John 3:16-21
Prayer for the Day
Help us walk in your light, God. Draw us out of the shadows and into those transparent places where we can reflect your love for the world. Lure us from darkness into the light of new creation, that place where our willful separation from you is unnecessary and overcome. We are children of your Light. With thanks and praise we pray.
Question
How will others recognize you as a child of light today?
Jonathan Shively, Executive Director Congregational Life Ministries
Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s Advent devotional written by David W. Miller. (Available from Brethren Press) Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, David’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on this blog.
Greetings to you from Pastor David Pulagala, Bendapudi village,
East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh state, India.
We feel it is a great privilege for us to meet you through this e-mail. First of all I would like to thank you and appreciate of your great task of reaching the millions in world. When I checked your webpage, I am very much impresed by the wonderful work you are doing.
Really the Lord is using you and dear family to reach out to the millions . Please let me introduce myself to you.
I Davidraju Pulagala am doing the gospel work in the neglected and interior villages in remote and tribal region of
Andhra Pradesh state in India. We have been working for the last 10 years reaching out to the neglected villages. My father is also a pastor and he did very wonderful pioneering work amongst remote village people and also tribal people groups. As he is getting old, I took up all the responsibilities of my family besides my busy gospel work.
Most of the people work with are illiterate, ignorant and superstitious. It is very challenging to work with such people
groups. They are open to the gospel but it takes time to convince them. This is the reason we often conduct village outreaches with a team of 10 pastors and lay men. Several villages are being reached so far and still so much is to be done. In some of the villages there is no facility for transportation execpt walking or going by a bi-cycle, even there is no electricity and no hospitilization so people suffer from different viral fevers and contagious dieseases. With such people groups we are working. Please pray for us as move and go out to reach such people groups to be heard the gospel. Hundreds are being reached through our frequent village outreaches but millions are there to be reached. Hundreds of the villages are there to be reached out with the gospel. We have been trying our level best to reach these people with various outreaches but we do not have enough funds. and any funding agency is helping us. By faith we go and reach these
villages.
When I checked your webpage, I am impressed and made up my mind to write to you for fellowship and for the cooperation for the work we are doing. i am very very glad about you sir ,really i am blessed to have you sir ,i have visited your website and i hope that i am very blessed through your website and the work you are doing there , your work and the committment for the gospel and for the people is amazing and i hope and believed that you are the man one who sent out as an apostle ,i have seen your face is so enlightened with the spiritual power ,i hope and believed that your face is anointed face that is why your work for the sake of JESUS is going without any kind of obstacles, I alone can’t do anything but TOGETHER we can do more and make a big difference. Please pray for us as we are reaching these villages. Your blessed visit will be a great blessing for the millions in India.
please pray for our ministry
i am inviting you to please come to INDIA and visit our congregations and also our work which we are doing for the sake of JESUS CHRIST .
this is my contact NO:+91-8978431315
give my greetings to your family
thank you sir
yours faithfully
your servant
Pastor David raju Pulagala my email.davidpulagala@gmail.com