July 12, 2013
Dear praying friends, thank you for your kindnesses and prayers on our behalf, as always. Know that you, also, are continually being named before our Father’s throne.
We made it safely back to India last week,
right on schedule, and we are very happy to report that we got our new 10-year
visas while we were in the USA. We tried
them out for the first time upon re-entering India, and they appear to work
just fine! Thank the Lord for answers to
prayer!
Since our last letter, the ministry in
India continued as before. I feel very
privileged to instruct men who are in the ministry concerning the things of our
Lord Jesus Christ. It was thrilling to
give a two-days’ seminar on The Life Of Christ, and one day, each, to The
Pentateuch and the Book of Psalms. Then,
during a 3½ week period in April, I was able to conduct a complete semester’s
worth of teaching on Pastoral Theology.
Let the Word of God inform the minds of everyone doing the Gospel
ministry!
Outside of Hyderabad, I traveled to two
rural places, to teach two separate batches of pastors over a three day
period. In the first place I also spoke
in a local assembly one day. The topics
were Ephesians 4.11-16 (Leadership, Fellowship, Ministry), for the pastors, and
II Timothy 2.8, Amos 4.13 and a seminar on important doctrines covering Luther,
Justification, Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sabbath, Intermediate State,
Resurrection of the Dead, Eternal Punishment.
(Some cults have been hindering the ministry of the true Gospel in that
locality for a number of years.) For the
second batch of pastors, in the second location, I taught a one day seminar on
the Doctrine of Salvation.
Then in the last couple of days prior to
packing our suitcases to make our two-month trip to the USA, I traveled to one
town to teach for two days in a local assembly.
The six topics I spoke on were 1) The Inspiration, Authority and
Interpretation of Scripture; 2) Galatians chapter 2, Justification By Faith,
with a full explanation of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness; 3) True Christian
Fellowship, by means of fulfilling the “One Another” Commandments; 4) I
Corinthians 1.17, Baptism and The Gospel; 5) I Timothy 3.14-16, What Are Our
Sunday Assemblies All About?; 6) Amos 4.12b-13, Prepare To Meet Thy God.
There were also a few days for tracting,
and I met certain men for special times of fellowship, encouragement and
mentoring on ten other occasions.
Please Pray:
Please Pray:
- That we would remain healthy and safe.
- That our Lord would open up our eyes to the many opportunities around us for presenting the true Gospel to the non-christians, and motivate us with all the motivation of Him who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- For our daughter Mary, and her sweet family, to complete their own deputation process so that they may be able to depart from the USA for language training by the middle of August, and to their field in Africa by January.
