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Friends We are continuing our ministry in Fiji. We visited 12 elementary schools this week with our third group. The group from San Bernardino is using dancers, puppets and stories to share the word of God. Last night we started a 3-night crusade at Anand church grounds. About 400 people attended the first night and we expect the numbers to rise. Parallel to this group we have another group from

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We are in Fiji hosting our teams here. We had the team from Lakewood Life Center. They were here in Fiji from the 19th to the 27th June. We visited many different schools and ministered in local churches. We have seen many people coming to Christ and many have been healed by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. This week I have Phil Young and his team from Pacific Christian Center in Santa Maria,

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We had a great start this Year. We believe God is going to do some great things in our ministry and family. We had some great family time at the end of 2007. We  spend the holiday visiting Gaty Musime, Balboa Island for a day trip and stayed home playing family games. Sylvanas is bcak in school and Anjana is enjoying at the district office and also continue with her studies at Santa Ana college.

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We are busy with the ministry. Friday & Saturday we had lots of visitors from Fiji, Australia and New Zealand. We hosted lunch on Saturday for Anjana's family. Anjana lost her uncle 2 weeks ago and we had a wonderful time ministering to her families. The family asked me to share in the funeral alongside 4 other Hindu priests. A lot of people at the funeral responded to my sharing. Please pray for

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I had a great week and praise God for His blessings. I had so many different opportunities to serve the Lord. Had  meeting with Ben Kaufman, a missionary friend and mentor. Visited some new families. I was able to share the gospel with a Hindu friend and another Hindu couple. They were able to here about Jesus for the first time. I was able to pray with these people and let Jesus do a miracle in

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We are in San Diego today and enjoying our time with Faith Chapel. They are having their missions convention and have invited us,Leighton & Sue Jones and Jim & Dawn Knutsen to be their missionary guests.

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Wednesday we had a visitor from Fiji. Shareen stayed with us for one night. It was good to fellowship with her and catchup on things about Fiji. Thursday sectional meeting at Orange Hills church. I was able to connect with some good friends. I believe fellowship with good friends lifts you up in ministry. Friday, youths from Lakewood life center with Ps Eric Atherton came over to have dinner with

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We had a wonderful weekend. Last Thursday we received a call from my parents in Australia. My younger sister has given birth to another baby and this time it is a boy named Nikhil. Thank God for another guy in the family. They have a daughter who is 4. Friday we were at the San Bernadino Community Church with Pastor Sam & Pat Pawlak. We had a wonderful time sharing and having fellowship with the

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The Lord is good and is doing great things in our Ministry. I had a wonderful time on Sunday visiting Boron AOG for their mission's convention in the am & pm service. I enjoyed lunch with Pastor Maison and family at the Domingos real Mexican food. I visited the Borax mine with Pastor Maison and had a great evening service again. The drive back home was a bit tiring because of traffic. Worship cds

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Easter week was a great week for us. We had a guest speaker from Fiji. We made flyers and posted them around Artesia. About 70 people (Asian Indians) turned up for the Easter morning service. We provided a cooked lunch for everyone. April 9 - 11th we attended the district Council here in Southern California. It was really good to catch up with lots of friends and get refreshed with good

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We had a wonderful weekend. Spent most of my day in Artesia (little India) on Saturday, meeting people and sharing about the Lord one on one. I hung out at India Grill for late lunch. I was able to have great fellowship with some Indians from Kerala and Fiji over the meal. Shared lots of stuff from politics to Jesus. The meal was great - goat curry, spinach and fresh Naan ( Indian bread). Sunday

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I had a wonderful time at the Benny Hinn's Prayer Break-fast at the Marriott, Anaheim. It was great fellowshiping with pastors from different parts of California. I also had good spiritual enrichment at the Morris Cerullo World Evangelism Conference at Anaheim Convention Centre with my family. Benny Hinn was the main speaker for the evening. Ron Kennolly was the special guest for this

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I am glad to share about our service that we had on 31st December, 2006. We had lot of Indian friends in this service. We had people all the way from Fresno came to the service. A sister from Mississippi also gave a speacial number. We had a guest from India - Monica Jathanna on this day. After the service we had a love meal, Buffet Lunch at Ashoka Cuisine an Indian Restaurant. We had good

