Gospel Events for Ministry in India:
Dear Beloved Steven, Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I am very much glad in the Lord Jesus to write you, thank you very much for your kind prayers and encouragement towards our faith ministry. By the Grace of God and by your fervent prayers we are doing His work faithfully and sincerely.
I and my team brothers are regularly attending to the ministry and conducting cottage prayers, street Gospel meetings, tracts distribution, street Evangelism, Gospel Crusades, youth meetings, help the poor and praying for the sick etc. Our vision and burden is Gospel work and help the poor.
Since 1993we always engaged in preaching the Good News. In fact every thing we are doing by your fervent prayers and encouragement. In fact we always need your kind prayers and encouragement to do His work more. I hope through your kind prayers and encouragement we are able to do more.
"Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation". Mark 16:15
Your fervent prayers and encouragement enable us to reach the unreached. Whenever we go with a team, the villagers responding positively. En though adverse winds were blowing in other parts of our country, fortunately in our region no one obstructs us to preach the glad tindings. We afraid, in the days come the anti elements may cause unrest. In the days to come Indian doors may be closed for the Gospel. Hindus and other religions 97.5%, Christians 2.5%. Most of the people are groping in the gross darkness, without knowing the real God. The world events alarming us the soon coming of our Lord. Before that awful incidents we ought to fulfill the Lord?s commission with great exertion by all means.
Coming Up Gospel Events May 2008: -
Gospel Outreach work May 12 to 16 Friday in Annthavarpadu and beside 9 villages among the Hindus and Muslims.
- Gospel Crusades May 20, 21, 22 in Podli, Kunchapli villages Prakasam District.
- Gospel Outreach work May 26 to 31 Saturday in Gangadipalem and beside 11 villages among the poor people
I hope these work will be fruitful for the King. Please kindly for these coming up work and to bring many souls to Jesus Christ and needs.
Please kindly pray for us, we are praying for you and your kind services. Awaiting for your kind reply soon.
Yours in His Services
Katta.Edukondalu, Pastor
5/07/2008 |
April Ministry Work Report From India
Dear Beloved brother Steven
Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 I am very much glad in the Lord Jesus to write you, thank you very much for your kind prayers and encouragement towards our poor ministry. By the Grace of God and by your fervent prayers we are doing His work faithfully and sincerely.
I and my team brothers are regularly attending to the ministry and conducting cottage prayers, street Gospel meetings, tracts distribution, street Evangelism, Gospel Crusades, youth meetings, children Bible study and praying for the sick etc., Our vision and burden is Gospel work and help the poor.
In fact we always need your kind prayers and encouragement to do His work more. I hope through your kind prayers and encouragement we are able to do His work more. It is our heartfelt desire to work with you for the cause to bring the people to the LIGHT and save them from the great poor condition. Your prayers will change us and our people from great miserable condition.
At present through your kind fervent prayers and encouragement we are working many villages preaching the Word of God and help the poor. The Jesus love gone to the villages through us many are saved and blessed, but it is very little what we have done for the Glory of God. In fact the Lord has put great burden in our hearts to reach the unreached. It is our vision and burden in the days to come Winning Millions of Souls for Christ. The world events alarming us the soon coming of our Lord. Before that awful incident we ought to fulfill the Lord's commission with great exertion by all means.
"The Harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.." Luke 10:2
Please kindly read the following April 2008 Ministry News, what we have done among the unsaved people. I hope the last month work will be fruitful for the King. In April month 19 villages we worked, 14000 tracts distributed and conducted few cottage and street meetings and Gospel Crusades went well in Krishna District. Through these crusades 3 people were saved and 11 people were healed from different diseases.
MINISTRY NEWS OF APRIL 2008
01 - April - 08 Tuesday to 05 - April - 08 Saturday.
During in this week we were worked in 3 villages. Each village 33 to 48 km far for us we reach these villages by motor cycles and buses. By walk we cover 3 villages distributing tracts, street Evangelism and in two villages conducted street Gospel meeting. Beside the Road Street meetings went well, 26 to 32 people were attended. After street meeting over we prayed for the sick. God has mighty healed 4 sick people from their diseases and one soul saved. Praise to be God. The name of person who is saved Bro. Muthla Rao. Please kindly pray for all of them.
07 -April - 08 Monday to 12 - April - 08 Saturday.
