Greatings from me and my family in Nepal. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas in advance. I have been in my village for the last three moths with my birth mom and sister. It's a bit cold in here but all is well and I am doing great. Lots of ups and downs have been for me during this season of my life. The only thing that has kept me going is my time with God has been great. The job that I was offered to me last month got expired because I still can't speak enough Nepalese.

     At first I was disappointed and sad cause I thought this teaching job at a primary school was and answer for God. I was so prepared to take the job but the truth behind this is, for me to full fill something else and which was not totally form God. So again God was working in me and teaching again the basic things all over again. I too was disappointed on my self for not doing anything big out side of my family. I even was kind of Jealous at my other brothers who were doing for more grate than me.

  

I painted this during the marriage.
 

last month I attended my friends wedding and did a painting for the couple. As I was painting many people were moved by the painting and they commissioned me to do a painting for them. I thank God for this opportunity and I know It's God who brought the idea and is slowly fulfilling.

prayer points

please pray for my health as i have been falling sick regularly.

pray that I start sleeping good as i am not able to sleep for the last eight days.

pray that as i do the painting i would hear from god and get more idea.

                                                    Just like a Family

my home for the next few months.

 

 I am finally living with my birth mom and my sister. Thank you for your prayers and it is because of your prayer that I am still in my village. For a long time I have been asking God “Did I really hear from you, that I should go to Nepal”? To be frank my life is too silent and please don’t get me wrong but I feel “Silent “is the right word which describes, the way life is for me. I am an extreme introvert and every day silent in my life but it is too silent. It’s not that I am not hearing from God or me doing nothing. It is more like life in the village is different when you’re living in it. It’s like God telling me to go to Nepal and when I go and reach there, I notice a lot of things missing in my life. I am missing my comforts, friends and families. So for the last one month I haven’t had a proper face to face conversation with anybody. I am living with my sister and birth mother and most of the time we don’t know what anyone is saying, to each other. There is no electricity in my house or running water. I could go on and on about so many things that are happening in my life but it’s all silent. I don’t feel empty or jobless but I feel silent. This is how I am feeling at present and I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing but one thing I just know is it’s just a feeling. I wish I was could be an author or a poet to describe with the right words about what I feel.

    

Me and my birth mom.

Yes I am living in my small house and have learned a lot of things. I have learned to cook and cultivate the field and provide food for my family. I have learned to love my sister and mother and speak their language as best as I can. I have learned to meet others comfort before mine. I have learned to wait upon God even when nothing is happening. My idea of ministry was totally wrong and I have come to understand that my life is its self a ministry. Thanks Tammyma for teaching me that. I was so encouraged when I heard preaching is not the only ministry and that is why also I am still in Nepal.

     I have been seeking the lord for the next step in my life in the village and God has answered me. I will be teaching in a Christian school very soon. I am excited and nervous at the same time and thank you for your prayers. Thank you.

                                                       Dhangadhi (village)

     It’s been two weeks in my village and I am with my family. At presently I and the family are staying with the pastor of the village. My sister has been helping the church ever since she accepted the lord. My birth mom is doing well and is very happy to come back to the village after three months. She took me to many people’s house and introduced me as her lost and found son. There are some times she talks for hours to me in her language and I am not able to understand but I love listening to her and making her happy. I am in a very rural part of Nepal and to be honest it is not

My sister my guide for the next 10 months .. love her

easy.

    I am still learning the language and I am able to understand a conversation and reply in words. I am glad that I am able to pick up quick than I expected, since I struggle in language. I have not done much door to door evangelism but I know God is preparing me for the longer run. By next week I and my family are planning to shift to our hut. Our hut is small and rusty since no one lived in there for 5 months. So every day me and my sister go and clean our house and try to hold everything. We are also planning to sell part of our land and build a new home since the hut is too small for us. Not much has happened but I know that this is the hardest and I know that the victory that I am so searching is right around the Conner. Thank you for your supports and your prayers and they are a big aid in my life. 

Prayer points

Pray I would get Nepal citizenship as I will be applying for it.

Pray also that people would be softening to hear the gospel.

Pray for peace between my family and the relatives as they are trying to get our land.

                                                        Gift of tongues

Ever since I came to Nepal I had a feeling of what am I hear for and what am I going to do. I had no answers to my questions and for some reason I didn’t tell anyone about it. And ever since my pastor walked through the front door and we started praying, things are slowly starting to make sense. For a long time I wanted to speak in tongues and when the pastor and I prayed I was just speaking in tongues. Life becomes so much a difference when you start speaking in tongues. Now I pray in tongues every day. It might be just five words but they are powerful words that change me every day. It brings me back to realize how much we need and how vast is the power of pray. Now I know that God was ready to give me this gift of tongues a long time ago because when I pray I feel I was always praying in tongues.

