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Bethel Methodist Church, Bangalore
Bethel Tidings
21&2 2, B ethel N agar 1st Main, Off Kodigehal l i R oad, K.R .Puram
Hobl i , B AN GAL OR E - 560 036.
W ebsite: bmc bangalore.org
Pastor: Rev. T. David Livingston
Cell: 99865 26450 E-mail: [email protected]
(For private circula�on only )
A BILINGUAL MONTHLY BULLETIN OF BETHEL METHODIST CHURCH
Volume 8-4 April 2014
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Pastoral Letter
Dearly beloved,
Gree�ngs in the sweet name of our Lord crucified and
resurrected! I am sure the Lent season is helping us to come
closer to God as well as pray more for our exam wri�ng children. I sincerely
wish that our children will write their exams well and score well. In these
days, let us con�nue to focus our thoughts on the crucified Christ and benefit
from it.
So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw
the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, say-
ing, "Truly this was the Son of God!" Ma8hew 27:54
There were many even*ul things that happened at the site of Jesus’
crucifixion. One of them was the confession and exclama�on of the Roman
Centurion that Jesus is truly the Son of God. The Centurion must have known
that Jesus was iden�fied with the �tle ‘Son of God’ at least during the trial
interroga�ons since his arrest the previous night, but may not have given it
a2en�on and least expected Jesus to be a divine person. The next day when
his team began the procedure of execu�ng the criminals on crosses, indeed
the strangely sacred things that were going on around Jesus’ cross must have
caused turbulence in his soul and conscience. All was not over when Jesus
gave up his spirit and died. Then arose stormy and scary, unusual and dra-
ma�c occurrences – thunder, earthquake and darkness for three hours, all
meant to be expressions of God’s anger on humanity. Finally, the Centurion
captured it right, Jesus to be divine, and he exclaimed ‘truly he was the Son
of God!”
There are final moments des�ned even for this earthly life in the end
days with catastrophes and scary signs in nature. In the last day, everything
will prove that the once-helpless on-the-cross Jesus is the Almighty God for-
ever. At that �me, all the people on earth, from the mighty to the weakest,
will come to know that Jesus is Lord. But on that day when things are over,
will we get chances in our life like today to happily do something for Jesus?
When the Centurion realized the truth, he did not get a chance to offer any-
thing to Jesus as he could have before the crucifixion when Jesus was alive.
The true followers and disciples of Jesus offered themselves to Jesus
when He was closely available to them on earth. Peter gave his boat, a li2le
boy his food, Zacchaeus surrendered his unrighteous life to Him, Nicodemus
courageously spoke in His favour in the Sanhedrin council and some others
le@ everything and followed Him. Think about that poor woman who broke
the costly ointment called nard and poured it upon Him. She could have used
it on Jesus probably a@er His death to anoint His body, but in her
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preparedness, she sensed the opportunity instantly and anointed Jesus with
the costly nard when He was s�ll alive.
Our calling today is not to be mute listeners of Christ’s expecta�ons
and do nothing for Him or dodge the moments �ll the finishing line comes
but to be ac�ve par�cipants in His agenda on earth. Drawing strict lines and
surrendering the inner areas of life and taking sacrificial ac�ons of faith
should happen frequently in our lives which will mark this par�cipa�on.
Please pray for and par�cipate in the Vaca�on Bible School that is
coming up both in the English and Kannada languages. This year we are ex-
pec�ng more children from Priyanka Nagar slums as we have adopted the
area for Gospel work, reaching to all the families living there with the help of
the missionaries of COME ministries. I am sure many of the BMC families are
available here this year during Passion Week and Easter and I am expec�ng a
great �me of worshiping with you in the Church. Con�nue to pray for the full
recovery of Bro. Dennis who has miraculously survived a stroke.
Grace be with you all,
Rev. T. David Livingston
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Testimony – Mr Shibu
Psalm 77:14. You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among
the peoples.
