Saturday, October 11, 2008

W.O.N. SEPTEMBER REPORT

WON CHURCHES:
It is very painful to hear of the happenings in Orissa and Karnataka states, India, more or less a repetition of December 2007. Christians and Christian institutions have been the target of Hindu fundamentalists. This triggered violence took place across the above said states. Pastors, Churches, nuns and Christian families have been attacked. Extensive damage to property, houses, offices, vehicles, churches destroyed, damaged or burnt to ashes. Affected many Christians have fled to the nearby forests. Our WON Pastor John maji (ECBC formal graduate) who got involved in church planting work at Gajapati district, Orissa and WON Pastors Mohan Singh and Leemasar (ECBC formal graduates) who are working at Jagadalpur, Chattishgardh and their congregations are in safe and just few days back they returned to the home from the forests. We thank God for the persecution and we do not fear for our lives because we are the Bible believing and theo centered Christians and we know that we are living in the days where the word of God is coming in to the fulfillment. Through persecution we are going to see growth of Christianity at Orissa and also the prophetic word is going to come in true I.e, 50% of population of Orissa is going to be the Christians in further days. The history of early church is going to be repeated again and thank God for Christians in India and all around the world comes on knees after hearing this news and revival took place among the Christians.
WON Churches in Andhra Pradesh are growing in faith, Prayer, love and also in number. God enabled us to pioneer one more congregation in Ratnagiri village, West Godavari Dt. By faith we are planning to fix the asbestos sheets roof with the walls around. Believers have come forward with some little offering and we are praying and seeking Gods help to match up to finish the roof and wall work along with flooring and also we are very much happy and excited to see WON Church new building at Chodavaram village is going to be dedicated for the glory of God in the upcoming days. As Rev. Malcolm says often THINK BIG BECAUSE OUR GOD IS BIG so we are in that job thinking and working big by faith for the expansion of the Gods kingdom.

EAST COAST BIBLE COLLEGE:
5th Sep had been declared as TEACHERS DAY in India so our students organized programme to facilitate the faculty of ECBC for their sacrificial service in equipping the lives of the students with the help of the Holy Spirit.
As some one said,
AVERAGE TEACHER TEACHES
GOOD TEACHER EXPLAINS
MODEL TEACHER DEMONSTARTES
REAL TEACHER INSPIRES
Who can say that some one is real or greater in life and in teaching than Jesus (Matt 22:16). He is a great teacher who inspires and put the heavenly knowledge in each and every one in spite of caste, color and creed. We trust the student would cultivate the nature of thanks giving from these good practices. Students are also bit busy in doing the arrangements for the upcoming Gospel meetings in school grounds at Rajamundry and H. junction and medical camps in various remote and tribal villages. We believe that these crusades are going to bring great impact up on Christian lives and also bring thousands in to the knowledge of Christ. It is a good practical work for students to grasp some knowledge on organizing things and setting up the things through these programmes and also they do learn the administration skills and also strategic planning in their Christian Leadership.

EAST COAST CHILDREN HOME:
Kids had finished their quarterly academic year examinations and now they are having monsoon break. Most of the students scored good marks at the school and the credit goes to Sis Bharati and Bro Madhu who is the WON central church members voluntarily came to organize study hours for the ECCH kids. We do also thank God for some trained teachers from ECBC teaching the Bible stories and songs to the Kids. ECCH is a place where the kids are receiving the spiritual and physical nourishment in abundance.

WON VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER:
During the short period of time students learned many skilled works and also found the joy, peace and hope in their lives by listening the infallible word of God. Our aim is to see our girls should grow in faith and be a great help to their families and churches. Let these girls may realize that they are victorious through Jesus Christ

Glory and I take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for standing with us for a noble cause.
Please pray fervently about the WON INDIA ministries and the related projects.


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