FGCK - Mission Trip 2011

“He said to them,

“Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Mark 16:15-18 (NIV)

Trip Members:

Pastor P. J Samuel,
Bro. Reji T. Zachariah,
Bro. Sony Varghese and
Bro. Finny Thomas

09:00AM – At Raipur airport – Bro. Philip(Gigi’s father), Pastor Josemon S (IPC District Pastor, Durg, Chattisgarh) & Bro. Suresh(member of IPC Durg) welcomed us at the airport. From the airport we went straight to camp one Village.

CAMP ONE VILLAGE: - Sam uncle inaugurated the tailoring class with 5 sewing machines & 1 trainer. There we had a prayer meeting in which around 50 people gathered. Sam uncle delivered God’s word. Camp one is in a village on the way from Raipur to Durg/Bhilai. There is a regular fellowship conducted by Pastor Josemon S.

PASTOR SADHU MAHANANTH – We visited Pr. Sadhu Mahananth in 3 Gaon. Pr Sadhu Mahananth was a renowned sadhu who got converted & captured by God’s love. He built a beautiful church with his own hands. He has a feeding program of feeding 300 children every year. He is a very hard-working man of God.

PASTOR NILAMBER BAAD – This mission is supported by PYPA FGC. The workstations are in places known as Uttai, Patan, Georatharai. It is a new workstation with around 35 believers.

EVG. SANJAY MASIH – This mission is also supported by PYPA FGC. He is having a ministry among students in Powerhouse area. He ministers to over 100 students in 3 different places.

EVG. DEVANARAYAN SAHU – He is working in Morogudu village. It is a place where pastors cannot reach out to the local people due to great opposition. 74 believers are doing the evangelizing with guidance from Evg. Devanarayan Sahu.

In the evening we had a cottage meeting in Bro. Philip’s house. Sam uncle spoke God’s word. Around 70 people attended the meeting & there was a special song by Bro. Reji & Bro. Sony.

23^rd March 2011

Left Durg for Bilaspur by train around 3 hours journey and reached at 14:00. Pastor Kuruvilla Abraham (President , IPC Chattisgarh state) & Pastor Roy Joseph welcomed us.
We had a prayer meeting in the evening. Sam uncle preached God’s word & Bro Sony sang a song and Bro. Reji told his testimony.

Left for Rourkela at 09:00 & reached at 15:30 by South East Bihar train. Pastor K Thomas & Pastor N.K.Varghese welcomed us at the railway station. From here Bro. Finny Thomas joined our mission trip. We stayed there at Bro. Finny’s house.

24th Evening: - Team India Convention started – Sam uncle was the chief guest & spoke God’s word.

25th Morning: - Bible Class. Sam uncle spoke & taught God’s word. A great outpouring of the Holy Spirit followed.

25th Evening: - Sam uncle spoke in the convention & prayed for the sick. Several healing reports followed.

26th Morning: - Jehovah Nissi Bible Institute – 9th batch graduation. 8 students graduated & the 10th batch was inaugurated. 3 students registered for the 10th batch. Rs. 500 each was gifted to the graduating students. Lunch followed.

26th Evening: - Sam uncle spoke in the convention & prayed for the sick. An evening of great blessing.

27th Morning: - Sunday morning worship. Heard powerful testimonies from workers/delegates from different districts/places in Orissa like Gajapati, Khandamal, Sambalpur, Sundergarh, Kansbahal, Devpani, Rayagada…

Finished at 2:30pm after great celebration & Holy Communion. Lunch followed & 4 days convention concludes.

27th Night: - 08:15pm we departed from Rourkela & reached Durg at 03:20am by Geethanjali express train. There Bro. Philip Varghese & Pr. Josemon received us & took us to Bro. Gigi’s house & in the morning we visited Bro. Suresh’s house & had our breakfast there.

02:30pm we departed from Durg to Raipur for our flight from Raipur to Indore. We reached Indore by 08:30pm & there Bro. Sunny & Sis. Tessy (D/o of Sis. Annamma Tharakan) & her family received us & we reached Khandwa by 01:00am. There Pr. George Varghese received us & we stayed in Hotel Renjith.

We started our long journey to Chanpura (Bro. Gijar Singh). It took almost 4 hours by road jeep journey. Reached around 01:00pm & we were received by many villagers. This village is located in a high hill. Our meeting started at 01:15pm & after prayer & worship, Bro. Sunny & Pr. George Varghese gave introduction & Pr. P.J.Samuel spoke from the word of God. After our meeting, there were 4 people for baptism (2 bros & 2 sisters). They took them to a lake which was 2.5km away (this lake is located between hills & it is a very beautiful location). We walked to this place & Pr. George Varghese gave water baptism to those 4 people.

Burghatti: - By03:30 we started our journey towards the next village & reached Burghatti by 05:00pm.
There Bro. Dayanant & his family received us. This village is located on top of one of the highest mountains in that area & it is in the midst of a forest & no road to this place. Meeting started by 7pm. No lights were available & people gathered in an open place. Here also Pr. P.J.Samuel delivered the word of God. Villagers were coming for fellowship till the end of the meeting.

After the meeting they prepared food for all & we all ate with them. Bro. Dayanant’s son had 2 years Bible course which was conducted by Pr. George Varghese & Bro. Sunny. We all stayed there & they arranged some blankets for us & slept well.

30th Morning: - Early morning we started our trip back to Khandaw where we stayed & reached by 12:00pm & freshened ourselves. We started our journey to Chanpura in the evening to Pr. Bhopal Singh’s house. It was a 2 hours journey from Khandwa, no proper road to this place. On the way we visited Pr. George Varghese’s old Bible School building (due to some dispute between owners of the building, they stopped giving it for rent).We reached Chanpura by 06:30pm & started prayer meeting. Here Pr. P.J. Samuel & Pr. George Varghese delivered the word of God. More than 100 villagers gathered here for prayer. It was in an open ground & no lights were available here. Children & adults attended the meeting with prayer. During the prayer, some villagers brought a demon-possessed lady in a bullock-cart & she started making loud noises & turning upside down. But we continued our prayer meeting & finished by 09:00pm. Pr. Bhopal Singh’s son was a leprosy patient & God healed him & because of this child’s healing, Pr. Bhopalsingh is very famous in that area. This night meeting gave us great delight & the experience was awesome.

Next Day – 31^st March 2011 – 07:30am – We started our journey back to Kuwait. We reached Indore by 12:00pm from Khanwa. Our Flight to Mumbai were cancelled and we could not get our connection flight to Kuwait and Jetairways arranged hotel stay for us in Mumbai and on 01 April 2011 by 09.45 PM by the grace of God we reached Kuwait safely.

During our mission trip God protected us everywhere and provided every need, persevered us from any harm or sickness which might have occurred. As you know these areas are mostly affected by Maoist.

We saw massive work of God especially among tribal’s in these areas, before all Pentecostal churches in North India were conducting Malayalam worship services only, but now it has been changed and Malayalees are minorities and worship services are in local languages. Malayalee pastors are giving back- support only. We could experience the power of God among these people, many healing were taken place during these mission trip and people were so excited about our presence in their area. Great outpouring of Holy spirit. We can say our GOD IS GREAT GOD.

We thank each and everyone who prayed, supported and guided us for this mission trip.

MISSION TRIP - 2011