Nepal wins over our hearts

One day we've been in ministry but without the internet. The things we've heard and seen that day can easily make for a book or two. We got up early on Wednesday, read the Word and prayed for the Lord's guidance and blessing through out the day. We had very vague idea of what we were going to do the next 2 days. We didn't know the people, we didn't have a plan – we just trusted God. Two cars came to pick us up in the morning. They presented quite a contrast – one was a modern jeep truck, another an Indian mini-van that looked like an elephant had stumbled over it. Not a spot undamaged but it moved! After a while we came to the premises of a church and an orphanage. In 5 minutes an elderly lady called Grace came out to meet us, and she has already become for us as for many other people through out the world “Nanny Grace”. We heard her life story and it started to change our minds, our attitude to ministry. For 37 years of her ministry there were no more than 100 Christians throughout the country. And there were no Christians in the area where this 20-year-old girl settled. Here are some hardships she had to go through: prison, had to change her passport over 20 times, threats, prohibition to preach from authorities, religious fundamentalists and Mao Zedong followers. In the morning of the day that we came, they were raided by the police but God has concealed Nanny Grace. The ministry that we've stepped in has over 90 churches throughout Nepal, 2 Bible schools, an orphanage, a church of 2.000 people.

Pavel Kolesnikov