Shepherding Week

Last week, being the last week of the three weeks propagation of GMI, the Gospel Move in India in six cities of India, and since we could not practically participate in those cities, as the local church here in Gurugram, we prayed, fellowshipped, and went out to meet families.

The Lord has opened up five new families and avenues for home meetings and group meetings. There are many remnants the Lord has reserved for His testimony. Through our cooperation with the Lord in His burden imparted to us, we are encouraged and strengthened to carry out the God-ordained way of shepherding.

The Dahiyas

This is the family of a sister in the church life. She has been the only believer for decades in her family. From the time she mentioned about her family, we picked up the burden to pray in the church and family prayer meeting. After months of prayer, the Lord opened the door for us to visit the family in Sector 14. Our meeting started off with much friendliness and later took a turn as I personally was burdened to turn the entire conversation to Christ. 

God, was the beginning of the new subject. Then, His creation of man followed by the meaning of a human life and the three parts of man. The Lord gave me the word to minister to the whole family. The Spirit moved and calmed down the atmosphere making it conducive for the preaching of the gospel. After the time of family gospel preaching, the Lord led me to lead all of them to pray the sinner's prayer, confessing Jesus Christ as the true and living God, and receiving Him into their hearts. Later, I also gifted to the father The Economy of God in English, to the mother The Tree of Life in Hindi, and to the sister The New Testament, Recovery Version.

We have done our part of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, and now we commit them to God for the household salvation.

The Sharmas

This family has been in contact for over a decade now. The continuity of fellowship and shepherding is quite a challenge. In faith, they have been wavering, and in locality, their proximity to the city is a concern. Neither them nor us could keep our desire of meeting regularly. Every promise made for meeting together ended with no meeting at all. Nevertheless, we trust the living God will recover the home meeting and shepherd them into the flock of God.

The need of this family is to reconstitute them with the truth. For this, I gifted them a book in Hindi, The Glorious Church. Their need is to shepherd them into the proper vision of the church.

The Sahnis

This family was revisited after many months. The main concern for this family is the language in the meeting. They, being ardent Hindi speakers, could not really understand the meeting of the church which has been in English. Language does play an important factor, but the proper shepherding is of utmost importance, yet not negating the necessity of the language too. Hindi language too becomes a factor in the church life. The following Lord's day, we had a fellowship in which we considered the importance and practicality of Hindi meeting for the sake of gaining the local Hindi speakers. 

Now, as the church, we have decided to start a Hindi speaking meeting in their home once a week, with a dual burden of shepherding them and also preaching the gospel in the neighbourhood.

Besides the above, a new home meeting was started in DLF 3 for the seekers and gospel friends contacted during the gospel preaching a few months ago. A new family also came into contact at Palam Vihar where saints have gone to visit and shepherd a family.

Through this one week exercise the Lord is opening up the city of Gurugram for His testimony. Our prayer has always been for the Lord to strengthen His testimony in this millennial city, Gurugram. And our being here is not for ourselves, but for the Lord's purpose of saving the people of Gurugram.

Lord, save Gurugram!