TEACHING WITH LOVE

This past month has been a great one with celebrating Easter with the church here in Ranchi. God continues to be so faithful in my life. He has been teaching me to hear His voice above all and even when there is so much pressure or stress sometimes to know that He is right there to guide me. This past month I have felt lonely quite often but even during those times Gods strength has been the only thing that has been holding me together. His presence is what I rest in when I feel low. God is the only one who is there from the beginning and till the end He alone will stand by me and in that I have no doubt, so this season God has been teaching me to depend on Him totally and expect greater things from Him alone. I enjoy ministering to the people here in Ranchi and they are such amazing people. They are very teachable and humble.

Leading worship at women's meeting.

preaching the word- women's meeting

We had our monthly women’s meeting and it was really a blessed time. We had a speaker from the states that came to encourage the women here to be strong and courageous in all situations and the women were encouraged. This coming month we will be beginning our literacy program for the women and the prayer cell groups in each area for the women alone and we are excited for these to happen. The house visiting has been going on well too. We continue to visit the women’s houses and encourage them with the word of God and pray for their family and also get a chance to hear their testimonies.

Teaching kids hygiene and good habits at slum.

The slum ministry has been going on well and the kids are able to learn so much from us. We have been focusing on teaching them to follow good habits and not follow bad ones they see their parents do. The children are used to seeing their parents get drunk each day and also taking other unhealthy things. So we have been encouraging them to do the right thing and what God teaches us in the Bible to do. They have been learning about hygiene too which is much needed for them. The greatest thing is their parents are coming to us and telling that even when they tell them to be clean they would not listen but they listen to what we tell them and teach them to do. So what we teach is important. These kids are so special to my friend and me. We enjoy ministering to them.

Action songs with kids.

Altogether it has been an amazing month of trusting the Lord to guide me as I minister to the women, children and youths. The bible study that I started has been going on well by God’s grace and I am encouraged to see the youth girls respond well and enjoy the fellowship. We have been growing closer in fellowship and deeper in the word of God. We completed the book of James and we are planning to start the book of Ruth and we are excited. It has been a great joy teaching them from the word of God and I learn more as I teach. God is faithful in continuing to guide me in every way. I am grateful to God for his unconditional grace and love over my life.

Bible study group- worship time

Some of my prayer points are:

Women's house fellowship.

·        For God to give me more wisdom as I teach others scriptures and to handle his word correctly.

·        For the kids at the slum that God would help them make the right choices even when they don’t have great examples before them as it is harder where they live that they would still choose right.

·        For God to help me continue to serve Him faithfully though it gets hard sometimes with less help that I will depend on him always.

GOD'S HAND IN ALL.

Bible study group 

It has been a great month of serving the Lord and Him teaching me how to keep growing in Love with him and to show that love to people around me. I had the opportunity to start a new Bible study group this past month and it has been wonderful trusting the Lord for this new step. So far we had five girls join us and it has been a great blessing teaching them from the word of God. Teaching has always been my favorite thing to do and I enjoy it so much. Teaching the word of God is even more exciting and as I teach I realize that I learn more and God is calling me to go deeper in understanding his heart for me and his children. One of the things I have learned here in Ranchi is the lack of the word of God in the lives of the youths.

Worship at Women's fellowship.

Many have come to me and told me that they don’t know so many things that are in the bible and they want to know more. Many of them have never been to any Sunday school so they don’t know even the common stories from the bible. They are so happy that this bible study is helping them now and they make sure they never miss it even once. We have this class each week on Saturday for two hours and it has been going on well. God has been putting this new idea in my heart from past December and I thank Him for helping me to start it. My prayer is that we will grow together in word and have a strong Godly fellowship with one another. I love this group and they are amazing. I am so encouraged to see their hunger to learn the word of God more.

Women's fellowship- Sharing time.

