Sword & Trowel 2020: Issue 1 RELIEF WORK


IN NEPAL Photos show Pastor Sam- uel Rai of Canaan Baptist Church, Pokhara (left) and his fellow workers distribut- ing rice and other staple foods following the July 2019 floods and landslides in Nepal. The Nepalese government has passed anti-proselytising


laws which make Christian witness much more difficult. It is not permit- ted to preach or even to openly carry a Bible in public places. In some villages, cottage meetings have ceased. Chris- tian believers do not have equal rights, for example, to social aid provided by local or national government and so support has been focused on churches and preaching stations connected with Canaan Baptist Church.


Pastor Samuel Rai attended the LRBS


1992-93 and is supported by the Tabernacle’s Overseas Ministry Fund (see page 18 for details).


Metropolitan Tabernacle Sunday Services 11.00am (teaching service)


and 6.30pm (evangelistic service) – sign language interpreting at all public services, and simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Farsi and Arabic.


Children’s Sunday Schools and Teenagers’ Bible Classes at the Tabernacle (and at Surrey Gardens Memorial Hall, Surrey Square Mission,


East Dulwich Tabernacle, and Brixton Tabernacle) 3.00pm. College Classes and Young Adults’ Doctrine Class 3.15pm.


Main Prayer Meeting, Monday 7.30pm. Bible Study, Wednesday 7.30pm.


Deaf Fellowship Meetings, weeknight meetings for the young, and other ministries are posted on the Tabernacle website: www.MetropolitanTabernacle.org


page 32 Relief Work in Nepal


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