Mission Moment (Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012)
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:4 (NLT)
Evangelist Haseeb Masih and Save Pakistan Ministries organized a Valentine's Day celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 14 for “orphans and...
By Gary Fallesen
Founding President, Climbing For Christ
The drumbeat greeted us as we descended into the Tamang village of Thuman in Langtang National Park. “That’s foreboding,” I said. The repetitive (and, yes, annoying) pounding was coming from a large Buddhist gompa. It con...
Mission Moment (Monday, Feb. 6, 2012)
Haseeb Masih, left, with Bibles purchased with funds provided by God through Climbing For Christ.
Another 165 Bibles given
Save Pakistan Ministries delivered Urdu Bibles on two more occasions in January:
“We have distributed...
All of our team members returned to their respective homes in their respective countries this evening, officially ending this short-term mission. But the work goes on. The team gives thanks and sings praises to the Lord for His goodness and faithfulness.
Our mission teams do daily devotionals together while in the field. These devos, which are prepared lovingly by spiritual coordinator Jordan Rowley, are a huge blessing to our teams. As this trip winds down, we spent Thursday evening discussing a devo that I wrote called “What’s in a nam...
We began our goodbyes, saying “Jaimashi” (“Victory in Jesus”) to our brother Megh after a day of meetings, planning, prayer, and a final dinner as a team (back at the Higher Grounds coffee shop in Kathmandu).
Megh, Tej, Brandy and I met to talk about this trip and the projec...
Brandy and Marissa had one more day of playing with the Project 1:27 orphans before the team reunited this evening in Kathmandu. “We played games with the kids. Tons of games,” Marissa said. “This was my favorite part of the trip.”
Dave and I finished a 20-hour journey back ...
It was a blessed day in Korchabang as we participated in the baptism of seven new believers and shared with the church in fellowship. We gathered with about 35 Christ followers on the land where we pray an 18-by-18-foot house of God will be built before monsoon season in four months. The church will...
Dave and I endured a grueling 15½-hour drive bouncing around a shock-absorber-less vehicle from Kathmandu to Korchabang with Megh, Pastor Rajan from Tej's SARA ministry, and our Christian driver, Kem. The first 9 ½ hours were on one of the main paved roads going halfway across the coun...
It was a rest day for the team. This included a challenging cross-city journey to Higher Grounds, the Christian coffee shop and bakery beloved by those of us visiting Kathmandu from North America. Traffic was worst than the usual gridlock as protests continue over rising fuel prices. (Last week the ...