posted by Heidinger
April 14, 2008 on 4:53 pm | In letters | No Comments
Greetings from Kilchzimmer!
Thank you so much for your support and your prayers for me and my ministry here in Europe. Tomorrow I will be sharing with the three ladies to take over leadership of the education department for Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
They are having a epriod of orientation right now and I will be sharing about the work of Institute Supervisor with them - I have to think a bit out of the box as other Institutes are organized a bit differently as they are not at Kilchzimmer and do not have the same staff present.
In His care,
Martha G Heidinger
posted by Czeslaw and Helen Bassara
April 8, 2008 on 5:47 am | In letters | No Comments
Dear Friends,
Greetings from our village of Piasek, Poland.
Yesterday my oldest brother Tadeusz went to be with the Lord. He was 68 and his funeral will take place on Tuesday. Tomorrow we will go 727 kilometers by car to reach the town of Kolobrzeg where he lived in the north of Poland. Please pray for the funeral message I am to give. Tadeusz received the Lord 50 years ago and left his four adult children. Pray for his wife and for the families of his children.
Thank you for praying for my visit in Germany last weekend. It was so good to spend time with Sebastian and Georgina and their support team. They continue the ministry in Central Europe after we left it last year. God is blessing them richly. I also preached the Word in their church near Passau, Germany.
Yesterday I preached at the wedding of Michal and Ewelina in the church in our village in Poland. Today in the morning I preached again in the same church.
Today in the evening we took part in the ProChrist Evangelistic Meeting with Ulrich Parzany, Those meetings take place in the biggest sport center in Katowice, south of Poland. We saw hundreds of people declaring that they want to receive the Lord. During those meeting until next Sunday Konrad our son in law is having an exhibition of the CEF literature.
Next Friday I plan to go to Kyrgyzstan where I will be teaching the Epistle to Galatians during the CEF Leadership Training Institute. We have 18 students from 7 countries in Central Asia and Caucasus. Pray that God will use me to encourage each of them. While in Kyrgyzstan I will also be preaching in Kyrgyz and Russian churches.
Pray for my preparations for the visit to USA in the end of April and the beginning of May. I will be sharing God’s Word with the CEF Regional Directors in Asheville. What a privilege and responsibility. Pray that I will be able to encourage them. Together with my son Bogdan I will also take part in the CEF International Conference. It will also be my joy to visit some of our friends and churches there.
On May 18 I will be preaching in Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and later in May I plan to go to the Ukraine and Hungary.
Please, continue to pray for our daughter Dorota as she will become a mother very soon! Thank you again for praying for us!
In Him
Czeslaw and Helena Bassara
posted by Rasamoelina
April 8, 2008 on 5:37 am | In letters | No Comments
Hello,
I have gathered 5 christian basketball coaches who have in their hearts sports evangelism. We had two meetings in which we are convinced to organize an Evangelistic Basketball Tournament; most of the top basketball players in Mada are not reached by the Gospel, so our goal is to reach them. There are 12 teams of top players who will participate. The tournament will start on April 19th 2008, we will invited a top christian singer/star to perform; many churches and christian organizations are mobilized to pray for it as well. I will give to them spiritual insights and Sports Evangelism training and also to the christian young people who will assist us.
Please pray for the evangelism we will do so that the Lord open their heart, so that the Holy Spirit works in the organization, and so that the Lord will provide the budget of $3,000.
The second thing I ask you is the email address of John Berger [Kathy, perhaps you can send this to Njaka?].
Two weeks ago I went to the poor people village where we did the social action to follow up with them. Five families have been visited and they said that they are thirsty for God’s Words; they said that there is no one willing to come to them because their village is classified as one of the poorest. Their need is Bible. As Grant Faubion said suggested sending Gideon Bibles, I thought it important to mention that they would need to be in Malagasy, because the people cannot speak French nor English. (Not sure if Gideon’s publish in Malagasy.)
blessings
Njaka
posted by Gupta
April 6, 2008 on 4:57 pm | In letters | No Comments
Dear Friends,
It is so amazing how God opens doors for the ministries of Hindustan Bible Institute to bring the good news of the Gospel to the unreached people of India especially to the young children.
Just in the last 11 months, God gave us opportunity to minister to 127,934 children1. Praise the Lord!
As I was preparing my Annual Report, I realized that God is bringing to our attention that we should be focused and investing on discipling the emerging generation so that a healthy, transformational Church and Nation can be built according to God’s good, acceptable and perfect will. It was so encouraging to read the testimonies of these young ones who gave their lives to Jesus.
I want to share a few of them so you will rejoice with us knowing your investment is making a great difference in the lives of these young children.
I am Suguna from a Hindu family. We used to worship the goddess Mariyammal. One day my friends invited me to attend Sunday school. I went there because at the end of the program they give candy. When I went there, their singing, story telling, and the way they prayed for people, really amazed me. From then on I regularly attended the Sunday school. One day my mother fell ill and was suffering from high temperature. At that moment, I remembered a memory verse that I learned in my Sunday school. “…call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me”. Trusting on His word I prayed to God to heal my mother and God heard my prayer and my mother was immediately healed. I shared with my family how Jesus answered our prayers and invited them to attend worship services. Now as a family we are worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ!
