June is upon us and the Lord's Vineyard is so ready for harvesting! Our Lord's Vineyard is to be planted throughout the world. I am thankful to each of you and to every congregation who labors with Cindy and me and the Clinton church of Christ
Greetings to all the saints sanctified by the blood of our High Priest - Jesus the Christ! I am so appreciative of the many prayers offered over the recent weeks for our struggles with the new rules being placed upon us by the Assam and Itanagar welfare departments.
Brother Moses, stands in the Water preparing to baptize a couple that he and brother Kong has been teaching in their home. Scenes like this happens very frequently in the fertile hearts of the people of India. Often I think about these new babies in Christ. It is important to bring about “new births”, but it is so important to feed them the word of God and help them to mature, to stand firm for Christ in the future as the American missionary leaves the field.
Antioch from Diphu brings greetings to you in the very precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is always our prayer that you are always living in the grace of our God. Thank you very much for your support that you have sacrificially given to help us in the work of winning souls to Christ.
Greeting to all the saints! It is great to be back in the USA, my family and my home congregation. I have been gone almost eight months of the last nine months with all the activities of building and opening our new school for the children, conducting medical camps, preaching and working with three children’s homes. Living in two worlds proposes many challenges from day to day, but of course, as Christians we understand we live in two worlds. I have many pictures in this newsletter. I hope you will enjoy and share them.
I am sure the fall season is upon you as God paints the landscapes of America with His beautiful colors. In India there is no fall colors. It is one thing I miss when I am here this time of year.
Our work has been very busy as it should be in India. having been here about a month now we have accomplished many things. The children are sitting for their third quarter exams as I write.
I always keyboard these emails with thankfulness to God and to His Church for the wonderful things He is doing through all of us in India. It so good to know that even in my absence, the work of India, under our Christian Indian brothers and sisters continue. This is how it should be and certainly our main objective is to create a strong, vibrant presence of Christ in India. With your gracious support the fruits of our labor are becoming abundant and self-sustaining.
Greetings to each of you as we began our tenth year working together in India on a full time basis. Together we have with God’s great help accomplished so much in the past ten years. At present we have three children's home with 182 children being cared for by strong and loving Christians. We have our own, Theophilus English Medium Christian School, where our children are taught in a Christian environment and away from the influence of Hinduism and Islam prevalent in this country.
God continues to bless the work we do to train men and their families to grow the New Testament Church. In Dimapur, where our training institute is located, the church is growing well. The mature family men pictured to your right are studying and preparing to take the gospel into the cities of Nagaland, Assam, Tripura as well as the country of Myanmar. Our men study many hours in the classroom but in addition they spend many hours in city evangelism activities. Pic- tured here are recent baptisms (June 4-5) from their ef- forts.
I am so happy to share with all, the establishment of our third home for children. Our home is called “Esther’s Place - a home for Beautiful Girls” and is located in Gunter, Andra Pradesh.
April showers bring May showers - then the monsoon rains of June, July and August. As with us, April is the month for planting many vegetables as the rain comes almost daily. Flowers are blooming profusely and Racci wanted me to send this picture of her holding flowers for all of you.
Greetings to all from India. The month of February has been a very busy and productive month. I greatly appreciated the helping hands, heart, and mind of brother Kirk Hiscock at the Mustard Seed Village and the Rainbow Village. It is always a blessing to me and the children to have American brothers and sisters come and work with us.
Cindy and I wish each of you a wonderful, healthy and spiritual New Year in 2017. God has so abundantly blessed us together in our work in India in 2016. Over the past year we have added 32 new orphaned or destitute children to our work at the Mustard Seed Village, Rainbow Village and the orphaned children in Dimapur.
