October 18, 2011.

Dear Brothers and Sisters that have been praying for us,

Greet you all in the precious name of our Lord, Christ Jesus.

We reached Guwahati on Friday (14th Oct) evening having travelled almost 2000 kms in just 3 hrs by air. Then

began the ride to Shillong, Meghalaya. Little realizing that we had reached the eastern most tip of India and

that we were between Bangladesh and Myanmar, we began what was a roller-coaster ride into the hills. The

only road up to Shillong had to be shared with thousands of lorries that made their way to Tripura, Mizoram,

Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Never in my life have I seen so many lorries (huge trucks)……

The road to Shillong was just 103 kms but it took us 5 hrs and 30 minutes – due to the huge blockade of the

roads by these trucks. At one place we stood for more than an hour without progressing even an inch. We

began to sense the opposition of a spirit of darkness and needless to say, the road cleared up before us only

after we started to loudly worship the Lord in both cars (the men Daniel, Rajesh and Leo travelled in one car

and ladies Susan, Manju & myself in another with the local church youth for our guides).

Having left Chennai early in the morning, it was late night when we reached Shillong. The spiritual opposition

on the road only confirmed one thing – that God was about to do great things.

All along the road to Shillong we could see the stark poverty of the people and soon found that the poverty

was not limited to the physical realm but extended to the spiritual realm as well.

On Saturday morning, we had a meeting with church leaders. The main reason we had been invited here was

that the church was interested in the DPM Bible College and wanted one here for the North Eastern region.

So we spoke to the leaders and presented the subjects at the end of which they confirmed that this was just

what they needed. We handed over the materials for the course to the key leader – Rev. T. J. Moksha (a

Presbyterian turned charismatic – senior pastor of Christ Tabernacle Church) and the leaders told us they

would commence the course in early 2012.

In the evening, the church had arranged a meeting in a big hall that was open to all churches in Shillong, and

around 200 people gathered there. I had it upon my heart to speak about Curses: Cause & Cure in 2 parts and

this was confirmed by the team as well so on Saturday evening I spoke about the causes for curse in the lives

of people, addressing specifically the main problems of the region – animistic, spiritist generational worship

and disobedience to God’s voice. We closed the meeting with a prayer that God would deal with people

overnight and point out the areas where they needed deliverance.

The message was translated into Khasi by a young pastor who was captivated by the teaching, as he had been

to Bible school but had never quite heard anything like this.

The next morning (Sunday) as we had announced that we would teach on how to break the curse and enter

into the blessing, there was a huge crowd of more than 250 people who filled the hall and overflowed into the

balconies as well. On request, we (the ladies) dressed up in the local Khasi tribal attire, to minister:

I began to preach, reviewing all that I had taught the previous evening as there were many that had come in

hearing reports of the previous evenings meetings (one lady was carried in straight from the hospital with a

severe spine problem). As I began to speak about the basis for our deliverance – the cross and the divine

exchange that took place upon it, we could sense a stirring in the crowd. As I came to the last part and was

preaching about the agony, shame & rejection Christ suffered on our behalf, many in the congregation began

sobbing uncontrollably. And then as I came to the last point being Christ became a curse that we might enter

into the blessing, many demons started manifesting and threw people to the ground. And as we began to

pray, breaking curses over people’s lives, people began to run up to the front of the auditorium in tears.

Families came together, young people were delivered and the lady with the spine problem stood up! That was

something she had been unable to do. There was a young lady with Tubercolosis and as we prayed she began

to feel like she wanted to vomit, there was a worship leader who had a throat problem and therefore could no

longer sing – she was delivered and came back to the evening service and led the worship! Young ones

confessed their sins and had the power of sin broken over their lives. A drug addict, pastors with joint and

back problems and many, many others were delivered. Finally we had to bring the meeting to a close as it was

two hours beyond their regular schedule and there was just an hour left before the evening meetings began.

In the evening DPM India Trustee, Rajesh and his wife Manju (both saved from Hindu families) shared their

testimonies. We had to leave Susan, Leo and these two to look after the evening meetings as we had another

meeting to go to.

In the evening, Daniel and I visited the Union Christian College in the adjacent district of Ri-Bhoi. Again a 2 hr

journey for a distance of just 30 kms because of the trucks. However it was a joy to do this as again we had an

audience of no less than 200 students in the college chapel. I spoke from “If you want God’s best” and gave an

invitation at the end for the young people to commit their lives totally to God in order to receive His best.

Atleast 120 students, raised their hands and committed their lives. Unfortunately by then, our camera ran out

of card space, so I have only a couple of pics of the students who attended.

The amazing part about ministering to these students was that there were many from Arunachal Pradesh, a

district that is almost impossible to penetrate with the gospel. But the young ones that come to UCC and

receive ministry go back with the fire of the gospel burning within them and become missionaries to their own

people, doing what no one else can do.

Having completed two tightly packed days of ministry we returned with happy hearts to Guwahati only to find

that we had not been booked through to Chennai, which meant that we would have to collect our luggage at

Calcutta and reboard our Chennai flight within just 45 minutes which is highly impossible. We were quite

upset and expressed it to the airline staff who promised to help which in India is never a dependable promise.

So we landed at Calcutta airport and rushed to the exits only to find two men there who were searching for

“the passengers from the flight who had to go to Chennai.” We were separated out and handed our boarding

passes to the Chennai flight right there on the runway. We were put in a separate bus and sat on the runway

until our next flight had landed and we boarded the flight straight with absolutely no security checks, no

baggage hunts, just VIP treatment! A testimony to the faithfulness of our God who honors those that do His

work.