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THE ROAD IN FRONT OF OUR CHURCH GATE WILL FINALLY BE FIXED
SOJ STUDENTS LEARNING MORE OF GOD’S HEART FOR THE POOR
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DARJEELING IN THE MORNING! HOME OF THE WORLD’S BEST TEA. ALSO HOME TO A VINEYARD FELLOWSHIP.
HRV CHURCHES NEWS
School of Justice (Compassion)
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For the month of April, we're running a School of Justice here at the Kathmandu Vineyard. 13 of our people who are all leaders, future pastors, church planters, and ministry workers are gathering together to explore what it means to love Jesus and love our neighbours - and to understand God's heart of justice and compassion. A few people from Winnipeg Centre Vineyard are also joining us. Suhail Stephen (the director of the Vineyard School of Justice), Natalie Hamm and Jessica Williams (who attended the School of Justice in Winnipeg this past year), and Karina Lewis (who stayed with us several years ago) are all here to teach, serve, learn, and live with our people.
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Support Needed Running the Kathmandu SOJ costs money - for food, outreach, and accommodations. Would you consider helping support us?
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We gather three times a week for training in the morning and outreach in the afternoon, where we'll visit some of the poorest of the poor who live at the riverbed, travel to two Vineyard communities on the outskirts of Kathmandu in Champi and Kotgaon, and visit an old people's home. It's an exciting time where the Holy Spirit is equipping us with passion and power to extend God's kingdom here on earth and deepening the relationships between Kathmandu and Winnipeg.
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Pastor Madan from Kotgaon, Nepali folk worship team, Pastor Anil from Darjeeling Vineyard, Urmila our Pastoral staff member and church family at Kathmandu
SOJ Outreach
This past Friday, a group of School of Justice students went to the riverbed - a place where those amongst Kathmandu's poorest of the poor live in tiny makeshift homes made of tin, tarp, or whatever they can scramble together. There are no public services like clean water or electricity and the river next to them has a pungent stench from all the sewage and garbage that fills it. For several years now, people from Kathmandu Vineyard have been visiting the riverbed, bringing food hampers, sharing the love of Jesus, and seeing God's kingdom come in wonderful and miraculous ways. !
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Our students met several riverbed residents and visited their shacks. We met a Christian woman who had an infection on the right side of her stomach which was causing her pain. We laid hands on her and asked the Spirit to touch and heal her, and immediately she burst into tears. We sensed God's presence and when we asked her how she was feeling, she said the pain was gone - Jesus healed her instantly! A man who was sitting nearby said that his back was also in pain, so we asked the woman who had just been healed to join us in praying and again, after a few minutes, he said the pain was 100% gone. It was wonderful to see Jesus' kingdom come in power shortly after learning that the Spirit has anointed us to preach good news to the poor, free the captives, and bring healing to the sick. !
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It was an encouraging, inspiring, and exciting day and we look forward to building relationship and inviting Jesus and His kingdom to come even more to these precious people. ~ Suhail Stephen!
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Visit the Vineyard School of Justice Facebook page for updates and information:
http://www.facebook.com/VineyardSchoolofJustice
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John Rademaker’s Visit Pastor John Rademaker from Winnipeg Centre Vineyard has been coming to Nepal for over 15 years to visit and encourage the HRVC. John visited for two weeks at the end of March and during this time, he spoke to our HRVC leaders about “Understanding Leadership”. He also spoke at the Kathmandu Vineyard church gathering about “What God thinks about you”. The HRVC family always welcomes him as one of their own and our leaders prayed for him and for some sick people back home. It was a refreshing time for all of us and on the final day he commissioned his church SOJ team from Canada to do the work of the kingdom here in the Himalayas.
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• April 13: Gorkha Vineyard Church opening service • April 23 - 25: Mobile Bible School at Kathmandu Vineyard Fellowship • April 26: Pastors’ ordination for future pastors of HRV churches • April 28 - 30: Mobile Bible School at Namchi Vineyard Fellowship • April 30: Pastors’ ordination for future pastors of HRV churches (India) • May 9 -15: Medical outreach to villages in Nessing and Gadlang led
Himalayan Region Vineyard Churches P.O Box 23401 Kathmandu, Bhanimandal, Lalitpur, Nepal hrvchurches@gmail.com ph: +977-15545211 | cell: +977-9840052359
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