” The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” – Isaiah 35:1. THE ONCE WAR-BEDEVILLED VAVUNIYA HAS MADE VAST STRIDES TOWARDS RE-SETTLMENT, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION. IT HAS BLOSSOMED INTO A BUSTLING CITY, SIZZLING WITH LIFE, AND AN UPBEAT ECONOMY. BUT ALL IS […]
“GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.” – The Lord Jesus Christ. Proclaiming the Good News in the villages of Mylampavelly and Vakarai. Mylampavelly is in the rural out-skirts of Batticaloa, struggling to break out of the schackles of long years of poverty and spiritual darkness. Varkarai again is in […]
“…YES VERILY, THEIR SOUND WENT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS UNTO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.” Romans 10:18. A three day Gospel rally was held in the city of Batticaloa in which Pop-artists who at one time were household names in the local music scene, sang heartily for the Lord, shared their testimonies, […]
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the opressed go free,…..Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? – Isaiah 58:6&7. “Mine eye runs […]
“They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”.- Lord Jesus Christ. A SPECIAL GOSPEL MEETING WAS CONDUCTED AT OUR MYLAMPAVELLY CHURCH FOR THE IDPs FROM KUDIYIRUPPU. ABJECT POVERTY HAS DRIVEN THESE HAPLESS FOLK INTO CRIME AND VICES […]
IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF SRI LANKA, COVERED BY MONTANE GRASSLAND AND CLOUD FOREST, CLOSE TO THE FAMED “WORLD’S END”, AMIDST HALF A DOZEN TEA ESTATES LIVE SOME OF THE POOREST OF THIS LAND. TO REACH THIS PLATEAU LOCATED AT AN ALTITUDE OF 1500 METERS WE HAD TO WEND OUR WAY ON TREACHEROUS ROADS, CLIMBING […]
FROM THE CITY OF VAVUNIYA, TRAVELLING 13KM ON HARDLY MOTORABLE DIRT ROADS WE REACHED KATTKULAM; A POST WAR OUT-POST SET UP IN THE DISTRICT OF VAVUNIYA WHERE IDP FAMILIES HAVE BEEN RE-SETTLED; SANS WATER, ELECTRICITY OR BASIC SANITATION. WE PITCHED CAMP IN THEIR MIDST TO LEND THEM A HELPING HAND. THIS INHOSPITABLE COMMUNE HAS PLUNGED […]
WE HAD YET ANOTHER “GOSPEL BLITZ” IN THE HILL COUNTRY IN THE VILLAGE OF KAHAWATTE. THE LORD IS POURING OUT HIS GRACE ON TEA PLANTATION WORKERS WHO ARE COMING TO THE LORD IN NUMBERS! TURNING AWAY FROM THEIR DUMB IDOLS, CASTING ASIDE SUPERSTITION AND A LIFE ENSLAVED BY SIN AND IGNORANCE, THEY ARE FINDING TRUE […]
THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED IN THE VILLAGE OF PERRIYAKALLARU; A COASTAL VILLAGE SOUTH OF BATTICALOA, WHICH TOOK THE FULL BRUNT OF THE TSUNAMI’S FURY, AND IS LIMPING BACK TO NORMALCY. OUR MINISTRY IS GEARED TO ADDRESSING THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL NEEDS OF THE POOR IN THIS REGION. WE WENT AHEAD WITH THE SERVICE AMIDST THREATS […]
“…Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.” – Romans 10:18. Ministering in word, song and prayer to a community of Gypsies living well off the beaten track in a village called kaanchirankudah; nestled deep in the woodlands off of Pothuvil. They are a dying […]