Ganesh, another child coming from a staunch Hindu family says,
My father is a Lorry driver and an alcoholic. He used to spend all his money in alcohol, so my mother goes for daily wage to feed us. There was no one to teach me or help with my school work. So I started to attend Child Development centre regularly for many years.
One day I shared my family situation with my Teacher and the Pastor. They visited our home several times and prayed for us especially for my father. God delivered my father from the alcohol habit. The pastor started to disciple my father. Now we attend the church as a family and my father is taking care of our family so well. We are very happy that Jesus has done this miracle.
Friends, do you know 35% of India’s population is under the age of 15. Each one of them needs Jesus.
We have found out that every opportunity of sharing God’s value through the music and drama teams softens the hearts of children who express their desire to know more. After a period of resistance from the school, they finally yield to God’s work and open the door for a regular children’s club to disciple the children. As they grow in the faith they invite the children’s workers to start a prayer cell in their homes. This opens the door into the community to disciple the family and others through prayer cells. Praise the Lord!
We are truly thankful to the short term mission teams that come alongside us to minister in schools with their skills, abilities and giftedness. In many occasions they open the doors for us to enter into schools.
This year we had 8 children ministry short term teams and we ministered together in 45 schools, serving 40,080 children with variety programs such as skits, mime, drama and music.
If you would like to be part of what God is doing in the lives of children in India, you can come on a short term team either as a part of a music and drama team or as a children’s team to minister to these children in schools, orphanages, hostels and even in streets.
God is at work in India especially among children. Our goal for this year is to minister to over 150,000 children. We would like to invite you to be part of touching the lives some of these children. You can do it through several ways;
* You can pray regularly for our children ministry among school children, village children, Juvenile home children, street children and children in the orphanages.
* You can sign up to come on a short term team through your local church
* You can invest in supporting a child in the orphanage ($30 a month), a Sunday school center ($50 a month) or a child in the child development center ($20 a month). Designate your support to one of the above and make your check out to “HBI Global Partners” and mail it to
P.O. Box 584, Forest, VA 24551
. If you would like to do an online donation, log on to “www.globalpartners.org ”
* You can introduce the ministry to your friends and families to get involved in what the Lord is doing in India.
You can make a difference! Come be a part of what the Lord is doing!
I would like to hear from you. Write to me today! My email address is bgpt214@cs.com.
It is gratifying to know you follow along with the news of what God is doing in India through the ministries of HBI and we thank you for your continued support and prayers.
Praying for you and may the Lord bless you.
Your servant in the mission,
Dr. Paul (Bobby) Gupta
President
HBI Global partners
P.O. Box 584
Forest, VA 24551
Donate online: www.globalpartners.org
posted by Price
April 1, 2008 on 5:15 pm | In letters | No Comments
We’d appreciate prayer for Kirsten to be able to get her annual visa. Even though we are not in Bosnia at this time, our teammate handed in the paperwork we have in order to get the process going. This year is a very important one since it could qualify her to get a permanent (residence) visa next year. Please pray for favor with the officials who process this.
Please also pray for our teammate, Joy Hill, that she also can get her permanent (residence) visa early next year.
Thank you to each one who has asked how Daniel and Pamala are doing. They are doing very well! We’ve got some cute pictures of him on our blog (see below).
posted by Dmitrievsky
April 1, 2008 on 5:05 pm | In letters | No Comments
Our annual Planning Conferences with the Russian Baptist Union continue to play an important role in the national strategy “Advancing the Gospel in Russia”. This week we plan to have the 9th Conference in Saransk! This event helps to get organized for the upcoming short term mission trips in the summer.
You may remember, though, that we were supposed to hold the Conference on the first week of March. What happened then was that the Saransk Administration asked the hosting church to postpone the Conference. The reason for the request was the information that the pro-governmental youth movement called NASHI was going to piquet the Conference, block the entrance of the church and hinder the delegates entering the church. The local brothers made a wise decision to postpone the Conference, even though it meant that all 75+ participants had to return the tickets, change plans and stay home in March.
Please, join us in prayer this week for the Conference. Pray the Lord to keep us focused on His tasks as well as for safety for all participants – in travel and in the stay.
Meanwhile, I had a fruitful trip to Balashov, Saratov region. The partner church helped Balashov church to buy a building that they will use for a new congregation and for training center. We discussed a possibility for BTCP curriculum to be a base course for all students in thenew training center. Lord willing, there will be about 30 students in the first group, and classes will be held in modules for 4 years.
Thanks to your prayers and support, I was able to register for three Doctorate classes at DTS this summer. We will be coming to Dallas in May to work on these classes, as well as at e3 Partners.
Thank you for standing firmly with us as we train a new generation to “contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints” (Jude 3)! In 2008 we continue to work with the Russian Baptist on the Empower 2008 Project, reaching thousands more people in Russia for Christ.
We are so grateful to you for your prayers, support and care.
We pray that God would continue to bless you abundantly as you serve Him in the partnerships with us in Russia.
Please, pray for
- English Club in Penza - new people come each week;
- Following the strategic plan for the Empower 2008;
- Good progress in the D.Min program in 2008;
- IX Winter Planning Conference this week.
