Evangelistic Companions of India Trust. Santhosh Complex, 1st Floor, Gurumurthy Reddy Layout-2nd Block, Ramamurthy Nagar, Bangalore-560016. Karnataka State, INDIA. E mail: [email protected] , ariseshine46@gmail , smitheci1@hotmail Phone 91-094480-88983. Praise and prayer Letter June 2013. Dear companions, Sthothram (praise the Lord). The Lord is good all the times and we praise Him for the way in which He had showed Himself to the family of Evangelistic Companions during the past months. ECI family Joins with me to thank each one of you for your love, Prayers and financial support to continue the ministry with the Hannah Children Home (Orphanage), Vacation Bible School during the months of April, May where the Lord used the VBS Directors, teachers and our Pastors and Evangelists to reach thousands of boys and girls with the gospel of Jesus Christ and trough the Deepam ( Light) Tailoring Institute . Vacation Bible School at all our Churches with a minimum attendance of 78 children and the maximum attendance of 198 children was conducted during the months of April and May and was used by the Lord for His glory . Almost all the children showed their desire to give their lives to Jesus, it will be made sure only in Heaven but we do the follow up with these children through Sunday school. Please praise the Lord for the volunteers for their dedication and sacrifices of their time. Whole heartedly I wanted to thank you for your financial and prayer support. Hannah Children Home:- The academic year 2013-2014 started and at the Children Home all the workers removed as there was lot of changes needed in order to continue this ministry. I shall send the pictures of this year inmates after finishing the very important urgent meetings which is scheduled on the 19th of June with the Government. Kindly pray for the provision of faithful workers and staff for the children Home. Deepam Tailoring Institute:- This is the ministry among the Widows, School dropout young Girls ,House wives and needy women , we need faithful and trained Instructor. Kindly pray. FCRA Appointment:- The Government of India Home ministry gave the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act Registration which is the license given to receive foreign contribution to run any religious work. This license was given to Evangelistic Companions of India trust in the year 1993. We did all the requirements from then on but the devil tried all the way possible and finally he thought that if he can use this FCRA to jeopardize it will end this ministry and used the one month leave vacancy post man and he send the letter which was send by the home ministry for clarifying the audit statement for the year 2008-2009. Which was not received by ECI till this date, finally the FCRA stopped the operation of ECI bank account and suspended the FCRA temporarily. This put ECI to slow the work and made ECI to suffer. Now we know that this ministry is not ours, its belongs to the one who gave His Blood and Flesh to redeem Jesus Christ Our Saviour and owner of our breath. Special prayer Request:- The FRCA Department has given an appointment for the chief functionary (Rev. Smith) to appear at New Delhi on the 19th of June 2013 with all the necessary documents ( Audit statements from 2005 -2012, especially 2008-2009 with all the Bills, vouchers , inventory of the entire ministry, Bank statements and Donors list etc etc. After satisfying the authorities it will take two months to get the FCRA license renewed, thenwe are entitle for receiving the contribution in the name of the ECI trust. This appointment with Government is very costly. The preparation of 30 check list which I got from the Government need to be prepared hence an accountant is hired and the presence of the auditor who audited our accounts need to be present at Delhi with us, The Inspection authorities Inspection Fee, the processing fee, Trustees (auditor, accountant and all the books 2005-2012 along with the Bank statements) air fare and mislenious expenses is budgeted 8 lacks = $15000.00. Please pray for this need to be meet as this is the Key license without which ECI will not be able to go further. Please pass this request to the churches and prayer partners. Thank you. Please pray for faithful and committed workers to be sent to work at the Children home, Wardens (care takers), Driver, Cooks and office secretary. After the call centers and BPO came to Bangalore we find great difficulties to get good workers for a lesser wages hence without assistance the ministry suffers. One of the main reasons for the delay in this praise and prayer letter is the lack of computer guys availability. Witch craft: The devil tried his level best to disturb all the ways the ministry and my health. This year 2013 he sifted. 1. The FCRA problem 2. 4 boys from the children home after writing the 1st day final Examination without coming to Home from the school went to Railway station where they were taken by police authorities and booked as pick pocters ,the same day as I was coming 3. the Jeep front wheel came out of the disc and the Lord miraculously saved me, my mom , sister and another brother, as I was 100 Kilometer away the police authorities came to children home and called all the workers to come to police station for enquiry about these boys to find out whether the boys are involved in pick pocket activity or what?, 4. All the children home workers Resigned at once , After arriving Bangalore the same day middle of the Mid night 11:45 P.M , I was forced by the authorities to go and gave an under taking and released the boys and made them to go for next exams. 5. All the time what so ever I eat tummy got upset. 6. Digestion problem, 7.sleeplessness. 8. Doctors not able to find anything by scanning, ECG etc tests, my Blood pressure and Sugar everything is fine, no medicine works on me, no appetite. 8. Not able to concentrate on anything , in my prayer time I said Lord something wrong but I do not know what is going on , I know that you are in control but I am suffering , Give me your strength. The next day as I was on my visit of VBS at Ambur , one Muslim man was Introduced to me by the pastors who gave me some herbal treatment by asking me to swallow and I did eat the herbs . Where he identified that something wrong with my bowels and gave a herb with some roots, I started chewing and vomited meat after meat. Someone who is not happy about the ministry gave witch medicine which affected the entire thinking and functioning and brought all this, this we cannot find through Xray, scanning, ECG , ultimately it will lead to death. As pastors and Evangelists gather to gather and prayed and cursed the activities of this demonic act, now I feel very much relaxed and praising the Lord for His power which was manifested. Satan is put in to shame and I know he is angry and he used people who never understood the tricks of Satan. I should not eat any spicy food for at least few weeks as this made inside my stomach lots of wounds. I need your prayers. Election of the State Legislation Assembly:- The Anti and Militant Party lost this election and the Secular party the Congress won the Election and promised that they will help the minorities ( Christians) , as a result the police officer who was used as an instrument by the Land vender Venkatramanappa and the Member of Legislation was transferred and a person who worked as a special officer for Lok auktha ( preventing the bribery act ) is appointed as the Inspector of Police for Ramamurthy Nagar, I meet him and he also promised his help towards ECI. I don’t find time to rest, though I promised to many of you but all the above said un avoidable things makes me always on the move, After two night and day work I became very tired and I could not drive any more, I took a road side under a coconut growing garden and slept few hours and continued my journey. Thank you for your partnership and I should be with you during the last week of this month to celebrate the Victory of the Lord by showing the grace and favors in the sight of the FCRA authorities through news and praise letter. Praying for Gods strength and care upon each one of you throughout this month and the months to come. Peace and grace be with you all. Yours Sincerely in His Service. Rev. W. Thompson Smith President / Director. Evangelistic Companions of India Trust.
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