local board meeting 16 September 2012

Loving greetings from HBTC Surkhet. On behalf of the training centre family, let me greet you all in the name of the Lord and express our collective gratitude to you for your active participation and prayers for us. I do not think it would have been possible for us to carry on the training ministry here in the Midwest Nepal, had you not played a vital role of praying and partnering with us and may the Lord bless you. I recently visited the training centre in Surkhet and could attend the local board meeting on the 16th September and may I share with you the following resolution made by the board for your information and prayers. 1. Change in the local board I am glad to share with you that the founding local board had been playing a tremendous role in bringing up the training ministry in the last five and half years and pastor Padam Nepali, the founding chairman has spontaneously handed over the responsibility to the new board chaired by pastor Navin Darlami (Itram Christian Church), as he remained pretty busy these days. The new board comprises the following members. Pastor Padam Nepali : Advisor Elder Engineer Ramji Prasad Koirala : Advisor Pastor Navin Darlami : Chairman Pastor Goman Basyal : Vice-chairman Elder Gyan Gurung : Secretary Elder Dipendra Thapa : Treasurer Mrs. Ganga Nepali : Member Ms. Lalita Auji : Member Mr. Chiran Gaire : Member Let us pray for the successful tenure of the new board for the betterment of the training centre. 2. Up grading the Training Programme As I shared with you some months before for prayers and suggestions about up grading the programme into a year programme, time now has come to proceed further in it. Thank you also for your approval for it and the local board has decided to up grade the training course from five months into a year programme to be effective after the completion of the 12th session i.e. commencing from the 16th of January 2013. I will appreciate your prayers as we need to design the course and take faith steps financially as there will be some additional expense comparatively for the one year program. However, we will not ask you to raise any additional funding for this reason. We will try not to add additional burden to you and the friends and will be happy with the regular funding from you. 3. Need of a piece of land of our own. The board has prayerfully decided to initiate the fund raising for the need of land and building for the training centre in Surkhet. I will prepare a separate proposal for it and send to you some time later. Please bear with me until I spare some time to prepare it. This much for today and it has been our prayer that the Lord would bless you and our honourable partners in the ministry. Thanking you, Sincerely yours in His Harvest, Dil Bahadur Tamang