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