, then there is only the One True God - The person who listens to you and loves you.\u0026rdquo;\nWe prayed for him. He then thanked us and took us to his home to have tea.\nWhen we reached his house, the condition of his house was very bad. It was about to collapse. The wife had propped the house up with sticks so that it does not fall on her. We prayed for her.\nThen I told my friends that if we can help people like them, it is a good thing. You also please pray for them. Here are some photos of them, so that you can pray for them to get saved.\nThank God that He has so many different ways of working. We all know that God has worked in different ways in my life from time to time.\nA few months ago I prayed for a woman and she was healed. She used to go to a Catholic church that she did not like to go to. When I met her, I told her to read the Bible verse-by-verse according to the doctrine of Calvary Chapel. I told her how we teach and we learn this way at Calvary Chapel. She liked it.\nWhen she was healed through prayer, she called 11 more women to her house so that we could pray for them and share the Word with them.\nShe invited me to her house and I prayed for many people and they started getting healed.\nThe next week she called about 25 to 30 women. Now we have started a fellowship at her house. Everyone meets once a week and we pray and share the Word with them.\nI am praying for these families. That the Word of the Lord will grow in their hearts, and that the work of the Lord will be done in their midst.\nI am thanking God for the different ways He is working!\nPrayer Requests:\nPray for the ministry here in the North. Please pray for the villages in this area that we visit. May more doors open like the ones I shared, and may doors open through the doors that God has already opened. Pray that I continue to be able to meet with the people that I shared about, so that I can continue to lead them forward in the Word of God. Pray for all of the villages in our area that speak our native language - pray that there will be a church in each village someday. Pray for the sister who has opened her house for the Word of God and to have fellowship. She wants to have fellowship their always. Also pray for the other women who are listening to the Word. Thank you all for praying for us. God bless you.\nPastor 13*\n\\* Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor13/pastor13/2023/08/12/god-works-in-amazing-ways/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHello Everyone!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJai Christ! (Praise the Lord!)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay God bless you all! Thank you for your prayers and for your love that you have for us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you also for helping us financially. God bless you all. We are all fine. We pray for you all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank God! This month He has given me the opportunity to meet many people. As you know, we are doing ministry in the village area in the North. There are people of different castes living all around, and among them I am doing service.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"God Works in Amazing Ways!"},{"content":"Hello Everyone!\n\nJai Christ! (Praise the Lord!)\nThank you for praying for me and my ministry. Thank you for constantly lifting me up in your prayers.Thank you for helping financially. May God bless you all. Thank you so much for the great love you have for us.\nAs you know, in the area where we are ministering, the people have only one thought: that this place should be made an only Hindu area. In such a situation, when we preach the Gospel to people, they get angry. They say, \u0026ldquo;You are doing wrong.\u0026rdquo; But, we know that we are sharing about the Holy God and the Living God. We want them to be able to get rid of the evil power over them and accept their sins before God. But people here do not want to listen to us.\nSome of our brothers, who are pastors, are also working in different areas here. Just now, I met a brother. His name is N*. I told him that we can do the work of evangelism in this area by being in one accord. Even though we are connected with different ministries, our work is the same. We can spread the Gospel in the same way where the Gospel has not reached the villages, and open the eyes of the people from darkness and bring them to the Lord.\nSome time ago, God gave me a chance to meet some of my old friends who used to study in the same school with me. We were all in the same class. God can make anything happen during ministry, but I never thought that we would ever meet again and talk like this! But when God is working nothing is impossible with Him!\nWhen we were in school, I used to preach Gospel to all of the students in our free time, because that was the time that I came to know about the Lord. I used to tell people in class at school, \u0026ldquo;God loves you so much. He wants us all to be saved. If we repent from our sins and go before Him, He will forgive us.\u0026rdquo;\nI was able to meet with some of these same old friends from the past. We had good fellowship together. I again told them about the Lord Jesus Christ, as I used to tell them in school. Today God gave me another chance, to tell them again! R* is close to accepting Christ as Savior in his life and turning his mind from his sins. Every day I talk to him on the phone and visit also. I am praying to God that the lives of these two brothers will be saved and that the lives of their families can be saved through them.\nhank God! God gave me a chance to meet a brother pastor who is currently serving in a nearby city. He came near our house. Then we went nearby to a beautiful place in the forest where there is peace. We sat down and sang a couple of songs of praise to the Lord and encouraged each other. S* was also there, who is from our area, but doing ministry in a different place. He asked me, \u0026ldquo;Very bad treatment was done to you here, wasn\u0026rsquo;t it? \u0026quot; We talked about what happened at that time and prayed for each other. We prayed that God, who is here, will open more and more doors wherever the Word of the Lord has not yet been spoken.\nWe are hoping to meet there twice a week and share about how God is working in different ways in the different areas that we are serving in. Then we will pray for each other and the areas we are working in.\nThank you for praying for S* and N* and their families who live near us. Thank God that in the last 2 weeks, their families were the only ones from the city at the bottom of the mountain that came to our area. They camped where our church is being built by God. They spent the night and painted the church. Pastor 12* who is from here but serving the Lord at the bottom of the mountains and his brother also came with them.\nThanks to those who visited our area. We talked about how we can do many things, and gathered people around. At night they showed a movie that was in our local language to gather more people and make them excited. We had dinner together and so that together we could glorify and praise the Lord and pray together. Afterward we kept meeting and were able to share the word of God.\nMany times when we tell the Good News to people in our area, they do not want to listen because it is us who tell them. When someone new from another place comes, they become interested. They think these people are coming from some other land and will teach us. I pray that in the coming time that God will save more and more people and bring them and we can glorify God and come together in our church building.