APRIL 2019 Vol. 17, No. 7

IBT Founder (Late) Rev. Prof. S. Panneer Selvam WORD OF TRUTH - Annual Subscription : Rs. 100/- PUBLICATION OF INDIAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS Single Copy : Rs. 10/-. THE LAST SEVEN WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS

When someone dies, we always enquire enabled her son to win the Parliament eagerly for their parting words. These last election by a record thumping majority. parting words uttered by our loved ones at D. L. Moody's last parting words: 'This is the time of their breathing their last, moves my coronation day. If this is death, I am our hearts and swells our eyes. Sometimes ready to die ten times. The earth is receding these words may be simple words, yet they and the Heaven is approaching.' What a assume special and eternal values because glorious running commentary by the dying these were the last words uttered by them on soldier of Cross! Really, these words will this side of eternity. I remember to have never die. read from News paper reports about the last parting words of a Japanese executive, who Our Lord Jesus Christ has asked us to scribbled in a bit of paper addressed to his remember His death as often as possible. young son to grow well and be a good boy, Referring to the Lord's Supper, He says, "For as the aircraft was tumbling in the air before as often as ye eat this bread and drink it crashed on the ground killing all the 150 this cup, do it in remembrance of my people on board. The last recorded speech death till I come" (I Cor. 11:25, 26). We of the late Prime Minister of , Mrs. Indira must learn to remember and recall the death Gandhi, "I am ready to shed my blood for the of Jesus Christ as often as possible in our country" uttered on the previous day of her day-to-day life. This will act as a deterrent assassination, were so powerful that a preventing us from falling into sins; it sympathy wave swept the whole country and

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 1 APRIL 2019 cleanses us even in our thought-life, instilling side to get your own quota of forgiveness within our inner man, the spirit of humility and from God. holiness. In a big company, a young employee had That is why Paul, probably after getting committed a serious mistake and was facing tired of hearing the personal infighting and almost certain dismissal. He was brought back-biting among Christians in the Church at before the manager. As the young man Corinth, says, "When I come to you next stood before the manager, the manager told time, I have determined not to know him, 'Young man, 20 years back I was anything among you except Christ and standing in your place having committed the Him crucified" (I Cor. 2:2). So, during these same mistake as you had done. At that time, Lenten days, let us turn our attention to the the manager sitting in my place forgave me. meditation of the cross and the 'Seven' last So also I forgive you. Hereafter never repeat parting words of Jesus Christ uttered during this mistake. Behave well. You can go'. those crucial hours hanging on the cross, Dear reader, how do you treat those who amidst His excruciating pains and agony. have done some crime against you? Have These seven words, most probably the most you forgiven? Some people say I can forgive meditated and preached text in the pulpits but I cannot forget. But this is not the way around the world, has definite and distinct God deals with our sins. He not only message for each one of us. forgives but also forgets. (1) Father, Forgive Them Very often we want to forgive someone "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive who has wronged against us but simply we them; for they do not know what they do" lack the power and strength to forgive. If we (Luke 23:34). analyse the words of Jesus closely, we will find the secret. He says "Father, forgive Very often for most of us, we want to be them, they know not what they are doing". forgiven but we find it very hard to forgive When Jesus looked at the soldiers who drove others. But the hard reality is that unless we the nail on his hands and feet, he sees them forgive, we can never be forgiven. The only as mere instruments - as soldiers who Biblical formula "Give and it shall be given carry out the commandment of their to you" is true not only in the matter of superiors. They were doing what they have giving our money and materials to God, but been asked to do. Jesus realized this fact. also in the matter of forgiveness. They were blissfully ignorant of the magnitude Forgiveness, in its true perspective, has got of the crime they were committing. two dimensions - vertical and horizontal - one, in getting from God vertically and the Similarly, some people commit some other, in giving to others horizontally. If you mistakes against us rather unwittingly and are not willing to forgive others' mistakes, unintentionally. They would have never then you are cutting the very bridge over dreamt that this thing will turn out to be a which you have got to walk over to the other crime against us. Forgiving others is a divine

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 2 APRIL 2019 nature. When we see someone forgiving evil" (Luke 6:27, 37). "See that none others, we see God's very nature in them and render evil for evil unto any man; but ever in doing so, they reveal part of God's follow that which is good, both among character in them. yourselves and to all men" (I Thes. 5:15).

