Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ

Dear brothera and Sisters,

 

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

As I wrote to you in my letter, I was admitted in the local hospital (Rajahmundry) on 10^th June and they advised us to go to higher medical care at Hyderabad. So we went to Hyderabad on 16th June 2008 and joined in the Hospital named “Kamineni Wockhardt”. Doctors diagnosis as SVT, Post EPS/RFA and surgery conducted successfully on 17th June. Now I am very fine by the grace of our Almighty God. Now I am attending to ministry work as well as my normal job.

 

Thank you very much for your concern about my family and the ministry over here in India. Thank you for your encouragement words. Thank you very much for your prayers about my health when I was in the hospital.

 

I have to submit several ministry updates as I am unable to send previously due to my ill health. I will send them soon.

 

Please pray for the ministry going on here in India. Please pray for my health and my family.

 

Thanking you very much.

 

Yours brother in Christ,

 

P.V.Ratnam.

Dear Brethren, Greetings and Peace to you I was joined in the hospital in Rajahmundry on 10th June with a high speed heart beating rate. It is a heart related problem. Some times the heart beating rate will be increased very high to its normal i.e., 72 times per minute. At that time the heart beats about 200 to 250 times per minute. Doctors told that it may leads to so many complications. They said that there are no treatment facilities at Rajahmundry. So they suggested me to go for higher medical care at Hyderabad, our state capital. I have discharged from hospital 12th evening at Rajahmundry. I am planning to go to Hyderabad on 15th June (Sunday evening) for further treatment. Please pray for my travel, treatment and health. Please pray for the ministry going on here in India. Thanking you very much. Yours brother in Christ, P.V.Ratnam. Preacher, Church of Christ Ratnampeta INDIA.

Dear Members in the Body of Christ,
 
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are enjoying every day with the good gathering of children of our congregation at Ratnampeta by singing songs, reading scriptures, memory versus etc for the last couple of days as the children of our congregation are free from their studies as most of them are completed their annual examinations. And the remaining children are also going to complete their annual examinations by this month end or so.

They are every day coming to our home as they have Summer Holidays, to learn the things to teach by us from the Bible. These children are reporting me that all the Churches (denominational), they are conducting VBS (Vacational Bible School) courses every day for 2 to 4 hours daily in their respective church buildings for the children during this summer vacations. They are interested to learn the word of God every day for two months which is their summer vacation period (April last week to June 3^rd week)

They are in an average of 25 at Sunday school, but due to holidays, they are now 48 in number. They are in between 3 years to 14 years age group as detailed below:

1.       1 to 3 years  - - - - - 08 

2.       4 to 6 years  - - - - - 13 

3.       7 to 10 years - - - - - 16

4.       11 to 14 years - - - - 11

My request is, if you have any information regarding a set of Bible Quiz material and a set of Sunday School Children lessons prepared by the churches of Christ, please provide the source of the material. Please try to provide me one set of each Bible Quiz and the Children lessons basing on the age groups, so that I can make it necessary copies. If you have enough number of sets please send us. We appreciate if you provide certain sets for use of children.

Thanking you very much.

In Him,

P.V.Ratnam.
Preacher
Ratnampeta Church of Christ
Rajahmundry - 533105
AP State. INDIA.

 

Phone: +91 9849184081

 

PS. Enclosed a picture of the Sunday School Children.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,   I have received the following message from one my Co Preachers of Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ. The message is as follows:   I am P.Sundara Rao, Preacher. I am working in two congregations named Katavaram and Lakshmipathi Cheruvu which are nearby Rajahmundry. There are 6 members and 20 visitors in Lakshmipathicheruv congregation. We are meeting at member's residence for worship.   This area is abandoned Irrigation Tank for the last 50 years. There are several poor and homeless people migrated from different places and occupied the national highway and were evicted by the highway authorities during the time of National highway expansion in 2002 and occupied and constructed thatched sheds in this tank area. There are fifty houses and nearly 80 families are residing. These people are very poor. On 12th February 2008, fire hit this poor colony, costs 26 houses collapsed and 36 families became homeless. They lost their shelter, clothes and all their belongings.   I informed to brother Ratnam about this fire accident. He visited this place. Some village elders provided meals for ten days to them. Some people arranged utensils for the affected families. But I am unable to help them in any way. Even today they are in the roof of the sky. They didn’t build the houses. They are struggling for daily bread. They are living under polythene sheets (covers).   Please pray for these least brothers and Sisters. Please for their safety and strength. Please pray for the ministry going on here in my place.   Yours brother in Christ,   P.Sundara Rao Preacher Church of Christ Katavaram and Lakshmipathycheruvu

