Greetings from your family and church members here in Imphal.

This weekend we praise God that we have many works and engagement in the ministry as we keep moving around Manipur preaching the word of God. Mostly in the day time we are always in the fields for rural evangelism and by the time when we return home it is after 10pm. After this time it is difficult to email you as we don’t want to put the generator on as it will wake all our neighbors. There is only about 3 hours everyday when we have power. It is very sad.

When we were having a worship together with all our Bible College students, we were told that one of our church members in P. Thianzawl village had died, so some of our staff rushed to P. Thianzawl village and I did the funeral, and after the burial we had a short time of saying words of comfort than proceeded back to our Bible College where we had our evening service.

The next day Monday on the 20th March, we went to Happy Valley village for the inauguration of a new fellowship center as the new believers want to come under our Association, VCC & ROLWE, as they were the fruit of our works. Our workers keep preaching in this areas. We do not have a church building yet, but we will have a big church in the future as we grow in numbers. Since our workers are pressed into service in these areas we trust that we will always have new believers and that the new fellowship center will help and promote the missionary work in this area.

Yesterday on the 21st March, we went to H.K.Phai for a one day Crusade. We arrived in the village at 9am in the morning and I started preaching and went till 4pm in the afternoon. About 120 people listened the word of God. It was a wonderful time we had. We arrived back home at 7pm at night.

This morning we went looking for some land for our Bible College. We found some areas and the prices are different according to the location of the land. We found some so when you come you can do the selection. The average prices are Rs 70 per feet square, Rs 120 per feet square, Rs 80 per feet square, Rs 200 per feet square.

Bless you.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak.

Greetings from your family and church members here in Imphal.

Thanks so much for the funds you transferred for the food of our students. Yesterday being a very large Hindu festival holiday, all the shops were closed, therefore we were not able to buy the food. However today we bought all the food; rice, potatoes, vegetables, oils etc, and dropped them at the college. I taught in the class for a few hours, in the evening we had a worship meeting and we only arrived back home just now. It is now 10pm at night.

Today Mr. Khaiboi Vaiphei, Mr. Tamreingam our lecturer and I, all taught in the class. We are confident our Bible College ministry is wonderful. We rest assured that many of our students will bear wonderful fruit in the future. After ten years of our Bible College ministry, we will be able to produced hundreds of talented and dedicated missionaries for our country. In ten years time, if we continue this Bible College ministry, we may be able to send out hundreds of missionaries to every nook and corner of our nation. Therefore we rest assured that we will achieve lots for the Kingdom of God.

Please kindly keep praying for all our desperate needs, since moving to a rented house there are many things needed. We need a big room for a kitchen and dining room for our students, so we are planning to construct simple rooms, since the house owner is not in a position to build it, we need to do it ourselves. For this kitchen and dining room we need about 27 pieces of tin sheets for the roof. Please pray that we have the needed funds.

The girls' dormitory has a beautiful gate and beautiful fencing. On the entrance gate of the girls' dormitory we wrote a sign board which reads RIVER OF LIFE BIBLE COLLEGE, which looks very beautiful. The boys' dormitory is about 200 meters away from girls' dormitory. The boys' dormitory did not have a proper fence, so I told the house owner to immediately make a fence for the boys' dormitory. However, the house owner told me that he could not make the fence as he did not have money. But he told us we can make it for ourselves which we can deduct from our monthly rent. For a bamboo fence it will cost us around 3000 rupees.

Please keep praying for us as our lives are always in danger. Manipur is the worst state among all the states in India. Because of the terrorist problems, everyday people kill one another. Almost all the youngsters in Manipur want to become a terrorist and kill people with the guns they have. However, our objective is to train the national youth in the bible and prepare them for future ministry. We want to train them to become armies of God.

Please keep praying for our safety. We know that our lives are always in the hands of God, but we need to pray for one another. Our state Manipur is always heading towards the worst condition. Life is always very insecure. But we are in God's care.

All the beams and staircase of our Diplomatic Centre are completed. We are now looking for the completion of the slab and the second floor finishing, and for this we need lots of funds. Let us pray that we have the funds and finish the construction very soon.

We love you, and we always pray for you. Some of our students are sick, so please remember them in your prayers.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon, and to seeing you in April 2006.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak.

Greetings from your family and church members here in Imphal.

We just arrived from our bible college and we had a good fellowship with the family of the Board and our students. It is now 12:30, just after midnight. I am in my office trying to send this email, as I was not able to send any report for a few days due to Internet line failure.

It is with joy that we write this email, as we just returned from a Pastoral Conference at Ukhrul Town in Ukhrul district in Manipur. About 1500 pastors and evangelists came for the Conference. Our topics that we taught to the pastors and evangelists during our seminar was (1) Baptist Distinctive and (2) Church Mission.