During the Korean War, a South Korean (2) To-day Thou Shat Be With Me Christian, a civilian, was arrested by the In Paradise communists and was ordered to be shot. But "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say when the young communist leader learned unto thee. Today shalt thou be with me in that the prisoner was in charge of an paradise" (Luke 23:43). orphanage caring for small children, he decided to spare him and kill his son instead. These words were spoken to the penitent So they shot the nineteen-year old boy in the thief who pleaded with Jesus, "Lord presence of his father. remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom". What a sensational salvation in Later the fortunes of war changed, and the last dying moments! The second the young commandment was captured, tried statement of Jesus on the Cross beckons us and commanded to death by the United to see the glory of God's Kingdom and His Nation's forces. But before the sentence paradise. Quite often, we tend to forget could be carried out, the Christian whose boy where we are heading towards. Though we had been killed, pleaded for the life of the are in this world, we are not of this world. killer. He stated that he was young, and that We must always remind ourselves that we he really did not know what he was doing. are citizens of Heaven and we are in this "Give him to me", said the father "and I will world as sojourners and probationers. train him". The United Nation's forces Oswald Smith in his book "The country I love granted the request and that father took the best" writes that though he had gone to man who murdered his son into his own several countries in this world, he always had home and cared for him. Today that young a longing to come back to his home country communist is a Christian pastor.. What a of Canada simply because his home and his powerful and glorious living testimony! family is in that country. Drawing a spiritual Doing evil for good is devil's nature. analogy, he says that we have a home in Doing good for good is human nature. Heaven - our promised land - and irrespective Repaying good for evil is divine. Let us of where we were born, one day we must go examine ourselves in what category we can to our home - the land of Heaven. be included. Dear reader, are you always thinking "Love your enemies, do good to them about this earth? Take a moment away from which hate you; lend, hoping for nothing your routine and have a look at heaven. again and your reward shall be great and Remember that only those who often think ye shall be the children of the Highest; for about heaven will feel at home when they He is kind unto the unthankful and to the reach there at last. An interesting and

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 3 APRIL 2019 humorous story is told about the swine. The you have a glimpse of heaven as often as swine always looks to the ground to feed on possible so that your sagging spirit can be something. It never lifts up its head to look revived and energized. As I wrote earlier, up to the sky above. But when it was taken remember that you are born bound for to the butcher, during its journey hanging heaven; you are in a transit lounge waiting for upside down, it looked at the beautiful sky your flight bound for heaven. It is not and wondered, 'Oh, I never knew that there is advisable for you to spend too much time in such a beautiful sky up above'. But it was the transit lounge, nor is it good for you to too late. buy too many goods during your short stay in your transit lounge. I feel like singing Jim May be, you just smile at the story. But Reeve's song: we must realise that if one never bothers to lift up his heart and look towards heaven in This world is not my home his life, he is just like this swine. We live in I'm just passing through. this world on a temporary visa in a transit My treasures are laid up lounge waiting for the flight bound for heaven. Somewhere beyond the Blue, Some twenty years back, I went to a pastor's The Angels beckon me house at Trichy when his little daughter died. From heaven's open door, The neighbours of that pastor gave the And I can't feel at home following testimony about his daughter - "This In this world any more. girl was always talking about heaven and she is not fit to live here any longer". What a Oh Lord, you know testimony! A girl of ten years of age was I have no friend like you found to be always talking about Heaven! If Heaven is not my home Then O Lord what will I do; When Michael Faraday, the distinguished scientist whose 'Faraday's Law of Induction' The Angels beckon me from I had taught to many students for two Heaven's open door and decades, was asked by another scientist, I can't feel at home 'Mr. Faraday, have you ever thought about In this world anymore. what will be your occupation in the next world?' Hesitating for a while, Faraday, the "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek scientist and philosopher, said, 'Eye hath not those things which are above, where seen nor ear heard, neither have entered Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. into the heart of men, the things that God Set your affection on things above, not on hath prepared for them that love Him'. things on the earth" (Col. 3: 1, 2). Then he added his own words "I shall be (3) Behold Thy Son …. Behold Thy with Christ and that is enough". Mother

