Rajkumari was possessed by an evil spirit. She went here and there, consulting many people and doctors, but no matter what she did there was no improvement in her condition.

Finally family members asked us to pray for Rajkumari. My wife and I went to her house and prayed for her regularly. Miraculously, by the grace of God, our prayers were heard, and God completely healed the woman. Now she gives thanks to God and testifies that Jesus Christ is the living, true, healing God. Her family members also have accepted Jesus as Savior.

I humbly request that you please keep praying for us so that God may use us more and more for His cause.–John Paul, GO worker.

In the area where I work is a village named Trilokpur, which is 16 kilometers from Tilher. The population of Trilokpur is 750.

In this village, I met Gangadeen. He is a teacher by profession. He said that long ago he had heard about Jesus Christ. He used to attend prayer meetings and listen to the Word of God. But he stopped attending when he became a teacher.

I told Gangadeen that my work is spreading God’s word and praying. Gangadeen said, “Please come to my home.”

The next week I went to his home and met his family and others as well. The people there said they would like to worship the one God who has made everything.

By the grace of God and through this brother I am meeting many more people who are joining our prayer meeting. Now there are 17 people who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, and many others also are attending prayer meeting and listening to the Word of God.

This is our humble request: Please pray for us so that many more may come to the feet of Jesus.–Suresh Kukmar, GO worker

The work was going very slow, but one by one new converts were added to the little company until nearly half of the village had joined the Adventist group.

It soon became evident that the devil didn’t like this and was resisting and retaliating against their work. Some agent of the devil was casting spells on the new believers and causing all kinds of trouble:
• Unexplainable sickness.
• Failed crops.
• Unprovoked marital problems.
• Failing grades for bright students.

David suspected who the devil’s agent was. A certain family was putting on a front of friendliness toward him.

David visited and prayed with the family members both morning and evening. His prayers appealed to them. After many months, the family began to accept Bible studies. They came to realize that they were working against God, and humbly confessed what they had been doing.

The evil spirit that had motivated them began to leave as the Spirit of God entered their hearts. Finally, after many more months, they accepted the Lord and were baptized.

One Sabbath the family was worshiping in church. Suddenly the wife began waving her hands wildly. A man’s voice came from her mouth. The devil was using her. He said, “I’m going away. I’m leaving this village!”

Then the woman became silent. The church member sitting next to her placed her hand on the wife’s head and prayed for her. Moments later, the battle was over, and the wife has been free of the evil spirit ever since—God is now in control.

This woman loves the Lord who freed her from the devil, and she does all she can for God’s church to show her gratefulness.

He left school and made his way to the huge city of Hyderabad, India. There he started a small business selling office supplies and doing photocopying. To keep his expenses to a minimum, he lived with a family who gave him a place to stay in their home.

Methari came from a Christian background, and one day a Seventh-day Adventist pastor made friends with him. The friendship led to Bible studies. The family that Methari was staying with listened in on the studies and became especially interested in the presentation of the seventh-day Sabbath.

What was of most interest to them was the origin of the Sabbath—all the way back to Creation. They had never realized that Jesus and the apostles also kept the Sabbath.

Methari began to question himself, “Why am I keeping Sunday?” He and his bride and host family decided that they would keep the biblical Sabbath.

Methari couldn’t keep the good news to himself. He put someone in charge of his business, invited an Adventist pastor to accompany him, and they went back to his home village. He went first to his parents and then to the members of his former Sunday-keeping church.

Together he and the pastor conducted a series of evangelistic meetings. As they taught the people about the Bible Sabbath, one by one the entire membership of the Sunday-keeping church became Seventh-day Adventists—a total of 35 families.

The old church building was only a shack. The congregation decided it was not a representative place to worship the Savior, so the members determined to prepare a proper place in which to worship and invite others to join. On their own, they secured land and built a church.

For 14 years Methari led out in this new church. He supported himself and his family with the earnings of his business. The Lord blessed his efforts.

One day Methari learned of an opportunity to expand his evangelism. Volunteers were being recruited to become Gospel Outreach workers. Without hesitation, Methari sold his business and joined Gospel Outreach. Praise the Lord for His leading and for willing workers like Methari.

On December 17, 2011, 12 new members were baptized, nine from Lubhu and three from Thankot. This brings the total number of baptized members at Lubhu to 18 and at Thankot to 36.

In addition to our regular work, my wife, Rajani and I are overseeing three growing congregations: Thankot and Lubhu in central Nepal, and Dhading near Kathmandu. An urgent need in these fellowships is to open child literacy centers.