Dear Saints,

 

It is to inform that my mother Sujnanamma, aged 59 years passed away (Died) on early hours(2.00AM) of 8^th February 2008 at Purushothapatnam village in India. Burial was conducted by 1.30 PM.  She had been struggling with L4, Vertebral Bodylytic Lesion due to Underlying Multiple Myeloma since May 2007.

 

Please pray for my father as he is very depressed and also suffering with Diabetes, Blood Pressure. He was got bye pass operation to his heart 2 years back and got Paralysis stroke also. Please pray for my family.

 

Yours brother in Christ,

 

P.V.Ratnam.

Preacher, Ratnampeta COC

Rajahmundry

INDIA.

Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ : : India.

The Churches of Christ Salutes you. Rom. 16:16.

 

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Dear Beloved Brethren,

 

It is a great privilege for me to submit annual ministry report of Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ, EG Dist, AP state, India.

 

This year also we had a wonderful ministry over here by the grace and blessings of our almighty God. And I appreciate your loving prayers and encouragement. Even though we didn’t have any enough financial support from congregations as well as the brethren from abroad, we did our job wonderfully with the support of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

 

There are 20 Preachers in this area working for HIS ministry in 36 congregations. The following is the ministry report for the past year 2007.

 

 

1	New Congregations Started	02
2	New Preachers joined with us for ministry	02
3	Baptisms Conducted	129
4	Preachers Fellowship Meetings Conducted	14
5	Public Gospel Meetings	03
6	Women Bible Camp	2
7	Children Bible Camps	01
8	Youth Bible Camps	02
9	Clothes distributions to School Children	04
10	Books distribution to School Children	01
11	Special Bible Class for Denominational Pastors	01
12	Street Meetings at New Places / Villages	06
13	Free Eye Camp	01
14	Clothes distributions to Lepers	03
15	Street Meetings/Night Gospel Meetings	234
16	Cottage / Thanksgiving Prayer Meetings	302
17	Marriages Conducted	31
18	Mid Week Services(Wednesday & Friday)	1872
19	New Congregation Meeting Places	02

 

