5/1/10 Mission trip pictures here.
Hello Royal Family!
Meeze and I made it back
home after a few flights, all in one piece, God graced us out with traveling
mercies and protection.
As you may know, we visited
a total of 4 cities in the 2 weeks, with 3 different pastors we are
now working with: pastor adams, pastor raja, and pastor babu.
All 3 are very committed
to grace doctrinal truth and are sold out for the work of the Lord!
It is a privilege to work
with them as they truly put their lives on the line every day, the overwhelming
minority in their country of India, as Christianity is looked down upon
and outnumbered by the Hindus.
Please keep these men in
special prayer as they step out each day with the bold message of the
gospel in the devil’s den!
We conducted teachings at
the 2 bible colleges we support (adams’ and raja’s), and pastor
babu has the desire to do the same to train pastors in his local village.
At pastor babu’s we conducted a 2 days pastors conference where pastors
from neighboring villages traveled to be with us. The overall response
to the grace teachings of faith alone, and eternal security, was positive.
If you want to look on a
map you can see where we visited. We first flew into the city of Chennai,
drove to pastor babu’s near Amalapuram, then after a couple days we
drove to pastor raja’s in Vijayawada, and then to the city of Guntur
where pastor adams has one of his churches (we conducted 2 nighttime
crusades there, and village gospel).
Then we drove to pastor adam’s
home city of Kanigiri to spend time with his bible students and visit
villages with the gospel!
I am confident the Lord brought
some Hindus to His Name, and we were able to supply some convicting
Bible doctrine to the believers.
We also recorded all teachings
and were able to provide DVDs to all 3 pastors of all the teachings
that went on in the different locations!
Meeze was a great help, with
personal and technical support, and he also had the chance to speak
a few times to share the gospel and encouragement!
Looking forward, we hope
(elpis) to assist Pastor Adams print more salvation tracts (we hope
to print 20,000 that he can also share with Raja and Babu).
They all are aggressive in
village evangelism, driving into the hills and fields for miles to far
away villages, boldly giving the gospel and passing out tracts.
This is one area I think
we can really assist, as we have found men committed to being aggressive
in bringing the gospel to the remotest parts of the earth! I would
like to make sure they are never without written tracts to share at
the villages! Please pray with me about that provision.
We also want to help pastor
raja with his fuel cost expenses. He has the motorbike we helped him
purchase last year, he just needs the gas to reach the villages
on a consistent basis. Also pray for his sidekick pastor Joshua, a very
committed man.
And with pastor babu we have
another aggressive young man. He has been through several denominations
seeking the Truth, and is so excited about learning the grace of Bible
doctrine. He and his wife Sarah are well-equipped to reach many souls,
and they just had their first son “Junior Scott”! how crazy is that?
I am honored by that as they are true front-line servants of our Lord.
Thank you all for you support
and prayers. You make a difference, and as a team we have been able
to participate in a special area of the Lord’s service, seeking and
saving the lost, and making disciples in all parts of the world!!
How exciting, and what a
privilege we have been bestowed with.
God’s blessings to you
all.
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in Christ's merits,
Scott R. Grande
www.CHRISTSAVESMINISTRIES.org