During the Christmas season, evangelistic meetings with carol singing were conducted in 20 different places.

Most of the Gospel Outreach and other lay workers celebrated the birth of Jesus by sharing the Good News with many people.

Evangelism funds provided through Saxton Ministries have made it possible to provide facilities and supply Bibles and literature.

So far, 128 new baptisms have been reported from these Christmas-season evangelistic meetings. At least 100 more baptisms are expected, and people in 10 new villages are rejoicing in the Advent message.

We praise the Lord and thank each one who has contributed to bringing the Gospel to the people of Nepal.

Old and new meet on Koviloor Road in Karaikudi.

Evangelistic meetings were recently held in Karaikudi, which is a city in Tamil Nadu, India. The city is located just 18 miles from the Bay of Bengal.

Pastors and Bible workers began the ground work a few months before the meetings. Robinson Devadass and his team of 14 from the United States joined in these evangelistic meetings, which began on July 24.

An estimated 100 people came to the auditorium to listen to the lectures, which were given by John Willmot. The health message was shared by Dr. Jessica Garcia. Pastor Willington, president of the Sivagangai–Ramanathapuram Section helped in translating.

Every night after the meetings the nurses and the doctor measured blood pressures and blood sugars. The evangelistic group also conducted free medical camps in two villages. Hundreds of villagers attended these camps.

A marriage day was celebrated for all members who attended the meetings. Fourteen couples were honored and given gifts in remembrance of their wedding anniversaries. The oldest and the newest married couples shared in a cake-cutting ceremony.

Of course, when God is at work, Satan is at work too. As people were showing interest in the meetings, one of the local religious parties banned the attendance of people in two villages. But people came into the auditorium anyway.

Pastor R. Karunanidhi, the ministerial secretary, and the team of young pastors and spouses helped make these meetings successful. At the conclusion, 11 attendees gave their hearts to Jesus. Others have promised to accept the Lord very soon.

God has worked powerfully to let this strong, traditionally religious people know that He loves them. Praise God for His wonderful mercies.

K. Baburao

I felt almost like Joshua facing Jericho when my local mission office assigned me to start new work in a very strong Hindu village. How would I reach them?

Since most people love to hear stories, I decided to use that approach first. I hoped that the stories would lead into an interest in health topics and eventually into doctrinal studies.

After visiting nearly every home in the village, I found one family that showed some interest in hearing Bible stories.

The parents became deeply interested in the Adventist Christian beliefs and were baptized, but their two sons were both demon-possessed.

To a Hindu, for one to be demon-possessed is to be blessed. But the family, in the light of the gospel, decided this was not what they wanted. The parents took their boys to a hospital, hoping that the condition could be treated as a physical disorder.

After spending much money, they realized that medicine was not helping. Then they resorted to Hindu priests and temples to remove the spirits, but to no avail. When the demons took control, the boys would strip naked and shout terrible things and be thrown about violently.

When the parents realized that their sons’ condition was a spiritual matter, they asked me to pray for them. As I began to pray, the demons shouted, “We don’t want to leave! We don’t want to leave!”

Every day for two months I prayed. By this time, the parents had progressed in their studies. They understood about prayer and anointing. So I prayed and anointed the boys, calling on God to expel the demons for good.

The demons could not resist that prayer, and they left. They attempted to return for another month, but heavenly guards were in place, and complete victory was won.

The boys are now preparing for baptism, and are also sharing Jesus with other young people in the new church in their village.

Praise the Lord for His power to deliver souls from the control of Satan.

The focus on evangelism is strengthening the eastern Uttar Pradesh region and helping us attain self-sufficiency.

Eight child literacy centers have been started. Village leaders have agreed to provide land for these centers, and parents are paying to help make the centers self-supporting within four years. Sixteen baptisms have been realized through this program.

I am sending details of 10 new places where we plan to open the way of salvation using the services of 10 newly recruited Gospel Outreach workers. We praise the Lord for His mighty works in this small part of the world. Thank you very much for your continuous prayers and support for evangelism in our area.

The baptismal group gathers at Dolalghat River.

Early this year, Chuck Jenson and his wife Kathy arrived in Nepal to lead the work there. Chuck, an experienced pastor, is a son of Gordon and Betty Jenson, who served the Southern Asia Division for 50 years. Chuck was born in India and lived there most of the time until he was ready for college. I invite you to remember Chuck and Kathy in your prayers. They are assisted by Kapil Baniya, treasurer of the Nepal Field.