We also had our monthly women’s fellowship and it was really good. We have been trying to minister to the women more efficiently and have come up with some new schemes to help them more as many of them are from far places out of Ranchi. We are going to start small prayer groups in each area where the women stay and they will have it each month once just to come together and spend time praying. Another thing we will be starting is a literacy program for the women so they will be able to read the Bible. Last month as we have been teaching them the importance of the word of God we realized that most of them don’t even know how to read or write. So this training will help them to at least learn to read. We will be starting this in April and we have got some teachers to teach the women to read Hindi and we will have this once each week since they come from far places. We are excited to see God lead us as a church towards helping the women and encouraging them to go deeper in the word. So far we have got good response from them and we are glad.

Fun time at the Slums- Happy kids.

The Slum ministry has been going well too and I enjoy ministering to them with one of my good friends who has been a great help to me in serving the kids there alongside me. We have been helping the kids with their studies as their exams are almost near and mainly helping them with their English. Our goal this year is to help them be aware of the bad habits and things they see their friends or parents do like drinking and so on. My friend and I are planning to take small sessions to teach them the right things and to teach them to live for Jesus though it is challenging and tough for them at times. We have taught them already before but we want to keep reminding them and help them to choose right always. Altogether it has been an amazing month with God leading me and teaching me to always believe in the impossible.

Women's house fellowship at vilma's place.

Some of my prayer points are:

·       For the new programs we are planning to start for the women that God would lead us in the right way.

·       For the slum kids that God would protect them from the influence of their environment and that they would choose the right path.

·       For God to help me as I lead that I would be a good example to the people around me.

SERVING WITH LOVE

Teaching the kids action songs with the team at the slums.

This past month has been a good one learning to serve the people through His love and grace. God has been teaching me to trust him in all the situations even when times get difficult. This month it was wonderful to have three people from America come and help us minister to the kids and the students of the Bible College. It was wonderful ministering with them. We took them to minister to the kids in the slum. The kids in the slum were so excited to get to meet them and play games with them and learn more of God. They are such an amazing group of children full of joy. This month has been great spending time with them a lot and getting to know their hearts.

action song and dancing with kids at Surda- Jharkhand

Fun group of kids at the hostel in Surda- blessed time

We had the opportunity to go visit a children’s home at a place out of Ranchi which is four hours or so to reach there. It was amazing meeting the Indian couple working there with those kids who need love and education. They are doing a great job and it was fun seeing how God is using his people to be a blessing to many. I was happy to see that the lady in charge was my senior in Bible College and I was happy to see her after many years. We got opportunity to talk about what the Lord is doing in both of our lives and ministry. It was such a blessed time.

Group discussion- Women's seminar

We also had our first women’s seminar this month and it was based on the topic ‘word of God’. It was a good day of investing our time and resources to help them study the word of God in a better way. We had wonderful time of game, teaching, quiz and so much more. The women were happy to learn the history of the bible, bible study and so much more. I had the opportunity to lead worship for the first time in Hindi and that is by the grace of God. The Lord has been helping me grow more in faith and teaching me not to limit him to a box. He will use us in anyway and all we have to do is be ready.

Teaching the history of the bible at women's seminar.

This first month of this year I can tell has been so good and I am blessed to serve the Lord more faithfully this year. Even when times get hard I need to learn to lean on him and believe him for the impossible. God has been so faithful in my life and I am very grateful to him for his goodness. I enjoy working among the kids a lot and they are a great joy. The Sunday school has been going well too and I am happy to see the kids growing in the Lord and responding well at church. They enjoy coming to church and that’s a good sign. It has been going on good and I am happy for what God is doing in the lives of these children. My main focus has been to help them share the gospel to their friends and close ones. Working with children is amazing each day and i wouldn't trade this with anyone. They are so much joy.

Sunday school- English service

Some of my prayer requests would be:

·       For God to help me as I start a new bible study group this coming month. For the youth girls to come and grow in fellowship and the word together.