May be, you are surrounded with many "When Jesus therefore saw His perplexing problems in your life. It is better mother, and the disciple standing by,

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 4 APRIL 2019 whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, God wants us to be stewards in spending Woman, behold thy son! Then saith He to our money and wealth. As Christians, we the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from ought to be careful how we spend each that hour the disciple took her unto his rupee and each dollar. I remember the story own home." (Jn. 19: 26, 27). of a dollar note. A man put a note on a one dollar currency note and asked all who spend It is incredible and beyond our human it to write down the purpose for which it was comprehension that Jesus, in the midst of His spent. After two weeks, it was found to have agony and unbearable pain in His body, been spent 5 times for salary, 5 times for should remember His responsibility of caring cigarettes, 3 times for candy, 3 times for His mother - now a widow after the death of hotels, twice for clothes, twice for haircuts, her husband Joseph. Through these words, once for groceries, once for car repairs and Jesus is telling us of God's provision for each one of us. God will never leave us alone. If once for laundry. But not even once was it you are like Mary, God will provide a John to used for giving to the Church. look after you. God has not forgotten you. "So when they had dined, Jesus saith Elijah was commanded by God to go and live to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, near the river 'Cherith' and he lived by it. He lovest thou me more than these? He was wonderfully and miraculously fed by saith to Him, yea. Lord Jesus saith unto ravine and the water of the brook. But the him, Feed my lambs" (John 21:15). day came when the river was drying up. But Elijah's faith was not drying up. God (4) My God! Why Hast Thou Forsaken provided the widow of Zarephath to feed him. Me? When one door is closed, God will open another door. That is His pattern. "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama Privilege and Responsibility sabachthani? That is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" While these words of Jesus, 'Behold, (Matt. 27:46). they son, speaks of the privilege and God's provision for our future; the other part of His When we start meditating on the above statement, viz. 'Behold, thy mother', speaks words of Jesus Christ, we sometimes wonder loudly about our responsibility. Through the why and how God can forsake His own second part of His statement, 'Behold, thy beloved Son Jesus Christ. But it is true. mother', God is speaking to us about our God had to forsake His own son for a responsibilities that He has entrusted to us. moment. Of course, it was for a purpose. May be, you have many resources at your God, the Father, and Son, our Lord Jesus disposal in terms of wealth, money and Christ, have always been together as one talents, which God expects you to share with from eternity to eternity because Jesus had others around you, giving protection, once said, "I and the Father are one". But nourishment and support to those around you now at this hour of agony, that bond had to who are in great need. give way because our sins were placed /

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 5 APRIL 2019 heaped upon our Lord Jesus Christ. The learnt the art of swimming in my childhood. sinless and holy Son who knew no sin, In the same way God trains us. became a symbol of all our sins. When God As you are reading this article, you may looked at Jesus, now He saw His Son fully be passing through some trials and covered with all the sins of the whole world temptations. You might feel that God has from the beginning to the end. That is why forsaken you. But you need not feel God had to forsake His Son. disheartened. Cheer up! God is with you. What message does this word of Jesus - God is watching you from yonder. He is just 'Why Hast thou forsaken me?' - have for training you. You may be sinking and us? Sometimes God forsakes us also and drinking a few drops of water; don't worry; leaves us to fight our battle all alone. We keep swimming while sinking. You are also cry out to God, "Oh God, why have you learning life's important lesson in God's forgotten and forsaken me?" I am sure every swimming pool. one of us at one time or other in our life, "When thou passest through the have always felt the same agony of being left waters, I will be with thee: and through the alone to battle out our way through our lives. rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when What is the reason behind this? It is very thou walkest through the fire thou shalt simple. God wants to train us and mould us not be burned; neither shall the flame by forsaking us. Without forsaking us, He kindle upon thee" (Is. 43:2). cannot train us. The eagles always train their little ones by taking them to a high altitude (5) I Thirst and then push them into the mid-air without any parachute. Why? That is the only way it "After this, Jesus knowing that all can ever learn to fly. things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith I thirst" When I was a boy of five years, I used (John 19: 28). to go to the well with my elder brothers to take our morning bath. One day, they asked More than 48 hours had passed after He me to jump from the top of the well into the was arrested - He apparently went without water. I just jumped and went down into the food and water - and for many hours he was water but my brothers lifted me up and made undergoing the agony of hanging on the me swim. One of them used to hold me at cross. As He was nearing His last moments, my back and then, I was able to swim. He cried out for drinking water. The doctors Sometimes he took off his hold on me say that when a man is about to die, he feels without my knowledge. Thinking that he was a great thirst in his body. We know that still holding me, I kept on swimming. But the when the soldiers offered some drink in moment I turned back and found out that no response to His cry, our Lord Jesus refused one was holding me I started sinking. Again to accept it. May be, He is thirsty for I was held up and this was repeated. At the something else. In the same way, by uttering end of this ordeal of swimming and sinking, I these words on the cross, Jesus is expecting

