NEPAL & TIBET IMPACT REPORT 2020 school by providing school necessities. We also provided training to 40 destitute women by helping them with four sewing machines and supplies to make and sell 50,000 face masks. Our missionaries altogether baptized 300 disciples, and about 700 people received Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It was wonderful. With lockdowns in 2020, most of the pastors and believers had a wonderful chance to read the Bible and pray. I think they grew spiritually this year more than last year. We are excited to continue serving the Lord in 2021.” Many of the 180 children helped are like Binayak, a 12-year-old fifth-grade student in a rural mountain village. Pastor Manak*, says: “His father works as a mason, and his mother works in other people’s fields. Binayak loves to study and learn new things in school, but his parents can barely manage to afford study materials and uniforms. They managed to admit
him into a government school, but there were many things lacking, due to which he couldn’t study like he had hoped. His parents were still struggling to fulfill the family’s basic needs, as they couldn’t work due to the pandemic. Binayak wanted to self-study at home, but his parents couldn’t buy him notebooks to practice on. The study materials that we distributed have encouraged and helped Binayak to study without any obstacle and to pursue his dreams for a better future. The family are Hindus, but since support came through our local Church, the testimony has been a huge deal for our village.” Pastor Natesh* shares one way his church expressed the love of Christ through action this year: “Rima*, aged 27, was born and brought up in a traditional orthodox Hindu family. She got married at the age of 23. After she got pregnant at 24, her husband took her to the hospital to find out the gender
of the baby, which is illegal. It was a girl, so he physically and mentally abused his pregnant wife and forcefully got the child aborted. Rima was very sad and she had nowhere to go. Her parents said that she had to stay with her husband and do whatever he told her. She got pregnant again at 25, and it was also a girl. She tried to fight her husband to keep the baby, but instead he physically abused her so badly that a miscarriage took place. She got pregnant for a third time,
