Lovely Journey
My Kidney Stones Dilemma
Sing Praises
• I love my supporters.
Every single one of you, and
I’m very grateful to the Lord
for bring y’all in my life!
• I’m watching Him answer
prayers that I prayed and
fasted for months ago, and it’s
absolutely amazing!
• So many lives in South
Asia are being radically
changed everyday with the love
of Christ, and you’re a part of
that!! Thank you!
Prayer requests
• I’m working on a youth
group project with a fellow
coworker. We’re tying to create
a four-part video series with
curriculum to present to the
youth of America with the
hopes of getting them involved
in national missions. Right now
we’re in the draft stage and
still trying to figure out the
narration of the video—that’s
my part. It’s been sort of
difficult trying to come up with
compelling things to say that
aren’t long and would keep
youths attention. Please pray
with me that this project will
come together and be anointed
by the Holy Spirit and turn out
spectacular!
• I’m currently a support
coach for an incoming School
of Discipleship student. I know
what you’re thinking: “What?!
You?! A support coach?! Are
they sure about that?” Yea, I
thought the same thing. But
I am, and I’m pretty excited
about it. It will only be for about
two months. So pray that I will
do well and be a blessing to this
student and that the Lord will
grant me wisdom.
July 2010 {№9}
In my last newsletter I mentioned in my “Praise” section that the Lord healed
me from kidney stones. Well, I spoke too soon. Here’s the story:
In the wee hours of March 15 beginning at 2:15 a.m., I woke up with sudden
sharp pains on the left side of my lower abdomen. I wiggled and wormed in bed for
a few minutes praying for the pain to stop. Then I got nauseous. I called my doctor
daddy, of course, and complained to him about this unusual pain. He urged me to go
to the ER. After going back and forth, I obeyed and asked my wonderful roommate
to take me to CareNow, which is sort of like an ER but not. Well, that place was
closed, so we ended up in the ER waiting room.
Four hours, lots of pain and a CAT scan later, the doctor told me I had two small
kidney stones. One was making its way down my tubes while the other was waiting
patiently in my kidney.
I was totally clueless about what was causing the pain. The one constant thought
in my head was, “What in the world is going on?!”
Well, I’ve been told that passing kidney stones is much worse than childbirth.
And I’ve also been told by “experts” in this area, who’ve suffered with severe bouts
of kidney stones, that mine must have been minor because sometimes the pain can
get so severe you end up with a morphine drip in your arm. And I thought my pain
was horrible…
I passed one stone. But the other one is apparently still hanging out with my
right kidney. I thought and believed the Lord for its vanishing, but an X-ray showed
otherwise. Good thing is that I haven’t had any pain whatsoever since that day at
the hospital, and I’m making an effort to drink more water (which was probably the
cause of my kidney stones: Lack of water and too much calcium intake).
I’m going to continue to believe the Lord for healing in this area. You can pray
with me on this one. ;)
One-year anniversary with GFA!
June 9 marked my one-year anniversary serving at Gospel for Asia. Wow,
did it go fast! There were highs and lows and more highs. Along with lots of
growing, learning, stretching and humbling experiences. There were even
some realizations—and facing up to those realizations—in just one year.
I can’t imagine being anywhere else but here. And I love it! I wonder what
He’s got planned for year numero dos.
 Bearing Their Scorn
Dulari stood firm in the Lord through prayer after her
family turned on her for following Christ.
Dulari had no illness. She wasn’t demon possessed. She witnessed no mira-
cle or deliverance. So what caused her to give up practicing other religions and
turn to the one true God
Dulari was born and brought up in the Muslim faith and performed all her
religious duties without fail. But when she married a man from a different reli-
gion, she began following after his gods and goddesses. As often as she went to
the temples to offer sacrifices to the idols, she still had no peace in her life.
When Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries Sampat Sengupta and Yu-
dhisthir Banerjee came to visit and share the Gospel message with her, she
listened carefully to everything they said. By the time the missionaries were
finished, Dulari wanted to know more about this God who gave up His Son to
die for her sins. Sampat and Yudhisthir gave her some Gospel tracts to read
through and told her how she could choose to follow Jesus.
The missionaries came back to visit Dulari often and continued to teach
her more about Jesus. The more Dulari learned, the more she realized He was
her Savior, and she soon chose to follow Christ. But her family and neighbors
disapproved of her newfound faith.
Criticism and contempt became constant in her life. People mocked her. Her
in-laws abused her, and her husband threatened to leave her if she did not
deny Jesus Christ. Dulari’s entire life was turned upside down.
But she bore the pain and agony through prayer, and she stood firm in the
Lord. Dulari continued to attend worship services with the missionaries and
take part in the church activities.
Dulari asks for prayer for her family, that they will come to know the Lord
Jesus as their Savior and that her neighbors will experience the joy of salva-
tion in their lives.

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“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.”

Here are a few snippets from some of the stories we featured in our 2009 Annual report. Let me know if
you didn’t receive a copy of that publication, and I’ll try and get one to you. It’s amazing to see what the
Lord has done in a matter of one single year! He’s absolutely incredible and His glory cannot be contained!
Of all the ways God blessed the ministry of Gospel After the horrendous 2008 attacks against Christians
for Asia in 2009, perhaps none had a greater impact in Orissa, India, at least 5,000 Christian homes were
than the provision of Jesus Wells in needy villages and destroyed and dozens of churches were ransacked or
desperate slim areas. burned out.
The dry season in South Asia can be brutally hot. By late 2009, GFA teams had already rebuilt more
Clean drinking water is an absolute necessity for than 500 homes. Overcoming challenges that included
survival, yet many poor tribal villages see their wells dry scarcity of materials in some areas, the joy seen in
up in the unrelenting heat. the faces of those who moved in was well worth the
Thankfully, over the past two years, GFA has been able struggle to build them.
to drill more than 2,000 Jesus Wells across India and “The goal for 2010 is to complete the remaining
neighboring countries. The results have been incredible. homes,” Dr. K.P. Yohannan said.

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