Pastor Paul Sunder Raj in Bihar, North India

Report from Pastor Paul Sunder Raj in Bihar, North India. March 2011

Greetings to you in the Loving name of Jesus Christ Who was, Who is, and Who is to come.

By the Grace of God and your valuable prayer support, we are doing well in our ministry. From the depth of our hearts we thank you for all the helpful support that you have done for Bihar Ministry.

As our Bihar Ministry is going well, I would like to urge you to pray for our forthcoming Convention- 2011, which will be held on March 21, 22, 23 -2011 {Monday 9 am to Wednesday 3pm }. On these days around 300 people are going to gather and there will be speakers from south and north India. We have planned to conduct prayer sections that will be as follows….

• Morning Devotion           – 2 days
• Common fellowship           – 2 days
• Women’s  fellowship      – 1
• Children section               – 1

And with these meetings we will have Gospel Meetings in nearby villages that will be conducted on March 19, 23, 24, 2011.  On 19^th March – the Gospel meeting will be in place called Bala Bazar from 9am to 12.30pm and evening from 5pm to 8pm place called Parmanpur. On 23^rd March – the Gospel meeting will be in place called Bhadas from 5pm to 8pm. On 24^th March  – the Gospel meeting will be in place called Baliya from 9am to 12;30pm and evening from 5pm to 8pm place call MaheshKhut

Prayer Points;

• Pray for water, electricity, climate, food, accommodation, travelling.
• God should use the Speakers in mighty way, the message should be a blessing for all the people
• Please pray for the persons those who share the word of God and for their travelling.
• Pray for music equipment, choir & P.A system.
• And in those days there is a very big Hindu Religious festival in North India called HOLI. It should not bring  any problems to the meetings and God’s people.
• Through this meeting many people should know the love of God.
• In churches of Bihar there should be new growth.
• God’s People should get anointing of the Holy Spirit
• To do all this meeting God should change the hearts of the higher authorities so that they may give permission   to conduct this meeting. {Village Chairman, Police Department, District Magistrate}
• Please especially pray for anti-Christian people like BJP, RSS, VHP – that they should not trouble us for anything.
• 25 persons are going to take baptism; they should remain in the way of God till the end of their life.
• Pray for school children as they are writing their final exam; God should help them to do well in the  exam and they may go to the higher class.
• And 2 persons are going to join Bible College in the month of June.

By the Grace of God, in the year of 2004, we purchased a plot of land in Christ Nagar by our Mission. But for six years, we were unable to do any work there because we faced many problems. But now with our valuable prayer, we started the construction work to build the compound wall and a small hut for prayer cell. We started this work with the help of Mr.Immanuel – our Mission Manager who gave Rs. 1 lakh. Thereafter during the missionary meeting which was held last year for 4 days { May 27,28,29,30 – 2010 } in that the offering amount of Rs.32,420, and a believer of Advent Christian Church at Old Pallavaram has given Rs.11,000 and the women & brothers fellowship have given Rs.11,200 and a loving offering from Claibourne church in the United States Rs 25.000.  The remaining money will be from the St. Xavier’s High School {where the worship and convention is conducted presently}, Khagaria, Bihar. In future in this land we’ll see a church & school if God desires.

Please pray for all the work and especially the construction work which is in progress.

Photos of the construction work as follows;

The hut  is ready in which to worship the Lord Christ Jesus, nearly 100 to 125 people can sit and glorify Him. We are thanking heartily our LORD for the Claibourne church from the depth of our hearts for their help of Rs 25,000.   May God bless the Church Pastor, Believers and their families.

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