to the west, from the west
Greetings, beloved, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. “Neither is there salvation in any other . . . (Acts 4:12).”
This evening, I and two Christian brothers head west, making a beeline for Laramie, Wyoming. Lord willing, we will rendezvous with Shawn Holes (luketentwo.com) at the University of Wyoming at 11:30am, just in time for the class change. Thus will begin a solid month of preaching the Gospel on college campuses, culminating, Lord willing, at the Boise State / Utah State football game in Boise, Idaho on December 4th. Please pray for us: that the Lord would open a door of utterance; that we would be filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking the Word of God with boldness; that we would show all meekness unto all men; that we would have favor with authorities; and that men would repent and believe the Gospel.
Next week’s tentative schedule is as follows:
Monday: University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY)
Tuesday: Preaching at polling places in Colorado
Wednesday: Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)
Thursday: University of Colorado (Boulder, CO)
Friday: Western State University (Gunnison, CO)
From Gunnison, we will head down into New Mexico, over to Arizona, and then up to Las Vegas, Nevada. On November 16th, part of our team will depart, and we will welcome a few fresh faces. Jamie and Josiah will be flying into Las Vegas on that day, and they will labor with us until the end in Boise. Please pray for traveling mercies and for our girls while mommy, daddy, and little brother are away. I am so thankful for godly family that I can entrust with my children.
From Las Vegas, our route will go up into Northern California and Oregon, targeting a number of campuses; then, Lord willing, we’ll arrive in Boise for the last couple of days before students go into final exams at Boise State. Jamie and the baby will fly home from Boise, while I and another brother make the long drive home. ‘Twill be a whirlwind and we’ll need much strength to endure and keep preaching. Please pray for us.
Pray also that the Lord will provide financially for this needful journey. Gas is expensive, and there are many miles to drive. I believe the open door to preach Christ openly on public college campuses will be closing soon in this country. We must take advantage of this opportunity before heading over to South Asia in January.
So, we head West, while Bishnu Shrestha (FPGM’s National Partner in Nepal) just returned from a fruitful journey in Nepal’s West. Below is the report that he recently sent my way. For those of you who financially support Full Proof Gospel Ministries, this is your fruit and a great cause for rejoicing. By the way, while reading his recap, remember that English is Bishnu’s second language:
Dear praying Co-laborers
Greetings in the name of Messiah!
I would like to thank God for His mercy upon us. Also I would like to thank you for exalting us in your prayers. First of all I would like to share with you the answers of your prayers on our last trip to the Far Western Nepal. I pray and wish that this report finds you all well in our Lord Jesus Christ.
As I mentioned in my last email, I and my friend Daniel left for Baitadi on October 7 and arrived Gothalapani, headquarter of Baitadi district next evening. This is a town built on the top of a mountain nearby the western border to India. We were glad to meet up and fellowship with brother Roshan from Hat, Baitadi. Then next day at early morning we left for Julaghat the border town of Nepal in a jeep. It is strange to know that the town in India across the Mahakali River is called Jhulaghat. I went across the border with our J/R and gave to the Indian police who can read Nepali. We were sad to see liquor shops more than the tea shops. We saturated the town of Julaghat with the Gospel and shared the Gospel to the shopkeepers and policemen personally too. Then we started to hike straight up toward the famous Hindu temple called Tripura Sundari where we preached Christ to the Hindus in the temple porch who were there to worship their goddess. We felt sorry that these people are still sacrificing hundreds of goats and male water buffalos every year, not knowing that one eternal, sufficient, perfect and once for all sacrifice was already offered by our Creator Himself in the form of Jesus Christ. I wish I can show you the video clip of how they worship. The so called low caste people are not allowed to enter the temple but they have to play the drums while the so called higher class people worship inside. It is horrible! I would like to remember His words from the epistle to the Hebrews,
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." (Heb. 10:1-18)
I wish all these people would know it. Yes, God brought us there during the main Hindu festival when people worship a lot of gods and goddesses and sacrifice hundreds of goats and male water buffaloes. Then we hike up to the town and started to distribute gospel portions house to house. Even this district headquarter doesn't have a church. So the church in Hat must be the only existing church in the whole district. Let's pray more that God would raise His faithful servants in this area. Then we took a night bus for about 10 miles to reach another town of Dehimandu. Next morning we went to another famous Hindu temple called Nigalasaini where at least 168 male water buffaloes are to be sacrificed every year at once. We shared the Gospel with some people painting the wooden posts of the temple and also gave them some tracts. We shared about the eternal sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross with them.
