Hey everyone! We arrived back in Kathmandu on Thursday morning after our two week trekking trip doing village ministry in the Khotang region with our guides Chandan and Brother Krishna. We hiked up and down the hills (we would call them mountains) and delivered encouraging messages to the Christian families living there. We also performed our skits and dance numerous times to visually demonstrate the Gospel and God's love for them.
Our experience in Nepal has been amazing so far. For many of us this is our first time in a 3rd world country. It's amazing how different life here is but also how quickly we adapt. We started in Kathmandu and had orientation to the Nepali culture. Then we took a bus overnight 13 hour bus ride followed by another 5 hour bus ride into the mountain region of Khotang. We learned some valuable lessons from those bus rides - always bring ear plugs because they play very loud music all night and we learned that it's best not to look out the windows because Nepali drivers are much more daring than what we're used to.
Once we arrived we hiked for a few hours then stayed overnight with a family of believers. We were amazed by their hospitality. We were told that most of the believers in this region came to Christ because of Brother Krishna (There's a link at the end of this post that talks more about his ministry). The next morning we hiked 5 hours up the mountain to the church that became our base while we were in this region.
We stayed at the church for 4 days initially (partly because several people were sick and couldn't hike). During that time we shared our skits and a sermon with the congregation there. We also did some practical ministry by helping to build a stone toilet for the church. The girls carried rocks up the mountain and the guys dug the pit for the toilet.
We also hiked around to several close villages and did our dance and skits. Afterwards we would ask if we could pray for people and we saw God bring healing to many of them. There were times when over 20 were lined up and we would pray, our translator would inform us that their pain was gone and we would move along to the next one. God healed toothaches, back and knee pain, heart and lung problems, stomach problems, and he delivered people from evil spirits. We celebrated each healing and became so accustomed to God working in miraculous ways. We were really encouraged by the healings because Brother Krishna informed us that most people come to Christ in this region because they have been healed.
Once everyone was up to hiking we went farther into the mountains and witnessed to people there. We were really blessed by Brother Krishna and Chandan because they had lined up Christian houses for us to stay in along the way. We did more skits and saw more healings. After one service we had 2 people follow us and ask for healing because they had heard of others getting healed.
Overall we were received very well by the people here. Many are fascinated by our white skin which gives us a chance to talk with them. We would announce that we were going to perform and people would walk for over an hour to come see us. We were able to witness to many Hindu people and we also encouraged many believers. Some days we visited believers in surrounding villages because they were often the only family there and needed to be built up.We prayed for their families and prayed for healing.
Before leaving to come back to Kathmandu we held a seminar at the church to encourage the believers. All of us spoke on topics we had learned about during lecture phase including hearing God's voice, the Father heart of God and identity. Some people walked for 5 hours to hear us speak.
We will try to update this post with pictures and a more detailed account of our days today pending we have power and internet at the same time. Please continue to pray for the team's health as we have been having difficulty adapting to the food.
Here is a link that shows some of the region we were in and shows you Brother Krishna aka Kris in the video. Rise Campaign
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