New Visa

Blessings!

And thank you so much for praying for us! 

The Lord has answered your and our prayers by allowing us to get new Indian visas just this month.  Now we are looking forward to putting these to use right away, and hope to fill up the second half of this year with even more of the same Gospel ministry outreaches that we’ve been privileged to do in the past few years.  These include training pastors, encouraging loc al assemblies, doing children’s ministries and evangelism.  Please do keep on praying for the Lord to graciously give us wisdom, courage, moral Christlikeness, health and lots of opportunities.  Our return to India is set for July 2^nd, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the States

We arrived in the States this past Friday.  Right now, we are in South Florida. 

-- Because we are in India under a tourist visa we are only allowed to stay 6 months at a time.  
-- In January our 10 year tourist visa for India expires.
-- Today we mailed our new Indian tourist visa applications to the embassy.

We'll be in the states for two months.  We have plans to be in Chattanooga; Greenville, SC, parts of NC and Washington DC.

Adilabad

Stephen just came back from two days of teaching the Word of God in another district.  He drove this time, and says the National Highway is looking good, though maybe not quite worth the amount they are charging for tolls!

The dear brother who invited him ably interpreted his messages into Telugu.  About a hundred of the Lord’s people patiently listened.  In the two days, there were a total of six sessions, normally up to two hours apiece.

The six topics were:

The Inspiration, Authority and Interpretation of Scripture

Galatians chapter 2, Justification By Faith, with a full explanation of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness

True Christian Fellowship, by means of fulfilling the “One Another” Commandments

I Corinthians 1.17, Baptism and The Gospel

I Timothy 3.14-16, What Are Our Sunday Assemblies All About?

Amos 4.12b-13, Prepare To Meet Thy God

Hopefully, the peoples’ lives will be changed through listening to the Word of God in the Gospel.  They are already inviting both of us to come next time, later this year.

VBS day 4

This morning was our closing ceremony for vacation Bible school.  I believe we had about 50 of the children in attendance.  After the service each child received a small bag of spicy chips and either a pencil or pen.  The children were very pleased to receive their gifts.

 Singing some Telugu songs

 They sang some of the new songs that they learned this week.

 Reviewing the lessons from the past three days

 Stephen giving a summary of the 'I Am's" in the gospel of John.

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After the ceremony, we shifted over to another location for the morning worship service.

VBS day 3

Tonight was the last night of VBS and we had a great time.  We had about 60 children plus some adults too.  Plus we had adults listening in on the nearby rooftops.  We were meeting on the roof of a three story building.  Tomorrow morning is our closing ceremony and we are praying for many of the parents to attend.

Day 1  - I am the Bread of Life

Day 2 -  I am the Resurrection and the Life

Day 3 -  I am the Light of the World

 leading the songs

 listening to some memory verses

 A short puppet skit - "Jesus the Good Shepherd"

 

  

day 2 VBS

Day 2 at the VBS was truly a blessing.  I felt that I was able to present the gospel in a very clear and simple manner.

 stephanie helping me with the mic so I could use two hands

VBS day 1

I have been invited to hold a VBS in the village of Annaram.  We expected 35 children and had 51 our first evening.  We are teaching three lessons from the New Testament.
Tonight was "I am the Bread of Life" with the story of the feeding of the 5000 from John 6

Please join me in praying for these children, many who are Hindus.