\nThank you all for praying for us. God bless you.\nPastor 13*\n\\* Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor13/pastor13/2023/07/03/praise-the-lord/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHello Everyone!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJai Christ! (Praise the Lord!)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThank you for praying for me and my ministry. Thank you for constantly lifting me up in your prayers.Thank you for helping financially. May God bless you all. Thank you so much for the great love you have for us.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG-20230630-WA0010.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG-20230630-WA0000-300x193.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs you know, in the area where we are ministering, the people have only one thought: that this place should be made an only Hindu area. In such a situation, when we preach the Gospel to people, they get angry. They say, \u0026ldquo;You are doing wrong.\u0026rdquo; But, we know that we are sharing about the Holy God and the Living God. We want them to be able to get rid of the evil power over them and accept their sins before God. But people here do not want to listen to us.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Praise the Lord"},{"content":"Hello. Jai Masih ki! (Praise the Lord!)\nI hope you are all doing well. Thank you for praying for me and for my ministry hear in the North. Thank you also for helping me through financial support. God bless you all.\nI hope you all had a great Christmas. We also celebrated Christmas out hear in the village. We invited people from all around and had a gathering in our new church building. We invited many people, but a lot of people did not come because now they are scared.\nOur state government made a law that no one can accept a different religion because they want to make our state a Hindu state. They fought a very long time to make this law and now they won. Now the government is making big posters about it. The Hindu people started rallying in the roads. They are saying that that Christians are bringing Christianity in, so the Hindus are all trying to stop the Gospel from soaring in our state.\nBecause of this, a many Christian brothers who we invited to our Christmas celebration did not come. Please continue to pray for my ministry here in the Northern mountain villages and pray that the believers may be strong in their faith. We had a great time with the young adults and children. They were so happy and did a dance. We gave them a gift. Thank you so much for the funds for the Christmas outreach. God bless you all\nWe invited some new young adults to the Christmas program. When I was sharing the Gospel they liked to hear it so much that they said \u0026ldquo;We are hearing the truth for the first time in our life. Thank you so much for telling us about Jesus.\u0026rdquo;\nThen I told them, \u0026ldquo;If you want, repent from your sins right now. God will forgive you and He will give you new life.\u0026rdquo;\nThey were so happy and said \u0026ldquo;We really want except Jesus in our lives.\u0026rdquo;\nThose brothers gave their lives to Jesus Christ. Please continue pray for these brothers. One of their names is Anand* and the other is Sunil*. Please continue to pray for these young people. God bless you all.\nI want thank you all who are praying for me and my ministry in the North. God bless you.\nPrayer Requests: Please continue to pray. We are living in the mountains. Now, in our state they are not allowing the Gospel. Please pray that God will open a door so that this anti-conversion law will soon be gone and that we will be able to share the Gospel in freedom. We started some home fellowships. Pray for these families. They are new in Christ, so please pray they will stay with their faith. Continue pray for those who are serving in the ministry here. A few days ago, a pastor got in trouble for working in one of the villages. He started a fellowship there and then the village people got angry. They tried to find out what mission the pastor is with. I also got a call from the police because they are finding out again where these things are happening. They want stop fellowships and churches. But we know that God is great. He can do anything. Pray that God will open their eyes so that they can see the truth. Please continue to pray for our ministry here and for the believers to stay strong in their faith Pray for our new building construction to be able to be finished soon. May God provide the funds for finishing the building work so that we can gather there for prayer for many activities. Pray for our safety when we share the Gospel. May God give us knowledge and wisdom so that many people can come in Christ. Continue to pray for village people who are priests. May God open their eyes so that they can come out from the darkness and see the light of the Gospel that can save their lives from sin. Thank you so much everyone who is praying for us. Thank you so much for your love in Christ. God bless you all. Thank you so much once again that you guys are helping us through ministry support and for your love.\nThank you so very much. God bless you all. Continue to pray for us.\n\nPastor 13*\n\\* Names have been changed or omitted for security reasons.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor13/pastor13/2023/01/08/hearing-the-truth-for-the-first-time/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHello. Jai Masih ki! (Praise the Lord!)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hope you are all doing well. Thank you for praying for me and for my ministry hear in the North. Thank you also for helping me through financial support. God bless you all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG20221229151524.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n    \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG20221229152745-300x175.jpg\"/\u003e \n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI hope you all had a great Christmas. We also celebrated Christmas out hear in the village. We invited people from all around and had a gathering in our new church building. We invited many people, but a lot of people did not come because now they are scared.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Hearing the Truth for the First Time"},{"content":"Pastor 13 was one of the four very first Christians in his entire language group. Soon after he became a Christian, he began sharing the Gospel with almost everyone he met. He attended and graduated from the School of Ministry, and armed with a strong knowledge of God’s Word, he returned to his home village to continue spreading the Gospel. God has amazingly blessed his ministry! He now travels from morning till late evening to pastor churches he started in 4 different villages.\n","permalink":"https://archive.sgwm.com/pastor13/pastor13/my-story/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePastor 13 was one of the four very first Christians in his entire language group. Soon after he became a Christian, he began sharing the Gospel with almost everyone he met. He attended and graduated from the School of Ministry, and armed with a strong knowledge of God’s Word, he returned to his home village to continue spreading the Gospel. God has amazingly blessed his ministry! He now travels from morning till late evening to pastor churches he started in 4 different villages.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"My Story"}]