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Daud and Livi

CEIFA missionaries; Daud and Livi

Jaimashi(Greeting you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ).

First of all we want to thank our Almighty God for connecting us with all of you and also a special thanks  to all the members of CEIFA international for supporting us financially and also always in your prayers. 2 Thessalonians 3:5. May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. Amen

In Sindhuli we have a small church with almost 35 members. Sindhuli is beautiful place sorrounded with a lots of hilly mountains. Many of the believers houses are up in the mountain but the church is down in the valley and we have to walk almost 1 and half hour every day to reach our church.

The name of our church is “Christiya Baptist Church, Sindhuli” and we have just recently started the church and so we don’t have a Pastor over there. We have taken a land on rent for 5 years and constructed  a small church to have fellowship over there. 3 years has already passed away and now we have only 2 years left so we are praying and planning to buy a land for our church but we don’t have enough budget. So kindly pray for our church.

Most recently we use to go for outreach, we share the gospel with many but only a few number of people accepted Christ as their personal saviour. Almost every evening we used to visit the houses of those people who have accepted Christ and we encourage them with the Word of God, teach them how to pray, how to read the bible, etc., and also some of our believers are old and don’t have enough money to go for check-up so sometimes we help them by doing therapy (physiotherapy) freely. Not only this we go for outreach and whenever we get the privilege, we do therapy and over time we also share with them about our faith. 

But sometimes as we don’t have our own transportation, we find it difficult to visit many places as not everywhere we can find a taxi.

Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

This is in Dharan, Khaireni Baptist Church. Here during the great festival of the Hindus i.e., Durga Puja and Diwali the schools are closed for almost 3 weeks and during that time my friends and I organized a 2-day Children Camp where around 90-100 childrens attended and almost 30% were non-Christians. It was a blessed children’s camp as many of the little children knew more about Christ’s love for them.

In Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Sometimes we even give free tutoring to the little children so that we can make a closer relationship with them and their parents and guardians. After making them friends we slowly share the gospel with them and also invite them to our church, and pray for them. As the major population of Nepal is Hindu, we cannot freely share the gospel, it is against the law so this is one of our ways of sharing the gospel.

In Nepal, there are so many remote villages where the gospel has not yet reached. So whenever we get the opportunity we visit those places and in some places there are some people who have accepted Christ but as there is no church around them so sometimes we visit them and together we praise God and also encourage them with the Word of God. Mostly we visit Dhankuta, Hile Kharka, and also Chetpa which is near Sindhuli. 

This is Christiya Baptist Church, Sindhuli. During this Christmas Eve we are planning to organize an outdoor preaching and most probably we will be going door to door caroling and sharing about our Lord Jesus Christ. Kindly pray for all the Christians in Nepal as whenever something happens in Nepal, mostly people blame Christians, within these years many incidents took place in Nepal and all the blame came to the Christian Community.  

    Virendra

    Missionary Virendra’s Update

    Praise and Thanksgiving

    1. Church Planting -CP is my passion and God has really blessed us this year. At the moment we have 6 house fellowships and 2 were started this year.
    1. Children’s ministry- We have around 50-60 children attending our newly started program every week. Through this ministry 3 families have started believing and attending our fellowships.We also feed them food once a month during one of our program.
    1. Widow ministry- We take care of widows who have been abandoned by their familiies. Some of these widows have started believing and now come to our fellowships. We distribute food ration to 5 widows once every month.
    1. Medical ministry- Every week we organise medical clinic in different neighbourhoods in and around our city and provide basic health care and medicines to the poor and needy. Through this medical clinic we have seen open doors and favour in the community.
    1. Training- From time to time we also do discipleship trainings and provide coaching to our believers so that they can grow stronger in the Lord and make more disciples of Jesus.  We currently use DMM ( Disciple making movement) and DBJ ( Discipled by Jesus) methods to train our believers.

    Prayer Points-

    1. Pray that God will use me and my family for His glory
    2. Pray for the well being of my family
    3. Pray for our ministry. Every year we distribute warm blankets to the needy and the beggars, and this year too that God will provide all the finances we need to buy the blankets.
    4. Please pray for our kids, Aryan and Vaibhav for their school admission fees. Currently we need around 70 thousand Indian rupees. This is a big amount for us  but we believe that God will provide all our needs for our ministry and for our family through your prayers and support.

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      Veer and Nitu

      CEIFA Missionaries; Veer and Nitu

      CEIFA ministry is partnering with frontliners Veer and Nitu who are proclaiming the Gospel in both word and deed in India. Read their personal testimony below.

      “Hi, my name is Veer and my wife’s name is Nitu. We have 2 boys, Ray and Bey. I am originally from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India but grew up in Punjab. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters.

      I came from a family with a strong Hindu background. At a young age, I joined the RSS (the religious fanatical wing of the Hindu BJP political party) and became a very active member. I was indoctrinated about Hindu supremacy and brainwashed to hate other religions, especially Christians. 

      Before I knew Jesus, I had lots of problems and lived a very sinful life. I used to worship idols and there was no peace in my life. I was longing and looking for God’s love from different people but could not find the love that I was looking for. When I was 15 years old, I left school and started working very hard to provide for my family because my father did not take care of our family. Whatever money he would earn he ended up squandering away by gambling and drinking. We also went into debt because our family had to pay the dowry for my sister’s marriage at the age of 15. Our family was in a grave financial situation and the future was uncertain. I had lots of pressure to provide for the family being the eldest son in the family. I did not know what to do. In desperation, our whole family even contemplated suicide as we had no hope or future.

      During that time, my cousin, who was a believer, told me about Jesus and the Good News. When I heard it for the first time I was filled with peace in my heart. My cousin’s family even helped us pay off our debt. After some time, I started going to church but my life was the same as before. I still had lots of anger and resentment in my heart against my father for failing us. 

      My younger sister was the first in my family to believe in Jesus at the age of 16. In 2011, when I went to drop my sister off at a YWAM base, I met the base leader for a brief moment. I only had 15 minutes before my train was about to leave and the leader told me about a discipleship training school. The school was starting the next day and at that moment I decided to stay back and join the discipleship training school. During the DTS, I learned a lot about God but never got to experience Him personally. After the school, I went back home to my own past life and into all the worldly things again. At that time, I was possessed by an evil spirit and was tormented for many years.

      In 2013, I got another chance to do a secondary school with YWAM called the school of frontier mission (SOFM) which was in my hometown of Varanasi. During the school one speaker came to teach and as he prayed for me, I was delivered from the evil spirit and my life completely changed. I experienced God in a special way like never before. I got married to Nitu in 2015, whom I met during my DTS.  Currently we both are working full time with YWAM Siliguri, West Bengal, India. God has given us a vision to do Church planting among the unreached people groups here in our city and to train and disciple many young people.

      We have already started five house fellowships and every week we partner with a medical team in conducting medical clinics in different unreached areas in our city.”