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JAINTIA INDIA MISSION
Church Growth & Development: We thank and praise the Lord
that the churches in Khasi and Jaintia Hills are growing and that
they are also taking care of newly planted house churches and
smaller congregations.
-The Umsalait Church is taking care of the Mawluber, Salait and
Iooksi con-gregations. Our DLRMS Iooksi Teachers are also helping
them. They are actively involved in reaching out in the area and
the possibility of some more new 'house churches' is there. Please
pray for them.
-The Ialong Church is still being nurtured by the Jowai Church.
Please pray for this congregation too, as they are a struggling
congregation. They recently lost some members who had terminal
illnesses, and it has been hard on some of the families, including
the church family.
-The Rymbai Road multi-cultural Hindi-speaking congregation,
which has pro-gressed so much; but earlier this year, Bro. Tage and
his wife - Martha had to return to Garuchira in West Bengal because
of her mother's illness and old-age. So, the congregation is now
being taken care of by the Jowai Church. However, language is a
problem. So, we thank God that Sandeep - a Grade IX student of the
North Liberty Higher Secondary School, is the translator for those
folks who go from Jowai and also from Nonglatem. Sandeep is the son
of Bro. Arun Subha - the leader of the Mookhep Church (also a
multi-cultural Hindi-speaking congregation). Bro. Arun also serves
as the Security Guard in the NLHSS in Jowai. These two
congregations: Rymbai Road and Mookhep are in the coal-mining
ar-ea. Presently there is no coal-mining allowed any more in
Meghalaya. So, many of the folks who live here have been hit hard,
economically. Please pray for these families, that the Lord will
give them wisdom as they seek other means of employment in this
area.
-The Amjalong-Kerweng (Karbi congregation) on the border of
Bangladesh is also doing well. These folks are really faithful to
the Lord in spite of the many up-and-downs they face, from
time-to-time. We always hear good reports of them and their
faithfulness from those well-to-do neighbours, who provide
employment for them in their fields and orchards. Praise the Lord!
For their wonderful testimony. Please pray for them and the Area
Church Rally that is going to be held on 30th November, 2014, that
many may get the opportunity to hear the Gospel preached and
respond to the call.
-Please pray for the Wahiajer, Nonglatem, Mawrathud
congregations as they reach to various new and small congregations
in East Khasi Hills, interior are-as. -Pray for the Puriang, Kut
and Mawryngkneng congregations as they reach out to the
Ksehpongdeng congregation, where Bana was invited to conduct a
memorial service for Kong Krial on14th October. It was because of
her faith-fulness, in spite of being deaf, that this congregation
is still there. Please pray especially for her youngest daughter
and family as they remain faithful and draw others to Christ.
Jaintia India Mission Newsletter November 2014
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-The Smit Liamthaw Congregation as they reach out to the newly
planted congre-
gations at Thangsning, Thynroid, Ryngud, Sohra (Cheerapunjee),
where Bana
finished his high school.
-Please pray for the Nohron and Syntung congregations as they
reach out to the
new villages and preaching points of Mynsang, Mawlang, Lynshing,
Jatah, Pa-
shang and Umsaw War, along with Richard, Bah Shok, Bana and
others. Praise
the Lord! These two congregations have grown in leaps-and-bounds
since their
untiring involvement in evangelizing the surrounding
villages.
-The Churches in West Khasi have also grown tremendously. The
Mawkhriah
Church (East/West Khasi Hills Border) is into church planting
and stabliza-
tion. They reach out on a weekly basis to Mawngap, Lad Mawpen,
and
Thangmaw. They have a full-time evangelist along with Elders and
Dea-
cons. Praise the Lord that they are able to spend about
Rs.10,000/- per
month. The Mairang congregation works with them on the Thangmaw
out-
reach. Mawkhriah and Mairang congregations are together trying
to further
strengthen the church-planting and stablization program by
taking the opportunity
to create awareness among the area churches during their monthly
area ral-
lies. Please pray that the other congregations will also see the
need and respond
favourably.