·       For Gods strength in times when it gets hard and lonely at times. To fully depend on his grace every day.

·       For the kids to live for God each day and share the gospel to their friends and be a light wherever they go as that is what I have been asking God for the kids this year.

SEASON OF JOY

Carol  singing at a believer's home.

It has been a good month of trusting the Lord and depending on God in the good and bad. We had the opportunity to go house to house sharing the good news of Christmas and singing carols. We had a great time ministering in a school for their Christmas program in a place out of Ranchi which was a good experience .Our team from Ranchi performed a skit, dance and we taught them action songs and it was so fun. We got to spread the Christmas Love around. Some friends of mine and I got to conduct a small Christmas celebration with the kids at the slum and it was so fun. The kids are amazing and they are so responsive to the word of God. We had a great time with them.

Fun time with the kids- Christmas celebration with Pune friends

Teaching kids a game at school celebration

This month had been a little challenging with exams and my health issues but even through it all God has been so good to me. Even when at times I felt discouraged he was there to encourage me and teach me to trust Him alone and believe that he is faithful. We have been practicing a lot for our Christmas day and the program went well by God’s grace. The Sunday school kids did an amazing job and this month I started teaching in the English Sunday school and it has been a great experience. I have been able to build a good relationship with them and they are learning fast and are eager to know Gods word more.

Sunday school kids  doing the nativity scene on Christmas day

Dancing with the youths the local dance after service.

The Christmas day celebration was great and the new years as well. We had lots of people show up and it was good serving and ministering to the people. It was our first time having Christmas here with the people in Ranchi and it was fun. We got to do the traditional local dance that they do in every celebration at the end. I learned it and I love it. This year has been a great year of learning to build good relationship with the people and I love being a part of what the Lord is doing here in Ranchi. Many souls coming to the Lord, people hungry for his word and most of all the fellowship we have as the body of Christ here at Amazing life church. I am thankful to God for bringing me here and I rejoice in learning and growing as a church together. God has been so faithful to us and the last month of the year I can say God is good and he takes care of His children well.

New year service- amazing time

Fundraising for the women's fellowship.

Some of my prayer points would be:

·       For the 2^nd women’s seminar we are going to have on the 22^nd of this month that the Lord will minister to the women through our team who will be teaching on the importance of the word of God.

·       That the Lord will take me deeper into the next level of trusting and serving him faithfully and hearing his voice.

·       For the Sunday school teachers who are starting a new training for the kids to grow deeper in Gods word.

FATHER OF LOVE AND GRACE

women's 2nd anniversary celebration

It has been a great month of learning to walk with the Lord in faith.  It has been a busy one with also learning to depend on Him to help me make some wise decisions. The bible college is going on well and we have been taking the students for house visiting in the evenings and it has been good training them to minister and encourage the families too. Teaching has been fun and I enjoy it a lot. My friend from Pune had come as a guest speaker for two weeks and it was a blessing to have him here in Ranchi with us. We are now preparing hard for our Christmas season with carols and dance and so on and we are excited. The carols will be our church first time thing. We will be going every evening house to house as a group and singing carols.

Bible college students ministering in the slums.

women's house visiting 

We had the opportunity to take the Bible college students to the slums where I minister and they had a great time with the kids. The kids were so happy to have them sing and dance and share the word of God with them.  We also had the opportunity to take the kids to play at a nearby park just for fun and we had a great time and for many of them it was their first time in a park. The kids are so amazing. I enjoy working among them.My team and I conducted a small training for our church Sunday school teachers and it went out very well and we have started our Hindi Sunday school again and I am so happy. I have been praying for a good team and God has given me one.  I am grateful to him.

