Heavy Rains Cannot Stop Us
Greetings from your family and church members here in Imphal. On the 10th June, we had some wonderful reports from our workers in the harvest fields.
Our evangelist, Mr Goukhomang, and some of our evangelistic team went to the Tuilaphai area which is about 45km from Churachandpur towards the Mizoram border.
They were able to evangelize about 13 villages in one week. They kept moving fast from one village to another village walking sometimes all day to get to the next village.
According to Mr Goukhomang our evangelist they did not bring any food with them, however, wherever they went people gave them something to eat. People in villages were so generous even though not many of them are believers. In some villages people offered them bananas and wild fruits for them to eat so they lived on whatever they received for food.
Staying in the most isolated and interior villages, they came across many unwanted incidents; however they kept moving with strong faith trusting God to protect them and to provide for their daily necessity.
Evangelist Goukhomang estimated about 270 hidden people were reached for the gospel during their one week long evangelistic ministry. They also prayed for about 59 people who were severely sick. They spent time on their knees praying at their dying sick beds.
Evangelist Goukhomang told us that he trusted God’s wonderful miracles to heal those people on their sick bed, as he could not go back and see what happened with them afterwards, due to the distances from one village to another. These people lived with their severe pain for a year long without having one tablets of medicine, since the villages are too far from the town and they live below poverty line.
Goukhomang told us that they comforted the people with the word of God.
He (Evangelist Goukhomang) kept telling us that on their next visit it would be wonderful if he and our team can go with some medicine for those poor and neglected people. Our church board is now thinking of arranging something for them.
Pastor Kakam with several of the youth team went to Tengnoupal area which is 70km from Pallel on the eastern side of Manipur. They were able to reach 4 villages altogether and about 100 people heard the word of God and 19 people received Jesus Christ as their Lord.
Yesterday I (Minthang Suantak) and our friends went to hospital to pray for the sick. We directly went to a man who had severe pain in his abdomen. We stretched out our hands towards this man and when we prayed for him he was instantly healed and he also received Jesus Christ. A seriously sick women was admitted to the hospital as there was something wrong, she was crying bitterly, struggling hard because of her constant pain. After we prayed for her she felt that she was absolutely healed and was willing to leave the hospital before she was medically examined and treated, but we told her just to wait until the doctor comes and checks her thoroughly.
Our student Th Minthang Vaiphei and Lempu will be again going to several rural areas as they really have a burden to reach the hidden people, so we gave them one week's permission to go. They were so thrilled they could not wait for the time to go and do evangelism work. They will resume their classes after one week and all of us are interested to know the results of their faithful ministry when they arrive here, then we will inform you immediately.
One man came to us last night and told us that he had jaundice and was very sick; the doctor could not help him and he was in trouble. He was staying with his relative in Imphal, at the national games village. One night we visited the family and they invited you (Papa Joe) specially to pray for the whole family. You prayed for him, and since then his condition became better and improved each day and now he is absolutely cured. I did not recognize this man but he knew us well and he knew you (Papa Joe). He was very happy.
Mr Zammang our Development Officer had left for Chandel district with some of our workers on the evening of Saturday 10th June, as a part of their tour program visiting our churches in the district. He was scheduled to come back today and to write a report to you. However due to a ban (transport strike) he is not able to come today. He may be here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Khaiboi and all our lecturers of our Bible College were very busy checking all the answer sheets of the students and also teaching in the classes. Sometimes the heavy rains disturb our normal classes as the rain can blow inside our classroom. But we just adapt to any situation. The kitchen is the biggest problem as, whenever we have rain, the cooks cannot cook the food because there is no proper wall and no doors. Many times the students eat very late in the evening for dinner and late in the afternoon for lunch.
Our evangelist Thangtinmang is leading the Joe-Anne action choir to several villages as a gospel tour and they will return next week. Let us pray that they reach many lost people.