Then there we met a Christian aunt from Pokhara, Kaski who has been working in that remoter area for over 30 years in the field of women health. She has a maternity centre there under a NGO. Still the gospel is rare there. Having delicious launch with her, we prayed and left for Hat, Baitadi which took two full days of hiking. We had carried a lot of tracts and general medicines too with us. We met two shepherd boys looking after their goats. I gave them each a comic tract titled The Life of Jesus. I told them that it was about our Creator God. Immediately one of them asked me, "Who is God?" I was more than happy to tell him about our Almighty Creator. Then we left after giving them some candies. We preached Gospel many new villages named Gwani, Riga, Khatali, Bansella, etc. We gave out a lot of tracts and medicines. We met two men in an abandoned house who were ready to smoke marijuana. One of them was suffering from a terrible wound under his one shoulder. I gave him one Neosporin ointment and some painkillers with the Gospel. Sicne it was a new trail for us, once we missed it and arrived to another village named Bansella which was not in our trail. But we trusted that God brought us there and gave out a lot of tracts with preaching the Gospel. Then we had to return back to our trail even though my rare part of my left knee was soaring. I pressed on for the sake of Gospel to reach Bistapali in the evening. We didn't have energy to take a bathe in the cold tap water or in the nearby cold river. Also we gave out a lot of tracts in that evening too. We were more than glad to have a place to hid our heads under a roof. Next morning we started to hike at 7 am after having a cup of tea. We preached the Gospel and give out the tracts in many villages. People were also happy to get free medicines. I must tell you a funny story. As I gave a worm killer tablet to a man after preaching and distributing tracts, he asked me, "Can I give it to my cow? I need one for my cow too!"
Then we met some young boys ploughing their terraces to plant wheat. We shared the Gospel with them too. We were so busy in evangelism that I did not notice it was already 10 am and we were in the wilderness. Hunger stroke us but we snacked on some fried peanuts and salted beans. Water tested great with ORS, oh! At around 1 pm we found a closed tea shop and vainly tried to open it for us sending for the owner. Small Cadbury was a great source of Carbohydrate in that uphill. Finally we found one opened tea shop and ordered some Raman noodle at 2 pm. A giant boulder was in front of us which you can see in the picture file attached herewith. We preached the Gospel and about the eternal sacrifice to the villagers gathered there. Then we gave out some medicines too in that area of Bijayapur. Then we started hiking up again but the hardest part was still to come in a huge landslide, I must say mountain slide. It was class four with loose rock. After giving out tracts in Lamunne we started to hike down to reach Hat through Malladehi. We had to use our lights as it was already dark. We missed our trail in the dark again and God helped us to find the right one afterward. It was 7:30 pm when we reached Hat after hiking for 12 and half hours. We praised the Lord for keeping us safe through the wilderness and landslide.
