December 30, 2009,

Dear brother Wayne Gaines, (M300 Ministries-USA)

Thanks to God for his help and protection and he helped you on your trip to Mexico. You know my Brother, still we have been praying for your mission trip to Mexico and the results. Amen

God is truth, God is reality, and that is what we see in Jesus. He is the way the truth, and life.

The manna in the wilderness was a gracious gift of God, but it was not the true bread. It was not reality of grace itself. It was a witness to the grace to come, a foretaste of Christ.

Our God is so good and he blessed me and our ministry in the year of 2009, we have faced several problems in this year, but even so God has blessed and given many blessings in this year. I have experienced several issues and saw the helping hands of the Lord in each and every movement. I have to offer my heart full thanks to my God and at the same time I have to share this joy with you. Amen.

People who have questions they need answers ... People who have hurts they need healing ... People who have addictions they need deliverance ... People who have heartbreak they need hope… people who have issues with trust  they need God’s words So many people want changed lives, but they just don’t know where to begin. And so many want to help others, but they just don’t feel equipped. Well ... that’s what we’re all about

By the end of this year 2009 God has given192 souls, all these Men and Women were very strong Hindu devotes and they were in the clutches of the many idols for many years. But the Holy God has touched their hearts ! They left from the clutches of the idols and surrendered their lives to God. This is a great revaluation and changes in their lives. All these families  have taken out their idols from their houses (images of Hindu Gods) and they have burnt them, so the remaining Hindu families are very angry, but the Holy God has took this situation and controlled this bad situation and closed this mater without any violence. Amen.

I have told you the God has increased my burden and concern to do the more God’s work and glorify his name. We have began the open gospel meetings from November 25^th to December 25^th. We have fasted all these days and we were partaking only one time food (only lunch) then we are fasting up to next day lunch. We have organized meetings at 27 places; invited many Hindu families to share the joy of the Christ. Before the function we have shared the word of God. The Holy God has prepared their hearts! Whenever and where ever we gave the alter-call several Hindu families always came forward and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior. During this one Month period 192 Men and Women have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

                                                        
                                                                     Photo credit AP- Sample photo of a violent Hindu person

The most important thing is one radical person miraculously accepted the Lord as his personal savior; he has been living in this Village called VULLUPALEM. We have been working in this Village for the past 2 years. He was a notorious person; he committed several thefts, doing rowdy things in this village. The local police have opened a regular police record on him. All of the villagers have so much fear about his behavior and also he has created some problems to our Pastors. One year back I had the opportunity to speak with him, but he refused to share anything and one day we were gathered in fasting prayers when he became fully drunk and started the quarrels with us to stop the fasting prayer meeting.

He stood in front of our prayer meeting and began using un-parliamentary language. At that time we called the police they came and he was taken away. We have completed the fasting prayer meeting and I was returning to my home. On the way he was standing by the road side. He was holding a stick and he wanted to beat us with the stick but our car is coming to near and crossing him I saw the police van is coming, in opposite direction again he saw that van he was disappeared from that place. So it is that God has been protecting us from all the dangerous situations.

These people are Hindus and they don’t want anyone to preach the Good News (When I was a Hindu I had the same experiences before my conversion. I hated the Gospel and those who taught it.) I planned to have an open air Good News meeting on the occasion of this Christmas season. The local people and elders said to me this person is preparing and planning to disturb our meeting and they advised me to organize this meeting in our prayer hall not out in the open place. Some time these anti Christian people will throw the stones to the meeting places. So I told the people, "We have nothing to worry about. Our God is so great and He will look after all the situations."

So when that meeting date was come we engaged the tricycle rickshaw with a public address system to announce in the same Village and to invite all of the people to a night meeting. This rickshaw was passing by this violent man's house and he came to the rickshaw and cut the 3 wheels with a knife in order to stop the publicity.

About two hours later he was bitten by a deadly cobra snake. There was no transportation to take him to the town (it is more than 60 km and he had cut the tires on the rickshaw also) A while later census workers from that remote village came and told me  about that situation. I called all our Pastors and believers and we went to that man's house . The people were crying and they said , "Pastor he stopped God’s work and God sent the snake to kill him".

I said, "My God is a loving God. God is loving him, because of that love we came to your house to see if you can permit us to pray for him. We will pray for him and our God will heal him". They requested us to pray, some of the people are saying that if he was not healed that we would surely be in great trouble. I said, "Our God is the Living God and He can do anything but let us not waste time". We started to prayer at 10 am and continuing praying up to 4 pm. Hallelujah!Glory to God, at 4.15 pm God heard our prayers and touched him with his mighty hand. Amen! He was slowly coming back to a normal condition. He was surprised and crying. Suddenly he lowered himself and touched my feet and asked me saying, "Forgive me pastor I tried several times to beat you and insult your people, but now I know how this God has love me and saved my life." We again gave hanks to God and came to our meeting place. Because we are practicing fasting prayer we don’t have any food but we just drank one glass of milk and started the night meeting.

At the meeting our children are performing in the Christmas pageant and one sister was sharing her testimony and I am sharing the Good News. After ½ hour the man who was healed came to the meeting and began to cry out loudly saying, "God has saved my life! I am accepting Lord as my personal savior." You know all these people who were gathered together are loudly saying, "Amen hallelujah". Not just this one person came to the Lord that night but the entire family and all of the family members have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ and they were all baptized. Amen.

This is not a made up story but it is the real life changing experiences of people who God draws to Himself. It is not limited to just one experience like this, but God has been doing the miracles and changing the lives, healing the sick people ,releasing from the evil and changing their hearts. Amen.

The Almighty God has been permitting us to work in His field as laborers.  We have been trying to do as much as we can to build the Kingdom and harvest the souls. Mainly I have a burden and concern among the Hindus, because we have to reach more than 98% in our Andhra Pradesh region.  I am not saying about all of INDIA, but in Andhra Pradesh alone we have a population of more than 8 million people but the Christians are only.1.55%  As co-laborers in Christ please remember our ministry in your prayers. This year God has totally given 267 Members who have been added to the Kingdom of God. Amen.

We wish you Happy New Year.

Yours in Him,

Pastor Rao
Believer's Ministry India
M300 Ministries-India