Just the thought of coming home for Christmas made me so excited. This retreat has been one of the most refreshing moments ever. I’m just overwhelmed by the amount of blessings that I received. To see the radical love that Sons & Daughters have for Jesus to equip, train and bless His workers amazes me. I believe that I had received a double portion of blessings in the retreat. I was prayed for and encouraged by my loved ones. I truly feel refreshed and energised.  I’m ready to go back to Arunachal and serve Jesus with the best I can.

Encounter With The Most High

    I'm so thankful to everyone who is so faithful in praying for me. I really appreciate your love, care and concern to upload me as I serve Jesus here in the north eastern parts of India. I'm so excited to go back home to see my family and to refresh, and rekindle my passion to serve Jesus.

   At this point in my life I really need God to refresh me. I feel like I'm in a season where I have to struggle and constantly encourage myself to keep going strong for Jesus. As I reflect back to look at everything that had happened here in my YWAM base, I feel more disappointment than encouragement.

   It's true that there are so many testimonies of how God worked in the lives of the local community, but when I look at the other part of the story, I'm really discouraged. My biggest discouragement is that there are so few workers who faithfully serve Jesus here in Arunachal. I don't feel spiritual dryness but disappointment. It's so easy to fall into disappointment when we don't see any fruit for all the prayer requests that we have made. Although I know that my hope should be in the person Jesus and not in the outcome or the results, I'm beginning to deeply understand that knowing it is a whole lot different thing than to actually experience it.

   There were two incidents that had happened this month in which I felt the presence of God so very strong. The first was in a house filled with brokenness. A mom who has five children had been cheated by her husband. He got into a relationship with a another woman, ran away with her and married her leaving his five daughters fatherless. As we prayed for the family the presence of God was so strong. There was much tears as my team and I comforted them.

    Apart from the fact that their father was in a relationship with another woman, he had left them because he wanted a son. In this culture having a son is more valuable than a daughter. Over time many people have changed and started valuing daughters but I'm sad to say that there are more people who still don't value a girl child. My team washed the feet of the family members as an act of protection by God over them.
As we encouraged them that God is the father of their house the presence of the spirit was so strong and they were weeping and weeping. 

   The second incident was in our Friday night fellowship. I was given the opportunity to preach. This was the last fellowship for this year and there were only five members plus me. They are my team members. Only six of us were there in the fellowship.  During the worship the presence of God was so strong that everyone were weeping. I was the one weeping the most because the Lord spoke to me something that I did not want to hear. He said ""you look more strong on the outside than the inside"" It's true I'm a person who can be easily shaken. I believe the Lord has already given me something to focus on for the coming year 2015. I prepared something for the message but during the worship God gave me a whole new message that was perfectly what our base was going through. There was so much weeping because the Lord's presence was so tangible.

Discernment

  



 This month was filled with lot of challenges...but at the same time I feel like I'm learning a lot. Again and again the lord is teaching me something that I was never good at, ""waiting on the promises of God."

“Through the life of David I'm learning a lot on how to wait on the lord. David was anointed as king when he was a boy but became a king only after 40 years of waiting from the time he was anointed. Lately I've been recalling all the dreams, visions, and promises that God gave to me. I feel like the lord rekindled my passion to live strong for Him here in Arunachal Pradesh. This month I really suffered from migraine so much...

To be honest I had it the most number of times in this month than my entire life. To make things worse I'm unable to get the medicines that I require. I visited two doctors in the best hospital over here and to my surprise they did not know what migraine is.

 The place that I live in is totally undeveloped. Please pray that I would have good health to be able to minister to the locals. I’m working in children ministry and in DTS...

  
My team and I went to a place where most of the Hindu idols are made in the place that I live in. These were made for a festival called Dhurga Pooja. Please intercede and cry out to God that He would move powerfully during this season. 

 I feel like I’m being pulled in two directions and unable to choose which one to join. Please pray for discernment

DTS team members - Saritha and tsering Somu

A glimpse of my life in Arunachal Pradesh

I love serving God here in Arunachal. I feel like I’m growing a lot. My church over here held a youth camp for three days which seemed more like a seminar to me. The whole time I was reminded of the youth camps which we have at K Home. Through the camp I felt like the lord teach me so much about the people and culture over here.

One of the best ways I so easily connect with God is through children. Serving them makes me feel the presence of God so strongly. It’s one of the best things that I love to do. In every personality of these children I see the character of God. I’m so happy to see many of them joining the Saturday club which is one of the biggest ways by which we reach out to them.

This month there was a big festival called Dhurga Pooja. We went to many places nearby where this goddess Dhurga was worshiped and we spent time rebuking idols, and asking Jesus to establish his kingdom where ever the enemy was being worshiped. To the non-believers we were as if worshiping their gods but in our hearts we knew that Jesus will surely crush the enemy underneath our feet.

I also love visiting houses and praying for the locals. We also visit the non-believers asking them whether we can pray for them but sadly many of these people refuse our prayers so we walk away. Pray that God will open their houses to let us in so that we can pray for them, bless them, love on them and listen to their concerns. By doing these things they would see Jesus in us and receive Him.

While visiting one of the houses I met an old man who was in his mid-sixties. As he spoke of his early life I was so blessed and filled with excitement listening to him. When he was twenty, he built one of the first schools in this place along with some of his friends. Then he went around visiting houses to bring children to school. He also found teachers to teach in the school that he built. After doing all this he sat with the class one students and started his schooling with the little ones. Today many of the children, whom he sent to the school that he built, are now top political leaders. This old man went on to express his concern that his children are drifting away from Jesus and not living radical Christian lives. This reminded me of what Tom Tanner once said to me. He encouraged me saying that just as Elijah passed on a double portion to Elisha so should my generation go much further than the previous generation.