It is to God always that the glory belongs for his kindness and love
that He showers upon the lives of His children. Looking back into our lives it is
clearly evident about the mastery of the grand weaver, using the threads of
circumstances and incidents in our lives, to bring out a purposefully cra@ed
life out of each one of us. It is no different to me in person and also together
with Annie, Joel and Jeremy as a family to be always at the receiving end of
the mercies from our Lord. It is nothing short of a miracle, once I look back
into my life, how he transformed me into what I am today enabling me to
stand on heights and sore like an eagle.
The founda�on of my faith was laid down by my mother who teaches
in Sunday school faithfully the last 40 years. I could s�ll very vividly remem-
ber my days even at the age of 4 or so going to Sunday school together with
her in the early mornings of Sundays. In the rainy seasons when our place
famous for backwaters gets filled by the downpour of blessings in every nook
and corner, we used to cross the overflowing streams using logs of woods
kept across the banks with a balancing act of body and mind over this narrow
piece of wood. I could remember the days even when studying at the fourth
standard not having electricity at home and dim evenings and nights lit by
smoke spiLng lamps of kerosene. Also the nights of fear over the possibility
of a cobra snake appearing above the head going along the coconut leaves
thatched hut roof. The daily long walks to reach the school through the roads
with loose stones wai�ng for a tar coa�ng s�ll pinning hopes on a false prom-
ise by a poli�cian renewed again for yet another �me latest on the last elec-
�on.
His gracious hands were there all along when being the first from the
family and maybe also from the church to be selected for engineering. To be
honest those days were not exactly lived like a person who knows the savior
personally but the master was s�ll weaving the threads!! It was on-
ly through a series of miracles and His clarity about me of what I would
change to in future that stopped this fragile body from falling into any sort of
serious sin or grave ma2er of regret which was in other ways not only ac-
ceptable but actually a ma2er of pride in my circle of friends. His faithfulness
and kindness is not only to the just but He who owns a thousand hills
shines His sun and showers His rain to both the just and unjust uncondi�onal-
ly with great and abounding love.
Subsequently he enabled me in geLng the job which I am con�nuing
the last 19 years, manage to travel to countries in Europe, coming from a
place where foreign land means only Gulf, and finally standing here where
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God honored me the weak vessel to even proclaim His words to others and
being in the pulpit sharing His words. These are all pure miracles and total
mystery and like salva�on very difficult to understand.
In the midst of these tsunamis of miracles, I want to take a drop out
and narrate one incident which we as a family encountered when Jehovah
Jireh provided us the apartment. It was a long and frustra�ng search for me
and Annie for more than two years looking for a house to buy. We wanted to
honor God by taking a firm decision that we will not get into a transac�on
which is by any way compromising the rule of the land. To the many brokers
and landlords it was very much a strange thing and difficult fact to under-
stand as to why we want the whole transac�on to be carried out in white.
The looks and comments from these people clearly told us that actually
we were doing something wrong!! So many houses we liked and wanted to
buy but either the documents were not proper or the owner did not want full
white money. In the midst of these disappointments also as a family we were
very clear that if it is the will of the God we will get an owner who is willing to
do the transac�on completely in white. Annie used to tell that we will be able
to buy only if the owner is an income tax commissioner!! Finally to our pleas-
ant surprise that was what actually happened!!
The owner of the flat that we finally bought was a re�red income tax
commissioner who was at the age of 83. It is as if he had bought the apart-
ment for us and gave it to us at the right �me. He just stayed there for 4
months and took from us only the cost that he paid to the builder with a
small addi�onal amount to repay his outstanding debts when other owners
where charging much higher at the same apartment complex. .Praise God.
Nothing is impossible for our God and He will never disappoint his children if
we are ready to wait for him. Ini�ally we wanted to buy near Koramangala
but we couldn’t buy there. Many �mes we used to ques�on God why we are
not able to buy anything there. But now we understand that God’s plan is
different and it is always the best. It is perfectly placed very close to Annie’s
office and later even closer to Joel’s school. In 10 years’ �me the develop-
ment that has happened in the area is mind boggling which has also resulted
in very good apprecia�on of the property.
