Stanley Scism

Scism Christian Institute graduate B. Ramliana started a hospice ministry in Churachandpur, Manipur state, India–praying for HIV positive patients, sometimes feeding them.

Manipur is one of the first ports of entry into India for drugs from Burma.

Earlier, Ramliana evangelized drug dealers in the state prison and baptized sixteen of them in Jesus name.

Brother Ramliana, as one of the leaders of a ministerial group in Churachandpur, Manipur, a few months back hosted Ronnie Melancon of Thibodeaux, Louisiana, and Ronnie Melancon’s friends, for a powerful Spiritual ministry during an event there.

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Scism Christian Institute graduate B. Rama brought kids off the street for a camp. Sixteen were baptized in Jesus name and more than twenty received the Holy Spirit.

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Scism Christian Institute graduate Tsathvu Thuvuri’s work in Uttar Pradesh, N India, has now grown to 26 churches, which includes 98 Hindu priests having come to Jesus Christ in two locations, and 11 Sikh priests.

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In Delhi, HY Paul reports: recently, in one of the house churches, a Hindu man sick from childhood and always shaking, came to be baptized. He wept in the baptistry. We prayed for him in the house church. God healed him. Now his mother wants us to have a church in her house. He still needs the Holy Spirit. We want to reach many more Hindus through him.

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B. Rama, Scism Christian Institute graduate, now of Churachandpur , Manipur, reports twenty-eight people baptized in Jesus name, one owning a school of more than 950 students, more than half of these being Hindu. ‘My vision is to reach all these Hindu children for Christ–500 children telling their parents the story of Jesus! Brother Stan, I am very excited about this. Jesus is so wonderful! I just love to work for him. He is so faithful.’

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Tsathvu Thuvuri comes from Nagaland, NE India. He studied in Scism Christian Institute–New Delhi, and in his third year was student body president. After graduation, instead of returning to Nagaland where he would have had a financially secure career in district administration, he went to Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state. Uttar Pradesh has 160 million people–if it were a separate nation, it would be one of the ten largest on earth. We had NO churches there.

Tsathvu started a church in his house and also went around to all the pastors who would listen, trying to tell them about Jesus name baptism. He convinced three, baptized them, and they baptized their congregations. Now we had four churches.

These four pastors started the crusade at which the first 43 Hindu priests came to Jesus Christ. That happened thus: the pastors wanted to have a crusade, but had no money, so they couldn’t hire a hall or PA equipment. They just started services beside the road and the first day concentrated on healing. By word of mouth, they announced to everyone, ‘Bring out your sick. We’re going to pray for the sick.’ Since India has much disease, they had people to pray for. One boy who had died earlier that day was raised from the dead. Two men who’d been born deaf and so had never heard anyone speak and never learned how to speak, were healed and when they went home could hear AND speak.

The word of these healings spread like wildfire and the next night hundreds of people were present, including over 200 priests from a nearby Shiva temple (Shivaites are the right-wing fanatics of Hinduism–ash on their bodies, matted dreadlocks, carrying tridents, three-pronged paintings on their foreheads). Some of the priests were sick and others curious. When the Holy Spirit descended on the meeting, 43 of these priests, including the high priest of the temple, who owned the temple, were thrown to the ground. The ministers prayed for the demons to come out and after the demons left, and now ex-priests stood and addressed the crowd, saying, ‘It’s clear that Jesus is the one true God, because we saw our gods leave us when you told them to leave in Jesus’ name.’ The ex-high priest became the pastor of the local assembly, his priests became his congregation, and his building became their place to worship Jesus Christ.

These priests got into a debate with other priests, resulting in the other priests’ coming to Jesus Christ–now there are 64 in that district (county). Also, in another district, 34 more Hindu priests have come to Jesus.

Another new constituent: Tsathvu and his wife Kasa, who have two daughters, have a new baby boy!

We just need partners in missions for the India (North) account so we can spread revival further.

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Tsathvu Thuvuri, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, N India, reports that, so far, 236 people have been baptized in Jesus name and 60 have received the Holy Spirit.

In Kaji Khera area, 34 Hindu priests have come to Jesus Christ.
In Uria area, 64 Hindu priests have come to Jesus Christ.
In various towns, a total of 11 Sikh priest have come to Jesus Christ.