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Barnabas Hembrom
November 2024
Introductions
We are very close to Christmas and New Year. Praise the Lord because he leads me to share the gospel among the various tribal people in different parts of Bangladesh. Now the good news is we are going to run a outreach Christmas program. Through this program people could know why Jesus’s birth is meaningful to us and for the whole creation. We are grateful that God has allow us to run this program in this present situation.
As a Mission Coordinator, I am committed to taking the good news to the unreached people, where people do not know Jesus Christ and do not have the gospel. Really I am enjoying the mission work and that is my heart. I love to do mission work with integral mission perspectives.
Our ultimate goal is fullfil God’s mission. We are rejoicing that, because as a fruit of mission work and by the grace of God last month we baptized 39 people who declared Jesus as a personal saviour in the new area, and some are getting ready to be baptize. God is so kind to us, because we are going to do outreach Christmas program in new outreach fields (we call Gospel Sharing Points or GSP). In the GSP people welcomed us and agreed that, with them and in their villages we can run the outreach Christmas program. I am very much excited to see God’s work, because in this situation God is using me and my team for his Kingdom to declare the good news among various tribes and I love to work with them. We fixed the outreach Christmas program in 6 places. They are all new fields, we are going to open the gospel to new people, and I believe, God has open their heart and Holy Spirit may touch them. There is cultural variety in Bangladesh. We value their culture and we are getting ready to do many activities with them according to their context. We are going to invite local government to the outreach Christmas program, and I will use the opportunity to identify new fields for our outreach in 2025. Each month most of the day I am travelling all over the Bangladesh. I feel Holy Spirit leading and God’s guidance in my life and the mission work.
I have started my online doctoral studies this month. I live in Dhaka city with my family. We live in rented flat. There are 32 families in the same block of flats. My wife has been sharing the gospel with them. My daughter and son are leading the Sunday School, youth activity and leading the choir in Dhaka Baptist Church, where I Pastor. As a family we are very happy serving the Lord. I would be travelling to youth camp, women camp, annual convention, seminar and different kinds of training as a speaker and trainer in the coming months. I am also a part of the Baptist Mission Training Center. My daughters honors 3rd year exam will start in December 2024. We are planning to celebrate Christmas together as a family.
o Please pray for fruitful outreach Christmas program.
o Please pray for wisdom for my Doctoral Studies and my daughter’s honour’s third year final exam.
o Please pray for new fields and evangelists.
o I need mission exposer to learn more, please pray for the opportunities.
I hereby express my heartiest gratitude to you, for your prayers through which God strengthens me to do the mission work and the Lord blesses my family.
Wishing Happy Christmas and Happy New Year 2025.
With Prayer,
Rev. Barnabas Hemrom