This incident that happened 10 years back again reminds me clearly
about the following fundamentals of Chris�an living (1) If you honor God, he
will honor you back double (2) God’s plan is not our plan, it is higher than
what we could ever imagine (3) The way of Chris�an living is not the way ma-
jority is living but definitely it is the best way to live our life (4) Short term
frustra�on is just a precursor for long term enjoyment (5) God can see the
future be2er and clearer than us, so it is always be2er to trust in Him rather
than trust in our understanding.
(Shibu and Annie and their sons Joel and Jeremy are a part of the Hoodi AF)
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FOLLOWING HARD AFTER GOD
Excerpts from the book ‘THE PURSUIT OF GOD’ by A W TOZER
(The following ar�cle is the first in a series from the all-�me classic by Tozer. In the
author’s own words, “It is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God himself,
and unless and un�l the hearers find God in personal experience, they are not the
be2er for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to
bring men to an in�mate and sa�sfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into
Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness
of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. This book is a modest
a2empt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him.”)
Chris�an theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace which
briefly stated means that before a man can seek God, God must first have
sought the man. We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put
an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. The impulse to pursue God
originates with God, but the out-working of that impulse is our following hard
a@er Him. In the warm language of personal feeling this is stated in the 42nd
psalm: As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O
God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
In our sad �mes, the whole transac�on of religious conversion has
been made mechanical and spiritless. Christ may be “received” without cre-
a�ng any special love for Him in the soul of the receiver and the man thus
“saved” is neither hungry nor thirsty a@er God. It is inherent in our personali-
ty to be able to know other personali�es, but full knowledge of another can-
not be achieved in one encounter. God is a Person, and in the deep of His
mighty nature He thinks, wills, feels, loves and suffers as any other person
may. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our will
and our emo�ons. The con�nuous and unembarrassed interchange of love
and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throb-
bing heart of New Testament religion.
To have found God and s�ll to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of
love. Come near to the holy men of the past and you will soon feel the heat
of their desire a@er God. They prayed and wrestled and sought Him day and
night, in season and out, and when they had found Him, the finding was all
the sweeter for the long seeking. David’s life was a torrent of spiritual desire,
and his psalms ring with the cry of the seeker and the glad shout of the find-
er. Paul confessed the mainspring of his life to be his burning desire a@er
Christ. How tragic that we in this dark day have our seeking done for us by
others. Everything is made to center upon the ini�al act of ‘accep�ng’ Christ
(a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected
therea@er to crave any further revela�on of God to our souls.
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In the midst of this great chill, there are some who will not be con-
tent with this shallowness; they want to taste, to touch with their hearts, to
see with their inner eyes the wonder that is God. I want deliberately to en-
courage this mighty longing a@er God. The lack of it has brought us to our
present low estate. The s�ff and wooden quality about our religious lives is
the result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is the deadly foe of all spir-
itual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifesta�on
of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted; too bad that with many of us
He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead
are programs, methods, organiza�ons and a world of nervous ac�vi�es which
occupy �me and a2en�on but can never sa�sfy the longing of the heart. The
shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and
that servile imita�on of the world which marks our promo�onal methods all
tes�fy that we in this day know God only imperfectly and the peace of God
scarcely at all. The evil habit of seeking ‘God-and’ effec�vely prevents us
from finding God in full revela�on. In the “and” lies our great woe. If we
omit the “and” we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for
which we have all our lives been secretly longing.
We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives
or restrict the mo�ons of our expanding hearts. Actually, the opposite is
true. When the Lord divided Canaan among the tribes of Israel, Levi received
no share of the land. God said to him simply, “I am thy part and thine inher-
itance,” and by those words made him richer than all his brethren, richer
than all the kings and rajas who have ever lived in the world. And there is a
spiritual principle here s�ll valid for every priest of the Most High God. The
man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treas-
ures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of
them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness.