  

   

painting during the wedding. 

I have been in Kathmandu for a month and I have been helping the church with the construction. Most of my time I am just with people and I am trying to learn Nepali. I can understand most part of the conversation but I am not able to do so much when it comes to me speaking the language. I was invited for a wedding and it was my first Nepal wedding. As I was sitting with the pastor before the marriage I was admiring his I pad. On his I pad there was a picture of Moses standing before the separated sea. As I was just looking at the picture lots of image just popped out in my mind. As I was in my thought the pastor shared me the idea of me doing a painting during the marriage. So I finally did a painting during the marriage. It was my first time and I am so glad that I got the privilege of doing a painting. Now the other day the same pastor came up to me and asked if I could do painting for the church.

  In a few days I will be going to my village which is in the west side of Nepal. I will be staying in my small hut and the last time I was there the hut was very small and lots of snail were living in it. It’s not safe for me to go to my village now cause of the strike and two weeks ago there was deaths. Seven people were killed by the local people. Two main officers of Nepal were burnt alive and a child of two years was killed. So I will need your prayers and I will be staying with my mom and my sister. For now the church in my village are staying low because of the strike and also because the nation wants Nepal to be a Hindu nation. I am great full for your prayers and support. Thank you.

                                                        

India to Nepal

   It’s been three days in Kathmandu and so far I am enjoying the fellowship and relationship with the people. I took three days on train from India south to the boarder of Nepal. The journey was long and hot and when I reached the boarder of Nepal, I took a pickup truck and traveled eight hours. The journey from the boarder to Kathmandu was great and lots of beautiful place.

the place i stay near by

    The people here are very friendly and very welcoming. I am staying with my uncle and his family and my mom and my sister. I am very blessed with the family that I am staying with and they have supported my mom during her operation. Every one speaks Nepalese and that helps me to learn my language more quickly. I love the family that I am staying with and it already feels like I am at home. I have been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

    So for the first month I am going to have to learn the basic of the language. Not so much am I focused on the ministry for the first month. I am involved with the street kid ministry and I just joined them the first day I arrived here in Kathmandu. I love the street kids here and it breaks my heart seeing they addicted to drugs at a very small age. We talk to them and play games and take them for a lunch. In ten days the church is providing them a home to stay and it’s their wish to stay or move out and in as they like.  The street kids in Nepal are very wild and stay in groups and each area they are there. Almost every day we go and find them and spend time with them.

street kids in Nepal

    I will be here in Kathmandu for one whole month and then will be going to my village. I will need your prayers and I am so excited to be in my country and I am so willing to stay focused at all time.

   Please pray that I would not grow weary but stay strong at all time. Pray also that I learn the language more quickly and I would be open to God to move in any way as he pleases.  

                                                             Waiting 

my fine arts students

 

the last day of the school

  I had a great time with the YWAM family for two whole years. The last day was a blast and we had a great time. It was great to see my friends and students getting graduated. We shared great and low times and to be honest the nine months seems like 5 years. We know each other very will either ones weakness or ones strength. We slept in one same roof and worshiped the living God together for nine months. Now it has all come to an end where we say our bye and go where we feel God is calling us to.

     My students at fine arts were amazing people and good friends. I really appreciate their efforts and a spirit of learning. My time in YWAM was great and I praise God for ever thing that.

Graduation day

   

  Right now I am in K-home and so far it’s been great. It’s good to be back at home and seeing your family doing great in every area. I came home for three things and that is seeking God, being close to my family and the next step of my life. Being here at home has really open doors for me to go back to my home land Nepal. I felt God is calling me to be in Nepal for the next season of my life. Even Tammyma felt the same calling for me to be in Nepal. 

 ^rd. I am hoping and expecting God for many things and I am fully depended on him. I will be in Kathmandu for one whole month and for the next eleven months I will be in my village. I am also hoping that I will learn my mother’s tongue during my stay in Nepal. The details I do not know but I am open to God for his ways. Thank you for reading and supporting me through your prayers. God bless.

my village in Nepal...

                                                                                                                                 Arjun BahadurSingh

                              KEEP THE FIRE BURNING

My fine arts students preparing for Grand finale project.

  It’s been three weeks since my outreach and things haven’t changed a bit. The passion that I see in my students really challenges me, in my walk with Christ. Just five more days till the school to get over. I really thank God who has made ever thing possible for me and the school. We as a school met with Akhan’s brother and sister (the person we passed away during our outreach). We are now working hard for the graduation day and for Grand finale. Grand finale is a program in which the students present to the crowed what they learned.