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 6 APRIL 2019 us to be thirsty for the spiritual things. Every "When Jesus therefore had received one of us has a thirst for something. Some the vinegar, he said, It is finished" thirst for fame, some thirst for wealth, and (John 19:30). some for power and influence. But the It was a 4000-years plan much longer psalmist says, "As the hart panteth, O God, than our Indian Five Year Plans. This plan my soul thirsteth for God, for the living of salvation began at the Garden of Eden as God" (Ps. 42: 1, 2). Dear reader, do you soon as Adam and Eve sinned against God. always long for the presence of God? His The first Adam failed. But the second Adam presence is fullness of joy and on His succeeded. The real meaning of this word 'It right hand are pleasures for ever more! is finished' in the original text is used in In Matthew, we read about another thirst. connection with the closing of Accounts in the "Blessed are they which do hunger and bank; loan / debt repayment. It is also used thirst after righteousness; for they shall be in Jail when some convict has finished filled" (Matt. 5:6). Are we always longing for undergoing the term of punishment. This what is right and just both in our own lives word will be marked in the Jail Tag. It is and in that of others? To always remain also a victory cry, like that of Tarzan, after upright without compromise, we have to pay having accomplished something. some price and make some sacrifice. John, Through these words, Jesus is asking us the Baptist, was an upright man but he was to live for a goal and strive hard to killed by the evil king Herod. accomplish it in our life-time. In a running Apart from these thirsts for the living God race, no one will be given a prize for a good and for His righteousness, we read about the start; but the prize will be given only to those thirst for the Word of God. "Behold the who finish well at the end of the race. days come, saith the Lord God, that I will Similarly, it does not matter how well you send a famine in the land; not a famine of have started your Christian life, but it bread; nor a thirst for water, but of depends upon how well you finish it. hearing the Words of the Lord" Dear reader, do you have any set goal in (Amos 8:11). your life? Are you striving to accomplish Are you thirsting for the Word of God? them? Jesus said, "My meat is to do the Unless we feed on the Word of God every will of Him that sent me, and to finish His day, we can never grow in our spiritual life. work" (John 4:34). Paul was warned by his "As new-born babes, desire the sincere colleagues not to go over to Jerusalem where milk of the Word so that we may grow death awaits him. But in defiance to this thereby" (I Peter 2:2). counsel, Paul utters these bold words: "None of these things move me, neither count I A well-read Bible is the mark of a well- my life dear unto myself, so that I might fed soul. finish my course with joy, and the (6) It Is Finished ministry, which I have received of the Lord