We spent time next couple of days with the local believers. We exhorted them from the Word and encouraged them to be bold witness in that dark area. We gave out medicines to believers also. It was good to be clean after five days of sweating. We slept in the church floor to straight up our backs for two nights. Then we left Hat for Shrivawar but again it was steep up for four and half hours to arrive to the road. We took an empty truck to Dadeldhura where is a mission hospital named TEAM. Next morning we took a bus to Dhangadhi and we went out to see the subrubs of Dhangadhi with a local pastor and got to see lots of things in that hot plain. We walked about 20 km that day to return to the pastor's house in the evening. Suddenly one neighbor woman came to the pastor asking him to sell his only rooster for the sacrifice. The pastor refused to sell while the woman kept on insisting. Finally God told me to speak about the eternal sacrifice. So did I. Next day we had a privilege to fellowship with a group of local believers. We encouraged them to share the message of Eternal Sacrifice of Jesus Christ to their families, friends and villagers. Finally God brought us back safe in 10 days.
I would like to request you to pray for Baitadi district and also for the believers there. God showed us more people to be reached in this trip. Please pray for the seeds sown in this trip that they bear fruits for the glory of God alone. Now I'm taking my family to Pokhara for family visit and after that I'm planning to go to Kalikot for outreach with a local brother. Kalikot is in the Mid Western part of the country. Please keep on praying for us as we also do for you. God bless you.
Once again thank you very much for your prayers and we continuously covet for it. Please find the attached picture file. Be assured that you are partnering with us here as you pray for us. Also pray for more laborers to go to the unreached mountainous villages of Nepal. Lord, help us to go for you!
Sinners saved by grace
Bishnu, Bimu, Bijigisha and Bigya
DSMA Publication & Ministry
GPO 8975, EPC 987
Kathmandu, Nepal
email: jagerna1611@hotmail.com
Glory to God, glory to the Living God! We are still praying that the Lord will make up for the monthly support that Bishnu recently lost. We’re still short $150/month, so I’ll reproduce what I wrote back on September 30th:
Please keep praying that God will make up for the support that was lost because of Bishnu’s integrity and his faithful loyalty to our partnership. It’s a lot cheaper to support a local believer like Bishnu on the ground than it is to sustain a missionary family full-time on a foreign field, and the money goes a lot farther. Presently, we are about $150 dollars/month shy of the level where he needs to be. Please pray about helping us raise this threshold. Remember that all contributions are tax deductible, should be made out to Full Proof Gospel Ministries with “Nepal Ministry” or “Bishnu Shrestha” noted in the memo space, and can be sent to the address at the bottom of this update. In contemplating or praying about this, don’t forget to continue lifting up Full Proof Gospel Ministries in general and Project Jagerna. Our ability to meet Bishnu’s needs is dependent upon the needs of the ministry in general being met as well as our wherewithal to continue printing and distributing the Holy Scriptures in the Nepali language.
As for Tuesday’s elections in this country, I will comment briefly:
“Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward" (Isaiah 1:4)
On Tuesday, voting Democrat in ANY political race and/or voting Republican in MANY political races is a SIN AGAINST GOD! Vote for righteousness and life, even if it means a write-in candidate, a third-party, or a blank space. The "lesser of two evils" mentality is an affront to God, and it makes for guilty accomplices. Christian: do your duty by voting BIBLICALLY. The rest is in God's hands. In North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, it’s obvious that my faith would not allow a vote for the liberal democrat or the libertarian, and I could not in good conscience vote for the milquetoast Republican. Therefore, I voted early and wrote-in a vote for Paul Michael Boyd, my father and a truly righteous man. Don’t bother with any gas about wasting a vote or “you should have voted for the lesser of two evils.” I voted on principle, and my conscience rested peacefully that night. America will get what it deserves. DEO VINDICE!
Below, I have posted a two-part video containing a heart-felt message that I preached on the campus of UNC-Greensboro on October 14th. It is a rare and beautiful thing to receive applause and undivided attention on the campuses when publicly proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray my words, as they reflect the truth of the Scriptures, will be a real encouragement to you.
Stay tuned for preaching adventures from the road and the college campuses. Again, please pray for us. The prayer cover of the saints is a blessing I never take lightly or for granted.
Peace be with you all.
Jesse Boyd
Full Proof Gospel Ministries