If he must see them go one a@er one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for
having the Source of all things he has in One all sa�sfac�on, all pleasure, all
delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it
all in One, and he has it purely, legi�mately and forever. The Gideons International The Gideons International The Gideons International The Gideons International ---- Bible Distribution MinistryBible Distribution MinistryBible Distribution MinistryBible Distribution Ministry The Gideons interna=onal team is ministering at BMC
On 17-April 2014, Maundy Thursday, 7:30 pm
Special Offertory would be collected
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Prayer Diary Compiled by Mrs. Anne F Sangeeth
Sunday:Sunday:Sunday:Sunday:
Belarus: Key Facts
Belarus is officially called the Republic of Belarus. A@er seven decades as a cons�tuent
republic of the USSR, Belarus a2ained its independence in 1991. This country was a part
of the World War II, where there was mass murder of six million Jews led by the Nazi Ger-
man, Adolf Hitler. The Jewish popula�on of the country was devastated and never recov-
ered. The judicial system in Belarus lacks independence and is subject to poli�cal interfer-
ence. Corrupt prac�ces such as bribery o@en take place and na�onal ombudsman are
lacking in the country’s an�-corrup�on system. There is no official religion for the coun-
try; however sharing of one’s faith is restricted. While there is freedom of worship, there
is a lot of persecu�on against Chris�ans.
The ethnic groups include 93% Belarusians, 8.3% Russians, 3.1% Poles, 1.7% Ukrainians,
0.1% Jews and 3.1% other.
Capital: Minsk, Official Languages: Belarusian & Russian, Current Popula,on: 9,457,500
Government: Unitary Presiden�al Republic, President: Alexander Lukashenko, Prime Min-
ister: Mikhail Myasnikovich, Monetary Unit: Belarusian Ruble
1. Pray for the pastors & Chris�ans who are being persecuted that they may not backslide.
2. Pray that the corrup�on in the country is abolished.
3. Pray for the land as a fi@h of Belarusian land was affected by a nuclear disaster, which im-
pacts the cul�va�on and natural resources.
4. Pray for the leaders of the country and the governance.
5. Pray for the unity among Chris�ans in Belarus.
Monday:Monday:Monday:Monday:
• Pray for the English & Kannada VBS and for the finances required.
• Pray for the various commi2ees of our church and the missions that our church is sup-
por�ng.
• Pray for our Pastor Rev. David Livingston & his family and the missions that our pastor is a
part of.
• KR Puram Area Fellowship & its members (Dennis, families of Ashok Doddanna, Atheejoe,
Jayant, Jeevan, Jothi, Naveen Warren, Stephen Daniel & Dev Sundar Raj)
• Hoodi Tamil Area Fellowship & its members (families of Andrew Isaac, Arul, Gladston,
Franklin, Jyothi, Mary Rita, Prabhu Paul, Rani Jeypaul, Stephen Babu, Sarah Sarojini, Usha
Reddy)
Tuesday:Tuesday:Tuesday:Tuesday:
• Pray for our bishops Dr. Tarnath Sagar, Bangalore, Dr. Samuel Sunder Singh of Bareilly, Dr.
Elia Pradeep Samuel of Bombay and Dr. M. V. Khis� of Hyderabad.
• Pray for the upcoming elec�ons and the voters to vote wisely.
• Praise God for the children have finished their exams without any issues.
• Praise God and pray for Dennis Joysingh & Mrs. Selina Mohandas.
• Bethel Nagar Area Fellowship & its members (Moses, families of Pastor, Anand, Benjamin,
Ebenezer, Dr. Arun, Jays, John Prashanth, Kalyan, Paul Naveenraj, Prabhu, Publius, Rajku-
mar, Sahityadeep, Saju Alexander, Sangeeth, Selina Mohandas, Sharon, Solomon, U2am,
Vijay Prakash & Vivek)
• Devasandra Tamil Area fellowship & its members (families of Koilraj, Anandaraj, Philip,
Ruth, Shekar, Thiyagaraj, Vino & Wilson)
WEDNESDAY:WEDNESDAY:WEDNESDAY:WEDNESDAY:
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• Pray for the library that is going to be set up in our church.
• Pray for the Irula outreach program in Hosur, Irula VBS and the Whitefield outreach minis-
try.
• Pray that all our prayer cells (women as well as men) would be strengthened.
