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Nepal (MNN) ― Last year, a Maoist party stood victorious in an assembly to make Nepal a democratic republic. Ministries are taking advantage of this political change and are observing a dramatic response. The people of Nepal thirst for Living Water.
Campus Crusade's JESUS Film Project meets this need by by saturating the Nepalese with the Gospel. Instrumental to this endeavor is the JESUS film.
"The JESUS film is the most effective tool that we have ever used for evangelism, lay leadership mobilization and church planting," says John Connor, director of the JESUS Film Partnership of Global Partners. "I really believe that to be true."
Global Partners showed the JESUS film to nearly 422,000 viewers last year in Nepal and 13 other countries. Serving as the mission arm of the Wesleyan Church, Global Partners has planted an average of two churches every week over the past five years. Their mission fields have ranged from Nepal to Brazil and Columbia.
Along with dramatic growth in Nepal, believers have also observed dramatic deliverance through the powerful truth of the Gospel. At one JESUS film showing, a well-known animistic shaman was delivered of a demon that had plagued him for years. He confessed faith in Jesus for salvation, and film team members laid hands upon him and prayed until the demon surrendered to God's power. At another showing, a 101-year-old woman found peace she had sought but never obtained from ancestral spirits and Hindu gods.
"I don't have much time in this life, and I have wasted a lot of time in my life worshipping gods that don't help me," she explained. "But now I know that salvation is in Jesus, and I must take this salvation before it is too late."
The JESUS Film Partnership in Nepal pairs with other churches to present evidence of Jesus Christ through film showings and rise up strong Christian leaders who can build self-multiplying churches. A recent survey shows that 80 percent of Nepalese church leaders received discipleship or training from Campus Crusade staff. In a country about the size of Florida without the panhandle, believers have grown in number from 50 in 1983 to a recent estimate of 2 million.
Shadows border the growing light in Nepal. Hindu strongholds continue to threaten believers, and your support is needed. Pray for the continued growth of God's body in Nepal. Pray also that Christians will be able to practice their faith without fear.
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