From Pastor Pavel on Sunday

Part of our ministry here in India is to encourage believers. Many of them experience great spiritual pressure from relatives. They need prayer support. They need fellowship in the Spirit of Christ. They need smiles and words of encouragement.

Sunday is a day for believers in India to worship God. This is our second Sunday here to fellowship in a church where they worship the Almighty. Everyone brings a Bible with them and uses it during the services. They read God's Word with great passion when they are asked to read aloud. The sermon was about a place for God in our hearts, and I can say for sure that the Indian believers have this place. They understand the truths of God's Word and apply them in their lives, and this is very difficult for them among the heathens. One young man came to us and asked us to pray for him. He recently came to Christ from a Hindu family, and they kicked him out of the house after his conversion. We could see how he was worrying and suffering, and we encouraged him to hold on to Jesus and be in constant fellowship with God's people. In Him we have many more brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers. Please pray for the believers in India!

Sunday evening we were able to give bicycles to four pastors who minister in the slums and poor sections of Delhi. Thanks to the giving of a church in Zelenograd, we were able to get four good quality bicycles which will serve as transportation for these pastors in their ministries. We saw how each bike was thoroughly inspected to make sure everything was working properly. Then the four men on our team got on the bikes and test rode them to Pastor Joshua's house, experiencing all the extremes of the Indian roads with all kinds of transportation and pedestrians.

The pastors gathered especially to receive the bikes. The first bike we gave was to a future pastor – a 3 ½-year-old son of one of the pastors – and then to each of the ministers. We prayed especially for each pastor and blessed them in spreading the Gospel among their people. The bikes not only have a guarantee from the store, but, thanks to our prayers, they will have God's protection over them on the roads.