EVANGELIST GRADUATIONS

Cathy and I just returned to our North Carolina home last night. Over the past month we attended and I spoke for graduations at eleven of our Bible training schools. It is exciting to send men into the fields “white unto harvest” (John 4:35). Often, as I sat waiting for my time to speak, I would look at the graduating men thinking about all of the new congregations of the Lord’s church that will be established. I explained to the students that we have not trained them to simply be “preachers” but evangelists. As such we expect for their pants to stay wet with the waters of ponds and tanks, baptizing many souls into Christ. God loves the precious souls of men much more than we can comprehend. He is surely pleased with seeing these trained men as they go forth to re-unite India with their Father (Lk. 15:20).

Our first stop was one of the latest schools, started in 2006, the School of Evangelism at Trivandrum. Cathy and I conducted two-day seminars at the school. I taught the men about evangelism. Cathy taught the ladies, mostly wives of preacher students. This is the school where we dismissed the principal in January for dishonesty. The seminars were an encouragement to the Trivandrum brothers, who had baptized sixteen new souls into Christ just two weeks before we arrived, and added seven more souls while we were there. The Trivandrum evangelists give glory to God for the new growth, remarking that God is blessing the Trivandrum work because we strive to do everything honestly and according to God’s will. After finishing that program on Tuesday, April 10, we moved south to Kanniyakumari to start the first of the graduations on Wednesday, April 11. The graduation circuit finished with the last program at the Polarai school on April 27.