December 14, 2008
During the past year, G. Prabhu Kumar has ignited a holy fire in and around Chennai, India.
In 2007, Prabhu enrolled in WEI and studied under Mike Hale. He was a preacher and a teacher at World Bible College, and he wanted to improve his English.
As Prabhu studied the lessons, he became excited about using WEI as an evangelistic tool, and he started teaching twenty-five WEI students in his home five days a week. Forty percent of the non-Christians in his class were baptized.
At their graduation ceremony, the students prayed for God’s direction in their lives. Ten of the best students started WEI classes of their own—with twenty-five students in each class. Now, Prabhu moves from group to group, working with the teachers, encouraging the students, and baptizing them into Christ. Thus far, forty-nine students have obeyed the gospel.
Prabhu’s e-mails are exciting. On November 29 he wrote, “There is no water facility in that area for baptisms. So we took an auto at 5 pm and started to Tripurantahakam where a small river is flowing. We reached there at 8 pm because of heavy rain. For approximately 3 kms, there is no road—only a small way in the black soil which was catching in the wheels of auto and not allowing it to move freely. In that darkness I feared whether this auto will return or not. “After reaching there, we used auto lights to search for a suitable place for baptisms, and I baptized three persons after their confessions.”
On December 5, Prabhu wrote, “After finishing the class [at Wyra], we all went to the Reservoir, a distance of 2 kilometers, by two autos and two Two-Wheelers. God helped us convince 5 people to accept Christ as their own Savior.”
On December 14, Prabhu wrote, “We are so happy to inform you that four more WEI students were added to the Lord’s church [in Vyasapadi] by our WEI lessons. God helped us choose WEI lessons to go to the youth in this time.”
“Yesterday, I asked the opinion of two of my co-teachers. Bro. Enosh Thapa said, ‘Though we are working as Bible teachers since 13 years, we never experienced like these lessons, and I feel that I am so lucky to go through this 6 months course from WEI. These lessons are so helpful to us to equip ourselves to present God’s word in a different way to reach teenagers in the days to come.’”
Prabhu continues, “Today, I have come to Vyasarpadi upon the request of our WEI teacher, Bro. Dinakaran, and have taught a special class for the four students who were prepared for baptism. Then, I baptized them in the tub that was constructed for the local church.”
