Dear brethren in Christ,
Greetings to you in the precious name of Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. By the grace of God we are doing good, we are experiencing a great loss due to the loss of my father, who directed all of us during last 12 years in Visakhapatnam. It was great loss, very hard to find someone to fill up that gap. We sure need your prayers to keep up the work going.
We pray that all of you are doing good, hope all of you have gotten the Vaccine, hope it keeps you all protected. We haven’t gotten that opportunity yet because we are large number in our country, based on the availability it is being offered to the serious patients first, then medical staff. We may have to wait for another 3 months to get the vaccine available in the market.
Classes & Trade Education:
At present Classes are going on as usual, it has been very expensive to travel between long distance places, because of hike of fuel prices as well as Covid Charges. We request you to be mindful of this hike of prices. To give an example, Diesel is now crossed $5 per gallon, the propane gas which we used to buy for $6 is now $12 , including delivery. Obviously the relative effect is on prices of Cooking oil, Daal, Rice and other items.
Trade education classes are going on good, our students are very excited about this program, 6 of them are very talented and learning like anything, we are proud of them. May be next month we shall be starting computer education classes every week, kind pray for the success. At the same time Free tailoring institute which we are operating at our school premises also giving some wonderful results in reaching out several families through this program. Several ladies, mainly from Hindu back ground are getting free classes from our institute.
Memorial Meeting: Memorial meeting was held in Memory of my father at Visakha Valley Bible College campus on 26th of Jan, it was done in great honor of our Director M Samuel Raju for all his wonderful work throughout the last 40 years of Lord’s ministry. He really set a great model to follow, we miss so badly, your prayers are appreciated.
We send our love from all the students and faculty members , we are praying for you all daily. Our students memorize an English verse every day, before that in a daily devotional they offer a prayer for you. It is such a joy to uplift each other in prayer, especially during this difficult time. However we believe in the mighty power of God which would enable to keep on keeping on.
On the 3rd March faculty will be meeting to discuss several things, especially to finalize the year end date and other important things. Please pray that our Lord will bless us with knowledge, wisdom and courage to continue the mission.
Thank you very much for your prayers of encouragement, please greet all the Church family for us. We especially thank the brethren at Lake Houston, Strickland Church of Christ. Our special thanks to brother Jerry Bates for his part of encouragement in running the Bear Valley International Preaching School in Visakhapatnam. God bless you all
In Christ
John Dean M
For Visakha Valley Bible College