Ministry of the Word to Faizabad and Ayodhya

With a burden from the Lord we came to this city Faizabad. Though we planned to meet two Christian leaders of an established churches we could not meet them. One of them promised to meet us but was not available without any explanation, and the other one was not up from the bed yet. Herein, is a lesson for all believers, to be exercised in spirit and in character. On visiting their campuses even the outward environment of the premises were not taken care of. If petty physical things could not be taken care, how could one take care of spiritual matter? Though we could not meet the pastors, I learned a very important lesson of taking care of one's character and well being of the one under one's care. I could only see slothfulness in some of these workers. In such an important city where the Lord's testimony is so weak and the numbers of believers so small, but at least the existing few should have exercised to be the Lord’s testimony. Well, this is no finger pointing comment, but a lesson learned in caring for the Lord's interest. 

The meeting with a young brother who could manage English was such a relief. Perhaps, he was the first and only person I could communicate comfortably in English. I left no stone unturned; I introduced the ministry books right away and ministered further on the importance of the knowledge of the interpreted word of God. He readily received the ministry books and we established connection for future contacts. The city has so few believers that with this meeting it was like we covered this city. For those that we could not meet we handed the responsibility to this brother as we had to move on to the next destination. 

This same brother led us further to the next destination, Ayodhya. This is a city that host the site of a religious dispute with the claim of being the birthplace of a particular religious deity. Besides, it also has a "holy" river where ardent believers would come and take a "holy" bath and dip. To my eye sight, the river looks muddy and strains or gravels of ashes streams with the flow of the current. I was told that this river was saturated with ashes from cremated dead bodies as the last rites used to be performed on this river. With all these religious significances, our burden for this city grew all the more. 

Herein too, a meeting was arranged where we ministered the word of God in Hindi on God’s creation of man and the tree of life. Then we distributed Hindi books to all those who could read. This crucial city has only few believers in the midst of fundamental religionists. As of now we can only pray for the Lord's move in Ayodhya.

The Lord faithfully took us to these places as pioneers in sowing the seed of the kingdom. May the Lord gain these two cities and raise up His strong testimony!