Sword & Trowel 2016: Issue 1 


Sri Lanka (with Pastor Jeyakanth) and in the many Tamil communities around the world. This will be a valuable resource as we continue to encour- age other pastors here through our Reformed Baptist Fellowship of India. Four booklets are completed and ready for printing, and four books and an- other booklet are in preparation.


Dr David (in photo with his wife


Naomi) was converted at medical school in the 1970s. He came to the Kolli Hills in 1986 and visiting the grave of Mr and Mrs Brand, English missionaries, he was challenged by their lives and sacrifi ce, and was called by the Lord to preach to the tribal people. He came to London to study at LRBS in 1990/1 and now pastors the church he started in Salem, while his son-in-law Thomas Edison pastors the church in the Kolli Hills and Dr David’s daughter Johanna runs the dental clinic there.


One of the deacons of the Metropoli-


tan Tabernacle, Dr Duncan Wyncoll, with his daughter, visited both church- es and the clinic work in December. Photos below show the Salem congre- gation and a Bible Class group. There had been recent very severe fl ooding in Chennai and Tamil Nadu and this washed away some of the roads leading up the 72 hairpin bends to the Kolli Hills, and caused damage to the church. Pastor Thomas Edison in the Kollis recently bap- tised three more converts from the tribal people there.


page 18 Tamil Gospel Translation


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