B. and D. A. are retiring from almost 30 years of missionary service with EFM in Nepal. They have left behind a large group of churches that are faithful to the Lord Jesus, sustainable in regards to their own leadership and economic resources, and are also constantly evangelizing and planting more churches. B. and D. look forward to staying in touch with them and making occasional visits in the years to come. In the meantime they are getting ready for a few months of deputation which will give them the opportunity to spend time with many like you who have been praying for them and giving towards their financial support.

If you would like to read their retirement newsletter or see their video about the ministry transition in Nepal, please email our office!

Their upcoming deputation gives us all the opportunity to rejoice over what the Lord has done in and through them. We will also be able to contribute towards a love offering for them. This is a tangible way for us to express our love and appreciation for B. and D. So please be praying about what the Lord would have you give towards this offering. Please see the instructions below for how to make your contribution.

• Online. Visit https://catalog.friendsmission.com/bda. Make sure to select the designation “Missionary | B. and D. A. Love Gift”.
• Credit Card. This may be given online (as stated above) or by calling the EFM office (303-421-8100) to give your information to a live person.
• Check. Mail a check to EFM, P.O. Box 771139, Wichita, KS 67277. Make sure to mark your check as “Adhikary Love Gift”. Pay to the order of “EFM.”
  The Lord bless you and continue to use you for his kingdom purposes!

Your fellow servant in Christ,

Dan Cammack

Field Director

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B. and D. A. | Serving in Nepal

Thank you so much for your prayers and your support. We are very grateful in our hearts.

God continues to give us favor inside the jail each time we go there to visit our believers. Each time we go there, there is a new police chief but each time we get favor to get in and talk with the inmates.

This time we were even allowed to take our mobile phones and you can see the picture inside the jail. We don’t know how this works except by the sheer mercy of our God. No reading materials are allowed but we always take in Bibles and lots of tracks and the jailers don’t stop us.

In the second picture, you can see we are handing over t-shirts to the police to give to the inmates. We had also taken three audio Bibles and when inspected the police chief asked us about them and we said it was audio Bibles. To our surprise, he asked if he could have one for himself to listen to the word. We gladly gave him one. Pray for the police chief to come to Christ.

There are now 25 male believers inside this jail and two women believers. Each time we go there, we are allowed to share the gospel for 45 minutes. We have been recently allowed to go to the women’s side of the jail and preach the gospel there. Women are now starting to come to Christ.

Please pray for this amazing work inside the jail.

Blessings,

B. and D. A.

EFM’s Field Director Dan Cammack was just in Nepal last month, visiting with B. and D. A. and celebrating the passing of the baton of leadership from B. and D. to a local Nepali leader who has been in training for many years. While there, Dan was able to participate in village evangelism and spend the night in one of the villages! Here Dan is sharing about the yoke of Christ with a yoke of oxen right in the background! 

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Thank you so much for praying for our Easter Evangelistic services. I know many of your prayed each day since I sent the prayer request.

Easter was not a holiday here, yet we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord with great joy and enthusiasm. We live today because of Jesus. It is an awesome thought.

Our churches celebrated Easter with evangelism in each of their areas- some showed movies about Jesus, some did public testimonies of baptism, some had rallies, some had great dancing and singing, and all of them had a big feast of rice and lentils.

The Holy Spirt moved in a powerful way in each of our 20 areas. When we gave the invitation in all our areas, 73 Hindus and one Buddhist accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior. We could not hold our joy as we knew there was also great rejoicing in Heaven. We thank the Lord for continuing to pour out his Spirit in our areas.

Testimony of Bijay In the middle of the picture with the beard is Bijay. He was a big drunk. He used to get drunk and sleep under the bridge or sleep in the open fields at night. He was also proud that one of the Hindu goddesses lived inside of him. He was also against the Gospel. He had told three of his relatives not to accept Christ who were ready to accept the Lord. When he got drunk, he used to fight with anyone he was angry with and get in trouble. Since he didn’t work, he was getting more and more in debt. One day in the middle of winter he was drunk and was sleeping without his clothes on, naked, and one of our believers saw him, picked him up in his bike, and took him home. When he was sober our believer started sharing the Gospel with Bijay. Holy Spirit started to work in his heart and he started responding to the Gospel. Soon in a few months the goddesses were driven out of Bijay’s life and he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Here is the irony. He had threatened three of his relatives not to accept Christ but he himself came and accepted Christ and he has not told them yet. Looks like soon we are going to have 3 new relatives accepting Christ. I just heard yesterday that Bijay’s wife got a government job. Bijay is rejoicing.

Thank you to all of you who pray for us and support us. We are truly grateful in our hearts for you.

Blessings,
B. and D. A.

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Thank you so much for praying and giving towards the ministry in Nepal. We truly appreciate it.

Below in the picture, is the recording of our three pastors. They have already been pastoring their churches for ten years. We are just recognizing them. We feel they are ready now. They are very faithful people and serve the Lord in very difficult areas.

One of the pastors on the left, Kumar (with the blue jacket), was beaten up badly by the radical Hindu mob. He and his wife are back in the same area planting churches. Everyone present in the meeting were very happy and excited to see them being recorded.

We want to thank brothers Mitch Cook and Kevin Harvey for being present in the ceremony and praying for them. They were a tremendous blessing to us.

