Sunday, February 9, 2020

Arunachal Pradesh!!


Hey family and friends,

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.

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.

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. 

Faith as small as a Mustard seed.

  Hey family and friends,   This month has been a very challenging month for me. My school and class are going great and smooth. They are ...