• Whitefield Area Fellowship & its members (Daniel, families of Alan Paul, Binu George,
Christopher Vasa, Irwin, Praveen, Rajan Abraham, Sanjay Joel & Thomas)
• Priyankanagar Tamil AF & its members (Families of Inbaraj, Karunamurthy, Nithya, Paneer
Selvam, Rueben Gandhi, Swamidas, Suresh)
• ITPL Area Fellowship & its members (Jeffin, Shannon Isaac, families of Abraham Edwin,
Anban, Clement, Darwin, Franklin Koilpillai, Henry Sam, Jabez, John Manoah, Ronald, Shel-
don, Prem)
THURSDAY:THURSDAY:THURSDAY:THURSDAY:
• Pray for the Raichur outreach ministry.
• Pray for the Leadership Training program scheduled to happen in May.
• Pray for the vic�ms of the Malaysian Airlines flight that crashed and their families.
• Pray for Bethel Shaale – for the children who a2end and for Mr. Prabhu’s family and Mr.
Sangeeth who conduct the classes.
• Hoodi Area fellowship & its members (Ruth families of Arun, David Anand, David Jabez, Dr.
Kumara Rajasingh, Isaac Peterson, Leon Chris�an, Ranjan, Shibu, Vivek Bangera, Meryl Jo-
seph, Franklin)
• Kodigehalli Tamil AF & its members: (Families of George & Ravi Kumar)
FRIDAY:FRIDAY:FRIDAY:FRIDAY:
• Pray for the senior ci�zens and the kids; for their health during the hot summer.
• Pray for the families that are travelling for the summer vaca�on.
• Pray for Frank, Sweetlin & Doreen, who have moved out of the country, that they may be
witnesses in the new place.
• Pray for all the area fellowships (English, Tamil and Telugu) of our church.
• Marathahalli Area Fellowship & its members (Kasturi, Merlin, Margaret, Jebakumar, fami-
lies of Dinakar, Frank Jeyakar, Himanshu, Melwyn, Sathiya, Selvin, Solomon, Sundar, Va-
divel, Vijay Dhanasekar, Wilfred)
• Bethel Nagar Tamil AF & its members (Dorai, Jonathan, Jus�n, Solomon, families of Pastor,
Bernard, Das, Emmanuel Dass, Joseph, Huldah, Paul Durai, Rev. Stanley Jayaseelan, Vijay)
SATURDAY:SATURDAY:SATURDAY:SATURDAY:
Mission: Vishwa Vani (www.vishwavani.org) In Tu�corin, Tamil Nadu, a group of believers used to pray with Dr. N. Emil Jebasingh for God’s
guidance to reach the radio audience, which is where this ministry was born on 1st
May 1980.
This is a ministry that focuses on the remote regions and villages of India where the people
are unreached. The ministry has many prayer cells to pray for the needy villages. Their first
strategy is ministry through na�ve workers. When this ministry was registered in 1987, there
were 42 workers, but now they have 3105 workers. Vishwa Vani has been able to reach most
of the villages in India; however, there are s�ll few more villages where God’s word has to be
taken. Vishwa Vani has many prayer cells where many people are constantly praying for the
unreached. Vishwa Vani is now an indigenous church plan�ng movement serving in 25 states
of India.
Vision Statement: To see the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ blessing villages in India.
Mission:To reach out 1,00,000 villages and 300 People Groups where the Spirit of God is
working to plant mul�plying, healthy, reproducing churches before 2020.
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Objec=ve:
“It has always been my ambi�on to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I
would not be building on someone else’s founda�on” -Romans 15:20
Prayer Points:
• Praise God for the way this mission has brought many villages to the Lord in the Deccan
region.
• Pray for the financial and other needs of the ministry.
• Pray for the missionaries and their families.
• Pray that the Lord will strengthen the staff and the volunteers of the ministry as they live
busy lives outside “Together in Christ.”
• Please pray that this ministry would be a blessing to others, especially to the people in Dec-
can.