The Nepal Field board has authorized a meeting of all the Nepali pastors and lay workers to pray for harmony among all the staff in Nepal and to lay plans for finishing the work in Nepal. They consider this meeting so vital that they are going ahead in faith and are depending on the Lord to provide the $10,000 they have estimated it will cost. Chuck and his team are praying and working to establish a trust that will make it possible for the Nepal Field to safely hold property in Nepal.

One of the great needs is for an office. At present they try to work out of a very unsuitable rented building. We feel confident that when the trust is registered the leaders in Nepal will be able to acquire property and establish a workable and representative office. It is so thrilling to see the progress of the work. Under the blessing of the Holy Spirit there will be even greater advances.

We feel highly honored to be able to share the Good News in Nepal and to bring reports to those of you who pray for and give so liberally for the work in Nepal.

Abhinit Singh

Abhinit Singh, a young boy originally from Mahotari district in the plain of eastern Nepal, has been studying at St. Devi’s Academy since grade two. Abhinit lives with an uncle in Kathmandu. He would come every Sabbath for the children’s Sabbath School service where he learned many songs and stories about Jesus. Mrs. Sita Pradhan, a Gospel Outreach worker in Kapan, encouraged him and told him about the love of Jesus. He is the eldest son of a very strict orthodox Hindu family.

His testimony before his baptism:

“My name is Abhinit Singh. I have completed my high school. Currently I am writing my board examination. I came to know about Christians and Jesus at St. Devi’s Academy where my friends invited me to come for church every Saturday.

“I am a grown 17-yearold boy, and I can understand what is the true religion. I learned so many things about the Bible, and I am thankful to our head sir and head ma’am for showing me the right path. If I didn’t study at St. Devi’s Academy I would not know about the Christianity.

“My main source of inspiration is Mrs. Sita Pradhan, who lives next to my uncle’s house. I am son of Hindu family, and there is no Christian in our native place and in our entire community. Perhaps, I am the first one to become Christian from our family and place.

“Prior to baptism I neither asked nor obtained permission from my parents. If I had done so they would never allow me and let me take the baptism and change our traditional religion. They will be furious and get angry with my decision. I do not know what will be my condition after taking baptism. I don’t care and worry about me, and I know there is a powerful God with me. He will open the way for me.

“Today, I see most of my friends who are going to take baptism have brought parents and relatives, but I don’t have anyone to witness for me. I am little bit sad because I am alone. I know my God is with me. I do not know what will be my future. After this maybe I will be outcast and excommunicated from my family members and community, but I will not be afraid. I will leave everything in God’s hand, and from today on I am going to be His son. Please pray for me.”

Please remember this young boy, Abhinit Singh, in your prayers. His great desire is to tell others about the Jesus and bring many souls to God. He wants to become a pastor. May our God bless this young man and open the way for him to prepare himself as a faithful servant of God.

Daryl Famisaran, the Sulads director, waves from the proposed school site.

I arrived on the campus of Mountain View College on February 10 at about 4 p.m. We went straight to the Sulads training center where Sarah Famisaran was teaching deaf students. Ten of her 16 students were present. Those absent had gone home to look for food, as the school cannot provide meals for the students.

Sarah and Bem Bem led the students in signing a song of welcome for me. The students range in age from quite young to middle age. All are in the first stages of learning sign language. For many of them, this is the first moral support they have received. Many are considered to be a burden to their parents and are treated as less than human. This school helps them build self-respect and self-worth.

On Sabbath, the deaf students attended the Mountain View College alumni church, where I presented a talk on the Sermon on the Mount. Sarah interpreted the sermon for the deaf ones.

On Sunday, Daryl Famisaran (Sulads field director), Ultimino Rivera (Sulads CEO), and Victor Paradero (Sulads supervisor) took me to view property recently purchased to establish a school for the deaf. This property is four kilometers off the main highway, and is seven kilometers south of Malaybalay City. The final road leading to the property was bad. We hiked part of the way in.

The property is across a river, and we crossed over on a bamboo bridge that was built 11 years ago and is in need of repair. After crossing two of these bridges, we arrived at the property, which is 7½ acres. There are flat areas where buildings could be built, and also gently sloping land for farming. There are mango, banana, cashew, santol, guava and other trees on the property. The land should be able to produce food to feed the expected 25 students.

This school would make it possible to house the deaf students, provide their food and give them a place to learn sign language, livelihood skills and a positive self-image. Please pray with us that this school may become a reality in the very near future.