The Lord has been faithful since December 10, 2000 until now. We are co-partners with him in his mission to reach the people of Bhutan and neighboring countries. We are amazed to see the transformation in people’s lives, and it is our greatest joy to experience God’s gracious favor.

Thimphu Friends Church, where we have Sunday school training and church services that need to accommodate 500 people, has moved from the central north because of persecution and high-rent problems.

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NEWS FROM BHUTAN

THE LAND OF THE THUNDER DRAGON

Please pray for . . .

for our mission work to go well because we need to travel a lot.

that pastors and leaders will grow strong and plant many more churches.

for the protection of our families.

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“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14, NIV).

August 2016

Our youth have been challenged with the vision to plant churches. We are teaching them that “the big-ger the church, the bigger the impact on the nations.” We are doing more with our mission movement because of prayer, training, church planting, and the 99 project.

Church planting is emphasized in our national missionary visits, and there has been a fruitful response among our cell churches. A few cell churches are ready for church declaration. We will appoint pastors and elders in those churches, which will give them an apostolic team for con-tinued outreach.

Training is one of our greatest blessings. Students from the training classes are now ready for preach-ing and church planting in the field. The training classes take place twice a year.

Bhutan is going through lots of summer floods, especially in the south. Landslides and falling rocks have destroyed many bridges, roads, and retaining walls. The swollen rivers and heavy monsoon rains are giving the villagers many problems because they are cut off from other parts of their communities.

We have been blessed this month to send our son, David, to one of the best colleges in Bhutan.

Rupak and Pramila Tamang