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I am sorry for not being in touch with all of you in the recent past. We had a very good Christmas and was able to arrange very good Christmas gathering at the Church in Little India. Lot of Indian friends of ours responded to this is a very positive way. Pastor George Fessler was our speaker for this event and Pastor Ben Kaufman lead us in some Christmas Songs. We are glad to inform you that

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We are very sorry for being a little out of touch lately but good things are happening in our Ministry. Our church in Artesia is going well and we have been busy in personal evangelism and outreach every week. Sylvanas is doing great in school and Anjana is enjoying working at the district office. We had a great thanksgiving. We had our families over for a turkey dinner. We received a Speed-the

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We had a great weekend. We were in Bakersfield for the Missionettes rally at CALM - California Living Musem. Sylvanas enjoyed visiting many live animals. We shared with about 200 missionettes and enjoyed doing that. Sunday Anjana preached in our church and I preached in New life Church in Murrieta for their mission's convention. In the afternoon we attended a birthday party in a park in Santa

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I just wanted to let you know that God has been blessing us and we have been blessed. We enjoyed our trip in August to Australia and Fiji. It was good spending time with my family in Melbourne. We travelled to Fiji and then our missions team from the states joined us for the Western disatrict council. The Council was for 4 days. The guest speaker was District Superintendent of Southern California

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We had a great flight to Melbourne, Australia. Sylvanas was very excited and was just waiting for his 14 hour flight to end so he could see his grandparents. It is winter here and we are enjoying spending time with my parents, my 2 sisters and their families. Sunday was busy ministering at Calvary Christian Church. We spent the day with Ps Reddy and his members.end#      

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Dear blog friends, Sorry for not putting anything on my blog for 2 weeks. I have been traveling a lot. I was in Las Vegas on the 22,23 & 24. Enjoyed fellowship with the pastor's team from Trinity Life. I was also able to attend the SOCAL missionaries camp. Enjoyed every bit of it. Our speakers were Pastor Mil & Sharon Johnson. Sunday 30th was a busy day for us as we started our day at 7.00am .

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We moved into our new apartment from Bellflower to Santa Ana. We thank Ps Eric Angeles from New Hope for bringing his men and helping us move. Thanks to Salend & Alpana from our fellowship for helping us. Anjana's sister Kumari was a great help and moral support for us from Friday till Sunday. We moved on the 1st and on the 2nd had to leave home at 5.00am for 2 services in Reedly, CA about 4

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I had a Wonderful time at the Hartland Christian Camp with about 300 kids from the age of 8 to 12 and did the ZOOM for 5 days. I had Sylvanas with me for the whole week and enjoyed my time up in the mountains. I have seen God working among kids and their lives changed. We had 21 kids committing their lives for missions. While coming back from there on the road my son Sylvanas who just turned 9

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I was able to gather leaders from a Korean church and a Filipino church for prayer and fellowship. These two churches meet in our building in Artesia. We have agreed to work together to reach the city. We are making preparations for Sylvanas' birthday (June 11).

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It was a day of blessings for me. I was able to catch up with a lot of correspondence. Attended the Asian Pastors get together at the Agape School of Ministries complex. I was also able to fellowship with Pastor Henry from Malaysia. He is a great apostle of God and has planted 800 churches in a few years around the world. He prayed for my ministry and presented me with his book 'The Eagle In You

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I had a busy day at the church, meeting with my music leader and also with Larry from the district office regarding the parking lot. I also had a meeting with the Korean church Pastor. They meet in our facilty. In the evening we visited an Indian family and were able to share the gospel and prayed with them.

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We spent the night  in Dinuba at the Best Western. The owners are Asian Indians.We were able to share the word with the daughter who manages the hotel and gave her our CD - Message of Joy. We also prayed with her. The Service was great and the people enjoyed listening to Anjana and I as I shared the message. We had lunch with Pastor Don Hall and Phil & Claudine Young. It took us about 4 hours to

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