Personal Letter

Beloved Friend,

It is a great joy to be connecting with you in this manner. You have been receiving this newsletter and have been joining us through prayer and financial contributions.  May the Lord bless you and reward you generously for standing with us. The Bible is very clear and direct when it says in Hebrews 6:10 reminds us that … God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do. (NLT)

With every passing day we look back we are  grateful to God for leading us and the ministry in such marvellous ways. We have enjoyed your friendship and sincere prayer and partnership. It is not our efforts or strategies and plans but the faithfulness of the Lord. Thank you so much for the part that you have played.

Supporting Church Planters

Because of your  faithful partnership we have been able to support missionaries in much needy places especially Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Would love to mention one story from Kutch in Gujarat.

Situated in the west of the country, Kutch is known to be a dry place both physically and spiritually. But it has seen a breakthrough in the past year. Brother Mahendra and his family and Brother Blessen and family have joined the ministry in that region and they are reaching out to  local people through prayer, counselling and community work. They have started outreach in three new villages and the first baptism took place a few months ago.  This was one of the biggest miracle of the year!   The Lord is really blessing and new people from the neighbouring villages have started coming in for Sunday worship too.   Would you like to help families go out and serve Jesus?  If so, please write to us.

Community Initiatives

A new work has started in four locations among the Kalbelias and the Lohars. Traditionally the Kalbelias are snake charmers and the Lohars are blacksmiths.  Our workers are teaching and reaching out  to these communities through health education, informal education and adult literacy programs. Medical camps were held and medicines distributed reaching out to more than 500 people. In one community where the women and  children earn their living by picking up rags, efforts are being taken to encourage children to enroll into a regular  school and for women to learn healthy practices. Through health education many Lohar youth have quit multiple addictions to tobacco and other locally available addictive substances. We are trusting God for transformed lives in these communities. Would you pray for them please?

Church Buildings

Over two years, out of a total of ten churches that needed a building, God enabled us to complete five.  We are excited and thank God for His miraculous provision. A church that is right now in the final stages of construction is the church at Sagwa in Rajasthan. The believers at Sagwa church underwent much persecution seven years ago.Today God enabled us to build a church building in the same village and it is a source of great relief and blessing for the people in the region.  We need your continued financial assistance to finish these buildings.

We request you to continue to help us with your prayers and your giving. Your giving, big or small, goes to the most needy individuals and meets their dire needs.  God bless as you consider to give. Also let us know how we can pray for you in the days to come.

In closing we want to bless you with Ephesians 3:20 — Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. (NLT)

Joining you in this end time ministry,

Paul and Christy Mathews
Udaipur, Rajasthan

Spirit Wind in Sakri

Situated on a raised plateau, Sakri is known for its beautiful mountains, strawberry fields and its sugarcane farms.  But soon it will be known for one more thing.  The Spirit Wind.

As you meet Pastor Motiram you are stunned by the sincerity in his words.  He was trained in the Filadelfia Bible College and went back to minister with his co-workers in the Sakri area.   After 15 years of ministry, there were results, but not at the speed he wanted them to come.  One fine day, as he and others were praying, the Lord promised them that he would send a Spirit Wind upon the region and remove the barrenness.   But they were to sit in pray for the coming revival. And they began to pray earnestly.

As prayer gathered momentum, their faith began to rise.  With faith and prayer, came answers to difficult prayers.  Soon, they had the faith to put up a tent meeting.  A small meeting was planned but the turnout defied all odds. People began to give generously and sacrificially for a larger meeting.

“All the expenses are being borne by the simple people of our churches,” says Motiram. Knowing the condition of the people, this in itself is a miracle.

Shyama came to the faith after losing two sons.  He himself was battling a strange disease.  No one helped nor cared.  But he was desperate and God directed him to a church.  People prayed for him and he was totally and instantly healed.  From that day, he prayed that they would come to his village to start a church.    That prayer was soon answered.

A church was started and people began to pour and NMM was able to partner with the believers to complete a church building in the village.  But God had greater plans for Shyama. Handing over his farm to his sons, he is now working full time with his local pastor.  When asked… what changed him?  He replied … it was the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  Everything changed. Love for the Lord, compassion for the lost,  a boldness to pray for people and the joy of seeing people being healed, is what I got after my Spirit baptism. 

While studying in the Bible College, the only prayer that Pastor Savlish had was, “Lord send me to a place, where no one know you.. I want to be a witness for you.  But then he had another prayer too.  Lord, please save each and every member of my family, before I go out and preach to others…  Today God has honoured both this requests.  His whole family is saved and he is  ministering in a pioneer location and the Lord has blessed him with 40 believers there. 

The Holy spirit is doing a marvellous thing in the area…..