1. New Congregations: Bro. B.V.Raghava and Bro. G.Kiran Kumar have started 2 new congregations, one at Munagala Village and another is at Brahmin agraharam which is the Hindu religious habitation in Korukonda village.
2. New Preachers: Bro. B.V.Raghava and T.Sundara Babu are the new Preachers who dedicated themselves to join in this ministry.
3. Baptisms Conducted during the year: The preachers working with us are reported 129 Baptisms from the congregations.
4. Preachers Fellowship meetings: There are 14 Preachers Fellowship Meetings conducted on every 2^nd Saturday of the month including 2 special meetings which were conducted on urgent basis to discuss on threats on Preachers by Hindu religious militants.
5. Public Gospel Meetings: we have conducted 2 day Public Gospel Meetings at Munagala, Ratnampeta and Burugupudi Villages.
6. Women Bible Camps: Sister Sujnana Kumari and Sister Lilly Subhashini are conducted 4 special Bible classes for women at Ratnampeta, Korukonda, Jambupatnam and Gadala Congregations.
7. Children Bible Camp:  We have conducted a youth and children camp at Ratnampeta, Rajahmundry on 14.11.2007. There are nearly 200 children and youth attended from the congregations of the Churches of Christ of Rajahmundry area. We have conducted competitions for children on Bible Quiz, Memory versus, Songs, Play lets, and Skits etc. and given Prizes to the children who stood 1^st and 2^nd places. We have given little messages basing on youth and children related subjects of the Bible. We have provided break fast, lunch and snacks (afternoon) for the children.
8. Youth Bible Camps: We have conducted youth Bible camps at Korukonda and Butchimpeta villages. Youth Bible class were conducted by Bro. Solman, Bro. Moses, Bro. Ratna Raju etc, as some youth of the local congregations and some youth from Lutheran Church raised some doubts about the Church and the Infant Baptism. The youth was realized and some of the Lutheran youth are going to come to the true Church.
9. Clothes Distributions to School Children; we have distributed 120 pairs of new clothes to the poor children of the schools of rural areas during this month. We have distributed in Kanavaram, Kothathungapakalu, Yerrampalem villages which are remote and backward villages.
10. Books Distribution to School Children: We have distributed 147 sets of note books to the poor children of Mandal Parishad Special Elementary School at Diwancheruvu which is the village where I am working. This school is in down trodden communities’ area. They are very poor. Government is provided subject books. So we provided class work note books
11. Special Bible Class for Denomination Pastors: We have conducted special Bible class for the denominational pastors and youth in Korukonda area. The subject for discussion is “Rightly dividing the word of God”. There are 78 youth and Preachers attended to the class. I, Bro. Moses Babu, Bro. Solmon Raju, Bro. Ratna Raju, Bro. Sundara rao, Bro. Kiran Kumar, Bro. Prem Kishore, Bro. Samuel, Bro. Chinni, Y.Nageswara Rao, teach the lessons on the subject. We have provided Lunch etc for the participants. Among them 8 pastors are agreed the truth. It is necessary to conduct more such bible classes to the denominational pastors to agree and come in to the truth.  
12. Street Meetings at New Palces: We have conducted street meetings at new places / villages named Sarabhavaram, Garagalampalem, New Colony of Ramachandrapuram, Nagaratna Nagar of Seethanagaram. Bro. P.Ratna Raju and P.Sundara Rao and T. Benzimen are worked out these meetings. All our co Preachers including Bro. Moses Babu, Bro. G. Kiran Kumar, Bro. K.Solman Raju, Bro. M. Ramesh, Bro. M. Prem Kishore and Bro. Ch. Chinny attended to these meetings. At an average of 100 public attended to each meeting. Public of Sarabhavaram and New Colony of Ramachandrapuram paid more interest with the word of God. So we again went to those two villages with Bro. P.Ratna Raju and P.Sundara Rao and T. Benzimen.

13.Free Eye camp:  We have conducted a Free Eye Camp on 28.08.2007 at Ratnampeta, Rajahmundry. This camp was conducted on 28.08.2007 from 10.00AM to 4.00 PM with the help of Gowthami Eye Hospital, Rajahmundry. Nearly 450 people attended to the camp, out of which 80 Patients were identified for the IOL (Intra Ocular Lens) operation. Primarily this was an identifying camp and the actual operations were conducted on 29.08.2007at the Hospital. IOL operation was conducted for 80 patients and 125 spectacles were given to the needy patients. The hospital provided IOLs on free of charge as they were reimbursed from district blind control department. My wife, children and the Preachers including the members of the church participated very actively in this camp, by helping the patients in all the stages. We attended to the hospital next day and provided break fast and lunch for them.

14. Clothes Distribution to Lepers and destitutes: we are being distributed new clothes to lepers and destitute women as many times as possible. We have distributed 5 times to a number of nearly 80 such people this year.

15. Street Meetings / Night Gospel Meetings: All the preachers are being conducted street meetings in the nigh times in the rural areas when the public are free to listen the word of God, after the completion of their daily labour work and having their dinner. It is the ideal time in rural areas. There are 235 such meetings conducted by our co preachers. 

16. Cottage / Thanks giving Prayer Meetings: There are 302 Cottage and thanks giving prayer meetings conducted by our co Preachers.

17. Marriages Conducted by our Preachers: bro. K.Moses Babu, Bro. KAVI Solman Raju, P.Ratna Raju are having marriage licenses (Marriage Registrars). They are very busy in conducting marriages during summer season. They have conducted nearly 31 marriages in our area.

18. Mid Week Services: We are being conducted mid week services on every Wednesday (Bible Class) and every Friday (Ladies Bible Class) in all the congregations. There are 1872 such classes are reported from the Preachers.

19. New Meeting Places Constructed: There are 2 congregation meeting places constructed at Gadala and Ratnampeta Congregations.

 

 

We don’t have any support or help from other churches from abroad. We have many needs in the ministry. Please help us through your prayers; please help us by sending your missionaries to India. Please pray for the ministry going on here in Rajahmundry area.

 

Thanking you very much brethren.

