Bihar is an eastern state of India, known for its lawlessness. Jharkhand was once southern Bihar, is now a separate state.
Bitendra, a man from Sonpur, Bihar, joined the Indian army and was posted to Churchandpur due to the ethnic strife tearing the area apart at the time. He met Christians there, came to Christ, was baptized in Jesus name, received the Holy Spirit, married a Pentecostal woman, invited Manipur’s ministers to speak in an army church.
Bitendra had a great burden for his people, and many times went to Bihar to preach good news of Jesus Christ. When his family wanted to be baptized, Manipur minister Ramliana gave Bitendra the address of Daniel Darlong in Calcutta. Ramliana and Daniel had attended Scism Christian Institute in New Delhi together.
Daniel went from Calcutta to Bihar and baptized the people. In 2006, some of Bitendra’s family attended a crusade in Calcutta, and in Bihar we now have five churches, 11 preaching points and 104 baptized members. In Jarkhand, we have nine members. The Dum Dum, Calcutta, church supports the Bihar workers a little.
One worker, Prem Jaslok, was murdered on September 3, 2007. He was 25 years old, the only son of an elderly woman named Devi. He left behind a son, one year old, and his wife, twenty years old. After he died, her parents, who are Hindu, took her back to another village.
Ramliana, Daniel and a young man from Calcutta who is Bitendra’s oldest son visited Bihar in November 2007. Because Kiran is a very new Christian, too new, Ramliana feels, to survive as a Christian all alone, he asked her parents to let her and her son go to Churachandpur where the church will make a home for them. They’ll see the parents’ response in February.
Ramliana, Daniel and friend also visited the towns Jadhua, Bidhipur, Mahanan, Mamrispur and Sonpur. As Ramliana says, ‘The Healer is with us.’ Many people were healed, 32 received Holy Spirit baptism and eight people were baptied in Jesus name.
The brothers thank many people from many places who prayed for them.
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