Kullu: A Revisit

A contact person in this city is a sister who was my translator from English to Hindi when I first came to the city for distribution more than a year ago. She was so touched my the ministry of the word that she invited us to her home and gave us hospitality. During our stay there, she also invited Christian workers and pastors to meet with us. Since then, we have been in fellowship on WhatsApp.

This time as we visited her, she gathered together all her contacts: some new believers and two brothers. We were welcomed with a surprise presence of all these people which we did not expect as our intention and burden was to meet the seeking sister and her family. 

The first surprise was that an elderly brother who used to meet with the church in Secunderabad was also present. In fact, he was invited by the family of our sister's contact who have been facing demonic issues in the family. He was there to help deliver the family. This brother came into the Lord's recovery and left because his quest for his burden to serve fulltime was not answered. But after over a decade, the Lord brought us into contact with him in Kullu. As we shared on the church, he made a video recording of our sharing from the Bible on the church and requested for a book, The Orthodoxy of the Church, which I gifted to him. He was so impressed that the Lord sure does remember him. I personally believe, it was for his recovery and he will be recovered back into the fellowship of the Body of Christ in oneness. 

The second surprise was that a brother through whom I came to Kullu in my first visit was also invited for this meeting. I thought he was a pastor of a Christian group and did not bother to contact him this time. But it was manifested that he is a translator of a New Testament into his mother tongue, Mandeali, and now his project is over. He has a burden to continue as a translator and also serve the Lord in a new locality. He invited us to his home where we fellowship with him for translation of the ministry books into Mandeali or Hindi. The Lord, indeed, has preserved him for the translation service and also for His testimony in Kullu. 

The third surprise came from the sister who was our host. She has started a small fellowship with her son. The Lord has been blessing her with new believers and she is progressing in the ministry. Our fellowship on what the church is according to the Bible touched her and her son. They could see something of the church as they themselves confessed their need to take the stand for the church in Kullu. We gifted them with a book, The Normal Christian Church Life, and the New Testament Recovery Version Bible. 

This visit was full of surprises and the Lord's specific leading was clearly seen. May the Lord fully recover all these dear ones and recover His testimony on the proper and genuine ground of oneness as the church in Kullu.