Mission Moments: Nepal
The anatomy of the church
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The newly built church at Dharmashala.
“And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.” – Ephesians 1:22-23 (NIV)
The church – the body of Christ – is said to be growing faster in Nepal than anywhere else in the world. In the Mid-West district of Rolpa, the church at Korchabang went out (just as Jesus directed in Matthew 28:19 and Mark 16:15) and planted more churches.
What began with one believer is currently 135 Christ followers in Korchabang, 87 in Dharmashala, and 25 in a house church in Ghapa.
Climbing For Christ has been blessed to work since 2012 with the church in Rolpa, the heartland of Nepal, where a guerrilla movement began in 1996 that led Maoists to power and turned a Hindu kingdom into a secular nation after a 10-year civil war.
In 2012, we helped build a house of worship for the church at Korchabang and encouraged brothers and sisters in Christ to be like the early church of Acts. This has resulted in our helping the church at nearby Dharmashala build its own house of worship.
“This church will bring more people into the kingdom of God,” said Megh Gurung, Climbing For Christ’s indigenous missionary to Nepal. “There are so many people spiritually dying.
“Last month (February 2017) one whole family came to the Lord. I have great hope many believers will worship at the Dharmashala church. Many souls will be won in those villages.”
Dharmashala is the fifth house of worship we have been blessed to help build in Nepal, dating to Dapcha in Central Nepal in 2011. We built the church at Dapcha with ministry partner SARA (Savior Alone Redeems Asians) and then helped Pastor Tej Rokka build his main SARA church in Kathmandu in 2014.
Dapcha, Korchabang and Kathmandu were followed by the building of the first house of worship in the remote Humla district in Nepal’s northwest corner and now Dharmashala. Climbing For Christ has been led to walk alongside the church at Pokhara in Western Nepal, where we hope to build the next house of worship.
Making HIStory in Nepal
“…and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” – Matthew 16:18 (ESV)
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Dapcha (2012).
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Korchabang (2012).
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Kathmandu (2014).
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Simikot, Humla (2017).
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Dharmashala (March 2018).
The first of our two missions to Nepal in 2017 visited Rolpa in May. We worshiped with the church there and surveyed the land purchased to build this house of worship. Construction on the building began in January 2018. “Everybody is excited to build the church there,” Megh reported in early January. (See “Building another house in His name.”)
It took two months for the church to be built. (See the Photo Gallery below for the timeline of construction.) We will dedicate the church to the LORD during Mission: Nepal 2018. 
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