Great news from Bidar

It was such a faith building trip that I had recently to Bidar. In the past whenever I visited Bidar, there were some Mission Team members still remaining there. But this time there was none except Philip and Pramila who are leading the Church now.

But to my amazement, the young Christians are risen up to take up all responsibilities in the Church so well that the Church is moving ahead with new spirit and zeal.

For the first time leaders were appointed there. 5 women and 5 men Assistant Family Group leaders were appointed. The Church was very encouraged to see this wonderful event.

The Church had organised an invitation service with just one week notice. There was no invitation cards at all! But the Christians were so fired up to share their faith and make every effort to bring their family members and friends.

Ashok and Vinodha just got baptised last month. They brought more than 10 of their family members. Most of them came from far away places - even from neighbouring state Andhra Pradesh.

Ruth is a young girl who is from a village called Kamtan and she has been coming and studying the Bible for a couple of weeks. She brought more than 10 of her friends from her village who were very eager to know Jesus.

There were more than 100 adults to attend the service making the hall packed with people!

It was a challenging time for the Church as there is no Hall to meet regularly. But in this crisis time, Joshua who is a young Christian and his family opened their house for the whole Church to meet together on Sundays, and for mid week meetings. I was amazed at the generosity of that family.

Newly Appointed Leaders: Akash, Santhosh, Swamidas, Basava & Arun

Newly Appointed Leaders: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Martha, Santha & Jayasree

Singles Retreat

The All India Campus and Youth Ministry Conference was an inspiring event. Much beyond our expectations! It was energetic, electric and life impacting for all those who came.

It was inspiring to see the response of the disciples. It gave me a greater vision for the church. It was great to see so many good young people have been baptised in the last few years. It was great to see their faith, their love, their talent level etc. Everything was so awesome.

Some Responses:

I am personally so grateful to you for organizing the singles conference in an awesome way, sacrificing your sleep and comfort and constantly thinking and praying for this cause. All the messages were mighty inspiring and the fellowship and fun were head spinning. Well, in chennai singles are on fire and every evenings for them are fishing times(Evangelism and teaching the Bible). I was super excited to know that next year the singles coference is going to be in Chennai. Thanks for making everyone special through this conference and lets keep the heat towards saving souls and in inspiring the singles to do the same.

Renoj - Chennai