Preaching, Healing & Opposition Continues
Greetings from your family and church members here in Imphal. We had a wonderful time on Sunday, having a beautiful dinner with all our students, faculties, board, well-wishers and visitors. Our students shared their spiritual experiences and biblical knowledge.
Our workers that went to the Myanmar border arrived back today. It was great experiences for every one of them, it was very hard as they travelled many miles on jungle tracks by foot over the high mountain tops in heavy rain. Leeches, worms, and many biting insects were endured on their journey. However every one of them never forgets the truth that they are serving God to the best of their abilities, therefore they encouraged one another even in times of untold hardship on their journey. They were warmly welcomed by a few villagers on their arrival at the village, and even though absolutely tired they immediately started sharing God’s love as soon as they saw the helpless poor villagers. They were staying in the same village during their four days visit at the border. But every day they reached out to other neighbouring villages preaching and sharing the word of God. They also had a time with our school children. According to pastor S.Kakam it was a great experience for him and he was happy to see the villagers were greatly encouraged by the wonderful word of God the team was preaching. The team members were greatly impressed to see the response of the villagers to the word of God.
Today me and several of our workers visited hospital and prayed for about 37 sick people. Three men who suffered from typhoid got healed and two boys suffering from fever got healed. We shared the word of God to the nurses on duty. We also gave some financial help to three very poor people to undergo surgical operations, from a very far and remote village.
Regarding the land for the Bible College. We have been three times to the place you like, however there is no possibility of these people selling the land to us. We narrated many wonderful stories about our work, but they just did not want to listen to us. We also told about the girl that was possessed and delivered. They said if some people got healed through your prayers and if they are happy, that’s up to them, it is not our concern, this has nothing to do with us, was their reply. We also came across some local people who said, even if the land owner is willing to sell, they will not stop their opposition, and they will never stop fighting against your work here they said.
With much prayers we have done our best, we also feel that we are doing good things and that we will keep doing wonderful things, but from the beginning itself we don’t want any quarrels. Even this morning when we proceeded again some young men closely watched us and asked why we there there. "Have you again come to inquire about the land?" We tried to convince them but they don’t listen to us. Since there is already communal tension between Meitei (Hindu) and tribal people, we feel that it might not be a secure place since the local Meitei (Hindus) are opposing us from buying the land. From our knowledge about the land, it is not only the land owner who opposed us but he is well influenced and fully convinced by the local mob not to sell it to us. They even served deadly threatening words not to sell to us. Let us change to some other suitable place that will be free from all this trouble.
Our church members and all our bible college students keep praying for you and the team in Australia, we love you all. May the good Lord continue to bless in all your services.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak
Our workers that went to the Myanmar border arrived back today. It was great experiences for every one of them, it was very hard as they travelled many miles on jungle tracks by foot over the high mountain tops in heavy rain. Leeches, worms, and many biting insects were endured on their journey. However every one of them never forgets the truth that they are serving God to the best of their abilities, therefore they encouraged one another even in times of untold hardship on their journey. They were warmly welcomed by a few villagers on their arrival at the village, and even though absolutely tired they immediately started sharing God’s love as soon as they saw the helpless poor villagers. They were staying in the same village during their four days visit at the border. But every day they reached out to other neighbouring villages preaching and sharing the word of God. They also had a time with our school children. According to pastor S.Kakam it was a great experience for him and he was happy to see the villagers were greatly encouraged by the wonderful word of God the team was preaching. The team members were greatly impressed to see the response of the villagers to the word of God.
Today me and several of our workers visited hospital and prayed for about 37 sick people. Three men who suffered from typhoid got healed and two boys suffering from fever got healed. We shared the word of God to the nurses on duty. We also gave some financial help to three very poor people to undergo surgical operations, from a very far and remote village.
Regarding the land for the Bible College. We have been three times to the place you like, however there is no possibility of these people selling the land to us. We narrated many wonderful stories about our work, but they just did not want to listen to us. We also told about the girl that was possessed and delivered. They said if some people got healed through your prayers and if they are happy, that’s up to them, it is not our concern, this has nothing to do with us, was their reply. We also came across some local people who said, even if the land owner is willing to sell, they will not stop their opposition, and they will never stop fighting against your work here they said.
With much prayers we have done our best, we also feel that we are doing good things and that we will keep doing wonderful things, but from the beginning itself we don’t want any quarrels. Even this morning when we proceeded again some young men closely watched us and asked why we there there. "Have you again come to inquire about the land?" We tried to convince them but they don’t listen to us. Since there is already communal tension between Meitei (Hindu) and tribal people, we feel that it might not be a secure place since the local Meitei (Hindus) are opposing us from buying the land. From our knowledge about the land, it is not only the land owner who opposed us but he is well influenced and fully convinced by the local mob not to sell it to us. They even served deadly threatening words not to sell to us. Let us change to some other suitable place that will be free from all this trouble.
Our church members and all our bible college students keep praying for you and the team in Australia, we love you all. May the good Lord continue to bless in all your services.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak