Christ is risen

APR 8 Christ is Risen A great day of celebration to remember our risen Lord. Here is Kathmandu we are surrounded by dead gods and a hopeless chain of reincarnations. Buddhists chanting and blowing horns and banging drums in religious rituals; all hoping to be good enough to move up the chain, to claw their way up to heaven. How blessed we are to have a Saviour who has paid the price for us all, with his precious blood. Yesterday, Saturday, we went to church at 9.a.m. Absolutely packed to the doors. The singing is great, only wish we knew the words. Though yesterday, they sang two songs we knew, so it was nice to be able to sing with gusto. The preaching goes for over 1 hour and as we don,t know what is being said, we read through our Bibles. We file out at 11a.m. met by another 400 or more coming in for the second service. Grahame ad Raju returned at lunch time yesterday,with all the necessary information about the Bio-gas plants. We have two sick ladiere at present. Agnes and Viv are both under the weather. It is almost mandatory to get something whilst here. The environment is so filthy. Please pray for them as they have more training to do, and Agnes has a a very full programme with a second teacher training in Chinchiu 600 km. out of Kathmandu. Apparently, there is going to be about 100 baptisms out there in the Slum River, where most of our sponsored girls come from. The original village Raju began working with now has a church and many of the people there have come to the Lord. Grahame says there will also be a mass baptism here in Kathmandu of about 100 also. Don't know when that is. We will be at the Slum River baptisms and will be video of. I can,t wait to see it. A hopeless people with new hope in this life and the one to come. Set free from the caste system, loved by God, given great value, and can hold their heads up high. We hope to take over the government school in that village and put a Christian teacher in there. We probably won,t have internet access up in Chinchiu, but maybe there will be a cyber cafe somewhere. I'll do my best to keep in touch. Dan and Lilly, the young couple who are up near the Slum River, are arriving here today, and will be staying with us for a few days awaiting the arrival of Lilly's parents. we are heading off for Chinchiu on Tuesday morning. It is an hour flight on Buddha Air (please Pray!!!!) to a grubby town called Nepaljins; a place we want to exit as soon as possible. We spent a night there once in a filthy hotel, and I never want to repeat the experience. Then there is a 2 hour drive in a clapped out old mini bus on a precarious road, winding round and round the hills. The place they stop to eat, well!!!!, all I can say is that I will be bringing my own food. But when we get there, we are greeted by 27 fabulous young people from the Lighthouse hostel, who want to love us to death. The Christian workers there also are really lovely. Anyway, enough for now. Robyn Posted 3 hours ago by Educate Nepal Mission Teams