Report from Nabin Darlami 

Recent Events

October - December 2018

Our SOWERS team of Nepal did gospel sharing and leadership development training in October to December 2018 in different places of our nation. According to collected records of events in many places, there were 1,150 gospel tracts distributed, 225 Bibles distributed and 1,725 people heard the gospel. 39 people have been baptised.

We provided a three week course of discipleship training for the 40 new believers through the church context. We have also built two new church buildings. These are not cemented buildings but general cheap cost halls made with wood walls, metal tin roof and stone foundation. The name of one church is Christian Church Gwalekada (photo on left) where there are 40 members and another is Christian Church Raturaye where there are 30 members.   

New Profiles

Shila Shahu is the wife of Pastor Resham Shahu. She did SOWERS training in October in her church. There were 14 evangelists in the team. She coordinated Level 1 & 2 seminars in her church and her trained group did four open air meetings in different villages. She is educated and keen for evangelism and church planting ministry. She wants to develop herself for evangelism to win souls for God’s kingdom. She is partnering with us for evangelism and church planting. She wants to take Levels 3 & 4 and above SOWERS seminars to develop herself in coming months from Dang district, State 5, to partner with us. Binod Gurung is keen to develop himself for Level 3 & 4. 

Personal Stories

Shila Shahu

Age: 34

Shila is from the family of a pastor. She helps her husband in his pastoral ministry as well as she is keen for evangelism and church planting to win souls. This couple has a son. His name is Abhisekh Shahu. He is a 10th class student and is conducting a choir team in his church. This family is doing church ministry in a church where there are 30 baptised members. Because the church is small the pastor does not have good financial support from his church but they are rich in spirit. They have a small church building.

Ps. Resham Shahu, husband of Shila Shahu, is the first Christian in his family. His background is that he was born in a Hindu family. He practiced Hindu religious practices while under his parents but accepted Christ in his student life. He was baptised at 20 years of age. He did Christian holy marriage with Shila Shahu, then he went to Bible college for B.Th. Degree and after he graduated he started ministry through his church. Later on his parents and family members all together accepted Christ. Now all his family members are involved in ministry activities.

This pastor couple have had great struggles in their ministries. He was living in a remote district in Salyan but later on God called them in ministry. He started ministries after he graduated in Ghorahi Dang district. Slowly his church ministry is growing. His church group needed different types of trainings so he requested us to provide gospel training. His church group has been trained in an evangelism seminar.

Nimraj Jaisee

Age: 25

Family situation: Converted Christian family from Hinduism.

This man is a generous young fellow now. He is from Brahmin family. He was studying in 10th class at Surkhet Valley School. During that time he was in contact with me (Nabin) and I shared the gospel with him. He received Christ and he took baptism by joining in fellowship with us. He has done a year Leadership Training in Surkhet and after he graduated from there he went to Bible college for a B.Th. course. He has finished his B.Th. recently. All his family members came to Christ two years ago.

Nimraj was also trained through SOWERS methods of Level 1 & 2. He is habitual in continuing to share the gospel to people whenever he has free time from his college study. He has shared the gospel to hundreds of people. He has desired to commit his life for gospel sharing and helping the church continue to grow. He is a strong partner with us to continue to share the gospel to win souls.

Nimraj's family members were all baptised last year. His elder brother is a teacher in a Government School and has arranged a program many times to share the gospel to the students in his school so this family are partnering with us to expand the kingdom of God. They are very happy in their family.

Partnership's Influence within the Community

SOWERS ministries are highly demanded in the nation of Nepal. This is a very effective method and program about evangelism tools. This is what the community, churches leaders and teachers are saying. This ministry needs to be promoted in every state church for the churches. More staff and volunteer workers are needed otherwise it is not possible to run the ministry.

Ideas for the Future

We are going to do Level 2 and 3 seminars very soon after Christmas in 2019.

It would be better to do social work through SOWERS as well so it’s impact can be positive regarding Christianity.

Current Issues and Challenges

We are facing challenges from the nation and Hindu people. A new constitution has been made and it is still in process. Most of the points are in use and it is not easy to do evangelism. As we are doing evangelism and church planting we continue to face suffering. Here is not an easy situation in the nation now. We are feeling that to do evangelism is like chewing iron ricebread. But God is great and the Holy Spirit is moving so God’s kingdom is growing, He is moving by anointing enough grace.

We need sufficient budget for SOWERS seminars as well as for evangelism and church planting too. We need funds for a computer, a printer, a scanning machine and it would be better for us to have a budget for social working in the nation. It would be good and effective to do evangelism and church planting and doing social work, but not direct gospel sharing.

Comments

Praise the Lord for the gospel that continues to be shared and the people that are coming to faith.