TASK COMPLETED IN TIRUNELVELI

Shalom All,

In my journey with the Lord, I always put the Lord as my main priority as “The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trusts in Him and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song” - Book of Psalm 28 v 7.

We reached safety at Bangalore, State of Karnataka, India on last Monday but we arrived late by 4 hours due to the rail track traffic and now we are staying in India Campus Crusade for Christ. This coming Saturday evening, we are leaving to Hyderabad for doing God’s Work together with Brother Jeevan and his team (Nemalah Ministries mean Ants in Hebrew) for a week plus.

Last May 24th, 2008 evening, we went to the village church to share the Word of God to them and many people got touched by the light of the Lord. The surrounding of the church was extremely dark but the Lord is great as the Lord make the lesser light during the night (Book of Genesis 1 v 16). When we prayed for this people, one of the brothers got up and starts to help me to pray for all these people. God prepare us in difference way, and we learned to obey The Lord’s Commandments.

The next morning (Sunday), I was preaching in the small church near to our place and their worship and communion can take at least 2 hours. As Bro. John and I waited for my turn to share the Word of God to their congregations and I was given 35 minutes. It reminded me that I was attending an African church service that it can take 3 hours plus. This church is run by the family since 2 years ago. His son whom is worship lead will be going to New Delhi for mission field as I am covering him in prayer.

In the evening, we went to satellite church that was far from town and it was also the birth place for Bro. John. There were quite a number of pastors as well a number of congregations attended my preaching. The pastors was amazed the teaching and touched their heart. A married couple whom celebrated 25 years anniversary was given a souvenir and the pastors asked me to lead the prayer. We also visited some home around the area. One teenager came to me while he was drunk and asked me to pray for him as he was stressed over his studies.

Last Sunday morning, I was invited by Rev. Dr. to preach in his church and it was about 30 km away from our place and the city. The size of congregation is about 300 over and it is the bigger church that I ever preached in Tirunelveli. We attended the communion service and the worship songs are mix with Tamil and English, at least I can understand the songs and follow-up. On the same day, we are leaving from Tirunelveli to Bangalore as train depart around 4pm. We felt so stressed when we looked at our time 1.30pm and we still far away 30 km and we thought that we unable to catch the train. We were so worried during our physical mind, but the Lord asked us to calm down as we will reach there on time while we ready our spiritual heart mean have faith…our timing is belong to God and not us.

When we reached the railway station, I went to check our seats in the berth and I found out that our seats were cancelled. Jenny and I started to be worry as the train departed around 20 minutes. Immediately I went to the reservation counter and I told the officer about our tickets. Couple of minutes later, the officer able to secured our seats and we really Praise the Lord for his promise to us and all credits return back to Almighty Creator, our Lord. We appreciate the hospitality from Bro. John and his wife while we stayed there by providing us a room and meals for a month…May the Lord enrich his family. Nevertheless, we also appreciated Bro. Maharajan (auto driver - taxi) whom really brought us around the city and the bus terminal as well all the people we met people in Tirunelveli - Book of Psalm 72 v 17 and be blessed.

Now we are Bangalore - the India Silicon Valley and the city improve better since my last visited in November 2007. I met a few pastors around here and we didn’t do much here as we just visiting only. Below are some pictures of the city for your viewing.

I will delay my report to you as we will traveling out of main city (Hyderabad) for ministry depend on the internet connectivity there.

Thank you too for your continued partnership in prayer and financial support, as the Glory of the Lord will be acknowledge forever throughout the nation.

Blessing,
Pastor Steve Peter H S Kok and Sister Jenny Kok