Newsletter: July 2001
MCGN is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian
organization promoting spiritual and economic development of the people in
Mizoram and the surrounding region by serving them as Jesus did (Mt. 20:28)
THANKS TO:
·
Liberty
Christian Center (LCC) in Fairfield, California for their willingness to host a
week of leadership training for MCGN-Mizoram leaders.
·
Nanci
Glogauer, Executive Director of Parasol Foundation, Incline Village, Nevada for
her willingness to be a presenter to MCGN-Mizoram leaders while in Placerville.
·
Bob
Doran, El Dorado Hills, California (Mualchin’s friend) for his willingness to
help in the preparation of a strategic planning document for MCGN.
·
Zirsangzela
and MCGN-Mizoram leaders for prompt response to a request for potential
candidates from four high schools eligible for the Juliet Florio Scholarships.
·
Jesse
Hnamte for providing e-mail addresses of interested people who want to receive
MCGN Newsletters.
BRIEF
REPORTS FROM MCGN GLOBAL POINTS
INDIA: MIZORAM
Good
and encouraging news was received from Mizoram. More people are becoming interested in joining MCGN and getting
involved in the ministry.
MCGN-Mizoram
is looking for participants for the MCGN-Mizoram leadership training to be held
October-November 2001 in California, USA.
Those meeting the criteria will be selected and travel arrangements will
be made.
Here
is an abstract of a June 8 e-mail received from Dr. Chinkholal Thangsing
(Lala):
“Greetings
from New Delhi, India. It is a joy and
a blessing to receive the MCGN Newsletter and know about the blessings received
by the organization. I am motivated and
so much encouraged by the wonderful happenings in the various activities of
MCGN. I look forward to receiving
communication from you and also for setting up the MCGN-New Delhi chapter. Dr. Lala.”
Dr.
Lala is director of an HIV/AIDS research organization in New Delhi. This organization is one of the biggest NGO
in New Delhi.
NEPAL:
Remember
last month’s prayer request for discipleship training from Lura? We received news from him on June 4 that two
sick people were healed and three new believers were baptized. What a blessing!
Copies
of e-mails from Lura to Ringa regarding the future situation in Nepal confirm
that the mission field is a battleground, literally. Through it all, it is wonderful and encouraging to know that the
Lord our God is in charge! As the hymn
says, “He’s got the whole world in His hands!”
USA:
Among
items discussed in the June 8 MCGN meeting was the creation of an informative
MCGN brochure giving the mission statement, vision, projects, etc. We have a rough draft and work on the
brochure is in progress.
The
garage sale for scholarship seed money netted $80. Marian, Phyllis, Patricia and Ngeni had not considered that the
big annual event in Placerville that day would be more attractive to most
people than a garage sale. Juliet’s
mother (Aleta) and teacher (Susan), Phyllis, and Ellen (Ngeni’s client) donated
most of the items for the sale
Liana
and Ngeni Mualchin will visit Liberty Community Center (LCC) in mid-July to
present MCGN to the congregation. The
second part of MCGN leadership training will be held at LCC in November of this
year.
Denise
Segor, MARC member from Portland, Oregon visited the Mualchin’s in Placerville
to do her pilot research for her Ph.D. program. MCGN leaders had a wonderful evening getting acquainted with her
and learning about her reason for choosing Mizoram for her research work. She wants to help the Mizo people through
MCGN and has contributed for the MCGN-Mizoram leadership training in USA. We really appreciate her talent and
generosity.
Liana
Mualchin and Bill Thorpe (Mualchin's neighbor) attended the Parasol
Foundation’s Strategic Planning class at Incline Village in North Lake Tahoe,
Nevada. In response to Liana’s e-mail,
the Executive Director of the Foundation, Nanci Glogauer, replied positively on
June 8. She and her husband are willing
to give a presentation to the visiting MCGN-Mizoram leaders. Encouraging letter!
An
abstract from Brother Robert Wood’s June 4 e-mail:
“Greetings
in the name of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
The death of the Nepal
king
has softened hearts. GospelGo is
receiving many inquiries from troubled Nepalese and Bhutanese.”
A
surprising June 11 e-mail received from India.
“Hello,
my name is Kalathi. I am from Chennai,
India. I am interested in being a part
of your missionary. Will you sponsor me
and train me in your place for making me a part of your missionary.”
May
the Lord give us wisdom how to handle this kind of request.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
·
For
persecuted Christians in different parts of the world.
·
Travel
mercies for missionary families in Taiwan visiting USA: Matt Hanna (son of Marian and Art Hanna) and
family on furlough; and Ronald Sangzuala Adhikari (Mizo missionary) and family
visiting churches.
·
Travel
mercies for Mizo missionaries in Nepal, Pu Hriata and his wife Pi Sangi as they
visit churches in USA.
·
For
those selected to participate in MCGN-Mizoram leadership training in
California, USA to have a truly mission-minded heart and spirit.
·
For
those in a Christian school in Manipur State who were asked at gunpoint to give
money to rebel armies. This was
received from Dr. Chong Singsit on June 7.
MIZORAM ACTION RESEARCH
CENTER (MARC) REPORT
Denise
Segor came to Placerville to spend four days with Liana and Ngeni Mualchin for
her Ph.D pilot research study. Denise
plans to continue her research in Mizoram from September to December 2001. She has a strong desire to help Mizo people
and is looking for a way to interest her friends also, working through MCGN.
MARC
members are discussing starting something in Mizoram in the near future. What we can do may be small, but it can be
very useful and will be a blessing for the Mizo people. We believe this can happen with the help of
our Lord.