 

Yours brother in Christ,

 

P.V.Ratnam

For the Preachers and Elders

Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ

E.G.District. AP State.

INDIA.

Ministry updates for the month November, 2007

Dear Fellow organs of the Body of Christ, 

Greetings and Best Wishes in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

This month is very special as we have conducted a night Gospel Meeting at Jambupatnam with a dynamic Preacher Rickey Gootam(TV Speaker), son of Jashua Gootam a well known Radio and T.V.speaker, and Bro. Raja son of V.Sudarshana Rao a well known Preacher in this district. The meeting was conducted on 1.11.2007. There are nearly 300 people were attended in this small village. Bro. Rickey and Bro. Raja had given a wonderful message on contemporary issues and how the Gospel of Jesus is best for the world.

We have also conducted a youth and children camp at Ratnampeta, Rajahmundry on 14.11.2007. Actually India is celebrating its National Children’s day on that day. There are nearly 200 children and youth attended from the congregations of the Churches of Christ of Rajahmundry area. We have conducted competitions for children on Bible Quiz, Memory versus, Songs, Play lets, and Skits etc. and given Prizes to the children who stood 1^st and 2^nd places. We have given little messages basing on youth and children related subjects of the Bible. We have provided break fast, lunch and snacks (afternoon) for the children. We provided transportation for the children from their villages.

I was personally attended the following ministry works during this month:

1.11.2007.             Night Gospel Meeting at jambupatnam

10.11.2007           Preachers Fellowship meeting at Korukonda

14.11.2007           Children Bible camp at Ratnampeta, Rajahmundry.

17.11.2007           Attended Baptisms conducted by Bro. Moses at Korukonda.

19.11.2007           attended maturity function(Thanks giving meeting) at Bro. Solmon Raju’s residence.

I submit the following consolidated report received from the Preachers of the Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ for the month of October 2007.

1. Wednesday Bible Classes –38
2. Women Bible classes – 26
3. Street Meetings – 52
4. Baptisms – 5
5. Conduct Marriages – 1
6. Thanks giving Prayers –12
7. Benevolence Activities – 4

 

Thank you very much for your prayers and encouragement for the ministry going on here in Rajahmundry area.

 Yours brother in Christ,

 P.V.Ratnam

For the Team of Preachers

Rajahmundry Area Churches of Christ

 

Plz look at for some pictures of the ministry during the month of November :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661435@N03/sets/72157603472760584/detail/

Ministry updates for the month of September, 2007

Dear Brothers and Sisters, 

Greetings and Best Wishes in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Ministry of our Lord is developed day by day in Rajahmundry area. This month also we have conducted Preachers Fellowship meeting, midweek Bible Classes, ladies bible classes, thanksgiving meetings, street meetings, house visits etc.

We have distributed 120 pairs of new clothes to the poor children of the schools of rural areas during this month. We have distributed in Kanavaram, Kothathungapakalu, Yerrampalem villages which are remote and backward villages.

Besides this I personally attended the following ministry works during this month:

1	02.09.07	Attended Sunday Worship at Korukonda & given Message.
2	05.09.07	Attended Marriage at Korukonda, conducted by Bro. Moses
3	08.09.07	Attended Street Meeting at Kanupuru of Bro.  Prem Kishore
4	11.09.07	Conducted Youth Bible Class at ratnampeta
5	15.09.07	Attended Preachers Fellowship Meeting  at Vangalapudi
6	20.09.07	Attended Village Gospel Meeting at Rajavaram
7	25.09.07	Attended Gospel Meeting at Nasarapuram with Bro. Moses

I submit the following report collected from the Preachers of the Rajahmundry area Churches of Christ.

1. Wednesday Bible Classes – 38
2. Women Bible classes – 24
3. Street Meetings – 39
4. Baptisms – 4
5. Conduct Marriages – 3
6. Thanks giving Prayers – 26

 

Convey our Greetings to Saints there in your Congregation.

Thank you very much for your prayers and encouragement for the ministry going on here in Rajahmundry area.

 Yours brother in Christ,

 P.V.Ratnam

For the Team of Preachers

Rajahmundry Area Churches of Christ

 

Plz look at for some pictures of September month ministry :  http://www.flickr.com/photos/21661435@N03/sets/72157603476396679/detail/