bereavement in Surkhet

Honorable prayer partners, Loving greetings from Mid-west Nepal. Our first batch student Mr. Suvarnaman Nepali (43) went to be with the Lord on 5th October 2009. We are also shocked having lost one of our dear ex-students. I would urge you all to join together in prayer mainly for his bereaved family. May our almighty God grant them strength and courage to stand firm in this difficult moment. He has two sons and a daughter. Thank you. In Christ, James Tamang, Himalayan Bible Training Center, Mid-west Nepal.

James teaches in Kathmandu

Honorable Dr Rod and family
Loving greetings from Surkhet.
Thanks a lot for your encouraging mail that I received from you. I returned today from Kathmandu from attending a leadership seminar and teaching my subject 'Basic Christian Doctrines' in Kathmandu HBTC. Rest of the things are fine here. We the HBTC Surkhet family once again would like to thank you all the concerned loving friends for helping and praying for our training center here in Surkhet. May God bless you all.
Lastly do pray for my ministry and family. Thank you so much.

new board for Himalayan Bible Study Academy Kathmandu

I am glad to share with you that we had a very productive and constructive 3rd General Assembly today with 33 members. We also formed a new executive board of HBSA, as the tenure of the previous board ended today. We thank God for the collective efforts and constructive cooperation of the out going board and glad to welcome the new inclusive board for the faster and better acceleration of HBSA in the days to come. This board will be active for the next two years. The board comprises of seven members and a Legal Advisor as follows,

President : Dil Bahadur Tamang
Vice President : Pastor Rajendra Malla, Lalitpur Baptist Church, Lalitpur
Secretary : Pastor Annorodh Lama, New Life Church, Kathmandu
Treasurer : Mrs. Somaya Gurung,(MBS), Finance Officer,Organizational Development Network Nepal

Members : Pastor Michael Rayamajhi Chhetry, NCCC
Pastor Dinesh Sunuwar, Himalayan Church, Jorpati, Kathmandu
Mrs. Nirmala Sunuwar (M.Div), Shalom AOG Church, (Wife of the Senior pastor)

Legal Advisor : Advocate Kedar Bahadur Khadka, Notary Public Officer

We will appreciate your prayers for needed discernment to the board members so that they would contribute in a constructive way for the betterment of HBSA.

Thanking you for your friendship and partnership in the Gospel,

Dil, HBSA.

a plague and a thanksgiving

Dear Dr. Rod and John,
Greetings from Nepal.

It has been some days since I wrote to you. I believe this email finds you in sound health and we are fine too. We thank for your untiring efforts to help us out.

Recently, a plague of diarrhoea claimed more than 400 lives in the upper midwest Nepal mainly in Jajarkot and neighboring districts and many more have been affected badly. Also many people lost lives and displaced in the landslides and flood triggered by incessant rain and will appreciate your prayers for them.

I have also attached the group picture of the 6th batch of Surkhet training centre that I received today and believe it will mean you much how people are eager to learn from the Word of the Lord.

Please let us know how we could pray for you too. Thanking you, Dil

Sixth Batch September 2009

Sixth Batch September 2009

Humble prayer request


Honorable Dr. Rod and family
Loving greetings from Surkhet.
Thanks once again for praying me for Singapore trip. It was great and indeed learned so many things and updated spiritually. Though I didn't have money God managed every thing miraculously.I thank God for this. Thank you so much for praying me.
Regarding 6th batch, now we have 17 students from different districts. Hope they will learn so many things and serve the lord. Thank you. James Bhai, Surkhet

Fifth graduation news

Cordial greetings from Mid-West Nepal.
First of all, we the Himalayan Bible Training Center Surkhet family would like to thank our caring and loving God from the bottom of our hearts for all His faithful provisions and guidance so far. We are grateful to you all same minded loving and caring people for your prayer, concern and financial support for this training center. We praise our God for all these heavenly blessings.
When we see and experience in our day-today lives how God works we amaze and wonder by seeing his blessings……..to God be the glory! On 10th June 2009, we graduated our 5th batch and 12 students from various districts completed this course successfully. The graduation program was held at Itram Church and there were 80-100 invitees from different churches. We had invited Pastor Solomon Gurung from Nissi Church(Earlier Bethel Church) as our chief guest but due to some unavoidable reason he was unable to come. So our Chief guest was Rev. Dil Bahadur Tamang the director of this training center and he himself delivered the word of God at the program.
Lastly we covet your prayers and encouragement for the glory and extension of His kingdom here in Nepal.

Our praise points-
 We praise God for His loving care, guidance and all heavenly provisions that we have been receiving from Him.
 We praise God for his faithfulness, blessings and dedicated students from various districts.
 We praise God for local HBTC Surkhet board and its commitment and advice for the betterment of this training center.
 We praise God for local church and organization's favor, love and concern towards our training center.
 We praise God for giving us like minded people like you all for the upliftment and the extension of His kingdom here in Nepal.
 We praise God for the successful completion of our 5th batch.

Our 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 alone.
 Please do pray for our alumnus, 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 deck for audio video classes. Some of our teachers bring their teaching materials in CDs, 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 our 6th batch and it will be starting from July 17th 2009.
 Please do pray for an aqua guard machine for purified drinking water. Due to unsafe drinking water many students get water related sickness in every batch.(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). Thanks

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