If you’ve ever been to India or Nepal on a missions trip, it will come as no surprise to you that it is wonderfully difficult. The last couple weeks of November, Ps Jim Newton and Ps David Pearce spent two weeks traipsing around India and Nepal, visiting orphanages, preaching in churches, holding AFCM meetings for the newly established AFCM India and working to make contacts to set up AFCM Nepal.
The men were able to visit three orphanages, Living Word Fellowship Orphanage, Freedom Orphanage and Love Your Neighbor as Yourself Orphanage.
“The orphanage is important,” Ps Jim said, “because they take kids who have lost parents and give them stability, salvation, the Word, hope and a future for life, which they wouldn’t have had otherwise.”
At the orphanage Ps Jim and David were able to pray with the children, share the word with them and encourage them in their pursuits of God and holiness. Many of them were able to practice their English as they talked with Ps Jim and David. They shared their visions of what they wanted to do with their lives and the things they felt the Lord was showing them.
One afternoon Ps Jim and David took the children to the beach to have a play.
“It was important to take them to the beach because it was where they wanted to go,” Ps Jim said. “When they do something different it adds something to their life. And it’s important for the children to know that Living Word cares for them, not just their day to day living but also that they can have fun together.”
At Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, and all-girls orphanage, the children learn to sing songs and do skits in English. They know about 200 songs and skits. The often go out to the streets, shopping centres and other public places to reach out to the community and to evangelize. People see them and want to know who they are and where they come from and that gives them the opportunity to be a witness.
Currently, Freedom Orphanage has 6 orphans who are not sponsored. If you would like to help them, visit our
giving page and specify orphan sponsorship.
One of the pastors who’d had Ps Jim minister on a previous trip was so determined to have him there again that when Ps Jim wasn’t able to fit the pastor’s church in on Sunday, the pastor decided to hold a Saturday evening meeting. The worship at the service was passionate. Ps Jim preached about Bartimaeus and how Jesus had asked him “What is it you want?” Ps Jim asked the people in attendance what they wanted from the Lord. He told them to stand up, lift their hands and tell the Lord what they wanted. He found out later that many of them had never told the Lord what they wanted before. At the end of the service, they asked anyone who felt they had received healing or a miracle to come to the front and testify. Only four of them were able to share before they ran out of time. The next morning at church, the pastor asked for testimonies the night before, and there were so many that he wasn’t even able to preach – it took up the whole morning service!
Praying for the Nations
Translation of AFCM International Training Centre into Indian dialects is currently underway. Pray that this would continue smoothly so that we can get the Bible school into the people’s hands as soon as possible.
Pray also that connections will continue to be made with pastors and ministers in Nepal and other countries nearby. One of AFCM’s goals in India is to encourage the Christians there to take the Gospel to surrounding nations.
Pray that God gives supernatural direction to those who are working with the Buddhists in India, Nepal and other nearby countries. While on the trip to India, Ps Jim met a girl who attends a Christian school and even sang songs about Jesus and how He had risen from the dead and is the Son of God. “But,” she said, “I am Tibetan and my Tibetan religion (Buddhism) must come first.”
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