Date: 19 Jul 2005
From: "emmanuel raju" <emmanuelkurati@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: "emmanuel raju" <emmanuelkurati@rediffmail.com>
To: cephas-to-pray4u@earthlink.net
Subject: Greetings from India

 Dear Loving Brother In Christ,

Greetings to you in the wonderful name of our Lord, JESUS CHRIST. It is very happy time to speak to you about my self through the Internet. Brother, I am very happy to say that you are doing mighty service of God. The God may use you abundantly for His kingdom. Please pray for our ministry and us in these rural areas in India. We are praying for you and your ministries.

Testimony:
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Brother, I am introducing my self as K. EMMANUEL RAJU aged 44 Anaparthi village, E.G.Dt. A.P., S.INDIA. My parents are Bro: Daniel & Ruth, they belong to heathen family, and they are ideal worshipers. After their marriage they were accepted Jesus as their personal saviour through a God’s servant. After some years ago they started a small church with 7 members. By the grace of God now it was increased with 75 believers.

I was born in 1960 to them. As I was eldest son, they dedicated me for His service. When I was grown, I decided that doing God’s service is so difficult. So I decided to do a secular job. Then only I am able to do the service of God to satisfy my parents. After finished my graduation, I completed B. Ed., [Teacher training] for doing teacher post. I tried for job more than 10 years, but I could not get job. Our beloved God is different to my views. Through the earnest prayers of my parents our wonderful God caught me for his service at the age of 18 years. I came to the Lord’s feet and got repented and accepted the Lord is my personal saviour and got Baptized, and growing in His Grace.

After my marriage as an unemployed I was faced somany trouble. So one day I decided to do sue side. But my loving God talked to me one night. O my son doesn’t fear about your feature. Follow me I will be use you as my servant. I will bless you. But I neglected god’s words. After some years, again the God spoken to me, “ Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown in to the fire.” Mathew: 3: 10. By that God’s word, I was stressed and I was heartily repented. I was accepted Lord as my saviour, but there is no fruits in my spiritual life. So I came to his feet and I confessed all of my sins. Than I heartily repented to bring his service of God, to the unreached areas especially in the villages. Through I faced so many struggles in His service. But I never left the courage that I got from His strength. Always I was strengthened through the word of God Pro: 24:10, and Acts: 20: 24. Since the last 10 years.

The Almighty God strengthening me and using me for His mighty service. Through His love I am able to do His ministry in the rural areas especially in the midst of the idol worshipers those who worship stones shaped in to men and women. These people never heard about our Lord Jesus and His plan of salvation. Mainly we are doing the Lord’s ministry among daily wageworkers, who work in the paddy, sugar cane fields, and rock quarries, at the low wage salary. Which is not even enough for their lively hood. Please pray for the poor belie ours. They are praying for you.

Our Outreaching Ministry:
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We have a team of pastors and evangelical women of the Bible, doing the Lord's work more than 10 villages. We reach rural, tribal, and coastal areas. In a month we visit a number of villages. We arrange street meetings, seminars, and conventions. Church planting is the main activity of our Gospel work, and relief and development work. Many of our pastors do not have any houses and also they have no constructed churches. They conduct the prayers in thatched houses, under trees and sometimes on the side of the road. But we are steadfast to see that the Lord's work is done. We have no any connected with any organization and we have no support from anywhere outside.

I have a few more things to share with you about my Gospel Out Reach work where there are a number of problems such as Pastors help, bicycles for them and so on. Because Gospel works in India is a matter of hunger, mockeries, poverty, and scarcity. If any Hindu in Indian plants & stone in any corner of any street or road soon people gather to worship the stone God and shower money and gold. Soon there will be a fortified temple building and the priest in it leads a prosperous life. In this way Indians worship 9 millions of Gods and Goddess. Jesus Christ is a foreign God for them and in India. He is the God of the lowest community. For this reason Christians have no honor in our society. They are treated as untouchables and they are not allowed to live together with the people of higher community.

So most of our fellow Christians lives in their huts at the out skirts of villages. We are regular victims of nature calamities such as cyclones, floods, and fire accidents that take away lives and shelters of people in number of villages. Consequently there are orphans and widows. In such a condition we are doing our Gospel work in India. Though they're a number of Christian organizations in India, there are still more than 10,000 unreached villages. Your kind involvement will surely enable us to reap a great deal of harvest in the coming days. Here our churches, our fellow pastor and the Orphan children are sending heartily greetings to you and all that are co-operating with you in your work.

I await your kind and favorable letter prayer fully and hope fully.

Thanking you,

Your Brother in Christ,

Evangelist, K. Emmanuel Raju,
Anaparthi-533342,
Postbag No-5,
E.G.Dt., A. P., S. INDIA.

E- Mail: emmanuelkurati@rediffmail.com

Precious K. Emmanuel Raju,
Your very personal testimony was much appreciated and God will bless you with much fruit working His vineyard like you are. We give thanks to Heavenly Father for ministers of His Gospel as you have shared with us. We love the Word of God and feel the burden of spreading the good news to the lost and there are too many who are caught up in wrong teachings, but God states in the Bible He is the One and only One who can bring in the fruit after we have prepared the way. His Gospel is about witnessing to others world wide and we plan to add your email to our "All Nations" indexes for other to be encouraged by. Like you have experienced, when we do get the call, moving from one life to another does become essential. We have to be there for God full time and the fruit of that kind of focus will manifest. The harvest is ready but workers are few. Praise God for the few since they do get much done today due to technology.
My prayer for you is that we give thanks, heavenly Father, for opening our ears to Your Word and our eyes to Your glory this day and all the coming days till you call us up to You. We thank You especially for declaring to us the Good News of redemption in Christ Jesus and the good gift of forgiveness through His blood shed on the cross. Grant that through your grace Father this glorious message may take root in India in many hearts to end the poverty once and for all. We have experienced wonderful blessings in doing what You tell us to do in the Gospel. It is the only teaching that truly works if we follow it. Father brings forth the fruit in the ministries described in this email and in our lives so that Your name may be honored and glorified. Continue to shepherd Your Little Flock by Your Word and guide their steps. Your Word and Spirit will continue to be confessed as You open doors to the lost. Under Your grace we conform to Your will, for the sake of those whom You love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

We know funding is critical for all the ministries and very little is coming forth which shows that we are deeply into the apostasy foretold in prophecy. We pay for 85% of the cost of our ministry from our personal income, retirement income that is. I'm sharing that with you to not get your hopes up and be disappointed on the responses you may get from your testimony. The walk in the Savior's sandals is a sacrificial walk and few there are who wish to do it considering all the people who live on earth.

We embrace your work wholeheartedly and encourage you to stand strong in the Lord and keep building treasures in Heaven.
In Christ Jesus, sharing his love for you and your helpers,
Rita at Cephas Ministries