Dear Brethren in Christ,
Greetings to you in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. I Hope this email finds you all good. By the grace of God we are all doing good. We thank you so much for your prayers.
We are blessed to be able to start a new batch of preaching students at Visakha Valley Bible College. After the summer break, slowly new students have been enrolled. Currently, we have 13 students enrolled. We are expecting to have 4 more students by the end of this month and are so excited to see the students being enrolled in the school even with difficulties both socially and religiously. We are thankful.
We had our faculty meeting to discuss the beginning of the new academic year, how to go about with the new students etc., We are thankful to have a new teacher who is none other than Raju Babu who has been our student 6 years ago. He successfully completed the two year course and gained experience as a preacher and now he will be used to teach in the School. We are proud of him. You can see Raju babu in the group picture, he is wearing a maroon color Shirt.
Our services in the society are being extended: We are grateful for the opportunities that come our way to meet the society with our activities. Our Tailoring Institute is a great blessing, helping us to be known and respected, because every 3 months 15-20 women are being trained in sewing education. Of course our students get the same opportunity. Recently our facility has been used to conduct Blood donation program by Rotary International. We are blessed to be part of this work., Our faculty along with some students donated their blood to help those who are in life struggle. As it was mentioned in Gal 6:10 always making use of the opportunity that's coming in our way to serve our brethren as well as the community around to show that we care, thankful to God for this opportunity.
Our school has become a place providing education, doing social service and also a hub for Christian brotherhood. We welcome several preachers in the city to attend special classes and also they come for discussing with our teachers about some doctrinal matters. During this situation we are able to provide some useful literature, that is great material we receive from World Evangelism. We are so thankful to Jerry and Paula Bates for keeping us in the list. We receive regularly and share it with our preachers and preachers who visit our school. We are thankful that we are able to spread out the good news through this channel.
We are so much thankful to all the brethren at Lake Houston, Farmersville and Strickland for their charity. At the same time we are not ignorant of Bates for their continued support and encouragement. At this time I would like to take a moment to appreciate the Elders at Strickland for considering to help the Graduates with New Bicycles. They are so happy and using them in the ministry. We are so much thankful for your kindness in helping so. God bless you all.
Our note of thanks to Brother Mark Reynolds, who is the coordinator of our Bear Valley School International and Director brother Keith Kasarjian for their great leadership and encouragement. Our thanks must be extended to the Elders of Bear Valley Church of Christ too for their great desire and commitment in producing wonderful preachers in over 60 nations across the world. Our Lord is so proud of you all. You are truly doing the very best in fulfilling the Great Commission given by our Lord.
Best wishes to you all from our Staff, Students and Faculty of Visakha Valley Bible College. By the way, I am getting ready to come to USA in the first week of August and will be visiting all the supporting congregations, l am looking forward to seeing and talking to you.
God Bless you all.
In Christ,
John Dean M