Sword & Trowel 2018: Issue 2


were made to improve the curriculum. It is hoped to fund a translator to put some LRBS lectures into Nepali.


Deborah Nepal The Deborah Nepal training pro-


gramme was founded by Mrs Mangali Rai to enable poor Christian women to support themselves and to be of help in churches, teaching children and other women. A six-month residential course in a separate building gives practical training in hygiene, fi rst aid and self-employment skills such as sewing, along with Bible instruction. Six hundred women have been trained so far. Some of them are pastors’ wives. Each trainee receives a sewing machine on the completion of her course. Some sessions are shared with the students at CMTC.


Emmanuel School


Located in the outskirts of Pokhara in a newly constructed building, and surrounded by the houses of the ‘un- touchables’ – poor, low-caste people – Emmanuel School offers free educa- tion to a large number of the children. Although the government does not allow any religious education, the 18 teachers are believers. The school aims to become fi nancially independent, offering even more places to underpriv- ileged children. Four school buses help to collect students and teachers within a radius of 10 miles.


Visit to Eastern Nepal Several churches founded by former


CMTC students are located in Eastern Nepal, approximately 350 miles from Pokhara. Access to the villages is only possible with a 4x4 as the roads are just earth, stones and small streams, with very deep holes. About 150 miles into


our journey, our vehicle broke down and we waited nine hours for a repair before continuing for another seven hours.


Coming back we had to cross a shal-


low riverbed as the only road had been damaged by rains. Several times a year, pastors and leaders of these churches profi t from seminars in Pokhara. Many of them take up to three days travelling. To take the seminars to the region, a new ‘Spurgeon Ministerial Train- ing Centre’ was inaugurated. A local farmer offered a piece of land and other individual gifts were used to construct a single-storey building comprising a classroom and guest rooms. The build- ing is 80% complete but can already be used. The nearby local church in Hebron Chowk is also grateful for this additional facility. Pastor Rai hopes to add training centres in other regions to provide regular seminars and teaching modules for church leaders without tak- ing them away from their ministry and families for days at a time. We took part in the opening of a new building for Sindure Baptist Church – a simply constructed, zinc-roofed structure. Several dozen worshippers gathered. The land had been given by a local believer and most of the funds for building were donated by another believer from the village. We give thanks to the Lord that so much has been accomplished: outreach, church planting, training, education, Sunday Schools, compassionate work, translation projects, protecting the churches within and without from the ‘wolves’. Who is suffi cient for these things?


Pastor Rai studied at the LRBS from


1992-93 and is supported by the Taber- nacle’s Overseas Ministry Fund. See page 35 for details.


25th Anniversary of Canaan Baptist Church page 13


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