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| Our 50th annual convention. |
It has been a great month with the Lord learning to depend
on him completely. It has been a busy one as we had our 50th
anniversary celebration .It was a four day convention and we had a lot of
speakers coming in to preach the word of God from all over India. We had a
great time of Worship, dance, listening to the word and amazing session for the
youths especially in the mornings. We had timely word for the youths from two
of the experienced people with youths and an awesome time of ministry among
them. We could feel the presence of the Lord during these four days of
celebrating the goodness of the Lord in our Church. We had people come from all
over Jharkhand and there were over 600-700 of them and it was amazing to see
their response to the word of God and the way they were eager for his presence.
This is an amazing year for us as we saw many miracles the Lord has done for us
as a church. He fulfilled our every desire and every need. He has shown us the
true meaning of believing with all our hearts even at times when we feel like
doubting him. God has been so faithful to us and its because of Him we rejoice
that everything went out well. From the first day to the last we could see that
he was with us through it all.
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| our special youth session -convention |
I had to learn a lot during this month especially on
overcoming frustrations and stress. I wouldn’t say it was easy working with a
few amount of people for a larger crowd. We were shorthanded on help for the
program days and though it had been so tiring we still learned to keep pressing
forward whether people saw our efforts or not. Serving Him must always come
from the heart and the Lord sees our hearts even at times when it seems so
challenging and hard. We learned a lot working in a team and how this has led
us to grow in bond with each other as well. As a church we could see the youths
growing deeper in the Lord and with each other in fellowship. Lots of good too
came out of this. The main key was to work together as a team and encourage
each other to do their best and I am so happy to be a part of this amazing
church. We can see the Love of Christ shown in the people towards one another.
Personally I learned a lot from these four days particularly seeing the
vibrancy of the people in worshipping the Lord and readiness to help one
another always. The guest speakers who had come were also amazed to see the
hardworking youths and the amazing unity in the church. God is so good and we rejoice in His faithfulness.
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| people praying for the Bible college teachers and staff |
From the time of the concert till today God is continuing to
touch the people’s lives that are new to faith and are growing in the Lord. We
are witnessing many non-believers just walking in and being touched by the Lord
in amazing ways and it is great to see as most of them say it is because of God
and secondly the love the people have for each other and the amazing fellowship
they find here. Amazing life Church has over 200 youths and I have grown to
love the way they have shown that it is not just about attending the service
and going back but it is about building relationships with one another at a
deeper level like a family does.
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| Games and fun at the youth session - convention |
We have also been working hard to start the new Bible
College we have been praying for. We have few students already and we are
excited for this new journey of our church starting this college to equip
people with deeper understanding of the word. We have an amazing team of
teachers and we are going to be investing our lives into them and I am excited
for this new step. This following week we will be starting our classes and we
would require lot of prayers and the grace of God to also provide all our needs
for this college. God has been faithful to us till today and we believe in Him.
The name of our college is “Amazing Life Word Institute”. It is going to be
great seeing what the Lord has in store for us as we continue building the
kingdom of God.
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| Best gift - fellowship through God- Great team of youths . |
Some of my prayer points will be:
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For the Lord to lead us step by step as we are
starting this Bible college to work as a team and be a good example to the
students who come there.
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For the financial needs for this college and
more resources as well.
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For God to continue leading us as a church
towards the main goal of reaching out to the lost souls.
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For my life to continue being a testimony to
many and God to help me reach out to the youths who are hungry still for his
word.