Next week many of our workers will be again be scattering to many rural areas for evangelism and let us always hope and pray for them constantly that they may always reap lost souls into the Kingdom of God. The harvest is truly plentiful but the workers are few….. Let us pray that God will continually use us to always be His great instruments in harvesting lost souls into His kingdom.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak
Our evangelist, Mr Goukhomang, and some of our evangelistic team went to the Tuilaphai area which is about 45km from Churachandpur towards the Mizoram border.
They were able to evangelize about 13 villages in one week. They kept moving fast from one village to another village walking sometimes all day to get to the next village.
According to Mr Goukhomang our evangelist they did not bring any food with them, however, wherever they went people gave them something to eat. People in villages were so generous even though not many of them are believers. In some villages people offered them bananas and wild fruits for them to eat so they lived on whatever they received for food.
Staying in the most isolated and interior villages, they came across many unwanted incidents; however they kept moving with strong faith trusting God to protect them and to provide for their daily necessity.
Evangelist Goukhomang estimated about 270 hidden people were reached for the gospel during their one week long evangelistic ministry. They also prayed for about 59 people who were severely sick. They spent time on their knees praying at their dying sick beds.
Evangelist Goukhomang told us that he trusted God’s wonderful miracles to heal those people on their sick bed, as he could not go back and see what happened with them afterwards, due to the distances from one village to another. These people lived with their severe pain for a year long without having one tablets of medicine, since the villages are too far from the town and they live below poverty line.
Goukhomang told us that they comforted the people with the word of God.
He (Evangelist Goukhomang) kept telling us that on their next visit it would be wonderful if he and our team can go with some medicine for those poor and neglected people. Our church board is now thinking of arranging something for them.
Pastor Kakam with several of the youth team went to Tengnoupal area which is 70km from Pallel on the eastern side of Manipur. They were able to reach 4 villages altogether and about 100 people heard the word of God and 19 people received Jesus Christ as their Lord.
Yesterday I (Minthang Suantak) and our friends went to hospital to pray for the sick. We directly went to a man who had severe pain in his abdomen. We stretched out our hands towards this man and when we prayed for him he was instantly healed and he also received Jesus Christ. A seriously sick women was admitted to the hospital as there was something wrong, she was crying bitterly, struggling hard because of her constant pain. After we prayed for her she felt that she was absolutely healed and was willing to leave the hospital before she was medically examined and treated, but we told her just to wait until the doctor comes and checks her thoroughly.
Our student Th Minthang Vaiphei and Lempu will be again going to several rural areas as they really have a burden to reach the hidden people, so we gave them one week's permission to go. They were so thrilled they could not wait for the time to go and do evangelism work. They will resume their classes after one week and all of us are interested to know the results of their faithful ministry when they arrive here, then we will inform you immediately.
One man came to us last night and told us that he had jaundice and was very sick; the doctor could not help him and he was in trouble. He was staying with his relative in Imphal, at the national games village. One night we visited the family and they invited you (Papa Joe) specially to pray for the whole family. You prayed for him, and since then his condition became better and improved each day and now he is absolutely cured. I did not recognize this man but he knew us well and he knew you (Papa Joe). He was very happy.
Mr Zammang our Development Officer had left for Chandel district with some of our workers on the evening of Saturday 10th June, as a part of their tour program visiting our churches in the district. He was scheduled to come back today and to write a report to you. However due to a ban (transport strike) he is not able to come today. He may be here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Khaiboi and all our lecturers of our Bible College were very busy checking all the answer sheets of the students and also teaching in the classes. Sometimes the heavy rains disturb our normal classes as the rain can blow inside our classroom. But we just adapt to any situation. The kitchen is the biggest problem as, whenever we have rain, the cooks cannot cook the food because there is no proper wall and no doors. Many times the students eat very late in the evening for dinner and late in the afternoon for lunch.
Our evangelist Thangtinmang is leading the Joe-Anne action choir to several villages as a gospel tour and they will return next week. Let us pray that they reach many lost people.
Next week many of our workers will be again be scattering to many rural areas for evangelism and let us always hope and pray for them constantly that they may always reap lost souls into the Kingdom of God. The harvest is truly plentiful but the workers are few….. Let us pray that God will continually use us to always be His great instruments in harvesting lost souls into His kingdom.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak