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 I'm so ashamed of myself....

I want to share with you a letter I just received from a young man who I visited in India in 2001. He calls me uncle, I call him my beloved nephew. I met his father online and he invited me to India to preach. So God sent me and I went. I have been in correspondence with them ever since.

India has about 1.1 billion people in a nation smaller than our own. About 750 million of them live in what they call tribal villages. So when you read this mentioned in the email, you will understand. These saints travel by foot or bicycle to these mountain villages to preach the gospel to ears who have never heard the name of Jesus. I was there, I know. To many of them I was the first white skinned man they had ever seen. I even saw a guy walking around in a loin cloth with a bow and arrow.

These young men are on fire for leading these souls to Christ. I think you will easily discern this as you read it. Yes the english is broken, but the spirit is not. Please be patient with it. What makes me ashamed? I'm not remotely close to the regard they have for me. They outshine me in ministry, devotion, and prayer. They are continually plotting to take the gospel deeper into the core of this land. You'll see what I mean when you read the following:

Hello uncle,Good evening,
greetings to you in the name of our lordand savior
Jesus Christ.
uncle thank you for your suppoert to our ministry in
trrible thank you for that and we praise gos for your
settle ment in jobs and giver my hug to anti we
praying for you in daily falimy prayes so goid hearing
our prayers about you, thankyo for your letter a short
meesage about jonathan thank you for that we are very
fblessed to about that may it next weeek i may preach
in our church? through your lettermay blessed our
church thank you for your burden about our ministry.
here i am sending oiur trible camp i send report to
you ,thank you for that
Uncle sorry for I am very late to send my letter toyou
be before week I already said that we have a
tribaltrip we came but I was very sick with very
coldso I could not get up from one week so I was delay
tosend mail to you Anyhow uncle I am very fine through
in your prayers. Wehave cover 12 villages to preach
gospel not throughany vehicle by walk only we visited
all villages andevery evening we arranged street
meeting, I am planningto send photos to you some times
nobody not givenfood to us every day we fasted for
lunch because nobody not feeding us any how we
successfully completedour tribal camp and from our
church our youth and ourtribal pastors we divided to
10 groups every groupvisited 10 to 12 villages We send
gospel some villages to god gave to us a
greatprivileged to preach gospel to so many villages I
asked 100$ for trip to go with all equipment
soundsystem and film and lighting and every thing any
howwe complete our goal and we hire and megaphone
topreach gospel that will be very happy to our life
andblessed to our life Ok uncle as you asked in last
letter for ourministry in tribal I am planning to
send photo albumto you please wait a week I will send
to you. Thank you for waiting uncle thank you for
praying for us and our ministry and we too praying for
your ministry and every one, thank you very much uncle
thank you for more support for ministry, we very great
full to you thank you for you love upon us
Yours in him
Pastor rao and son james

 2005/4/27 18:24
arielle
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 Re: I'm so ashamed of myself....

praise the Lord..how it is so great to see such humble and devoted hearts!
thank-you for sharing this...

in Christ, arielle


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arielle

 2005/4/27 18:42Profile
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 Re: I'm so ashamed of myself....

Unknown, but very known in the heavens...

I was thinking recently about those christians, those in China, India, persecuted countries, no one knows about them, they are not 'well known' but I believe they are much known in the heavens, I believe that such brothers and sisters doesn't know much to discuss teological questions, but they know the heart of our Lord better then milions who are ready to discuss on every teological subject and think that they know everything.

I think that such brothers are great warriors in Christ's army...
May God bless Pastor rao and son james!

 2005/4/27 19:23Profile









 Re: Praise the Lord....

Bless His Holy Name, amen and amen.

 2005/4/27 21:21
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 Re: I'm so ashamed of myself....

they have none, but what they have, they give it for The Gospel

The Lord is their Shepherd, they shall not lack, He is their all.


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 2005/4/28 5:07Profile









 Re: A picture...

This is a picture of me walking down main street in one of these villages. I hope you can see I'm overjoyed where I'm at. I never felt more alive as a minister. There is about 1 missionary to each 500,000 Indians. 42% of the world's destitute people live in India. That is more than Africa and South America combined. Not poor, destitute. Yet it is such an awesome move of the Spirit there.
In 2000, I read a book called "Praying Hyde" about John Hyde who spent most of his short adult life in India, praying for that nation. So when I got invited to go, I thought, "most of those prayers have probably not been answered". Surely God has not ignored his labor". Talking with people online after I went, I began to hear many testimonies of others called there. And as I said, the most diligent of all are the local pastors themselves. Barefooted on hot dusty roads (temps above 120F in the Summer), taking the gospel to unreached people. Please pray for India. Gandi once said, if christians would live like the bible said, India would be converted in 1 day. 1 DAY. Selah.

http://groups.msn.com/ServantsoftheCross/missionsinindia2.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=30

 2005/4/28 8:21
crsschk
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 India

:-D This is great Lahry, what a smile! :-D

Here is a bit more on Praying Hyde:
[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2691&forum=34#17116] John Hyde - Short Bio[/url]


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Mike Balog

 2005/4/28 8:34Profile





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