laboring in nepal

Greetings, dear brethren, in the name of the Matchless Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone can deliver from the bondage of man-made religion (I Timothy 2:5). It’s been more than seven weeks since my last report, and much has transpired here in Nepal for the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ since Ricky Springer and I returned from Malaysia on August 29th. Thanks for your prayers and support.

My family is now living with us here in Kathmandu (Thank God), and we just finished a month of labor with a small team that came in from Ricky’s home church in Owasso, Oklahoma. Now, we are setting out sights upon some very difficult unreached areas, praying with earnest that the Lord would open a door of opportunity to go in to some of these places with copies of the Word of God.

This past month, with the help of the team from Beacon Hill Baptist Church in Owasso, Oklahoma, much was accomplished in terms of the Great Commission. The Gospel was preached in the open-air at Buddhist and Hindu Temples, during religious festivities, on a college campus, and along the beginning stages of our journey to carry a large cross all the way around Ring Road, a highway that circumnavigates the entire city of Kathmandu. We also made a jaunt to Nepal’s remote Far West so as to preach Christ and distribute Scripture portions in places where Jesus had not been named. There, 1,400 newly printed Project Jagerna Gospels of Mark, as well as more than 1,000 Gospel tracts, were distributed in the Baitadi and Bajhan Districts where isolated hillside villages were targeted along the road to Chayanpur. We also visited the believers that Bishnu (FPGM’s national partner) baptized in the village of Haata more than a year ago. Getting to Haata involved heavy packs and a steep downhill slog of more than 10 miles with a loss of 4,000 feet in elevation from the road. Having preached and distributed all along the trail, we eventually reached Haata and were able to deliver materials to the brethren for evangelism. Moreover, we provided an afternoon of evangelism training. As far as we know, that grouping of believers is the only “church” in the entire Baitadi District. We are praying fervently that the Lord would raise up a pastor willing to move out there and shepherd that flock which, by the way, is already showing amazing signs of spiritual growth despite a lack of leadership. The trip to the Far West was simply amazing, true frontier missions at the ends of the earth. Lord willing, we aim to revisit once more before the winter snows come in force.

Other notable labors from the past weeks include a 3-day evangelism training that was conducted by Bishnu at a church in the Kapilbustur District and the printing of 25,000 Project Jagerna Gospels of Mark. All praise to the Lord for providing the funds to print, and since these were received less than a month ago, copies have already been sent to Kapilbustur, the Solu-Khumbu (the area around Mt. Everest), and Nepal’s Far West. Nearly 4,000 have been distributed or provided to village church bodies for evangelism purposes.

Pray for us in the coming days as we seek to get into some difficult areas, as we endeavor to build an evangelism team around Bishnu here in Kathmandu, as we plan to print more Gospel tracts, and as we continue to faithfully translate, publish, and distribute the Scriptures in the Nepali language. Pray also as Ricky, Bishnu, and I work our way around Ring Road with the cross preaching in the open-air as the Lord gives opportunity. We are literally trying to saturate this city with bold preaching, thereby stirring the existing believers and missionary workers to boldness while the door is still open in this unstable country. As always, please pray for the Lord’s financial provision. Things are expensive here, and again, our printing fund is nearly exhausted.

Below, I have posted some video footage from the past several weeks of ministry here in Nepal. To God be the glory. You will also find some photos of various peoples that have heard the Gospel and received a Project Jagerna Scripture portion. May these faces haunt you to the point of fervent prayer for the lost souls in this dark and forlorn land, a country whose patron Hindu deity is Shiva, the Destroyer (aka Beelzebub, Lucifer, the Dragon, Satan, that Old Serpent). “But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Corinthians 15:57).

For the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ,

The Boyd Family & Ricky