COMPUTER GUY (Jeff)
By
Ngeni Mualchin
I am so dumb that I can’t even use a Computer for
Dummies book. I just don’t know
how. One thing I know is that it is a
wonderful tool for our ministry that God provided for us. Therefore, I want to tell the story as it
happened.
Almost 20 years ago, my husband Liana wanted to buy
a personal computer. I disagreed with
him strongly because we didn’t have the money.
Also, I didn’t want to spend that much money just for a
computer. I didn’t know what a computer
could do. I said, “We have an
electronic typewriter, why do we need a computer, anyway?”
Our friend Ed Burgess had one. Liana mentioned it many times, but I kept
saying, “NO.” Ed was very wise. He had a good idea to convince me. Ed and his wife Kaji invited us for coffee
(as they always do) in their home. Ed
showed me how the computer works. I was
impressed, mainly because it is so easy to correct misspellings, edit articles
and write letters. I agreed to buy a
computer. Back then, we used it mainly
for writing letters and articles. We
didn’t even talk about e-mail. Now our
computer is our mail box. Till today
our main tool for our ministry is a computer.
I still don’t know how to use it.
In 1996, we started Mizo Christian
Global Network (MCGN) and my husband
had a strong desire to make a website.
He was so busy preparing MCGN By-laws that he asked Mizo friends in
Maryland to make a website for MCGN. He
waited about two years—no website for MCGN.
My husband spent hours and hours in front of his computer. I believed the computer had broken our
family communication. Sometimes I
wished Liana’s computer would have a problem or breakdown so he would communicate
with us. But every time there was a
problem in his computer, we spent more money to fix it.
Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all
things God works for the good of those who love him who have been the called
according to his purpose” (NIV). It is
one of the most familiar verses for me.
One morning, I went to my little garden to see how my beans were
doing. Liana called, “Ngeni, our
computer died, we need to buy a new one or call someone to repair this
one.” The first thing that came to my
mind was, “That’s good.” But I said,
“Liana, we cannot buy a new one nor afford to repair this one.” He said, “We cannot live without a computer
one day.” I said, “Yes, we can.” After two minutes, he called again, “Ngeni,
I have called the Computer Guy, he is coming within 20 minutes.” I said, “I don’t want anybody to come to our
house, especially business people.”
Liana said, “Ready or not, he is coming.”
I went into the house, washed my
hands, and got ready to meet the Computer Guy.
After a few minutes the doorbell rang.
When my husband opened the door, the computer guy came in. I watched him carefully, hoping that he was
a good guy. Computer Guy (Jeff) and my
husband went to the computer room accompanied by our son Tim. Jeff asked for what purpose we used the
computer. Liana explained about
MCGN. Jeff told us that we were his
first customers and that he was a fellow believer, too. My heart was at peace and I rejoiced. After a few minutes of conversation, Jeff
offered to make a free website for us. That
is the reason we can now communicate and inform our network friends in
different parts of the world.
Till today Jeff is the one who
repairs our computer so that we can spread the ministry of MCGN. The way we met Jeff was a miracle. The way Jeff helps our ministry is a
blessing for our people and our Christian friends. We are hoping someday Jeff and his wife Kim will be able to visit
Mizoram and more MCGN members will have a chance to see them in person. That will be a wonderful encouragement for all
of us in the Lord’s ministry.
THE SPIRIT
OF TRUTH and THE SPIRIT OF ERROR
(Continued from the previous
Newsletter)
What God has said about
Redemption and what men are now saying.
WORD OF GOD
Unto
Him that loveth us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made
us a kingdom of priests unto God and His Father. (Revelation 1:5-6)
This
man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right
hand of God….For by one offering He had perfected forever them that are
sanctified. (Hebrews 10:12, 14)
That
which is redeemed or bought back is perfect human life with its rights and
earthly prospects. (LG, p. 114)
An
unnumbered crowd of faithful persons do not expect to go to heaven. They have been promised everlasting life on
earth if they prove their faithfulness.
(LG, p 231)
It
is a gross twisting of the Scriptures to throw Jesus’ words of John 3:3 to make
them embrace all mankind. (The Watchtower, Nov. 15, 1954, p. 681). This “great crowd” of people are not “born
again,” nor do they need to be “born again,” because they gain everlasting life
on the earth. (Ibid. p. 682)
Even
the unbeliever, the heathen, and the child who dies before reaching the years
of discretion, all are redeemed by
the Savior’s self-sacrifice from the individual consequences of the Fall.
(Talmage, p. 58)
Included
are “beasts, fowls of the air, and fishes of the sea.” (DC, 29:23-25)
The
eternal life taught and demonstrated by Jesus is not gained by dying, but by
purifying the body until it becomes the undying habitation of the soul (UM,
July 1922)
We
believe the repeated incarnations of man to be the wonderful provision of our
loving Father to the end that all may have the opportunity to obtain immortality
through regeneration as did Jesus. (Unity Statement of Faith, art. 22)
Jesus
aided in reconciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love and this
redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of the
Spirit. (SH, 19:6-10)
One
sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. (SH, 23:3-4)
The
way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way. (SH, 327:12-13)
Next month we will trace
what God says about SALVATION and what man is now saying.
“The harvest is truly plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to
send out laborers into His harvest”
(Mt. 9:37-38).
---IDEAS, ADVICE, AND COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME---
MCGN
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News
Compiler: Ngeni Mualchin (Email: mualchin@hotmail.com)
Editor:
Patricia Macy (Email: pamacy@jps.net)