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Dear Friends of TTC,
As we mentioned in our last update, Scott is excited to be heading back to India next month. He will partner with our team there to invest in a new group of Indian pastors and their wives. As we did in April, we will again host two three-day pastor’s couples’ conferences in the Poondi Madha Retreat Center in south India. We have had such good results with this facility, and I (Scott) am really looking forward to ministering there again.
Scott ministers to pastors and wives in the Retreat Center
Pastors and their spouses will stay two nights at the retreat center, which provides food, lodging, and conference facilities for up to 150 people. We have found that having the pastoral couples come away from their home area and providing them with nice accommodations consistently yields great results (listen to one pastor’s testimony here). To top it all off, the total cost per couple for food and lodging for those two nights and three days is only $40.
We will be inviting 75 couples to each of the two conferences. If you would like help us by sponsoring three or four couples, please go to our egive portal and select India Pastors Seminars as the fund.
Scott’s host in India, Pastor Rajan, has been facing harassment from government officials because of his ongoing work of training pastors. The map below shows the number of pastors being trained per county.
This past week he was interrogated for three hours, but the officials could not find anything for which to charge him with wrongdoing. They are now pressuring on the owner of the building their church has been meeting in for more than ten years; he has given them an eviction notice. The church is about $2000 shy of the total needed to purchase land for a new church building. Please pray for Pastor Rajan and Bethel Church.
After two weeks in India, Scott will be traveling for the first time to Nepal, a land-locked nation between India and China that is largely Hindu. Over half the Nepali people have never heard the gospel, and many have not even heard the name “Jesus.”
Scott will be working with Pastor Mohan (“MOW-hahn”), a local pastor whose church has planted 25 new churches in the past 10 years. Together they will spend three days investing in Nepali pastors and will then travel to a remote mountain village to preach the gospel and encourage the church there. Pastor Mohan has been attending one of Scott’s online disciple-makers groups for the past few months and is working to translate the first volume of the Pressing Toward the Mark discipleship material into Nepali prior to Scott’s arrival.
Nepali youth rally in October 2022
Praise Reports:
1. Great deal on conference center room and board (12 meals and two nights in a hotel room for only $40)
2. An open door to the nation of Nepal.
Prayer Requests:
1. Favor and provision for Pastor Rajan and Bethel Church
2. Sponsors for 150 Indian pastoral couples to attend a TTC Pastor’s Conference
3. God’s guidance and provision for Scott’s upcoming trip.
Thank you so much for your prayers. We really appreciate your partnership!
Blessings,
Scott, Patty, and the whole TTC team
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