Testimony of Amrita Devi in Kabilasha village:

Amrita was a crazy woman. She used to dismantle her hair, throw off her blouse, and run crazy in the village. She was taken to Sisautiya village on the motorbike with two people holding her in the middle. She wanted to throw herself from the bike. When she reached the church, one of our anointed singers, Hanuman, sang his worship song and during the song the Holy Spirit instantly touched her and made her completely whole. Then she sat hearing our preachers share the Word. When she went back to her village, the villagers were shocked to see her normal. This exploded the gospel in the village and many have come to Christ. Amrita Devi accepted Christ and her husband also. Now she holds a government job and her face shines with the brightness of Christ. We thank the Lord for this great miracle.

Thank you so much for giving towards the bike for our pastors. This is pastor Lok Bahadur. He is a very hard worker and a faithful pastor. He has planted four churches and it had been very hard for him to travel to those churches on a bicycle. Now he can travel to them easily and even be free to go to new areas to church plant. Thank you so much for helping our pastors get motorbikes for their travel.

Thank you so much for praying.

Blessings,
B. and D. A.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  How was your Christmas? I pray you had a blessed time.

Thank you for your prayers and your support. We are very grateful in our hearts.

We intensified our preaching and discipling in the villages starting on December 1. We wanted to make sure the people who were going to accept Christ were ready in their hearts. As Christmas approached, our joy intensified. Our pastors and leaders when asked what gift they would like to give Jesus, always say, ‘We want to put new souls at Jesus’s feet.’ Because they know Jesus came to seek and to save the lost.

We had our evangelistic meetings in 22 different areas. Here is a picture of one of our open meetings. In one of our areas the police was informed. But when the police saw the crowd they just told us not to criticize other religions and we were allowed to continue.

When we gave the invitation for people to accept Christ, 70 Hindus, three Buddhists, and two Muslims accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. There was great joy among us. This time we had three separate areas where people accepted Jesus. One was our churches, the second was inside the jail, and the third was in India.

Testimony: Ex Muslim received Jesus and received her sight. 

She received Christ first and then she was prayed over, for her eyes to receive sight because she was blind. As the church service was going on, she got up from her seat on her own and walked to the front of the church and gave testimony that she was blind and now she could see. You should hear the loud cheer that resounded in the church.

Rejoice with us as the Holy Spirit continues to do incredible things.

Blessings,

B. and D. A.

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I am asking you to pray every day till Christmas for our evangelistic meetings in 22 different areas.
Some of our areas do open air preaching, some areas do a march and pass out tracks, some areas show Jesus movies all night long and some areas sing carols and preach the gospel.
Please ask the Lord for a good harvest of souls for Christmas.

Please also pray for the jail ministry that a few of our Friends churches have started.  They have a fellowship meeting every day that 100 inmates are attending. More will be coming to Christ during Christmas time.

Praise the Lord.

Blessings,
B. and D. A.

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The Darkest Season in Nepal and the Most Glorious Light of the Gospel

Thank you so much for praying for us and supporting us. We are very grateful in our hearts for you.

As the biggest Hindu festival was approaching, we could feel the darkness and oppression rising. During this time we have to wake up with ringing of bells, blowing of horns and chanting to the Hindu gods. The Hindu temples are packed with devotees and animals are slaughtered in the temples and blood flows like a river. Oppression and heaviness grows each day for ten days of continuous worship.

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Gospel Preached, Demons Cast Out, Souls Saved

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for your prayers and your support. We truly appreciate it with all of our hearts.

In one of our areas, our pastors had been going to a brand-new village and preaching the gospel for months. Now they thought it was time for them to give a chance for the Hindus to accept Christ.

After they preached the gospel again, they started praying. While they were praying the Spirit of the living God started descending among the people and everyone could feel his presence. The fire of God descended. This caused the two women who were possessed with demons to manifest and cry out loud.

When the villagers heard this, huge crowds of Hindus from the village started piling to hear what was happening. Our pastors started casting out the demons from the two women. The demons convulsed the two women; they were cast out, and the women fell to the floor as you can see in the picture at the bottom right.

Then our pastors gave the invitation for people to accept Christ. Five Hindus who had been hearing the gospel for months gave their lives and accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. A new church plant has started in that village.

Then an amazing thing happened. One after another the Hindus who saw the power of God started inviting our pastors to come to their homes and pray for the sick. They went from house to house proclaiming the gospel and praying for the sick. They said it was just amazing what the Lord’s power was doing.

Please be praying for our evangelistic meeting during the Hindus’ biggest festival October 15-16. Pray that the Lord will grant us a big harvest of souls.

Blessings,

B. and D. A.

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The following story is shared by our Friends in Asia and shows how one relationship was changed from your support.

“Lakhinder was a 12 year-old-boy and goat herder when we first visited the village he lived in. He heard the gospel and accepted Christ when at 13. He stood for Christ even when his whole family was against him. This made him strong in the Lord. He started attending Sunday School that we were teaching. He was very interested in the word and learned all the stories. When he was 16, he started going out with us to the villages to preach the Gospel. Lakhinder was very interested in God’s call for his life. He did this for two years and followed me and learned how to preach to the Hindus and preach in church. He felt God’s call and joined the leader’s team when he was 19. He has been very faithful and consistent in his walk with the Lord. He went through many persecutions and still stood for the Lord. Now he is 32 years old and is one of our wonderful pastors and has planted four churches. Lakhinder has brought many Hindus to the Lord and has changed his whole society around him for Christ. “

If you would like to help make a difference in the lives of people like Lakhinder, here’s how:

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