Vijay was taken to a hospital. A doctor told Vijay that his leg was so mangled that an amputation would be needed. Out in the country, no one even thought of a prosthesis. Vijay could only see the end of his first love: evangelism. He simply would not be able to travel from village to village on one leg.

Vijay’s father, Daniel, now 95 but still able to ride his bicycle, was a man of great faith. He loved to work with his son doing evangelism.

Vijay asked the doctor to hold off on the amputation. Then Daniel prayed. The church members prayed. And, of course, Vijay prayed.

Fifteen days after the accident a doctor examined the injured leg and declared that amputation would not be necessary, but healing would take at least a year.

In less than six months, Vijay was holding evangelistic meetings and even playing soccer with the young people in the villages.

Now, in addition to conducting regular evangelism, he pastors two churches with a total of more than 250 members. He’s passing the gospel torch to two of his sons, who also are Gospel Outreach workers.

All this started back in 1980, when a missionary came to Daniel’s village and led him and the entire village to become Seventh-day Adventists.

The gospel now is spreading all over the area. Neither accidents nor even the devil can stop it. God is blessing His work and caring for His workers.

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

When we are in the city, electricity is not available; when electricity is turned on, we are away from the office for field work.

Still, the Lord blesses us abundantly in many ways. I am thankful for all the Gospel Outreach volunteers, workers and supporters. God’s Spirit is upon each one of us, humbling us for God’s work.

Here is an update on some of the latest news here.

Recently Ram Pravesh Rahi, one of our workers, suffered a severe accident and fractured his right hand, collarbone and right leg. He was on his way to hold a Bible study when a speeding truck hit his motorbike and threw him over a bridge onto a heap of stones. But, praise the Lord, God miraculously saved his life. He is now improving and using crutches.

Two other workers, Maxwell Lall and Balli Ram, were beaten badly by the village high-caste people, who falsely accused them and had them put behind bars. Before Christmas they were released. But 79 people have been baptized in the same villages where they were brutally treated.

We now have eight children’s literacy centers in our area. The children at each center had Christmas skits, sang carols and gave the message of the Savior. The children are well-acquainted with the love of Jesus. Government education officials are encouraged to see the good progress of these children because of the literacy centers. School principals invited our instructors and children to perform their programs in the government schools.

I also have a report from the Tibetan Project in Sarnath, a few miles from Varanasi. Sarnath is revered as the place where Buddha presented his first sermon.

Two brothers, Rakesh Kumar and Chandresh Kumar are Gospel Outreach workers for the Tibetans. Already they have found two good Tibetan friends who are interested in learning more about Jesus.

These two brothers were the first Gospel Outreach workers in India assigned to witness and make friends among the Tibetans.

More good news! In the last quarter of 2011, 2,000 people were baptized as a result of village evangelism. In Eastern Uttar Pradesh, 325 new congregations have been established, and almost 10,000 people joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 2011.

With the blessing of our Lord, we hope the work in our region will be fully self-supporting this year.

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.

Boddu was still quite young when missionaries came to his village and turned the hearts of his parents to the Lord. They were anxious for Boddu, now named Samuel, to be brought up in the Lord’s way of life. So in 1983 they enrolled him in an Adventist kindergarten school.

When it was time for Samuel to begin primary school, the tuition was too expensive for his parents to afford. They enrolled him in a school for orphans, which he attended through 10th grade. Then he transferred to an Adventist academy, where he completed his high school education.

At Spicer Memorial College, he worked hard, supporting himself by selling bread, peanut butter and jam in the community while he studied for his theology degree. In 2000, soon after he graduated, he was called into the ministry. His first assignment was to pastor four churches. He walked everywhere he went. He married in 2004 and was ordained in 2006. The Lord has blessed his ministry. To date he has baptized more than 3,000 people.

Gospel Outreach deeply appreciates the work that Samuel is doing in coordinating and training all the Gospel Outreach workers in the West Andhra Section of India.

Today our world is confronted with another form of politics too, but this race has eternal consequences. It’s a spiritual duel. One side has a multi-billion-dollar propaganda machine to persuade people to choose the path of sin and self. The other side has a Father who gave His only begotten Son so that precious brothers and sisters might have a chance at eternal life. Jesus gave up everything to deliver His message of hope and peace to a world enslaved by sin. And now He sends out disciples to set the captives free.

Have our ears become callused to His calling? Billions have been spent telling the story. Yet the world still is searching for a Savior. Christians have failed to glorify Jesus, and the enemy has done a masterful job pointing out our failures. But there is hope!

The last debate is coming soon, and my prayer is that the people of God will step out in faith to share Jesus with mankind. We will not be distracted from the mission, and the power of the Holy Spirit will flow through our veins. We will hear the call and once and for all share Jesus with the entire world so that our Friend and Savior can return. Contact us today to find out how you can be a part of this final call to proclaim Jesus to the world.

It had been a long battle that started one Sabbath as I was walking to church. I had seen a group of villagers gathered around something. As I approached, I saw a woman writhing on the ground. A man’s voice—a demon’s voice—was coming from her mouth. She was cursing. Ten people attempted to restrain her, but with super-human strength she threw them off like a blanket.

As I approached, the crowd parted so I could come near the woman. She tried with all her demon power to push me away too, but as I continued praying I felt like my hand was holding the Lord’s, and my being connected to God’s power. The woman could not push me at all.

As the villagers watched, anxiously wondering what would happen next, I prayed earnestly that God would drive the demon out of the woman. And He did. The demon left her like a dead person on the ground. I lifted her up. She opened her eyes like she was waking up, and I saw a normal person.

I learned where she lived and visited her as often as I could. I prayed for her because the demons were trying to regain control. But God sent a shield of angels to surround her, and we were able to study the Bible together.

The struggle wasn’t over though. The demons still would trouble her from time to time, but the woman desired to be completely free. She wanted to give herself completely to God. That was when the members brought her to the church sanctuary and encircled her for 48 hours. Shortly after that experience, she was baptized, and the Lord’s angels have shielded her from the demons ever since.

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.