Waiting for a Roof

One of our pastors’ daughter and her husband have now planted a church that has over 100 believers.  They felt called to a certain place and it was the appointed time! People began to come to a small hut where the meeting was conducted initially, but later one of the believers donated land and they put together the funds they had and have now erected the walls of the building.  They are praying for provision for the roof to come up.  It will cost Rs 150,000 for the roof to be put.  Please pray and get connected!

It was a blessing to attend the monthly pastors meetings in Gujarat.  A few years ago, there were only a handful of church planters working in this region.  But today God has given us a team of over 35 missionaries who are covering over 120 villages in a week.  We regularly have these monthly meetings where they church planters bring their wives along for one full day of prayer and encouragement.  We had a powerful time of teaching from 1 Peter and also spent considerable time in prayer, seeking God for the land.

Golden Jubilee Year

April 27, 1963 was the day that Pastor Thomas Mathews, came to Udaipur as a complete stranger but perfectly in the will of God and at the right time.  Now this is the 50^th year of this historic God appointment.  God willing we will be bringing out a souvenir to thank the Lord and to remember all the love and affection that we have received from friends and family from around the world.

We will also be doing a convention in Udaipur, where it all began, from October the 11^th thru the 13^th, this year.  We desire in God to honour those who were there in the earl y days of the ministry and also to recognize the senior servants of God.

We have the biography of Pastor Thomas in English and Malayalam and this year, we are working on bringing out the Hindi version too.

There is an opportunity for you to send your greetings or compliments or advertisements as we celebrate.  Your contribution small or great will be a great help as we put this milestone in place for the generations to come.  Ten years, as we worked on our 40^th Anniversary, my Dad had commented, “It is not just God’s faithfulness for his people, but also the loving partnership of God’s people that has brought us thus far.”   It is truer today, ten years later and especially since, Dad has been called Home to rest from his works.

We will be doing a facebook page also, where you could upload pictures and also comment on your relationship with this humble servant of God.

If My People

“It’s a new season, It’s a new day!” are the opening lines of a popular song.  But that perfectly reflect what the Lord is wanting to do in this time among the people of north India at this point of time.  It is time to seek the face of God, not for ministry but to seek his presence.  Not to seek for provision or vision but to seek the giver of visions, not to start something new, but to go back to the original mandate of ‘being with our Master’. Nothing would satisfy us more but to sit in the presence of Jesus, our Lord and our lover.

So as a ministry and as a church, we sat in the presence of God for the first seven days of this month and it turned out to be anointed.  There were no special preachers, no musicians or worship artists, but the raw desire to be with God and to seek Him. 

Out of these seven days, five words of prophecy and confirmation came out strongly.  That God would turn this ministry into a House of Glory, a House of Praise, a House of Deliverance, a House of New Covenant and a House of Spiritual Earthquakes, which shatters everything in the region that stands up against the plans and purposes of God.

We have many things going on, much to do but we have been assigned this new task.  It is not easy since you are used to ‘doing’ things and ‘doing ministry’, but this is a season of seeking!!  We have only begun this wonderful journey and are hearts are tuned to what God would say more to us.  When we get blessed, you share in the blessings too!! You are family and we rejoice with you over this new direction that we have been assigned.

Vela Bhai

Having lost six children, one after the other, I was desperate for help. I tried every kind of worship, went to the witch doctors, but nothing was happening.  And then my uncle died.  These continuous deaths in my home rattled me and I thought that it would be better to end my life.  But the thought of my tired wife and the hardships that she would have to face, forced me to stay alive.”

“Then in a vision I saw a cross and I felt that if somehow I reached it, I would be healed and set free from this curse of death in my family.   I started to ask people where I could find this cross and I was surprised to find one cross and a church very close to my house.   I went there, was prayed for and God delivered me completely from my fear.  Today I have four grown up children and I am also a proud grandfather of three children!”

Pastor Vela Bhai is one of the people serving Jesus with us who have a dramatic story of conversion.  Today he is the pastor of three congregations and he does not have a single minute to waste as he runs between services and villages, doing God’s will and restoring people to God like he himself was restored.

“I was praying for a motorbike to help me move around faster and God gave this bike to me through the help of friends.  I praise God for this gift and I am using it daily to commute and to win more and more people to the Lord. “ “I have seen the darkness and I have seen the light.  I want everyone to enjoy this light and I will do everything possible to share this light with one and all.”