Dear Saints,



Greetings in the sweetest name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are very much grateful for your prayers and support. 



The Sri Lanka Trip was a great blessing. Bro. Shaji Kurian and Bro Danny mathew from Dubai had joined me for the Ministry. We were there in the island nation for 10 days this time. We are very grateful to Pst. Nimal Kumaratissa and his wife who opened their house for us to stay. It was a great privilege for us to go around different places and minister to the people. We went to several places around Kandy -  Haragama, Tannakumbura, Galioya, Dangolla, Gurudeniya, Mahiyawa, Uplands, and Mawathagama. God gave us the opportunity to minister in Nigambo a place close to Colombo. 



During the visit, we could sense the presence of God with us, we met with a serious car accident, but the Lord protected us, no one was hurt. Nothing happened to the car also in which we were travelling. The Police escort vehicle a Range Rover which was escorting a minister, suddenly overtook the other vehicles and came driving exactly towards us, it was supposed to hit us right on the front, but we could see with our eyes how the Lord protects us, the jeep skid right in front of us and hit the car on the side, the heavy jeep was damaged, but we just ended with a small scratch on the front of the car. From this we could understand that the Devil was mad, but the Lord was there with us to lead us on in the battle. 



Please continue to uphold this island nation in your prayers. the seed of the word of God has been sown, pray that it may bring forth 100 fold fruit. Please pray for Pastor Nimal and his family as they minister there. Sri Lanka is not open to the Gospel, lot of persecution is there, but the Church is growing. Many are showing a deep hunger for the Word of God. God be willing we plan to go again next year and stay for a long er time. 



After my return from Sri Lanka, we had our yearly Bible Class in Thrissur, and Mazhukir (Kerala) which was a great blessing. We studied about the foundations of our faith. How the Lord starts His work in the life of a sinner who is the sworn enemy of God and ends up making him his son, His heir, Regenerated, Converted and Justified. How much God loves us. Once we are thorough with our basics then Christian life is a joy. it is never a struggle, it is a relationship. Christian life is not doing some formalities. It is a love relationship with the Creator of the Universe. The tragedy today is that many do not have the hunger to know their Savior up close. They just want to be comfortable, and they start crying the moment their comfort zone gets disturbed. As the coming of our Lord is getting closer, it is high time we allow our Master to finish the work that He has started in our lives. Let us not grieve the Holy Spirit. 



God be willing I am leaving for Secunderabad in a short while from now. Bible classes and convention has been arranged in Malapur, in Hyderabad from Oct. 3-6. I need your prayers that the souls who come may be refreshed spiritually and each one understands the urgency of the occasion. any time the Church will be caught up. Before the age of Grace is over let us fulfill the work that has been entrusted to us. Let us be faithtful wherever we have been placed. May our lives be an inspiration of those who are around us. 



Do continue to uphold the ministry in your prayers as the ministers and their families are laboring in the mission fields, there are problems, but they are good, nothing happens without our Lord's permission. The work is growing, souls are been added to the fold. Many are dedicating their lives for the mission work. The work load is increasing, please pray that God gives us the wisdom and the strength to fulfill the responsibilities faithfully. Being humans it is hard at times, we request your prayers that we may not be weary but run the race that is before us and finish it. 



Pray for the mission trips in the month of October. 



Oct. 3 - 6  Malapur (Hyderabad)

Oct. 22 - Nov. 3 Dang and Sarnamati (Nepal)



Hope to keep in touch with you all. Once again we thank you all for your prayers. May God bless you all. M A R A N A T H A



Yours in His service



Mathew Samuel

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