Sunday, March 15, 2009

W.O.N. FEBRUARY REPORT

WON CHURCHES:
Praise the Lord God of Israel who is worthy of our praises! Amen….
We all know about the brutal & un – merciful attacks on Christians in the State of Orissa and in other places. It is very heartening to know that this riot is regarded as the worst riot in the history of India, on the Christians. WON came forward with a great concern towards them. We all also remember and prayed for our Pastor John Maji and his congregation. Who is working for WON in Orissa and also other Christians!
God answer our prayers & by His grace, He has given us the opportunity to visit Orissa and to care for them and to tell them that Joy of the Lord is our strength and the Lord is there in times of their pain & in needs. On 23rd Feb 2009 With 15 WON members as a team traveled to Orissa and reached very remote, tribal, thick forest area where the people set up their livelihood in 60 villages on that hill areas.
Jargiduva is village which is 250km faraway from Rayagada town, Orissa state. Still there are many villages which are un noticed, un- cared, un- reached and neglected by the government and still in dark & dangerous with no transport facilities.
From Rayagada to this village there is no Bus facility. We tried for the private Vehicle. But no one dared to come to that place. And even some people advised us not to go to this place – as it is very dangerous place, un safe to travel and mainly this place is full with naxales (Terrorist groups ), harmful beasts and is very thick remote forest area.
The only thing we did is we all prayed to God that we want to reach that place and to show our concern to them. At last on 24th Feb 09, at 6:00pm, we hired vehicle by paying more and started traveling all the night.
On our way to this place we have seen tribal people hosting tribal feast, worshiping huge idols.
The next day, we reached Jargiduva our destination place; it’s the place where, one of WON Pastor John Maji doing the Lord’s work.
In the morning of that day, our WON Pastor John Maji and all the people from 10 near by villages gathered in praising & worshiping God in singing & dancing in their own tribal customs and traditions.
They welcomed us by garlanding with flowers which are especially found their place and took us to the meeting was arranged under the Mango tree.
I have shared the word of God, which moved the hearts of many people and touched by the Holy Spirit and 50 people accepted Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, glory to His Wonderful Name.
After the worship WON Pastors distributed Rice, Blankets, Collected things which are collected by them from their local congregations, to the tribal. Latter with financial support given by the WON Team, we arranged Love feast given delicious food shared greetings and Fellowship with each other in bestowing Christ’s Love for one anther.
Pastor John Maji told us about few Orphan kids and brought them to us. We have taken the burden by faith to care such kids taken them into our EAST COAST CHILDREN HOME
By God’s grace, we completed our Christian service and relief WON Mission Camp by bringing smiles in their faces. We traveled through High places Valleys, Thick forest areas and Mountain slopes and reached Rayagada at 10 pm on 25th Feb 2009. That night we all camped at Rayagada. The next day all the WON Team especially prayed for the Victims of Orissa, till evening traveled back to our place & reach Eluru on 27th Feb .09. We praise and thank God and also each one of our beloved friends who strengthened, encouraged, prayed and supported us for a very fruitful, successful, prayerful & memorable safe Mission Relief Christian Camp in Orissa for His Glory. This mission trip has been great encouragement to all our WON Pastors and they all are encouraged a lot and extended the heartfelt thanks for what they are by the Gods grace.
Please pray that God will supply the needs of the congregation and Pastor over there such as Church building bicycle and etc.

EAST COAST BIBLE COLLEGE:
Students are filled with the power of God and walking in the authority of God. There is a student name Paul Raju from 1st year at our college fell sick and found he has been suffering from typhoid fever and arthritis problem. Doctors examined him and said that at least 3 months of time will be taken for him to walk and get well to the normal condition. He was taken by his parents to his village but the students and WON INDIA family did not believe the doctors report and with one accord and one heart we have started to claim the promises of God and after a week we have got phone call from him that Paul Raju was healed and got back to normal condition in his health. Now he is back to college and doing his second semester final examinations. Praise God for the mighty touch of God and we do thank the Lord for leading us in the authority of God. All the students are taking their final examinations and graduation batch are so excited to get in to the mission field and work for the Gods kingdom. We are very much delighted to commission the 5th graduation batch from ECBC. Our prayer and song is that India shall be saved and stand as a worthy in front of the throne of grace.

EAST COAST CHILDREN HOME:
Kids are having exciting time since the summer vacation is getting closer so all of them are busy in preparing for their final examinations. After the examinations all of them are going to be promoted to the higher classes. By faith we wanted to take 20 orphans from different villages of AP and already have taken 10 orphans from Orissa state though the language is different which we speak by providing English medium education make them feel good their stay at ECCH. We do have desire that wanted to provide English medium education to all the elementary kids and we do also praying to start English medium school at our WON campus where 20 village kids can be benefited by doing their studies in English medium. Kids’ study at English medium school is impossible thing and it is unfulfilled desire for the villagers so we wanted to take a step of faith to start a English medium school to give quality education in a reasonable mode. We have started praying for the new school building and other buildings to be constructed at WON campus so please join with us in prayer agreement. If God leads you to be part in this blessed event just respond accordingly and be a part in the History makers team.

WON VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER:
We do thank the Lord for His grace to take up 3rd batch of girl students to train them in Vocational courses. Our passion is to see the Indian girls should utilize their rights and live the life in the fullest with the men equally. Most of the formal students testified how they have found the hope in their lives during their stay at WON VTC. We thank the Lord for the living testimonies, our desire is to train up the young girls so that they can find salvation to have eternal life and find soup and soap in their lives to live by their own on the space of the earth. Applications are still coming to our office but due to lack of many computers and sewing machines we are not able to consider more applications so join with us in illuminating the young girl lives by joining with our vision by meeting the need of computers and sewing at WON VTC.
Thank you for being History makers by joining with the vision and mission of WON ministries. Your prayerful support is always a great encouragement for us.
God be with us forever.
Thanking you
In His Mission
Jeevan & Glory