Date: Scheduled Jan. 3-15, 2011.
Purpose: To visit Dapcha, where Climbing For Christ is partnering with nationals to build a local church. We are going to check on the church build (or site for the church if construction has not begun). Other goals: Encourage the local church and trek in cent...
Tibetan Buddhism a way of life, but not The Way
Faster than you can say the greeting, “Tah-shi de-leh,” the Tibetan wants to know if you have met the Dalai Lama.
When you have come from the outside world, where their beloved Dalai Lama lives in exile, you are greeted with q...
Ministry for the bold and adventurous! Go where people have never heard the name of Jesus. We are returning to a place we have visited on two previous Evangelic Expeditions and where our “m” now works to continue building relationships.
“I have shared some more of the Go...
Pastor Tej visiting the site of a future church build in central Nepal.
Climbing For Christ wired money to Pastor Tej B. Rokka in Nepal on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 for the purchase of land (photo above) in the mountain village of Dapcha, where a church will be constructed in 2011. There ...
Sun rising behind Mount Everest, left, with Nuptse to the right.
(Photo by Jim Nowlin, Mission: Nepal 2008)
Location: Southern Asia between China and India. Area: 147,181 square kilometers (slightly larger than Arkansas). Terrain: Central hill region and Himalayan mountains in the nort...
I went into Mission: Nepal in May 2009 acknowledging that its success was in God’s hands. But my conviction of this was tested throughout the journey as God continued to teach me to have faith in and reliance on Him.
He also challenged me to increase my patience while waiting for the hu...
The Hollywood-ization of Buddhism would have you believe that it is a religion of peace, love and virtues, caring for the earth and the creatures in it. “Buddhists look to a smiling Buddha seated on a lotus blossom, while Christians worship a suffering Jesus nailed to a cross,” one Chris...
People: Kham Tibetan (also known as Eastern, Northern and Western Khampa).
Location: Kham Tibetans are spread among four Chinese provinces. As many Kham are thought to live in the Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan as in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). There is a large concentration of Kh...