Sunday school teachers training

We had our first women’s house visiting in the English service also this month and it was good. We are praying to continue to minister in other women’s houses too to encourage the believers and families in the Hindi and English service as well. The Womens 

ministry has been going on so well and we had our 2^nd year anniversary celebration and it was so awesome. For the first time we had an all girls band lead in worship and through lots of prayer and practice we saw God move powerfully during the worship time. I too was in tears . I felt His presence so strong that words can’t describe .God is so amazing and he moves when we are ready for him to. The whole program went on so well. Thank you all for your prayers.

Fun time at the park with kids

  

Altogether I can say that God has been so faithful in my life in the small to the biggest things. At times when I felt so low or down I felt his presence and His Love for me so overwhelming. I know that God is with me through all and he wants me to continue to serve him faithfully. I love and enjoy what I am doing. So thankful to God for this season. 

Worship in the women's fellowship

some of my prayer request would be:

 * Please pray that God would continue to give me more of his grace as I work for Him each day and to trust him even when at times I feel overwhelmed.

* For wisdom as I also write my exams this month for the online course I am doing.

* For all the christmas programs to go well and God to help us as we minister to the believers in this season.

HIS GRACE LEADS

our staff and students of the bible college

This past month has been amazing in the way the Lord is continuing to bless our church in each and every way. It has been a good experience so far in teaching in the new bible college we started. I have been teaching on the subject “survey of the old Testament” and it has been going well so far and I have been learning so much while teaching them. Teaching is something that I always loved doing from young and I enjoy it a lot. It is one of the talents the Lord gave me and especially teaching his word is even more exciting. We have 9 students so far and it has been wonderful ministering to them. Two of the students are from Andhra Pradesh and the other seven students are from Ranchi itself. I am really grateful for these new experiences and the way God is showing me that He is ready to use me in anyway as long as I am ready to listen to His words. It has been a good season so far and I praise God for his goodness and faithfulness in my life. He has been teaching me that He is a God of grace and He takes care of His beloved children well. As we are the staff of the college we have the role of being a good example to our students. They watch and learn so much from us.

Good break with family

Teaching at the bible college

I also took a short break from ministry and went to Bangalore for ten days. It was a good time of refreshment and spending time with my awesome family and friends. We have been also preparing for our 2^nd year Women’s anniversary which is going to take place on the 11^th of October and we are excited to see what the Lord is going to do. For the first time we have a great team of talented youth girls who are going to lead people into worship with all their talents and gifts. I am happy to see the unity among us and the desire to do our best as a team. I have grown to fall in love with this place every day and serving the kids, youths and Women has been a great joy though sometimes hardships and frustrations come my way God has helped me to realise His heart for his people. I feel that I am in the right place and God is continuing to use me in ways I never even thought of before.

Colouring fun with the kids at the slum

The slum ministry is going on well and I am happy to get some youths now and then to help me serve these kids better. They kids are a true gem and close to my heart. They love us a lot and we do too. Life with them is always an adventure. We have a lot of fun teaching them and growing in deeper relationships with them.  I am blessed to see their attitude towards life and it encourages me. Altogether I would say it has been a month of growing in deeper levels of trusting God and growing close with people as well. It is so encouraging that God is using me to be an encouragement to many and help them in every way I can so they can grow closer to God. The focus of our church has been to keep encouraging the people to walk in the ways of the word of God and to continue to live out what they are taught. Every day we are trusting God for the impossible.

 My friend who is a great help- teaching them action songs 

Some of my prayer points are:

·         Please pray for more of God's wisdom as I continue to teach His word to the students at the college.

·         Please pray for our Women’s ministry program that is going to take place that the Lord will use us to reach out to the women by his leading.

·         For financial needs to be met for the church and our Bible college as we are trusting the Lord to provide.

GOD IS ON THE MOVE

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 50^th 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.

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.

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.

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.

Best gift - fellowship through God- Great team of youths .

Some of my prayer points will be:

·         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.

·         For the financial needs for this college and more resources as well.

·         For God to continue leading us as a church towards the main goal of reaching out to the lost souls.

·         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.