Fifth batch progress

Honorable prayer partners, families and friends,
Loving greetings from Mid-west Nepal.
By the grace of God and through your fervent prayer and encouragement, we have been doing God's ministry here in Mid-West Nepal by teaching our pastors and leaders from various districts. We as a Himalayan Bible Training Center family once again would like to thank you all for that you have been doing for the betterment of this ministry. May our gracious God bless you abundantly.

In 5th batch 12 students are graduating and graduation date is fixed on 10th June 2009. All of them are enthusiastic to serve the Lord after this course. They all have shared different experiences during the five months course. Most importantly, they have life changing experiences. To God be the glory! Please do pray for the 6th batch. After one month it will start again.

Due to an extreme storm last week, damage was sustained to the dining hall site. We praise God that nothing happened more than that. For a week there was no electricity………

On May 15th we had Dr. Mangalman Maharjan in our midst. He is a senior pastor of Koinonia Church Lalitpur Patan. He delivered a short but encouraging message to our students. We were indeed blessed by his visit. Along with him, his wife was also there.

Praise points:
 We praise God for His loving care, guidance and all heavenly provisions.
 We praise God for his faithfulness, blessings and dedicated students from various districts.
 We praise God for the local HBTC Surkhet board and its commitment and advice for the betterment of this training center.
 We praise God for the local church and organization's favor, love and concern toward our training center.
 We praise God for giving us like minded people like you all for the upliftment and for the extension of His kingdom here in Nepal.

Prayer requests-
 Please do pray for HBTC Surkhet's staff, all the visiting teachers and board so that whatever they do and teach may glorify his name.
 Please do pray for our alumni; their needs and ministry.
 Please do pray for HBTC Surkhet's financial needs. As we do not have sufficient and long term support for this training.
 Please do pray for an audio video player for audio video classes. Some of our teachers bring their teaching materials in CD format, if we could have that device, it would be far better for that purpose.
 Still we do not have a digital camera for this training center. If we could have digital camera, it would be easier to make reports and photographs. Please do pray for this also.
 Please do pray for an aquaguard machine for purified drinking water.
( Our humble request to you is for Lord's sake if you could share these prayer requests to your friends, we would be indebted to you).

Lastly may God bless you all and looking forward to your encouraging response. Thank you.

Yours truly.
James Tamang
Himalayan Bible Training Center (Surkhet)
Mid-Western part of Nepal.