Messiah's Nepali Fellowship

By Rev. Mike Okine, Messiah Lutheran Church

Nepali participants

On Saturday August 16, 2014, the first Nepali Fellowship was held at Messiah Lutheran Church. It was the culmination of efforts made by the church to reach our new neighbors from Bhutan/Nepal. Several of them had been baptized and received into membership at Messiah, and they worship regularly on Sundays. But they were yearning for a service where they could hear the Gospel in their own language and sing songs in their own language.

That desire was fulfilled that Saturday. The Scripture readings were done in Nepali. Welcome messages were given in English and translated into Nepali. So was the sermon. The fellowship will take place once a month. It is our prayer that as word gets around more will join in the fellowship.

There are many people to thank for where we are right now. I would certainly like to thank the CFNA under the leadership of Dr. Buckman, and the tireless outreach efforts made in past years by Pastor Mekasha. Pastor Sam Thompson deserves a lot of credit for using his knowledge of the culture to help us understand a little bit more than would have otherwise been possible. The greatest thanks belongs to God the Holy Spirit who has worked and continues to work mightily among all people to draw them into the family of God.

It will really be great and awesome on that day when the great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages stand together with the angels and praise God for the salvation won for by the Lamb!