Do you Know Do you Understand This beau�ful poem was wri2en by a young woman named Maggie and con-
tains the hear*elt sen�ments of a spiritual seeker toward those of us who
are Chris�ans.
Do you know do you understand that you represent Jesus to me?
Do you know do you understand that when you treat me with gentleness,
it raises the ques�on in my mind that maybe He is gentle, too.
Maybe He isn’t someone who laughs when I am hurt.
Do you know do you understand that when you listen to my ques�ons and
you don’t laugh,
I think, “What if Jesus is interested in me, too?”
Do you know do you understand that when I hear you talk of arguments and
conflict and scars from your past, I think, “Maybe I am just a regular person
instead of a bad, no-good li2le girl who deserves abuse.”
If you care, I think maybe He cares – and then there’s this flame of hope that
burns inside of me and for a while
I am afraid to breathe because it might go out.
Do you know do you understand that your words are His words?
Your face His face to someone like me?
Please be who you say you are,
Please, God, don’t let this be another trick, please let this be real. Please.
Do you know do you understand that you represent Jesus to me?
(This poem is excerpted from the book God’s Outrageous Claims by Lee
Strobel and this is what he had to say about this poem: Tears pooled in my
eyes as I read this for the first �me. I felt the s�ng of regret over �mes when
I know spiritual seekers have looked at my life and not seen Jesus. I grieved
over the �mes when my callousness or smugness or indifference may have
slowed someone in their spiritual journey and I resolved once more just to be
genuine – with God and with others.)
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Missionary Story – Mrs. Hannah Selvin
DAVID BRAINERD – Missionary to the Native Americans
David Brainerd (April 20, 1718–October 9, 1747) was an American
missionary to the Native Americans. In the twenty-nine years that he lived,
David Brainerd made a deeper and more lasting impression in the world than
most men make in a long lifetime. Though he was beset by many difficulties,
his deep longing after God and utter surrender to His will was
remarkable and the journal he maintained was published as a
biography two years after his death and became a source of
inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, turning
many ordinary men into great missionaries, to name just a few
who were inspired: William Carey, Henry Martyn, Jim Elliot
and many others.
David Brainerd was born on April 20, 1718, in Connecticut, the son of
Hezekiah, a legislator, and Dorothy. He had nine siblings. His father died
when he was fourteen and his mother died five years later. On 12 July 1739,
he recorded being converted, an experience of 'unspeakable glory' that
prompted to "seek first his Kingdom.”
Two months later, he enrolled at Yale. In his second year at Yale, he
was sent home because he was suffering from a serious illness that caused him
to spit blood. It is now believed that he was suffering from tuberculosis, the
disease which would lead to his death seven years later. When he returned to
Yale in November 1740, tensions were beginning to emerge between the fac-
ulty staff and the students as the staff considered the spiritual enthusiasm of
the students which had been prompted by visiting preachers such as George
Whitefield and others to be excessive. Brainerd was expelled because he had
privately commented that one of his tutors “has no more grace than a chair'
This episode grieved Brainerd, especially as a recent law forbade the
appointment of pastors unless they had graduated from Yale or a similar insti-
tution, meaning that he had to reconsider his plans for pastoral ministry. In
1742, Brainerd was licensed to preach by a group of evangelicals. As a result,
he gained the attention of other prominent Christian leaders who encouraged
him and it was suggested that Brainerd devote himself to missionary work
among the Native Americans.
On 1 April 1743, after a brief period of serving in a church, Brainerd
began working as a missionary to Native Americans, which he would continue
until late 1746 when worsening illness prevented him from working. In his
final years, he suffered from depression and was also affected by the difficul-
ties faced by other missionaries of the period such as loneliness and lack of
food. He worked in four different places among the Native Americans estab-
lishing
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churches and he started a school for Native American children and began a
translation of the Psalms. Despite the difficulties he faced and offers to leave
the mission field, he recorded in his diary, “I could have no freedom in the
thought of any other circumstances or business in life: All my desire was the
conversion of the heathen, and all my hope was in God: God does not suffer
me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends and enjoying
worldly comforts'.