Tent-Making - Contact Point: The Crystal Sound System is one of
the recent
ways in which Richard is able to generate more support for
various projects of the
JIM. It is also used for various Christian Conventions,
Evangelistic Meetings and
our non-Christians friends also rent it, from time-to-time;
providing a contact point
and opportunity to witness.
The Schools: The NLHSS in Jowai has over 1500 students this
year, and their
building program has been continuing for the past two years on
local funds raised
by the school.
The DLRMS has 164 students this year, as we did not add any
more grades this year. Somehow, through God's grace, we have
been able to
manage the school. The donations we last received through our
visiting friends
have been used towards the building of the Teacher's quarters at
DLRMS - Iooksi.
Oh, Happy Day!
We also praise and thank the Lord
for adding many members to His
Church from the Villages of
Nonglatem (1), Jowai (3), and Wa-
hiajer (3). These are some of the
ones that come to mind as we are
preparing this news late at
night. They were baptized by
Richard. There have been many
more during this year, who were
baptized by the different elders or
evangelists of this area.
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Teachers' Day is cele-
brated every year in India
on 5th September. It is
the birth anniversary of
the first President of Inde-
pendent India - Dr. S.
Radhakrishnan. It was
also celebrated at
NLHSS, where students
had lots of good items
for their teachers.
Best Scout Master's
Award: Risingstar Kharrngi
- one of our senior teach-
ers, who is the Headmas-
ter of the Secondary
School and is presently
Officiating for Richard as
the Principal of the
NLHSS in his absence,
Felicitation Ceremony - HSLC and HSSLC: The Secondary and Higher
Sec-
ondary State Board Examination results were very good this year
with cent per-
cent graduating. The Felicitation Ceremony for them was held on
June 14th this
year.
Outstanding Student of the Year: One of our Grade XI students -
Bymonmiral-
da Lato, won all the 1st Prizes for the Creative Writing
competition in both the
Block and District Levels. She also bagged the prizes for the
best speaker in the
extempore speech categories. At the State Level she stood 3rd.
She is one of
the students who started her schooling with us right from the
Pre-School level
(K-4).
Silver-Medalists for the Badminton Competition: The NLHSS Boys
won all the
Silver Medals (2nd prizes) at the State Level Badminton
Competition this
year.
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Contact Us
Field Address:
Mookyrdup, Jowai, West
Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya-
793150 (INDIA)
Phone:
011-91-9863014195
Email:
[email protected]
Stateside Forwarding
Agents:
Harold & Dorothy Rees
8235 Linda Leigh Lane,
Indianapolis, IN 46217
317-881-6036;
[email protected]
Glenn & Linda Anderson
147 N. Bridge St. Chillcothe,
OH 45601
740-649-5640
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For email news letter:
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Ordinations: The Wahiajer Church in Jaintia Hills requested
Bana, Bah Shaldrik
and Richard to ordain one of their elders on 29th June, 2014.
However, they
chose to have Eliphas Mukhim ordained as one among the pastors
(elders) of the
church.
On 5th October, 2014, the Mairang Church invited Bana and
Bah Shaldrik Lyngdoh to ordain two elders and one more deacon,
as they already
have 2. Both of these congregations are old ones, but could not
find suitable folks
for elders all these years. We thank God that due to the
constant teaching and
reminding them to set their churches in order, they have finally
been able to do so.
-Please continue to pray for wisdom, patience and good health of
the Uriah Family
and co-workers.
-Pray especially for our Trainee Teachers in DLRMS - Iooksi,
that they will qualify
and dedicate themselves as teachers.
-Please pray too for the parents of the students of DLRMS as
they have been af-
fected, economically due to the closure of coal-mining in
Meghalaya. Pray too for
the parents of students in NHLSS because many of them also
depend on the coal-
mining business.
-Pray for the School Managing Committees of both DLRMS and NHLSS
as the
take stock of the situation in the month of December 2014 and
plan for the Year
2015.
Once again we thank all of you dear loved ones for your faithful
prayers and part-
nership in the extension of His Kingdom here on earth.
Love, God's blessings and prayers,
Bnasan (Bana) & Marguerite, Richard & Larisa, and Helen
Uriah