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 7 APRIL 2019 Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of having suffered a heart attack and he was God" Acts 20:24). gone to be with his heavenly Father. God literally honoured Taylor's long-standing wish. Yes! We need men and women of God What a glorious death! who would run for God even at the risk of their own lives. I cannot help think of "The death of His saints is precious in Pheidippide, the messenger who ran on foot His sight" (Ps. 116:15). from Marathon to Athens covering a distance As we come to the end of this message, of 26 miles, and delivered the message of will you allow Jesus to speak to you once the Greek Victory over the Persians to the again all the words that He spoke on the King, and then fell dead at the feet of the cross? "Father forgive them" - A word of King. No wonder, the Olympic Marathon was forgiveness. Are you forgiven? Have you named after him. Oh, God may grant us forgiven others? Will you be with Jesus in men and women for God who like Paradise if you die to-day? Just lift up your Pheidippides would die for a cause! head for a moment and look up. Yonder you (7) Father, Into Thy Hands I Commend see a home - a permanent one - far away in My Spirit heaven. Remember, that it is going to be your final home. "When Jesus cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into thy hands I commend Are you in a desperate situation? Take my spirit; and having said this, He gave heart. God has nominated someone like up the ghost" (Luke 23:46). John to look after you. Are you a man of wealth and position and influence? Then This last Word of Jesus on the cross is a God is expecting you to help someone like word of submission. As Job has said it, truly Mary and those in need of your help. Do not we came naked out of our mothers' womb shirk your responsibility. Share your and naked we shall return thither. We blessings with others in need. Blessings brought nothing into the world and it is shared, doubles. Are you feeling that God equally true that we can take nothing with us has forsaken you? No problem! God is just when we leave this world. One day every training you. Take it easy. Are you thirsting one of us is going to leave this world, sooner for God's righteousness and His living Word? or later. One Pastor by name M. S. Taylor of Do you have any goal in your life to U.S.A. had often said that he always wanted accomplish within your life-time? I hope you the Lord to take him while he was preaching. have many. Then set your heart and mind It is a very strange desire indeed! One day, towards that direction and run your faith race. while he was preaching in a Church about If you do that, then God will commend you eternal life, in his message he said, 'I love "Well done, thou good and faithful my family, but if the Lord chooses to take me servant; enter thou into the joy of thy home, I am prepared to go right now.' A Lord". moment later, this 71 year-old Taylor - Rev. Prof. S. Panneer Selvam collapsed and fell on the pulpit, apparently

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 8 APRIL 2019 EDITORIAL

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, bear the Cross. Like Jesus we must bear it and sojourn in the path of Calvary for the salvation Greetings to you in the sweet name of our of the people living in the darkness. Those who Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who of God is are ministering to Jesus let them surrender and made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and submit themselves totally unto Jesus and sanctification, and redemption! observe these Lenten days.

"For the preaching of the cross is to them The blood shed by the figure that perish foolishness, but unto us which That greatly did the Cross bear are saved it is the power of God". (I Cor. 1:18) Flows like a river Trust you and come near. It is the 'Cross' that reveals to all of us God's love, sacrifice, forgiveness of sins and salvation. To save the sinful people In the earlier days, death on the cross was With passion did He come. considered a token of disgrace. But after Jesus Jesus the Redeemer of sins Christ was nailed to the Cross and died on it, it Bore all sins burdensome. has become a symbol of Holiness. All that long and thirst It was the pre-determined plan of God to Come and quench your thirst. save mankind from sin through Jesus, by Jesus the Living Stream ever flowing shedding His blood on the Cross. Many people Will bestow upon you Life everlasting. who do not understand this noble intention of God and His importance, are spoiling Dr. Santha Prabhu gave God's message themselves and perishing by falling into sin. For and explained about IBI Ministries in both the such people, the honour of the Cross and its services of CSI Good Shepherd Church at preaching will seem to be foolishness; but to Cheran Maa Nagar, Coimbatore on 10th those who are led to salvation by believing Him, February 2019. Bro. D. Vasu gave God's it is power of God. message and Bro. E. Ravi explained about IBI Ministries in the Sunday service of CSI Church The weakness of God is stronger than men. at Anand Nagar, Alangulam on 24th February If that be so, the power of God is much more 2019. We thank all the presbyters Secretary, stronger and beyond our imagination and Treasurer and Commitee Members of these comprehension. But unto us who are saved, Churches for giving opportunities to IBT ministry this power of God is a great gift that cannot be in their Churches. obtained easily. Jesus said, 'If anyone would wish to follow me, let him take his cross daily Our Baduga and and then follow me'. There is no Jesus without Translators had been to BSI Bangalore from Cross. So do not consider the Cross as a burden 11th to 15th February 2019 to complete or a defeat but take it as a challenge. Bear the Exegetical checking of some more books of Old Cross of your ministry. It's not enough to merely Testament under the supervision of Rev. Subramanian, Deputy Director, BSI. Sister

