Twins in the faith

God helped the Hyderabad church witness 2 men baptisms from different background.

Maheedhar was in the US just a few years ago pursuing Masters program in Mech Engg in Bridgeport, Connecticut. After completion, he was pursuing a training at which time due to recession he had to come back to India. He was sick physically and discouraged in life when he came back but his friend Johny continued to reach out to him. Johny is a brother in the church in Hyderabad but who was a roommate of Maheedhar in Bridgeport who has been reaching out to him for almost 3 years now.



Initially, there was a lot of reluctance. But over time when he regularly came to church, he understood many things from the Bible and he had a change of heart. Though the Hebron church he previously went to had different ways to worship God (they had to remove their footwear outside before they came into the hall to worship God), he soon fell in love with the true God rather that majoring in minors and surrendered his life to the one true loving and compassionate God.


David was a teen who has been coming to the church for more than 1 year. He was introduced to the church by his uncle Anil who is a brother in the church. Initially the church was not very interesting compared to the friends he had in the world but as he kept coming his heart changed. Initially, Anil had to literally drag David to church but over time David had convictions where he was pushing Anil to come to church when Anil was sick. In his relationship with God David had to fight his battle in getting close to God. The expectation with David has been to be a fired-up disciple as it has been with other new baptisms in the church.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY.

Mini-Olympics - Hyderabad Church

August 15th is celebrated in India as our independence day - the day the British gave us our independence. Since it happened to be sunday, the

church celebrated it with a mini-Olympics. We had games for marrieds, singles, oldies and kids. The lunch on this day was subsidized and the whole church had a great time of fun food and fellowship. Tug-of-war between marrieds and singles and 7-round long distance run were much competed events. Many couples who sometimes rushed back after church stayed back to enjoy the event. It was truly a bonding time for the whole church.

Perseverence does Pay!!

It was so exciting to see that after several years of perseverance by Prem, a brother in the Musheerabad ministry, his sister Jyotsna became our sister in the Lord, on 8th of August 2010.

In his own words, "I never imagined this would happen - this is truly a miracle." God has been working in the Hyderabad church and after some drought we will hopefully have three souls being baptized this month with two more men close to baptism. To God be the glory!!!

Leaders Retreat @ Srinidhi Resorts

All the leaders of Indian Church of Christ at Hyderabad had a lot of fun playing at the Srinidhi resorts - we played plenty of Volleyball and played some games blindfold and otherwise. We hung out till late playing anthyakshari (a fun game with local movie songs). The response was great from the leaders even though we could have gone there earlier

God blessed us with a great month in December

God blessed us with 4 baptisms in the month of December including 2 fired up teens. We also had an old lady baptized in her 90s by name Balamma. God once again revealed He works with people of all age groups. We are excited as we step into 2010 to see more of His glory revealed and great things happening in Hyderabad.

Good news - month of November

In India, we celebrate childrens day on 14th Nov. On 15th Nov, the church celebrated childrens day, where we had games for the kids where we meet for the church on sundays. Each age group had 3 simple games and the children had a blast playing these games.
Also Past two weeks Raghu has been teaching us about church history - it has been an interesting two sessions where we have been learning about the early church and its traditional mindset. We were able to watch a movie where Martin Luther stood up to the early Catholic church. Also, we started valuing the Bible more as we saw Tyndale giving himself up just for translating the Bible into English.

Oct Baptisms

God has blessed us with two baptisms in the month of October. The conversion of the brother is totally from God as he walked into to our mtg and was touched by our service and quickly got involved with studying the Bible. In less that 3 wks (19 days to be precise) God brought him to the waters of baptism. His mother had a dream to see him work for God right from his birth and now he can fulfill her dream even though not full-time.

The sister who got baptized is pregnant nine months and did not give any excuse to either study the Bible or to come to the mtgs in the bus at any time. God has blessed her faithfulness and along with the brother was baptized 30th Oct '09. To God be the glory.