This twin city welcomed us to a brother's home who made arrangement for our meeting with Christian leaders. Leader by leader, we met and introduced the ministry books. Each one of them appreciated the ministry books; they either purchased or placed order for the books. Our burden was to make the ministry books available to all Christians. As we met the Christian leaders, some of them showed their interest to translate the ministry books into Oriya. Three brothers fellowshipped with us to give them books for translation. Moreover, there was also a great need for the ministry books to be made available into Oriya. After we finished our work, a BSI guest house called "The Bible House" was arranged for our night stay. The Lord have been shepherding us all this while.
After our burden was released in Cuttack, we moved on to Bhubaneswar and met some Christian leaders. In this capital city, the Lord burdened us to meet two families to fellowship with.
A brother who was burdened for Bhubaneswar resigned from the Christian organization he worked with before, then came to this city to start serving the Lord. Last year he called me, as his friend whom I met in Ranchi last year gave my number to him. Since then, I also wanted to meet him. Finally, the Lord brought us together.
The Lord burdened us to introduce "The Orthodoxy of the Church" and ministered at length on what the church is according to the Bible. The brother and his wife received our fellowship and responded that they were convicted by the truth. Hope that they will read the ministry books and stand for the Lord's testimony one day.
The brother who received us at the Airport was the one who took us around as we came to this capital city. He also took us to his joint family, three brothers living together with their wives and children. As most of them, except one, have not yet been baptised, we shared the gospel, led them to call on the Lord's name, and explained the significances of baptism. The three families were simple and did not have much of religious background. Before we left, the brother told us that he would study the word daily using The New Testament, Recovery Version. He also said that he would seriously pray and consider his baptism along with his whole joint family. He even said that he would invite me to baptise them when they all are ready. Well, this is human words, but our trust is in the Lord. If the Lord so will, the Lord will bring us again for the baptism of the entire family, and even for the raising up of the Lord's testimony in Bhubaneswar.
Our burden was released and we left for the next city. May the Lord continue to operate in the families we have met and fellowshipped with and raise up His testimony soon.
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