After the three different conferences & three different locations on the same subject in Vietnam and after two-weeks of conferences, Raymond & Naomi Burkholder traveled on to Delhi, India and then we forwarded on to Sikkim State of India where we caught up with Jay & Amy Smoker who were prepared to serve as MTM guest teacher for our two conferences in this state of India. Our first event was a scheduled youth conference in Gylashing in Sikkim State of India April 23-26, 2024.
SIKKIM State MTM Ministry Team L-R, Jay & Amy Smoker, Raymond & Naomi Burkholder, Marcus Subbah our Sikkim State Coordinator
This region of India is situated east of Nepal and on the western border of Bhutan. A very remote region of India with multitudes of Gospel unreached tribes of Nepalese speaking people. Once again, the presence of God was evidenced.
Ps. 68 clearly reveals when God Comes all needs are met and in vs. 6 we find in God’s Presence He sets the solitary (desolate or lonely) in families. And so it was on our MTM spring Tour in Vietnam and in India.
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At our first conference at Gylashing towards the end of the conference a local community Hindu man responded, requesting what must I do to be saved. What blessed evidence that Jesus Christ was lifted up and he was drawing the lost sinners unto Himself.
After the Gylashing Conference we drove the many hours of twisty windy unimproved roads in the Himalayan region from Gylashing to Gangtok where we conducted our annual Pastoral Priorities conference April 29-May 2, 2024. Pastors came from near and far of this region of India. One group travel for 10+ hours on a small city bus to come all the way from eastern Nepal. The pastors of this region of India/Nepal tell MTM that there is no other option for deeper inspirational Bible teaching other than what MTM provides. These are poorer village pastors with great hunger to hear the Word of God taught & preached.
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Therefore, at the end of this annual conference which has been conducted for the past 4-5 years, the pastors requested that MTM would facilitate a one-month Bible school in the near future. I promised them we will pray about it and wait on the Lord to provide the funds and the teachers to make this request happen???
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Raymond & Naomi Burkholder have by now been on the Gospel Discipleship ministry tour for 5 weeks. Therefore, we had scheduled a time of rest at the Beracha Life Center (Himachal Bible School & Seminary) at Palampur HP, India. But the Lord had other plans…
In the past 14+ years Raymond & Naomi have traveled & ministered over most all the different regions & states of India, but we have never been in the south where the Lord Jesus disciple Thomas first landed bringing the gospel to India in the first century. Thomas died there in south India as a martyr for Jesus Christ. The South India churches have sent out multitudes of missionaries. The founder & director of the Berachah Institute of Higher Education and Research (formerly HBCS) hosted us on tour to south India traveling by car and flight for one week.
Upon our return to the BIHER campus, we facilitated a two-week marriage enrichment seminar, May 13-24, 2024 at the BIHER Campus. With Steve & Savilla Fisher and their son Daniel (9) serving as the MTM Guest teacher family. Once again, we clearly observed the presence of God as we seen & heard public confessions of the Lord healing and restoring troubled & broken marriages. Blessed Be God!!!
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For Christ & The Nations,
Raymond & Naomi Burkholder
Macedonian Teaching Ministry
Founder & Elder Ministry Teacher
A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PRAYERFULLY & FINANCIALLY SUPPORT MTM!
