HOH Mission Trip
Recently, several of our Haven of Hope India students and faculty took a missions/survey trip to Argatala, Tripura India. This area borders the country of Bangladesh and the capital (Argatala) is only 5 km from the border. The purpose of the trip was to minister in small churches and to survey the possibility of Bible training opportunities here—especially among Bengali young men who have crossed the border. The group preached in several churches, provided music, encouraged believers, and discussed training needs. Here is a summary of the trip from Pastor Tia, our seminary director.
Good evening brother, we have all returned safely back to the campus. We are extremely grateful for your prayers and the support you have provided. Some churches also wants us to visit them but due to our schedule and other issues we could not do but this opened up lot of opportunities for future ministry. It is all thanks to God's grace that we were able to have a very fruitful journey. It is a great delight to serve the Lord.
Although this is their ancestral land many Hindus and Bengalis and Bangladesh dominate 70% of their lands, so they are struggling very much, many Hindu temples are erected on their lands and its very sad to see how much persecution the 3% of Christians are facing, we felt very burdened by this and hope to continually help and reach out and pray for the believers. In some of the churches there the pastors doesn't have any theological training but are serving in the churches. They mentioned that they will surely send people who are called to be pastors to be trained well in our seminary.
We also visited Bangaladesh border to assess the situation and possibly for doing ministry near that area. And so far according to what we have heard and seen from the locals there are few opportunities to spread the gospel and give Biblical training to the few Christians there.
Hope and pray that the Lord will open doors for future ministry.
Pastor Tia longkumer
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