Dimapur, February 26 (MExN): Kera says that 2012 was a year of breakthrough and victory-A year that was filled with hardships, emptiness and disappointment. For Kera, ministering the Gospel in Sudan, Africa where only an estimated 16% are Christians is a tough calling but she says that she will continue to minister as “God ministered to me through people who stood by me when I was literally down.”
She calls on believers to pray for Sudan. There has been an ongoing problem among the refugees-famine and starvation is killing hundreds and thousands. It is said that Sudan field is one of the toughest field in the whole world. “Pray for the missionaries to endure hardships and share the love of God to the Sudanese,” Kera made a request in the latest annual report of the Nagaland Missions Movement (NMM), the mission wing of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council.
An educator by profession, Naro teaches in an international university, in Mongolia. “It is literally a mission field in itself with most of the professors being missionaries from different countries,” said Naro. There are approximately 15 nationalities including the teachers and the students. Most of the students are not Christians; they are atheist, Shamanist, Buddhist, Muslim etc.
The teachers give a lot of importance on getting to know each student personally and spending time with them. Most of us do a lot of counseling and Bible study with almost every teacher starting 2/3 Bible study groups apart from our assigned classroom teachings.
While requesting to pray that God will prepare the hearts of the students so that they will be open to listen and understand when we reach out to them, Naro says, “I am aware that besides the teaching, God has sent me here for a reason.”
Odyuo, another Naga missionary working in Kenya, says she is immensely blessed to get an opportunity to work with the unreached children in Kenya in slums and orphanages. She shares of an experience that has given her inspiration...One morning we went to visit a single who is HIV patient and also suffering from breast cancer, but we found only her children as she was in the hospital. In spite of hunger and expectation for their mother, the children were smiling and told us that their mum told them to wait for her as she is will bring food for them. I felt blessed to hug them and gave some bread, which kept them smiling. We prayed for them and for their mother. “The smiles of these children taught me to be thankful to God no matter what I go through,” said Odyou.
With the mission statement to reach to the world, NMM has commissioned missionaries to other places like Thailand, Philippines, Indo-Bhutan, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Indo-Myanmar.