During in this week I and my team brothers were worked among the fisher men community in 5 villages. Actually it is not easy to work among these people, because they are fully against for Gospel. These 5 villages 28 to 43 km far for us by bicycle and motor cycle we reach these villages and by walk every village and every street. Many people are illiterates, we are not distributed many tracts. Through street Evangelism with mega phone we preached the Word of God.
After 7 pm we had conducted street Evangelism on the tree. Some people are given much trouble for not conducted meeting. Then we are ready to cancel meeting, but wonderfully meeting went well. 16 to 19 people are attended and hear the Word of God with much interest. Please kindly pray for these unsaved people and need to work there again.
14 - April - 08 Monday to 18 - April - 08 Friday.
During in this week we had conducted 3 days Gospel Crusades at Krishna District, Peddavarm village. Here in these villages one of team brother working since few years on faith lines among the strong Hindus. We are started to conduct Gospel Crusades in 2004, our first Gospel Crusades conducted in this village of Peddavarm.
With much language on 14th 6 pm 12 people we were reached this village. This place very long for us 160 km far for us. After change the two buses we need to take private vehicle of auto (3 vehicle) to reach this village. There are no bus or train services only private vehicle services have to this place.
3 days Gospel Crusades went well and during our trip to this place we worked 9 villages. Day time after 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm we take an auto for rent and went to the villages invite them Gospel Crusades and distributed the tracts, every day 3 villages we covered.
3 days Gospel Crusades went well, every day God?s power on the Crusades. Every day 200 people were attended and hear the Word of God very much.. On the last day 17th we had done marriage for a poor people and also we had done a drama.
Through these Gospel Crusades 3 people were saved and 11 people healed from their diseases. The following names of who are saved 4 women and 2 men.
1. Lakhimma
2. Rathnalu
Men:
1. Narayana
Please kindly pray for them.
21 - April - 08 Monday to 25 - April - 08 Friday.
During in this week we are not does much work, because after return to home from the Gospel Crusades we are very sick. We worked only local area and visited church members? and growth in spiritual life.
28 - April - 08 Monday to 30 - April - 08 Wednesday.
During in these 3 days we worked in 3 villages. Here in India very hot summer season running. We can able to attend the ministry after 4 pm, only we can do tracts distributing. Although we have much work in this month of May.
Prayer Requests: -
1. For May month Gospel Crusades
2. To buy 400 Amplifier
3. To buy two sound boxes
Please kindly pray for us, we are praying for you and your kind services. Awaiting for your kind reply.
Yours in His Services
Katta.Edukondalu,Pastor
If you wish to donate to Katta's ministry, please contact him here: katta_inf@yahoo.com |
Team Leader
We know that God created all things, including team leaders. However, team leaders should not exalt themselves as though they are indispensable. God can raise up bums to be princes if He so chooses, but woe to the bum if he lifts himself up!
 Today´s churches are havens for egocentric men and women who feel as though God has called them to be special. They may have special talents or special spirits, but this does not mean that God has called them to be leaders of His church. According to end-time prophecies, special people will lead many astray.
We have a Team Leader. His name is Jesus Christ. We call him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. To do otherwise is to demean him. There is no fear of God when we do not see Christ as the Lord of Armies. If we do not see him reigning in battle, we will see him as a baby in swaddling clothes, protected by his mom. When there is no fear of God, only fear of man remains. Without fear of God, we must have a team leader that is not God, and he (or she) will tell us what to do.
This is why so many women disrespect their husbands. They have many counselors, but no Father and no Lord. Their leaders lead them astray, mangling Bible verses to prove it´s godly for women to correct their husbands, thus violating the commandment of God that teaches the wives to remain silent and the men to teach their wives at home (1 Corinthians 14:35, 1 Timothy 2:11-12).
Some partial verses they love to quote: "Submit to one another..." "Husbands love your wives..." This is taken to mean that the husbands should submit to their wives in the love of Christ; meaning, do as she says. This would be the same as Christ doing as we tell him. And many "faith preachers" say exactly that. These are in danger of eternal punishment, because they do not fear God.
If pastors would stop preening themselves and look at what the scripture actually states, it shows that we should all submit to one another in the "fear of God" (Ephesians 5:21). Of course, this does not mean we throw away God-given authority or order. I don´t tell the policeman to submit to me, and I don´t try to take over church hierarchies.
I do not interfere with a pastor´s homily or liturgical function, even though I might disagree with the program. A team leader presides over the proceedings in his arena. This is why the scripture says, "Wives submit to you own husbands as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22), and, "The head of every man is Christ, and the head of woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God" (1 Corinthians 11:3).