   

The students are divided into four tracks (dance, photography, Music and fine arts).  Since I am leading the fine arts for this season, I have done few paintings and other art objects along with my students and on Grand finale we will be presenting to the base. We really are working really hard since it’s our last program and it’s the biggest program that we conduct. I am really going to miss the school and the people here. It’s been a blast and I thank my mom, K-Home and Sons & Daughters for supporting me in their prayers.

one of the students working on his painting.

working on my painting.

   I have learned so much and have grown in maturity and in my skills in fine arts. I really don’t know what God has for me in the future but i am willing to wait on him. I am also glad that I finally get to have some rest and visit my home in Bangalore. God has been faithful from the very beginning to the end. One thing for sure I would like to do is, improve in my talent and that is in Fine arts. My mom is helping me out and I am so great full for what she is doing. 

   Soon my commitment to the base ends this July so please pray that I will finish it strong. My mom in Nepal is not doing well and hence I am not able to focus. My mom is very old and my relatives are causing some problems for her and she needs me to be with her. I personally do not know what to do and so I am going back to Bangalore to talk to Tammyma. 

      

                                                             Ranchi (North India)

children ministry 

                                      I and the team are in Ranchi, which is in North India. It’s been a great one month for my team, here in Ranchi. It was good to have Kiran and Kumar (my brothers) with us, my team really connected with my brothers. We have been working with the local pastors here in Ranchi. Every day we travel to different villages and connect with the local believers. We do a lot of cottage meetings and also mini concerts in various villages. The people here in North India are very open and many are mixed religion. Many villagers are Hindus who come and praise God during the cottage meetings. Women here are very passionate in Jesus and there are more women than men during any meeting.

cottage ministry

youth ministry / work shop

                                      God has been really faithful and a blessing to us during our ministry here. We really had very less money as a team but we never lacked any thing. God blessed us with generous host and pastors. It’s good to have musicians in a team and we used it to our advantage. 

My team mates were challenged to sing in Hindi and they did a great job. We connected the local people with music, dance and skit. I really enjoyed seeing people from other religions coming and worshiping God. We traveled a lot during this month, though it was far but it was worth it. Lots of people were blessed by my testimony and for some reason I am really thank full to God for who he is, in my life. We also did couple of children ministry and it was fun getting to know them and spending time with them.

   

                                          I was really depressed when the earthquake took place in Nepal. Personally I wanted to go to Nepal and be with my people. In midst of all my thinking God was reminding me of my life. He saved my life and my team’s life. We so often see the big picture and tend to forget the small things God is doing in our life. I should have been dead but I am alive and still have long adventure to go.

open air ministry.

I am really thankful to God and for all the prayers that people have prayed over me. As a team we are very tired but spiritually we are strong.

    

  Prayer points

Pray that we will have safe during the travel.

Pray that we will be able to finish strong.

                                                                                                             

                                                                 PSALMS 23        

                Two weeks ago I was with my team in Nepal. I really heard God calling my team to do ministry in Nepal. We started our ministry by doing lots of pray walk in my village. Night’s cold but very hot during the day time. The place is very beautiful and very quite.

Our ministry in my village.

                  I again got to visit my mom and my sister and the local church that hosted my team, last year. The first 6 days was very slow but we did lots of prayers and worship. Everything was very smooth and good but then suddenly we got caught up in doing things for God and hardly had a time to sit and worship as a team. This went on for three days and spiritually as a team we were far from God. On 19^th of March we decided to go on a picnic with the host family. When we got there we ate our lunch and me and the guys went out to swim in a river. From far away the river looked small but as we got a closer look, it wasn't small but rather big. I knew I could swim so I took up the challenge along with my brother (Muan). As we were about to swim one more joined us and we started to swim to the other side.

         As we got closer to the middle of the river, I felt the river current and we were being pulled. I swam hard and before I reached the bank of the river I heard my name being called and as I turned back, I saw my team mate drowning. I couldn’t go back, because of the strong current. I also searched for my brother and he was floating and for a second I thought that he too drowned and so I began calling MUAN!!!!! MUAN! The third call, he woke and reached the other side. I grabbed the nearest boat and as we got closer to the person being drowned we lost sight of him.

           Muan jumped into the river and I knew that the other guy was drowned. I was shocked in that moment and I cried out to God and it was very hard to believe that my team mate just drowned. We came for ministry and the next moment one of the team members has passed away. I got hold of my emotions and tried my best searching for the body and we called the police and the divers.

        For four hours we searched and searched for the body and we went back to the house. The next day again we went and searched the whole day and it continued for three days. The team was troubled in many ways such like, lack of sleep, bad dreams, emotionally break down, and numb to everything, shocked, anger.

the church and the local police in search for the body

           We were not alone; people around us were willing to help us. The church joined us and the YWAM members from Nepal helped us a lot. Even our main school leader flew to Nepal and took care of the team and the family who lost their son. After the third day we found the body and we took it to North east India where we could be buried at his home town. I believe that God was with us through the whole process of getting the body to burring it.