It was with great success that we concluded the Conference. It was a whole five day conference, every night we had an evangelistic crusade where about 2000 to 3000 people listened the word of God, I was the only main speaker since the other pastor who will be my assistant speaker did not come for the conference due to his family trouble. We rest assured that our conference will have a great impact to the lives of hundreds of our Christian leaders and it will bear good fruit in the future.

I am very happy that I was able to teach on the infilling and anointing of the Holy Spirit to these Baptist churches who always fought for doctrinal barriers. You and I were always concerned about the Baptist background as they always opposed the things of the Holy Spirit. However, in these last days, because of your great efforts, we are now able to teach the work of the Holy Spirit to all these Baptist churches.

We arrived home on the 7th March 2006 in the evening after the Crusade. I was trying to email you immediately soon after we arrived in our office, however due to the telephone line problem our Internet was not operating therefore I could only email you tonight. Not only a telephone line problem but we also had a big problem with a frequent power cut off. However, we praise God that after several tries we were able to email you tonight.

On the 8th March 2006, we moved our Bible College to another suitable place, as the house we rented for our bible college was not so convenient. The house owner always created problems for our students, therefore we have moved out now to another better place. The new building is not so good but there is no one staying at the same rented house with our students. The house owner has fully rented it out to us for our students. We now have a very good time teaching, worshipping, praying etc, without problems from other people. At the first rented house there were other families staying in the same building. Those families told us not to sing songs and pray as they don’t want to hear songs and prayers. They always gave us trouble, therefore we moved out for a better environment and atmosphere.

On the 10th March 2006, being the prayer day for all our staff and pastors, evangelists and workers, all our workers had arrived here and we had a wonderful time of a prayer meeting where we all prayed for you all consistently. On that day we also gave our workers wages with the funds you transferred to us.

Today Sunday the 12th March 2006, I was preaching at Lanthonching Baptist Church and also gave ordination to the Lanthonching Baptist Church pastor and deacons, and taught them on the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The Lanthonching Baptist church members were about 900 people. It was a really good service. In the evening I preached at our Bible College. On the 17th March 2006, I will again be preaching at a one day Crusade in the East District of Manipur, about 47 kilometers from here. On the 20th March 2006 we have a big program at Saikul where we will be opening a new church fellowship in one village, the new church fellowship will begin in a home, since we still do not have a church building.

Beginning from January 2006, I am still very tied up with all the programs, since by God’s grace this year our ministry is enlarging as a result of our Crusade in January. Our Festival of Hope and Peace crusade in January 2006 had a wonderful impact on the lives of our nation, therefore we harvest lost souls everywhere in Manipur. As a result of our Crusade in January 2006 many different churches amongst the Hindu areas were packed full as people are thirsty to know the truth of the gospel and the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ more and more.

Tomorrow we will be having a Board meeting at our Bible college. We trust that our students after completing their one year course they will be a great instrument of God in bringing the nation into the Kingdom of God.

As our country is in big trouble with all the terrorist problems, particularly our state Manipur, almost every youngster is indulging in sinful activities and the terrorists have become a great enemy for the common people. Therefore we plan to enrol all the youth for the ministry as much as we can so that we can shun the youth from joining the terrorists. Our aim is to train the youth for the ministry to become the armies of God, and not to become terrorists. Therefore a Bible College is the need of the hour for our state Manipur. Please keep praying for our Bible College ministry as we need lots of help to build this nation into a better position.

Our Diplomatic Centre building construction is in progress, we plan to complete it very soon, please keep praying for us as we need to complete very soon.

Mr. Zammang is going to Sugunu today with some of our workers to visit several of our churches in that area. They will be coming back on Monday. Then next week Mr. Zammang, Mr. Ngamsei and Pastor Lunminthang Baite will be going to the Myanmar border to visit our churches and schools on the borders.

On the 10th March, pastor Khamtinthang came for our workers meeting and shared to all our workers that three persons at S.Kawtlian Church were healed completely through your (Papa Joe) prayers. They were not from S.Kawtlian but came from a different village. They did not know before the healing power of God. But after you (Papa Joe) had prayed for them they were absolutely healed from all their different sickness, the three people who got healed and their villagers were greatly amazed because of what the Lord has done for them through Papa Joe. They said Papa Joe has special anointing of God which God gave him personally. They all Praise God for their healing.

May the good Lord continue to bless you in all your services is our prayers always.

Bless you heaps.
Your missionary brother
Minthang Suantak.
N.B. Papa we are now running out of funds and there is no rice and curries for the Bible College students, please try to send us some funds when ever you can.