In November 1746, he became too ill to continue ministering, and so
moved to the home of Jonathan Edwards. He remained at Edwards' house until
his death the following year. In these final months, he suffered greatly. In his
diary entry for 24th September 1747, Brainerd wrote: 'In the greatest distress
that ever I endured, having an uncommon kind of cough; which either stran-
gled me or threw me into a straining to vomit'. During this time, he was cared
for by Jerusha Edwards, Jonathan's seventeen-year-old daughter. He died from
tuberculosis on 9 October 1747, at the age of 29. Sadly, Jerusha contracted
tuberculosis while caring for him and died just 4 months later. A grief stricken
Jonathan Edwards, at the funeral service of his beloved daughter called her
“the flower of the family.”
Jonathan Edwards pored over the writings of David Brainerd and was
struck by the sincerity and single-minded devotion of the young man and de-
cided to compile his writings. Much of Brainerd's influence on future genera-
tions can be attributed to the biography compiled by Jonathan Edwards and
first published in 1749, the Life and Diary of David Brainerd. Given below
are a few of Brainerd’s diary writings:
“In my morning devotions, my soul bitterly mourned over my exceeding sinful-
ness and vileness. I never before had felt so pungent and deep a sense of the
odious nature of sin, as at this time. My soul was then unusually carried forth
in love to God, and I spent some time in self-examination, to find the truth of
grace, as also my fitness to approach God.”
"I felt my soul hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then my soul
was filled with light and love, so that I was almost in an ecstasy; my body was
so weak, I could scarcely stand. I felt at the same time an exceeding tenderness
and most fervent love towards all mankind, and my soul longed for perfect
grace and glory. O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and
delights of this lower world.”
“I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save
souls. When I sleep, I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my
thoughts. Never think you can live to God by your own power or strength, but
always look to and rely on him for assistance.”
Clyde Kilby summarized Brainerd's influence as being based on the fact that,
'in our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man
appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.’
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PARENTS’ SECTION What kind of discipline is appropriate for my six-month-old son?
No direct discipline is necessary for a child under seven months of age, re-gardless of behaviour or circumstances. Many parents do not agree and find themselves “swatting” a child of six months for wiggling while being diapered or for crying in the midnight hours. This is a mistake. A baby this young is incapable of comprehending this “offense” or associating it with the resulting punishment. At this early age, he needs to held, loved, and most important, to hear a soothing human voice. He should be fed when hungry and kept clean and dry and warm. In essence, it is probable that the foundation for emotional and physical health is laid during the first year which should be characterized
by security, affection and warmth.
I have a very fussy eight-month-old baby who cries whenever I put her down. My pediatrician says she is healthy and that she cries just be-cause she wants me to hold her all the time. I do give her a lot of atten-tion, but I simply can’t keep her on my lap all day long. How can I make
her less fussy?
The crying of infants is an important form of communication. Through their tears we learn of their hunger, fatigue or discomfort from a wet diaper, etc. Thus it is important to listen to those calls for help and interpret them accord-ingly. On the other hand, your pediatrician is right. It is possible to create a fussy demanding baby by rushing to pick her up every time she utters a whim-per or sigh. Infants are fully capable of learning to manipulate their parents through a process called reinforcement, whereby any behaviour that produces a pleasant result will tend to recur. Thus, a healthy baby can keep her mother tied to her all the time. To avoid this consequence, it is important to strike a balance between giving your baby the attention she needs and establishing her as a tiny dictator. Don’t be afraid to let her cry a reasonable period of time (which is thought to be healthy to the lungs), although it is necessary to listen to the tone of her voice for the difference between random discontent and
genuine distress. Most mothers learn to recognize this distinction in time.
(The above Q&A are taken from the book Dr. Dobson answers your questions. James Dob-
son is a leading psychologist and has been in the family ministry for over five decades)
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Wishes from congregation to all who celebrate Birthday Wishes from congregation to all who celebrate Birthday and Wedding Anniversary this month and Wedding Anniversary this month
May God Bless you!May God Bless you!