             It is said out of 10; only 3 are found in the river. I am great full to God for saving my life and being with me even though I questioned him a lot. A lot has happened and we are back at the base, being processed by the base leaders. As a team we want to continue the ministry soon as possible. Thank you for everyone who has been supporting me and the team through your prayers. Some of the team members are still having a hard time in getting focused and coming to the present.

Pray that we would be in same spirit and one goal.

Pray for the team unity and joy during our team time.

Pray for us to listen to God and be sensitive to him.

Thank you

Outreach

previous outreach 

    I thank God for his faithfulness and constant support in my life. It was my heart desire to go back to Nepal for outreach ministry. The team and I will be heading to Nepal on the 7^th of this month. I really had a great time of learning during the last 6 months. I am excited and scared at the same time, for the outreach. It’s my first time in leading a team; hence there is so much pressure on me. I am also glad to know that my own sister will be joining me for two weeks of outreach.

people in my village

   

    The YWAM base just commissioned our team for the outreach. It’s good to know that people are praying for me and the team. For the last few days everyone has been very busy in preparing and seeking God. God has placed Nepal in my heart and so I am very passionate but I need your prayers. I even thank God that I was able to collect some amount for my journey to Nepal. For the first two weeks the team and I will be doing outreach at my village.

place that we will be doing our ministry  

    It’s going to take 3 whole days for us to reach Nepal and I really want to hear God during the long journey. Pray that I will be able to have a humility heart towards God and the team. Pray for the team unity and safe journey. Pray that we will be a blessing in our ministry and we will something. Pray for the safety of the team members. Thank you so much

                          “Need is not the call but the call is the need”.              

 “Need is not the call but the call is the need”. This is what, my mom said to me last year. I never knew the real meaning of it or rather it didn't make any sense, in that moment.  It was two weeks, when I finally understood its meaning. Most of the time I assume, myself as a hero and I try doing things on my one. The last few weeks, God has been teaching me about myself. It is not only through arts or nature but more from books and people. This is very new for me and I am really in love with who I am. I really feel like I am called for Nepal this season of my life. God has been teaching me that need is not the call but the call is the need. It’s simple but very true and very direct.

getting ready for dance

    

  Even as I and the team are getting prepared for the outreach, it is very important for us to know who we are and who really lives in us. I and the team are praying for the people of Nepal. I can tell that God is on the move and I am very sure that God is on our side as we just look to him. Though we are not doing any ministry work at the moment but we are learning and seeking God, individually and as a group. I am also glad that my brothers Kiran and Kumar are going to be our host in north India.

  Every Thursday I and some of the guys go play football with city children and we bring the gospel to them. Not every Thursday has been great but we don’t want to give up. Please keep me and the team in your prayers. Thank you for taking your time to read my blog. In less than a month I will be in Nepal.

    December Outreach 

teaching crafts to the street kids in a jungle

   God has been really faithful during my time in South India. I and the team stayed for two whole weeks in a village. From beginning till the end it was a great experience, for me and the team. It was my very first time, in leading a team.

me and the team at the entrance of a school  

    During our time at the village, we were able to minister to the youths. My team was an interesting group of five artists, from different parts of the world. We also ministered to the local churches through paintings, dance and life testimony.
     The name of the village is Daund and 98% of the people group are very strong Hindus. The place is known for most number of rape case, kidnapping and poverty.

me and the team in a girls school

   Every day we did prayer walks and through this we were able to see open doors. During our prayer walk, we would walk for two hours, just praying. Praying for the people and the houses that we passed by. Many a time we were welcomed to the houses of the local people. We got the opportunity to perform dance, skit and share the gospel in an open slum area. We traveled from schools to schools, and we were able to share and hear their stories.

that's me teaching the school kids, how to act

   I also had a crazy but very cool dream. In my dream I saw the team doing prayer walk. We came across a banyan tree, near an open field. As we sat under the huge tree I saw a group of children. So, that was my dream. When I woke up, I told my dream that I had. We all felt it was from God and hence we started walking.

the banyan tree

     After thirty minutes we saw a huge banyan tree and we went to it. After several of minutes a group of 20 children came to the Banyan tree. We taught to them crafts, dance and painting. The children were very open and so we were able to do more fun stuffs with them.
Thank you for the people that have been praying for me and the team. We had fun and many lives were touched through us.

Prayer points

• I got the opportunity to do live prophetic painting in couple of churches in south India. Pray that I would really hear from God, what to paint.
• I am also praying for the upcoming 2 months outreach, in Nepal.

Arjun Bahadur Singh