God smiles on a Nepal family By Gary Fallesen Climbing For Christ president Sumitra Pariyar has endured various trials in her short life. At the age of 7, she suffered a debilitating fever that left her crippled. In 2007, on CHRISTmas day, her father carried her paralyzed body to what was then a house church in the Central Nepal village of Dapcha. He had tried everything to help Sumitra. The small group of Christians in Dapcha at the time prayed for Sumitra’s healing – and she walked again. The Pariyar family surrendered their lives to Jesus. Sumitra has continued to h...
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A ‘vote of thanks’ from Tanzania By Gary Fallesen President, Climbing For Christ “If you swallow the whole banana, you get problems in your stomach. You have to chew.” – Proverb by Kilimanjaro Chapter member Dauson Chongo Porters carrying gear out of Karanga Camp at 13,500 feet on Mount Kilimanjaro. During Mission: Kilimanjaro 2015 in March we agreed that East African missionary Damson Samson needed to spend more time with Kilimanjaro Chapter members. We could not expect guides and porters to learn how to evangelize and employ their teachings on Mo...
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Opportunities Abound  Jaime Servat, C4C’s missionary to Peru, recently shared about the Lord’s work from the month of June. Here is a brief synopsis from his latest report.  Jaime has been busy not only preparing for the Mission: Peru 2015 team’s arrival (on July 13), but preparing the church in Chalhua as well. Brother Jaime has made multiple trips to Chalhua to bring a few final materials and round up workers. Finally, this long-awaited project is nearly completed! Our prayer is that the building will be finished and the mission team will be able to help dedic...
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Death and life in Nepal By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ   Padam, right, praying to accept Jesus with (left to right) brother Megh, Dr. Matthew, and another new believer named Prem on March 23. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Padam was one of two young men who came to see our doctors on the rooftop where we had camped in the village of Takla during Mission: Nepal 2015 in late March. This was our first visit to Takla in four Evangelic Expeditions to the Far West district of Humla. Dr. Matthew Fisher of Canada and our Nepalese brother Megh Gurung offered medical a...
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C4C-sponsored orphanage back to normal Painting the repaired orphanage – inside and out. (Photo by Tej Rokka) Walls, water and the solar-power system have been repaired at the SARA orphanage that is sponsored by Climbing For Christ. “The children are fine,” said Pastor Tej Rokka, a C4C member and founder of the Savior Alone Redeems Asians ministry based in Kathmandu, “and their school has started.” Life has returned to some sense of normalcy. But, on Wednesday (June 10), “there were again quite big aftershocks,” Tej said. “And people got ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 Pastor Tej Rokka returned Monday night (May 25) from several days in East Nepal for training among the churches. His wife, Bidhya, spoke to more than 60 women, presenting them with gifts delivered by Leanne Bohn and Elaine Fallesen during Mission: Nepal 2015 in March. Tej taught about 45 pastors and church leaders about the making of disciples. “Let me thank God for what He has done through us in the midst of such a situation,” Tej said, referring to the work that goes on amidst the recovery from devastating earthquakes. “I know very well how it...
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Growing disciples to work on the mountain By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ   There are fertile fields around Mount Kilimanjaro. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Damson Samson emerged from the fifth house after a day of home visits among our Kilimanjaro Chapter members in April with eyes wide open. “I realized how important this trip is,” said our missionary to East Africa, who lives in southern Malawi but is sent periodically by C4C to visit the area around Mount Kilimanjaro in northeastern Tanzania. We are working with guides and porters there to equip...
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Sewing His love   The writing on the outside of the card said: “God is love!” Inside the card, the message was of hope. “We just wanted to present to you a gift,” our friends from Heritage Christian Services had written before the April hike in a series we do in partnership each year in Western New York. “We wanted this to go toward a new sewing machine for the ladies (in Pakistan) to use. I pray that this gift will be an encouragement to the ladies as well as a tool to further God’s work. Let this be a blessing to them as well.” We includ...
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Pastor Tej and Elaine Fallesen during worship at his Kathmandu church in March. (Photo by Leanne Bohn/Mission: Nepal 2015) By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ Worship was nearly over at the main SARA church in Kathmandu on Saturday, April 25 when the lights went out and the pulpit fell away from Pastor Tej Rokka. “I did not know what to do because the hall was full of people of all ages and I wanted to run out and save myself, but I saw my flock crying without help,” Tej said on Monday – about 60 hours after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake changed life in N...