The Lord has been exceedingly good to me ever since I left home.In Arunachal I live and serve in a very small YWAM base.In our base we have two ministries running together.First is the Pre-school which started recently.There are two couples and two young girls who serve in this ministry.On the other hand there were five members including me in the DTS that I'm working with.Presently there are only three of us staffing for the DTS.


 Our team planned on going to Mysore for our staff training.My team worked very hard preparing and raising funds for our training which would be held in Mysore.During the time of preparation we felt the Holy Spirit give us no peace in our hearts because there was some kind of sin going on in the base.The entire week we got together as often as we could to seek God and ask Him to bring everything into the light.To my surprise we found out that the only two guys who were with me in the base were secretly were taking drugs and overdosing themselves.So much grace was given to them and this was not the first time that they were caught for taking drugs.The elders got together and prayed.Finally at the end of it all they decided to send them back home for three months.They were advised to seek God and at the end of the three months if they really feel God leading them back to this base then we would happily welcome them back.But what happened was so very shocking to me.When these guys left the base they spoke against the leaders and the base with very harmful and destructive words.One of the guys had built a very strong relationship with the local people after three long years.When he left, he spread lies and deceit to the locals about us,our leaders and about YWAM.Later my leaders had to visit all the local people and explain to them the truth.In other words we had to spend an entire week cleaning up their mess.To make things worse they cancelled all our train tickets to Mysore as they were the ones  in charge of our travels.

In spite of all what happened I really feel like I'm more closer to God than how I was before.I feel like the lord teach me so much this past month.One of the biggest things that I've been learning is to always check myself and remove all the masks that I so often put on for people to see.As my team were preparing to go to Mysore we were asked to present a song or a skit to the Mysore base.The name of our skit is "masks". In the skit everyone wears a mask and when the mask is removed our true character is revealed.While we were practicing the skit these two guys were into drugs.They had a mask on and I did not even notice.But through this situation the Lord made me realize of all the masks that I so often  put on everyday without even realizing it.Presently there are only three of us staffing for the DTS.(My leader Annu,my friend Saritha and I.


Prayer Points...
  Please pray that the lord will send more staffs to work with us.
  
  please pray that I would learn Hindi soon.

  Pray for our pre-school and our children ministry.

  Pray that I would not feel lonely and that I would faithfully serve God. 

Where I've been and where I'm headed.....

On the 30th of September 2013 I went to Pune to do my Creative DTS (discipleship training school).  The Lord had put a strong passion in my heart to go into the mission field and serve His people. These nine months in DTS had been an amazing time of learning and also serving Jesus in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh during my outreach. 

My little sis, and Tammyma, and Anbu came to visit me in Pune. 

This was the first time I went to North India and North East India. To be honest this was my first time leaving home. I faced a lot of challenges and hardships when my team and I from DTS ministered to the locals in North East India. We did not have any reservation tickets for our journey by train so we traveled standing and sitting by the doorway and sleeping near the toilets throughout our journey which was about three and a half days. I remember the time when a few of my friends and I went to the local train station in Lonavala to book tickets by spending the the entire night waiting in a Que.  Some other hardships were the lack of food (I lost a lot of weight), the poor access to clean water, and much more. Although the physical challenges that I faced were very hard I really felt like there was a great need for the gospel to be preached especially in Arunachal Pradesh.  So many homes visited were completely and absolutely closed to hear any thing at all about Jesus. They would physically chase us out of the houses. The culture seemed quite dark.  Half the people seemed to be strong Buddhists and half seemed to be strong Hindus. 

Map of Arunachal Pradesh

 That's when I felt like The Lord called me to serve the people of Arunachal Pradesh. In the village areas,  I was really disturbed by Dhoni-Polo believers. They believed that Hell is the best place for them so that they can be with their ancestors.  They wouldn't even consider Heaven as a place where they could be happy.   I was also disturbed by the cultural practices, which said, that any new bride of a young man, must first sleep with his eldest brother on their wedding night. 

I feel strong in my heart God is calling me to go serve the local people in Arunachal Pradesh. I will be joining a team of believers there with YWAM.  My responsibilities will be staffing the Discipleship Training Schools that come through there. Helping in the local YWAM-initiative preschool. We will also do regular house-visiting,  church ministry, youth ministry, children's ministry, and open-air events.  I will also be leading teams to do outreaches in and around North India. My commitment there is for two years. 

A typical AP village

I'm excited to go but I'm also nervous. I'm excited because I know the Lord wants me to go there. I'm nervous because I might feel lonely and it's a new place.  It's a dark place, so I'm going to need lots of prayer support.  I will also have to learn Hindi, so I am both excited and nervous. 

Please pray for me in these areas:
1.     Pray for the base in YWAM in Arunachal.  
2.   Pray for the students that are coming. Pray also for me as I     disciple them. 
3.   Pray for the leaders at the base, that they would lead in wisdom. 
4.  Please pray for my long travel, I will be visiting my brother Kiran on the way.  Including train and bus travel,  it will take over 60 hours to reach there. 
5.   Pray for me as I try to learn Hindi. 
6.   Pray for the local preschool that we are serving.