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Announcements
Lenten Programs
• Every Friday at 7:30 pm - Bilingual worship service
- 4th
April : Mr. Darwin Kiruba - Message �tle: Surrendering Cowardice
- 11th
April : Rev. Dr. Arun - Message �tle: Surrendering Hatred
• Maundy Thursday Service - The Gideon's Interna�onal team visi�ng BMC
• Good Friday Service (Tamil) - Will be led by Mr. Mathew & Team
• Good Friday Service (English) - Will be led by Area fellowships
• District Easter Sunrise Service - Hon. Bishop. Dr. Taranath S Sagar
• Easter Sunday Service at BMC - COME ministries Missionary dedica�on for Pri-
yanka Nagar ministry
Programs
• English VBS: April 7-13, 2014 at BMC, Final day Program on April 13, 6:30 pm
• Kannada VBS: April 21-26, 2014 at BMC
• VBS day program in Priyanka Nagar on April 27, 6:30 pm
Newborn Wishes
• A baby girl to Kingsly and Dawn Lee on February 26, 2014
• A baby girl to Alan and Ajji on March 27, 2014
Kudos
• To Bro. Vivek Gundimi on earning a Doctorate from SAIACS. Convoca�on was on
March 29, 2014
Thanks
• To following persons for delivering message in the Lenten services last month
♦ Rev. Gandhi Selvin on the Power of Fas�ng
♦ Pastor on Surrendering to God’s plans
♦ Eva. Ambrose on Surrendering Cunningness
♦ Mrs. Sasikala George on Surrendering Self-glory
Cartoon for thought
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ஏHர – நிகD!சி அ4டவைன
ப�தி ஐ�கிய� - நிகD!சி அ4டவைன
Missionary Dedica=on
Mr. Chandrakanth, COME Ministries would be dedicated
during Easter service as a sponsored missionary of BMC
Venue : BMC Date : 20th
April 2014
All are invited!
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7 –13 April 2014
Interested Teachers & Volunteers Contact Mrs. Giftlin
Contacts for Transport routes
Marathahalli, BEML, Whitefield & Kodigehalli - Mrs Hannah Selvin (97383 18285) ORR, AECS Layout & Hoodi - Mrs. Anita Sathiya (96633 82830)
KR Puram, TC Palya, Devasandra, SEA Arch. - Mrs. Juliet Jyothi (9945574142)
Songs, Dance , Fun… & Learning Solicit your Prayers & Participation VBS-2014 (English)
VBS-2014 (Kannada)
THEME: ROOM IN MY HEARTTHEME: ROOM IN MY HEARTTHEME: ROOM IN MY HEARTTHEME: ROOM IN MY HEART
Revela�on 3:20
21 - 26 April 2014
At Bethel Methodist Church
Directors from Scripture Union Directors from COME ministries Contact : Rev. David Livingston For Bus Routes, Contact Ms Sharon
97401 67136 & Mrs Gi@lin 97427 46159
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Pulpit Calendar - April 2014
Theme: Theme: Theme: Theme: Truly He is the Son of God, Mathew 24:57
Editorial Team: Anne, Rosaline Prabhu, Hannah, Selvin, Wilfred & Pastor
Date Time Speaker Topic
6-Apr-14 7:00 am (Tamil) Rev. Ramesh Christopher
Fashion and Passion 9:30 am (English) Pastor
13-Apr-14
Palm Sunday
7:00 am (Tamil) Pastor The Triumphal Entry
9:30 am (English) Pastor
17-Apr-14 7:30 pm (Bilingual) Dr Joseph Shields Maundy Thursday
18-Apr-14
Good Friday
7:00 am (Tamil) Mr. Mathew & Team Elements of building a
Spiritual Personality 11:00 am (English) English Area Fellowships
20-Apr-14
Easter
5:00 am (English)
District Sunrise
Service
Bishop. Dr. Taranath S
Sagar Resurrec�on of Christ
9:30 am (Bilingual) Mr Wesley
27-Apr-14 7:00 am (Tamil) Rev. Stanley Jeyaseelan
Passion and Mansion 9:30 am (English) Pastor