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 9 APRIL 2019 Raveena, our Yerawa translator, was in the all obstacles and for the timely completion of office of IBT for about two and a half months till every work and for the participation of people in 17th February 2019 and completed keying in large numbers. computer New Testament translated in Yerawa All the ministries of IBT are going on well language. The same has been sent to BSI for by the Grace of God. In January 2019, 15 checking. Please pray for the Logos Camp to persons took Baptism at our Mission Station be held at Aanaikatty, Coimbatore from 17th to H. D. Kotte, Karnataka through our IBT 19th May 2019 and for the release of New Missionary, Bro. Matha Logesh. Please pray Testament and the Books of Psalms and for the translation and other ministries of IBT. Proverbs as well as Gospel books in some more languages as planned. Pray for the removal of Your Sister in His service - Mrs. Sudandhira Devi FIELD NEWS

Missionary : Bro. Rajendra Masih Translator : Bro. Pitambar Mahanand Mission Station : Jalalpur (Uttar Pradesh) Language : Kalahandia Mission Station : Ladgaon (Odisha) May the name of the Lord be glorified! By the abundant grace of the Lord I could Last month I preached the Gospel in my very well carry out my translation cum missionary mission station and in 25 villages in its work last month. I could key-in computer the surrounding areas and met more than 150 Old Testament portions translated into Kalahandia - Jeremiah 17:21 to 33:20. Further believers. I gave tracts, Gospel books and final checking of the Books of Psalms and prayed for many of them. Bro. Jaysingh, Sat Proverbs was completed and sent to BSI Lal, Birendra, Jaychand, Ramdari, Rampali, Bangalore. If BSI checking is completed and Ramkumar, Akhilesh, Vimlesh have expressed printing could be done, Books of Psalms and willingness to grow in the Lord. Sisters Aarthi Proverbs in Kalahandia language could be Devi, Subhavathi, Ramavathy, Krishnavathy, released in the Logos Camp 2019. I had been to village Luva Babul, Palach and Kolijaba Amravathy and brother Rajesh are willing to take preaching the Gospel and gave tracts. Brothers Baptism. Please pray for them. I am regularly Prabhakar, Shrikanta, Balram, Kedara conducting Sunday Worship services, Sunday Pennudar, Pakkira, Koshirat, Samnath, received School for children, Second Saturday Fasting willingly. I prayed for Bro. Prabhakar who was Prayer Meeting, Cottage prayers and evening suffering from severe stomach pain. Sunday literacy classes. We prayed for IBT Ministries, Services, Second Saturday Fasting Prayer Meeting and Friday Cottage Prayer Meetings translators, missionaries, promotional staff and were held regularly. A Family Meet was held others. Please pray for the removal of obstacles on 26th January 2019 at Taramkar. 200 persons we face from time to time for running the church participated. Please pray for my translation work services. and for my family.

