We continue to work on improving on children homes facility. We are working on putting iron stairs in the Mahima children home. Foundation for house step(stairs)in first children has been almost completed. It will take another few months for the iron stairs(step)work to be finished.
Around 21 years back, I remember that we planted the seed of the gospel in Jitpur village with three families in Tarkeshower municipality northern part of Kathmandu. Around the same time, few other house fellowships started by other groups. There were very few believers those days. A few months back I was invited as a guest speaker in one of the local church for pastors meeting and Again, three weeks later, I was asked to speak on behalf of the Christians community to the local mayor and his team. Today there are around 65 churches in this area. It was such a blessing to meet different people from all sorts of society. It was encouraging what the Lord has done over the years. His kingdom is growing in the midst of the challenges. Thank you for praying for Nepal.
7 Souls are baptized today in downtown fellowship. Each of our local fellowships’ baptism is taking places all most every other week in this summer season. These little barrels are blessings. When there is will there is away.
Road to children home was opened 30+ years ago. Few people in the neighborhood always look at how to put trouble to a Christian organization. People in the village decided to move the road on our side 19 feet. There is a building standing in this property. We told them that it is private property and they can not just extend the road. They have not touched our boundaries yet. Please keep in your prayer that they will not affect us. They demand to take the road through our property. We are looking into a legal solution. Please keep in your prayers.
Christian community jointly celebrated Resurrection Sunday in different places in Kathmandu valley. Our believers and churches have joined rallies together with other evangelical churches in different parts of the city. Believers meet in the church and we all sing, praise, and worship the Lord as we walk toward peace really in the street. In the end, we all met in open ground and have praise and worship and short sermon and we all celebrate Jesus resurrection Sunday together. Once a year big event has been a common practice among the churches here for the last few years.
Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:11
What a wonderful time of the year to celebrate the birth of our savior and the Lord Jesus. Jesus is the Lord of this universe and He is the Lord of our lives. We hope that your heart will be delighted and find peace and joy worshiping and celebrating Him.
We would like to thank you for your encouragement, prayers, contributions this year. Thank you so much. May God bless you.
Thank you Pastor Mark and the abiding place families for all the Christmas gifts. Kids have been blessed from the both children homes, staff and elderly. It is great blessing for kids to receive pants,shirts, shoes, shirts and jackets. We want to thank you so much for making Christmas especial to all our kids and elderly. Children from children homes enjoyed wonderful Christmas! Every one had fun and good time. Children are cared and loved. Thank you each one of you for your Christmas contributions.
Thank you once again.
Thank you Mrs Kelly and the Perdido Bay United Methodist Preschool. An unexpected blessing for the kids arrived in Nepal this month from Pensacola. wonderful package for kids . It is always great joy for the kids at children home. Every one is super excited when new mail arrives. It always helps us extra when kids receive some thing new in mail. Lot of time, Mail can disappear in post office. Anyway, this time it reached to them.
Western world has lot of resources and some little things in the west can be great things for kids in Nepal. Thank you for thinking and sending. We really appreciate for your love and gifts. Thank you once again.
I talked to one of our student at CFA School of Ministry called Santosh Tomata who came from far west Nepal. He told me that he was only believer in his family. His family were against his decision about following Christ and he mentioned me that he was going to start new church in his unreached village. Once I heard this I really felt encouraging him with vision that he has received and backing him up. This was why we started to equip and train new people. Make that happen where each village have its own church. This is awesome way to raise church planters.
After the earthquake in 2015, we did not start a new semester because the children’s home was using facility where we ran our Bible College. We used to run 3 years course. We finally got started short-term school again in fall 2017. Our 24 students came from different parts of Nepal and closer from boarder of India and Tibet. Most of them were from different tribal groups who have their own languages, culture and traditions. Our instructors were most local pastors and leaders during this whole fall training.
Urmila B.K. decided to join the Bible School because she wanted to serve God and know Him better. She was the only believer in her family like Santosh and this was a bold step for her. She has completed her training. Her plan was to be a church planter and she is on her way back to her Village. Most of these students have a deep and genuine hunger to be equipped and know more from His word and know Him. Our students were first generation believers and did not have church background, since they normally came from Hindu or Buddhist backgrounds.
On 6 November, we rejoiced together at graduation to see them completing their training and go through graduation. It has been part of my heart. It always touches my heart when I see students from different languages; tribes and regions come to us. Enjoy seeing them grow and get discipled and go through the training, and see them graduated. Looking forward to see how God is going to use them and excited about the new CFABC school year in January 2018.
Some of the students turned to be our native missionaries we go along with them for long time. We try to support them to start the work and help them whatever way we can.
The president of Nepal, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, has signed the criminal offences bill on 17th of October, 2017. This article is going to focus on section 9 of the bill that has been passed. In this article, religious conversion has been described as being a criminal offence, including encouraging others to change religion, converting another person or professing to them one’s own religion with similar intentions or without any intentions. If found guilty, five years imprisonment and a penalty of fifty thousand is to be suffered by the offender. You can read more in this articles .