Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
JULY—SEPTEMBER 2017
Dear Missions Partners and Church Family, Psalm 27:14 (KJV) Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
One of the challenging part of being a missionary is waiting while serving; waiting to raise support, waiting for visa, waiting to learn the language, waiting to learn and adopt their food and culture, waiting to know and understand on how they think, waiting for the seed to grow and waiting to have fruits. There are a lot of barriers to break before the harvest.
I believe that pruning should be made from time to time to have a quality people inside the church. Our church had been attacked many times with problems inside and out. Believers here when they quit serving the Lord are by families. As of September this year three families backslide. To have one family each year being baptized is already a great victory. I have sense that in our church that God is removing the unfaithful but He adds the sincere one.
The Thayalaseelan and Mayuran Families had been visiting and observing our church for about eight months and finally they decided to get baptized. This was also a memo-rable experience for brother Achchuthan who is our deacon to do the baptism service for the first time. Last year the church gave him the authority to baptize. We renovated the old pool inside our rented property built by the rebels before where they do the flag rais-ing ceremony and now we are utilizing it as our baptistery because we could no longer take the risk of baptizing in the lagoon because of crocodiles. Please pray that these new believers will grow and continue.
The hardest thing here for missionaries is visa. One NGO and one company sponsored us for this, but it end up with too much questioning in our part that ends up almost in jail. Last June we almost put in prison because one of the immigration officers charge us of doing illegal activities. All of our passports were not in our possession for two weeks. I had been in the office of immigration defense officer, immigration legal officer and the head of immigration. I cannot elaborate all what happened but we had been in deep trouble but God deliver us. The head of immigration commanded us to leave the country but not in a black list situation were we can still come back. Amen!
I believe that all things work together for good because while we were in Sri Lanka I re-ceived news that my mother was very ill and was hospitalized. This is one thing painful as missionary hearing your love ones from afar in which you can do nothing except to pray. We were able to be with my mother for some days before her death on September 12 and able to attend her burial on September 27.
Thank you for being a part of the ministry that God entrusted to us. God bless us all!
Veathaahama Kiristava
Baptist Sabai
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Contact us: [email protected]
THE MAUSISA FAMILY
Supporting Agency: Asian Baptist Clearinghouse / Contact No. +632-6871372 / Email: [email protected] Sending Church: Hebron Baptist Church / Contact No. +639285502899 / Email: [email protected]
BAPTISM CEREMONY
PRAYER REQUEST: 1. Financial needs for perimeter side wall and filling
materials for our property in SL 2. Longer type of visa 3. Church registration 4. More souls to be saved, baptized and remained 5. Spiritual growth of the believers 6. Security and safety of our ministry
THE MAUSISA FAMILY SRI LANKA
"No reserves. No retreats. No regrets"
William Borden
