Hey family and friends,
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| Arunachal Pradesh |
This month has been
such a blessing for my team and me. We were able to see and experience God
during our ministry. In my previous blog we were in Mizoram for three weeks.
This month we traveled to Arunachal Pradesh and did ministry for three weeks
with Annu and her ywam team. We left Mizoram on January 14th, stayed in Guwahati for a day and then left
for Arunachal on the 16th. We
reached on the 17th morning and spent three weeks with the ywam team
in Naharlagun. Some of the ministries that we did were school ministry,
children ministry, open air/street ministry, church ministry, house visiting,
prayer walks and house fellowship.
The first week of
our stay in Naharlagun we did ministry in a small school of kindergarten and
nursery kids. We taught songs, told stories, played games with them and also
taught classes. I was a teacher for the upper kindergarten kids. I had a class
of 14 kids. In the evenings we did house visiting in our village area. The next
week we went on prayer walks to Itanagar, a lot of mandirs( hindu temples) and
also monasteries. On our last week we did open air/ street ministry in
different areas of Naharlagun. In the open air ministry we got to minister to
Muslim women and their kids. I believe that the Lord went ahead of us and
actually prepared the way for us and brought the right people because
previously there were other teams who tried to minister to them but they
weren’t open to them. But when we did, they willingly sent their kids and also
came forward for prayer. We also got to have fellowship with the new born
Buddhist people. We were able to worship and encourage them to stand firm in
faith and also to spread the gospel to their families and friends. We got to
pray for them. It was a beautiful experience.
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| School ministry!! |
In the beginning of
our outreach we started with a lot of misunderstandings among my students and
me. We had a lot of issues with certain students and some were even on the
verge of going back home. I knew that we couldn’t do ministry with so much
disunity and misunderstandings. So we had a long team meeting where everyone
got to share their problems and clear all misunderstandings. We prayed for each
other, learned to forgive one another and love one another. It has been three
weeks now and I can say that my team has improved drastically!!! We’ve learned
to get along with one another, communicate better, not just tolerate one
another but understand and love one another. Our unity is so much stronger now
and because of that I believe we were able to do our outreach successfully.
Some of the things that really helped for us as a team are worshiping
together, having regular meetings, sharing what God’s been teaching each one of
us that week during ministry and from one another and praying together. The
Lord has been having so much grace and favor upon us as a team and me
especially as a leader. I believe my family and friends’ prayers are not in
vain. I want to thank God for his faithfulness and goodness.
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| Prayer walk in a monastery. |
Some of the prayer
points are:
1.
Please pray that we would not grow weary of
doing good and continue to do ministry with the same energy that we started
with in the beginning.
2.
Please pray that we would not become complacent
and apathetic but would finish this race,
stronger than we started.
3.
Please pray that we would stay united till the
end of our outreach.
4.
As our time is nearing the end, please pray that
God would show me what’s next for me and for direction and guidance.
