A few weeks ago, after I had prayed for some time, I talked about Nepal with Manny III, and mentioned it also to our ministry board. I sensed that the time was ripe and the time was NOW. This was my message: “I think we have reached the moment. We need to start on Nepal now. I am making plans to go, start, and get going.”
Two hours later, Manny III brought phenomenal news: “I just heard from a church in Birmingham. They’ve committed the initial funds. They said, ‘Go start in Nepal already!’”
As our plans for Nepal came to light in our meetings, I felt Nepal’s beautiful potential was the best news of my whole week. But from the perspective of the church-planters and national leaders at our conference, it’s the best news in decades.
One of the goals is to launch education and feeding programs to express the love of the Lord. The few Christian pastors in Nepal have struggled to get people to give up on their sterile religions and their faith in millions of gods. But these same pastors have now told me, again and again: If we launch this ministry strategy, the parents will be the ones sending their children! They will see the great worth of what is being offered, and they will not want their kids to miss out on it.
Response to our “Evangelism Through Education” strategy (ETE) was so powerful I called Dr. Sam in India, our partner who founded ETE in India, and told him everything I was witnessing in Nepal. Sam was astounded that I was in “next-door” Nepal. “If I had known you were so close,” he exclaimed, “I would have flown up there to be with you!” (Sam has a “day job” as professor of English literature in a university. I assumed he couldn’t get time off.)
So, at lightning speed, arrangements and connections have been made. Sam will come to Nepal and help to teach our “Bible Training Center for Pastors” curriculum (BTCP). He’ll serve as consultant for Evangelism Through Education in Nepal.
We can now believe God for miracles in Nepal like we’ve already witnessed in India. . . .
Sam remembers how God started us in India with 50 kids in Education through Evangelism (ETE)—now there are 500 kids in the program. We’re training 100 church-planters in BTCP. This summer, 300 teachers will minister to 5,000 kids in VBS.
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