Wives will be protected if they follow this advice. Otherwise, they will follow any false team leader, probably dragging their feminized husbands along with them, as recent church history attests.
Chris Simonson - 5/02/2008 |
Effective Ministry: a series...
Part Three
1. When we are born again we are given the
Holy Spirit as a gift from God. The holy  Spirit
is the third 'person' of the triune God, in Hebrew is called "ruah
haqodesh" and in Greek "pneuma", coequal and coeternal with God. He is a
light unto our feet directing us towards holiness and righteousness,
peace, patience and joy, mercy, grace and, in fact, works directly with
our conscience, sharpening it. The Holy Spirit serves as the great
teacher, and patiently speaks to us through God's word, helping us to be
transformed more to the image of Christ, and our minds to be renewed.
The holy spirit is like the very breath of God falling upon us,
empowering us through the Gospel to proclaim good news to them which are
lost, and to minister to the saints. The holy Spirit seals us unto the
day of redemption.
Part of love for the Holy Spirit is to obey
the word of God, being very careful to test our heart by what we are
reading in His word as if our heart is on trial in front of the
all-knowing, all-seeing God that very moment; by grace and mercy we cry
out to God for forgiveness of our sin. By the Holy Spirit we warn the
lost of the coming judgment. By the same Holy Spirit we rebuke, exhort
and encourage our brethren. By that same holy Sprit, we can be struck
dead, as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira whom lied to the Holy
Spirit and were struck dead. Our ministry therefore should be led and
closely directed by the Holy Spirit in order to be effective.
But, the fruit of the Spirit is: "... love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's
have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in
the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." (Galatians 5:22-25)
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Part Two
Some of the foundational points for being a
effective minister of God:
1. Possessing a love for the Holy Spirit:
"...for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in
[your] prayers to God for me;" Romans 15:30
2. And, inspired by the Spirit of God a
love for the Truth, through God's word: "...because they received not
the love of the truth, that they might be saved." 2 Thessalonians 2:10
3. Being influenced and inspired by love,
though some be inspired by envy: "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy
and strife; and some also of good will: The one preach Christ of
contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: But
the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel."
Philippians 1:15-17 (see envy: "Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy,
murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," Romans 1:29)
4. Testing the fruit of your love:
"Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and
knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that
ye abound in this grace also. I speak not by commandment, but by
occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of
your love." 2 Corinthians 8:7-8
5. Walk in Love, doing that which is
befitting: "But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest
thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ
died." Romans 14:15
6. Learning to spot the blemishes on your
love feasts: "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without
fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;" Jude 12; "And shall receive
the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot
in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves
with their own deceivings while they feast with you;" 2 Peter 2:13
7. Keeping love with faith and hope:
"Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our
Father; Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." 1 Thess.
1:3&4; "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
[which ye have] to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you
in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the
gospel" Col. 1:4-5; "Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience,
and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession
of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see
the day approaching." Hebrews 10:22-25
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Part One
In modern Christendom there
are two ministries for every parishioner; there are  pastoral/elder
ministries, feed-the-hungry-ministries, collect-the-tithe ministries,
door-greeter ministries, etc... and there are street-preaching
ministries. Though there are copious ministries, in order to be
legitimately in the service of Christ they must they share one paradigm:
they must be based upon Love.
This love 'agape' is not vague, and there
are 8 characteristics which describe it, along with many sub-categories:
affection, good will, benevolence, (John 15:13, Romans 13:10, 1John
4:18) brotherly love, especially the love of Christians for other
Christians as prompted by their religion, (Matthew 24:12, 1 Co.
13:1-4&8, 1 Co. 14:1, 2 Co. 2:4, Gal. 5:6, Philemon 5,7), of the love of
men towards God, (Luke 6:42, John 5:42), of the love of God for men,
(Romans 5:8, Romans 8:39), of the love of God for Christ (john 15:10,
John 17:26) and of the love of Christ toward men (John 15:9, 2 Co. 5:14,
Romans 8:35, Eph. 3:19).
Now this love is not to be mistaken for the
love of men for themselves, but the love of God and His Word, nor should
we flippantly throw the word 'love' about as if it is some common
buzz-phrase, knowing that our Lord's, and our God, blood was shed that
we may boast in His abundant Love, not to mention those whom toiled,
suffered and died under His banner of love.
Steven Styles - 5/01/2008 |