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Third Day song Soul on Fire is performed by the children at the SARA orphanage outside Kathmandu, Nepal. Climbing For Christ visited the children at an orphanage of partner ministry SARA (Savior Alone Redeems Asians) as part of Mission: Nepal 2015. The children enjoyed lessons about the Trinity, crafts, stories and songs – especially Third Day’s song Soul on Fire. C4C members support a number of orphans there, but there are more in need of sponsors. CLICK HERE to learn more and sponsor a child.
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Video produced by Jordan Rowley, spiritual coordinator, Climbing For Christ. Building the church in Nepal’s Far West By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ I stood on a hill overlooking the snow-covered lot where the church at Simikot proposes to build Humla’s first house of worship. I prayed for God to show me that this was His will. I felt my heart begin to race and a Spirit-induced excitement filled my body. I could see it – again. Climbing For Christ exists to build up the church. To GO where others cannot or will not to procla...
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Anniversary of praise By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ There have been innumerable breathtaking God moments experienced in Climbing For Christ’s 11-year HIStory. Conversions, healings, provision, protection – occurrences and recurrences that cause God-bumps.   Dr. Matthew examining a sick child in Nepal. (Photo by Jordan Rowley) On Mission: Nepal 2015, C4C’s trekking team visited the remote village of Takla in the Far Western district of Humla. During an impromptu health clinic, held by the two doctors on our team (Matthew Fisher of Cana...
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By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ Climbing For Christ celebrates its 11th anniversary this month. C4C was incorporated as a U.S. non-profit in New York State on April 20, 2004. Since then, we have seen more than 2,000 brothers and sisters in Christ join a ministry that goes where others cannot and will not, such as the mountains of Nepal, Peru, Turkey and Indonesia. To date, we have completed 78 short-term mission trips. We have done ongoing work through indigenous members in a dozen nations – from outreach to orphanages, and from building churches to buildi...
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Help in time of need “I am telling you the acts that God allowed in my missionary journey, by His grace.” This is how Brother Jaime Servat, C4C’s missionary to Peru, began his latest report from the field – which for the past several months has been Ecuador. The mission field is everywhere for God’s servants. Whether Peru or Ecuador, mountain villages or an ice cream shop, God’s children are “on mission” wherever their feet take them. Jaime’s February mission report began with him looking for a cup of coffee. “God guided me to a...
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Many Koma to Christ The threat of terrorism delayed C4C’s most recent foray into the Koma Hills. But the enemy could not keep the Word from reaching the Koma people living in Nigeria’s remote northeast. We wrestled successfully against the cosmic powers over this present darkness – including the failure of the local chief to announce the impending visit of our own Pastor Chris Joseph – to share the Jesus film and preach the Truth to a crowd of about 200 people. “Soaked in the power of the Holy Ghost, I expounded the Scriptures to them, exposing the dange...
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Sharing an unfailing love in Pakistan “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT) Save Pakistan shared the love of Christ with the children at their orphanage by holding a Valentine’s Day party on Feb. 14. Feeding the children.
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‘Go to the mountains of Rwenzori and win more souls to Christ’ “Praise the Lord,” Evangelist Rich Friday said after the most recent crusade in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains. “Glory to God Who has answered my heart cry toward His work of winning souls. “I feel to go to the mountains of Rwenzori and win more souls to Christ.”
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A song of praise in Ecuador Chimborazo as seen from the village of  Cooperativa. (Photo by Jaime Servat) As Climbing For Christ’s Peruvian missionary, Jaime Servat, walked a mountain road near Ecuador’s tallest peak (20,564-foot/6,268-meter Chimborazo) in late January, he sang to the Lord: “Oh God, You are guiding me again and again through Your Spirit in this way of grace by grace; Oh God, You are amazing, healing hearts and minds through Your Spirit in this way of love by love; Oh King of Kings I love all about You Oh Lord of Lords You are all my life.”...
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Sewing and sowing in Pakistan We have documented the persecution of our ministry partners in Pakistan – from physical attacks to the abduction and forced marriage of a dear sister and from relocating to restarting the work of the Lord in a hard place. Two Save Pakistan projects – a sewing center to empower women in need and orphanage care for lost children – are again underway to God’s glory.   Women learning to make clothing in the Save Pakistan sewing program. Evangelist Haseeb, a Climbing For Christ member and Save Pakistan’s founder, said the sewing c...
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A door opens in Nigeria “…for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” – 1 Corinthians 16:9 (ESV) As we shared about the threats of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria [see ‘I am Nigerian’] and prayed specifically for the work God has for Climbing For Christ among remote people living in the mountains there, a door was opened. When Pastor Chris Joseph, a C4C member and ministry partner in Nigeria, contacted Chief Moses of the Koma people about our next visit to the Atlantika Mountains, the chief informed us that h...
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