Daman and Dadra Nagar Haveli are two union territories once inhabited by the Portuguese and filled with Catholics. In all our past distribution trips, we hardly visited any Catholic institution. But this time, the Lord gave us a brother who was with us all the while on this distribution trip. In fact, he was once a Catholic priest and has now come into the church life. He did get his independence from the group on this year's independent day. I did meet him once a couple of years ago, as he reminded me. He, out of much conviction from the Lord based on the truth he understood, paid a huge price to leave the group where he spent almost half of his life if he had to live up to eighty-plus years. He became a channel for the Lord's move among the brothers in that fold.
Though these two UTs were not in our original plan when the trip was proposed I looked at the Indian map and discovered that these two UTs were on the way from Gujarat back to Mumbai as we planned to leave from Mumbai after our Gujarat trip. Though we had no contact in these cities, just a few days before we actually went, our brother through his friends' connection contacted the key priest in the two cities.
In Daman, we had a night stay arranged by our brother. The next day morning, we presented the truth to the priest who oversees the entire Daman for his religious group. I presented the accuracy of translation and the usefulness of the footnotes in the Holy Bible Recovery Version and two books, The Basic the Holy Scriptures, and The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. After the explanation, I also presented the printed title books to the priest. I do hope that it will be a great revelation to him when he reads them. He received the free ministry literature for distribution among his congregation and also to be placed at the Cathedral where many tourists visit. This was what the Lord did for Daman this time.
In Dadra, we visited another priest at Silvassa. Though he initially did not welcome anything or anyone from “protestants,” after listening to the introduction of the ministry books, especially the Holy Bible Recovery Version, he ended up buying the Recovery Version for his personal study even though his congregation would not accept a non-Catholic Bible. To him also, free ministry books were given for distribution.
We just followed the Spirit's leading again, step by step. Our responsibility was to sow the seed of the ministry wherever He led us. Be it Protestants, Catholics, or Pentecostals, the ministry of the word is for all. The Lord as the Seed will sow Himself into those who receive the ministry literature, One day, lo and behold, we will praise the Lord for what He has done!
Lord, raise up Your testimony in Daman and Dadra!
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