India

By the grace of God and through your generous support we are doing open-air meetings in the street, cottages, and in the upper rooms. From the bottom of our hearts we extend our thanks to you. I thank you very much for the wonderful charts, books and materials that you sent us. It is very, very much useful to teach our children and adults in our villages.

I believe you remember Arunachal Pradesh which I used to write to you about. It was closed door to the Gospel, no missionaries nor evangelists were allowed, but 16 years ago we started sending men to distribute our Love Packages literature in those areas. The Lord has worked miraculously and the Gospel of our Lord has penetrated deep into the hearts of the lost souls and turned the people from darkness to light. Praise the Lord. I just wanted to share with you this report. Last week an evangelist and some people from Arunachal Pradesh came to see me, and told me that a Holy Spirit revival was moving and sweeping over their state. They reported over 130 Churches have begun and are growing substantially even though it is still forbidden to evangelize or have any missions program. The church has become very strong and now they have come from underground to overground and are proclaiming the Gospel openly. The leaders have even decided to organize a state wide convention in December . Large numbers of believers are expected to attend. I haven’t written much detail, but wanted to remind you that because of your sacrifice of sending me so much literature and Bibles to distribute, that these regions are now being saved. Thanks. It was the literature that opened the door.

The Spirit of the Lord is moving especially in the hearts of the higher authorities of government, also the politicians / public leaders, with this encouragement the churches are organizing the convention.

The purpose of this writing is to just say hello and to tell you how God has blessed the people through Love Packages Ministries. The Lord Jesus Christ has confirmed His Word with miracles, deliverance from depression and from the power of satan, as well as healing many sick people. We rejoice when letters come to us with testimonies of God’s marvelous healing and deliverance. The people carefully keep the literatrure and re-read it many times. God is using this literature for spiritual help and encouragement in countless areas and regions in this part of the world. We receive many requests for more literature. The message of love, mercy, deliverance, and healing are the most important and the people need to know them. Thank God for the privelge of sharing the message of God’s love and concern with the peoples. Missionaries and pastors have recognized the effectivenness of literature as many lives have been touched by the words of God.
God bless you brother.

God has blessed us with many more lost souls. I from time to time baptize Hindu’s who have been converted and I present them with a Bible. I am so thankful to you for these Bibles which I have received. I have nothing to give you but my prayers.

Thank you very much for another 2 packages received last week. Since we began the literature ministry there has been someone somewhere getting saved. Thousands have come to the Lord and tens of thousands have received a witness through Love Packages literature. The first week of August, 3 brothers came to us and gave us testimony of how they gave their lives to Christ because of our literature. All were from a Hindu background. One gave a wonderful testimony. According to him he became paralyzed because of a spinal-cord injury. He was treated by many doctors but continued to get worse. He wanted to take his own life but was unable because of the paralysis. One day his uncle came to visit him. His uncle had been blind for two years, so he was surprised to see him healed.

The uncle said I heard about your accident and have come to tell you there is a way to be healed. I heard a man preaching about Jesus and I prayed to Him and was healed, so I want you to believe in Jesus. The uncle gave him a tract but he would not believe or even read it,even though he kept it. He said my father is a Hindu, I am a Hindu. and my mother is completely against Christianity, but on seeing him suffer, his father told him to try believing on Jesus. That night he read the tract. It said. "Come to me all you who are weary and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," After reading the tract he started to pray and promised to give his life to Christ if He would heal him. Suddenly he felt like a electric shock from head to toe and he was healed. Now he is traveling all over the country telling that Jesus is saviour and is alive. All of his family have also become believers. I just wanted to write because the effectiveness of literature is tremendous. If this small tract had not been given to this young man, I believe he would still be in bed or dead. But praise God a small piece of literature has saved him and all his family.

Again this last week, three groups of believers came to collect literature and Bibles. One group came from Nepal, and two groups came from Burma. Those packages, which I received from you last time, I divided into 3 and gave them so that they will not return empty. God is so wonderful I have not had to turn any one away without giving them some thing they need. Especially the people with hope, they walked together for months just to get some Bibles. The Lord is still opening the door for the literatures to go through into far away places reaching up to China and many areas of Burma and even Nepal and around the regions of north India too. Thank you for continuing to supply us with the Love Packages so that many needy were blessed through the packages.

We, the students and teachers of Faith Bible Institute, are very much thankful to you for sending the Love Packages. We would like to express our gratitude to you, especially for the Matthew Henry commentary. These are the only books we have for reference and study.

I am serving in this Maranatha Church as a Sunday school teacher. I thank God for the wonderful book which you sent to our Pastor, the book called Elementary Teacher's guide and Basic Training Elementary, 3rd, 4th graders Lifeway book. I am really enjoying very much in reading and teaching to the Sunday school children through the book, which you sent. As I was reading the Elementary Teacher's guide, my heart was touched by the message that all students need to apply the bible to their lives and I need to reach everyone I teach. As I was teaching lesson 2 about Jesus' sacrifice and memory words a few children began to cry and accepted Jesus as their God as they were hearing about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Through our Sunday school ministry, now 150 children are attending Sunday Schools in three different places. Right now we have 8 Sunday School teachers., therefore we need a lot of materials, books, etc. We are praying for you and your ministry.

In the first week of this month, a group of believers from the border of Burma came to me and collected as much as they could carry - Bibles and literature. According to them the Sunday School childrens are growing so much and they need more childs evangelism materials. Since I don’t have much materials at present I collected some old materials from our Sunday School teacher and give them with a promise to keep for them whenever I receive from the Love Package. Also our youths were conducting Evangelistic Crusade during holiday season in West Bengal and Bhutan border. They distributed many tract and give out some bible to the new converted, many heathens came to see what kind of religion this people preaching and called the sick to come for prayer, one old man came in and he was brought by his family member because he could not walk for 7 months, and the Lord confirmed His words and healed that man and he gave his heart to the Lord, many people were amazed of the wonderful miraculous healing of the lame. After this miracle many people come for healing and deliverance. The Lord healed many more and delivered them that were bound by the power of satan. I am so thankful to you for your love and concerned which give us the literatures which is the most importance tools for the outreaching ministry.

We are starting our film show and last month we showed in two places. It is very satisfying to see so many people are watching and listening and most of the watchers have never heard or know about the story of Jesus. It is the first, and for many it might be they never have a chance to hear or to see again. It is my desired that film show is not for entertainment, but for reaching the unreached with the gospel of Jesus Christ with literatures, since I have very little literature I could not give to all but to fews. If we could give them literatures or pamphlets people who have seen or heard are made easy to understand or they could study further of what they have seen and heard. Our message would have effect and remind them of the message for the days to come and not for just that moment. I need literatures when we showing film for this is an opportunity of spreading the gospel of Salvation. Though there is so much opposition and allegation against us as Christians in our country, but the Lord is blessing our works with more souls, in last month - 14 people were baptized and this month - 8 were baptized and are from Hindu background. Recently one muslim came to my house and request bible as he tell me that he have accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour and had baptized last July he wanted to read the bible but he could not afford to buy, so I give him one. I have sent all the bibles which I received from you to our workers in Bhutan border and to the newly born in the Kingdom of God, also I have sent to the pastor who requested for bible. I am grateful to you for your continual supplied me with the Love Package which it made available to the needy who so desired to read God words.