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 10 APRIL 2019 Promotional Staff : Bro. J. Ramalingam Mandi and shared the powerful Word of God to Mission Station : Kotagiri (Tamil Nadu) many people. I met Brothers Dharmaraj Nayak, Ramesh Morsingh, Posantha Singh, Hosiba The Lord gave this Promise to me: 'I will Karada, Magada Satbadi, Suryarekha Jena, bless you and make your name great' (Gen. Nayan Ranjan Lima, Dileep Angram, Simon 12:2). Accordingly the Lord has blessed me and Rekha, Poorna Chandrakara, Mahesh Lima, led me in all my work. For promotional work, Benjamin Paul, Susheela Lima, and others. myself and my wife visited several houses, met Please pray for my translation work, for my good people, shared the Word of God and prayed for health and relief from sickness to carry out the them. We received contributions for IBT from Lord's work with greater zeal. our supporters. We told everyone about the ensuing 'Logos Camp'. Some created obstacles —————•————— while praying in 'Asha' - a home of handicapped children. By God's grace, they have allowed Translator : Berulal Jain me to go in alone and pray there. I enrolled Language : Mewari three new subscribers for our "Saththiya Mission Station : () Vaarthai" magazine. After the Promotional Greetings to all in the sweet name of Jesus Meeting last year at Aarani, Tiruvannamalai, Christ! Last month, out of the portions of New many have been contacting me over the phone Testament translated into Mewari language, requesting to pray for many things. I regularly keying in computer could be completed in pray every month for the couple Sankar - respect of John 10:38 to 21: 25 as well as Acts Visalatchi when I visit them. They are our regular 1:1 to 3: 23. I visited the house of Bro. Maju subccribers and supporters right from the year Bhai and prayed. I met a Jain couple - 2000. Now by God's grace they have grown Kamalachi Pamochu and his wife Joshna. They gradually and now are running a 'Mess' and are married for over nine years and I prayed to progressing well. Last month I visited villages the Lord for blessing them with a child. Please Duneri, Agalar, Kodumudi, Ketti, Santharu, pray for this family and for my translation work. Salamor, Aravenu, Orasolai, Ottupattarai, Attadi, —————•————— Keerimaththi, Kanikraj Nagar and Solur mattam and carried out promotional work. We met our Promotional Staff : K. Sundar supporters, prayed for them and collected their Mission Station : Chennai (Tamil Nadu) contributions. Please pray for our ministries. Greetings in the sweet name of our Lord —————•————— and Saviour Jesus Christ! By the abundant grace of the Lord, I could share the Word of God Translator : Bro. Susthira Singh in the ECI Good Shepherd Church at Pudhu Language : Sora (Odisha) Nallur and also explain about IBT Ministries. Mission Station : Parlakka Mandi (Odisha) They have promised to give IBT an opportunity Greetings in the sweet name of Lord Jesus in coming June in their church at Villi Vakkam, Christ! By the abundant grace of the Lord, last Chennai. The Lord enabled me to get four new month keying in computer could be done in supporters. Bro. K. John Sekar of Kundrathur, respect of Luke Chapters 7 to 13 translated into Brothers Gnana Sekar, Rev. Prakasam and Bro. . I and my co-translator Bro. Gada S. Cheziyan of Pudhu Nallur have come forward Mandal are distributing the Gospel of Matthew to willingly support the Translation Ministries of which was released last year, to people speaking IBT. Please pray for these four persons and for Sora language. I visited many parts of Parlakka their families.

SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI 11 APRIL 2019 PRAY AND PRAISE

* Praise the Lord for the safe journey of all * Please pray that many participate the participants in the GC Meeting held on prayerfully in the Annual Fasting Prayer to 17th February 2019. Please pray for proper be held at the Office of IBT, Coimbatore on and speedy implementation of the various 10th and 11th May 2019 and that we may decisions taken in that meeting for the pray for many issues and that the Lord development and expansion of IBT answer our prayers. Ministries.

* Our Representatives and Promotional Staff * In February 2019, our Army personnel are meeting our supporters to raise funds numbering 45 were killed in a terrorist to meet the expenditure of the Logos Camp attack in Kashmir. Please pray God to to be held in May 2019. Please pray that provide His comfort to their family members we get new supporters and that all who are for overcoming this grief and for getting approached contribute generously and necessary help from Government and prayerfully for meeting the expenses of this others for meeting their needs. Logos Camp. * Sis. Mrs. Uma Mohanraj has translated into * Please pray that our Translators of English the book "Sorvum Theervum" Lambani, Wagri, Sambalpuri languages written by our Founder Rev. Prof. carry on their work prayerfully and with S. Panneer Selvam. Now the sister is greater speed so that New Testament may caring out checking/correction of the same. be released in these languages soon. Praise the Lord for the talent bestowed upon her. Please pray for her good health Please send / renew your : and to spare necessary time for this great Annual Subscription Rs. 100/- work. to WORD PUBLISHERS TRUST Send all your Contributions : Cheques / DD / M.O. to Civil Aerodrome Road, Coimbatore - 641 014. INDIAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS Civil Aerodrome Road, Coimbatore - 641 014. Editor & Published by Smt D. SUDANDIRA DEVI Phone : 0422-2574143, 4520143 On behalf of WORD PUBLISHERS TRUST Mobile : 90470 57414 14, Ashok Layout, E-mail : [email protected] Civil Aerodrome Road, Web : www.ibt1.com Coimbatore - 641 014. Printed by Mr. C.K. VENKATESH Chandra Prabha Press SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI - ENGLISH 113-118, V.H. Road, CBE-1. Date of Publishing : 2nd & 3rd April 2019 Postal Regd. No. CB/051/2018-2020 (English) SATHTHIYA VAARTHAI - APRIL 2019 12 RNI No. 82165 Licensed to Post without Prepayment No. TN/WR/CBE/051/WPP/2018-2020 (English)