Ministry of the Word to Jalandhar

And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must lead them also, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd. John 10:16

In the entire North India, Punjab has the fastest growing Christian population. In the past decade alone, lakhs of local people have believed into the Lord Jesus Christ. The growth of new believers has been so fast that it even drew the attention of the media and a religious group who dominated the entire state. 

I have heard about the growing Christian population in this state and had been waiting for the proper time to visit this state and distribute the ministry literature, though I had gone to Chandigarh for propagation and distribution many years ago.

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to attend an engagement function of a brother known to me. When he invited me, I considered and prayed about it, and also fellowship with my coordinator my burden to make use of this visit. Therefore, I planned a distribution trip after the engagement function. It turned out that, this was the best time to visit the city Jalandhar, as there was a Christin leaders meeting, while I visited the city of which I also attended.

A seeking family, a Rhema contact, gave us hospitality during our distribution in the city. The ministry books were introduced to them; they were so seeking and open that we even enjoyed a time of morning revival and Bible study together right away. He purchased the Holy Bible Recovery Version for his family Bible study.  This brother introduced us to his brother who is also a pastor of an independent group and had served with Christian literature service for a good number of years. The moment we met, he narrated his story of how he labored in the literature service in the past for many years. We introduced the ministry literature to these two seeking brothers who loves the Lord and joyfully received whatever we ministered. We spent five hours of fellowship in our first meeting itself. The following day, we were invited for a time of fellowship over a dinner love feast. They being so impressed by the riches of the ministry, proposed to open a bookstore in their new meeting hall.

We were also led to fellowship with a group of young ones who left the denomination and are now simply meeting as a “church”. They were so supplied by the truth we ministered concerning the need for growth in life using the ministry literature. They all received the ministry books for their further pursuit.

When we fellowship with two young Punjabi pastors concerning the Christian life and the need for growth in life through the word, they joyfully received the ministry literature. They were so impressed by the ministry of the word. One of them has the burden to translate the ministry books into Punjabi. This brother has been serving the Lord full-time on his own, independently, but was enlightened on the truth concerning Christ, the local churches, and the universal Body of Christ through our fellowship. Out of burden and need, he has now started translating the ministry books into Punjabi with the goal of translating the entire Rhema set. Praise the Lord, now we are restarting the Punjabi translation service!

We also attended a "Christian leaders and pastors" gathering where we were warmly welcomed and even honored with a memento by the Christian leaders. It was a surprise honor indeed, yet I took that as an opportunity to introduce the riches of the ministry of the word to all that pastors and leaders present there. The key leaders expressed their gratitude for our visit and voiced the need for Christian literature in Punjab. Despite Punjab witnessing the fastest growing Christian population in North India, the word of God is still rare as many are attracted by “signs, wonders, healings, and miracles”.

A pastor invited us to his Prayer Tower in the city where we introduce the minsitry literature to him. He purchased the entire set of ministry books in Hindi and selected books in English to set up a Library-cum-Christian Bookstore, to be the first of its kind in the city.

May the Lord recover many of His lovers and seekers in the city for His strong testimony on the ground of oneness as an anti-testimony to the world and the religious world of division.