Respected International director Mr.Keith Kasarjian , our coordinator Mr. Mark Reynolds, supporters and prayer partners of BVBI-Tiurpati , A.P,India behalf of our Bible college we convey our greetings to you in the precious and matchless name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ . We hope that this reporting letter may serve us to convey gratitude and thanks to each one of you for your love, prayers and encouragement.
We heard about the Corona virus has been rapidly spreading in US and causes many people have been hospitalized and many people are dying . We bleed in our heart and feel sorry to hear about this news. We continue to pray for you and your nation.
By the grace of God BVBI-Tirupati has completed three semesters successfully and fourth semester has started. In this semester we have completed the book of 1.Galatians, 2. First Thessalonians( and ) 3. Second Thessalonians, 4.First Peter, 5.Second Peter and 6.book of Jude. According to Indian president guidelines our indoor classes room work has been suspended an due to Corona virus threat .
The number of positive Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to increase in India, but thankfully not at too high a rate. Let us continue to pray that the Medical scientists and Researchers could come up with a cure and vaccine soon. That the virus is more easily managed. In the meantime we pray all of us be safe and do not be infected with the virus. God is faithful. He cares for His own.
Assignment work : During this lock down period students have been busy in writing assignments from the completed syllabus , they need to spend 8 hours per day to study and write the assignment . All the teachers are available for the students to clarify their questions and doubts by using text messages, whats App , skipe, zoom, e-mails , phone calls etc…
Benevolence: This is the time all the members of lord’s church have been struggling along with citizens of our country during this lock down period which was started in March 22nd midnight , the govt has been trying level best in meeting the needs of the people by supplying food packets but still hundreds of the people in need .Therefore all the students and teaching faculty have been moved with great compassion and helped the needy families in their own local churches, we approached the capable members in the local church personally and collected some contributions , by using this money we purchased rice , groceries , fruits and vegetables and provided to the neediest families in the local churches. By the grace of God beside students and staff we have distributed rice and groceries to 20 families in the Vidyanagar church , we have helped vegetables to 150 families in total village which was under the RED-ZONE and second round we have provided vegetables and fruits to 25 families.
Online classes: According to current news from the Govt the lockdown period suppose to be completed by May 17th, 2020, if not we will be started to teach our courses by using zoom-app, we already contacted all the students to download the zoom app, they are ready for the online classes .
HHI-Vegetable garden : myself and few students have been regularly working for the AG vegetable garden to keep healthy and greenish. We try to keep all the guidelines whatever we learned in our HHI-AG workshop training given in Zimbabwe for the maintenance of the hunger garden .
Staff meeting: Before the lock down period was started we had our staff meeting on March 20 Friday , we discussed several things regarding the discipline, punctuality and character development of the students and their home works, kitchen work and gardening works etc...
Students and Sundays: As we began the 4th semester we are planning to send the students to neighboring local churches to teach the word of God , we are happy to report you that there are several local churches are available in and around the Tirupati-city. We know several local preachers who are interested to receive our students for the Sunday preaching .
The progress of the students : All the students are able to follow each teacher in the class room , they are given home work, memory work , weekly exams . Teachers observe their class room running note books. BVBI-Tirupati is trying level best to maintain the good standard in preparing effective spiritual soldiers for the sake dying souls in our county. We strongly believe that only the word of God is solution for all the spiritual problems. All the students meet in the morning and evening for the student’s devotions. Happy to report you that they use to have prayer, singing, bible reading and preaching . Each day two student get opportunity to preach the word of God (Morning and evening). As they earned one year preaching experience among the students that helped them to develop boldness to teach the word of God.
We extend our thanks from the bottom of our hearts to the director Mr.Keith Kasarjian Our coordinator Mr. Mark Reynolds for their commitment and personal care and concern for the smooth function of the Bible college . We don’t find words to appreciate their guidelines and encouragements. It was the life threat time when Mr. Mr.Keith Kasarjian has visited in 2020 March because of Covid-19. We praise God for his safe travel with good health . We sincerely thankful to his great efforts to visit us and encourages us. We also thankful to all the prayers partners of our Bible College.
Thanks to all the visitors who could able to visit us from US before Covid-19:
We humble our self and remember all the visiting’s of our beloved brothers and sisters who visited BVBI-Tirupati and encouraged us just before The Covid-19 threat . We are thankful to Mr.John R. Vaughan( Graymere church of Christ ) Mr.Jonathan Winchester(Graymere church of Christ) Mr.Matthew Bowling (Graymere church of Christ), Mr.Larry Nokes (Foothills church of Christ(Mr.Dennis Widner(Foothills church of Christ) Mr.Damon Vincent(Sunset church of Christ) Mrs.Linda smith(WoodsonChapel Church of Christ) and Mrs.Jackie Hills(Berrey’s Chappel Chuch of Christ) and Mr.Reyhart(4177 Bethlehem Church Road, Wickliffe,KY 42087) and Mr.Peter Solomon( Kumaran Nagar church of Christ-Chennai) Mr.V.S. Immanuel (( Kumaran Nagar church of Christ-Chennai) Mr.M.Devasagayam( Arakonam church of Christ) Mr.David Martin -Chennai) etc..
Prayer Request: The every month rents of the Bible college building and student’s hostel occupies the much of the monthly budget , we humbly request you to pray for the own building for the BVBI-Tirupati, India. Our present building owner has a plan to sell the building, if God opened the doors to own the building, it would be a great blessing to have permanent building for the BVBI-India, the RENTS what we pay for the BUILDING would be saved and utilized for educating the young men for eternal life.
Thanking you.
Yours brother and sister in Christ.
Vijay&swarupa, Behalf of BVBI-Tirupati-India