Don’t miss these concerts in Guwahati. Of course if you’re not going to be there, please invite your friends and family who are around Guwahati for these secular concerts.

Marianne D’Cruz Aiman will be the main singer for a concert in English on the 10^th with many well known secular English songs. Virendra Patil will be singing in Hindi & English on the 11^th. Both these events will be conducted in one place @ Kalashetra hall, Panjabari, Dispur on their respective dates from 5.30pm onwards.  For details contact : Mr. Baruah on 098620.89388

This is a Newfrontiers event and we would love it if you could invite your friends and family to this event which we are going to hold together.

NEWDAY Concert by Newfrontiers

About Marianne:

Marianne is a diploma holder in Voice from Trinity College and Royal Schools of London. She has been teaching for over 10 years and was a faculty member at Whistling Woods International Institute of Acting. She has worked extensively As a sessions Vocalist  with Salim Merchant , Vishal Kasbekar, Amit Trivedi and other Bollywood music directors in film scores of Chak De India,  Kurbaan, Kites, Black and is working now on her on CCM album.

About Virendra Patil:

A renowned Christian singer, Virendra has released 5 Hindi albums and more recently a Live Concert DVD. His first album and its title song, ‘Prabhu Tera Pyaar’ has won wide acclaim in the Christian community. He has performed in India and internationally and is a sought after worship leader and trainer. Web:  http://virendraministries.com

On the 8^th and 9^th of September in Guwahati, the two artists will gather for a 3 hour workshop from 5.30pm to 8pm at Samanway Path, H/No 9, Christian Basti, Guwahati, 781005

We encourage everyone in Guwahati who has an interest for vocals and worship to join these workshops. Alternatively if you have friends in Guwahati please do recommend these to them.

These are the fliers for the same:

About Marianne:

Marianne is a diploma holder in Voice from Trinity College and Royal Schools of London. She has been teaching for over 10 years and was a faculty member at Whistling Woods International Institute of Acting. She has worked extensively As a sessions Vocalist  with Salim Merchant , Vishal Kasbekar, Amit Trivedi and other Bollywood music directors in film scores of Chak De India,  Kurbaan, Kites, Black and is working now on her on CCM album.

About Virendra Patil:

A renowned Christian singer, Virendra has released 5 Hindi albums and more recently a Live Concert DVD. His first album and its title song,‘Prabhu Tera Pyaar’ has won wide acclaim in the Christian community. He has performed in India and internationally and is a sought after worship leader and trainer. Web: http://virendraministries.com

We as a church endeavored to actualize this scripture during the last 21 days, meeting morning, noon and evening at a home despite heavy rains and traffic delays. We worshipped, sang and prayed. Some prayed softly, some whispered, some expressed passionate pleas and still others were loud enough to possibly provoke even the neighbors to at least think of praying!

Young children, seniors, widows, married couples, singles, all prayed each according to their faith. It was a special joy to hear the passionate worship of some new believers as they sang to the Lord in Hindi.

Numerous petitions surrounded us and realizing their enormity people of little faith may have wondered if God could or would respond. But for our Omnipotent God all our petitions a million times over are like a mere drop in the ocean.

At the close of this endeavor, we may ask ‘Has a good thing come to an end’? No! For us this is a new beginning. Someone said, ‘Prayer is the door to God’s treasury and Faith, the key’.

We have the key in our hand, let’s use it!

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20 (KJV)

Solomon Ekka

Solomon Ekka is a 23 year old lad from Orissa, part of Giji and Binny’s outreach work there. He came down to Mumbai at the start of the year for a short period to get trained under the church leadership and get strengthened to go back and help the work in Orissa pick up pace. He has been doing a number of activities in the church from helping with the PA, to visiting people and from doing the bulletin to helping  with the website. This talented young man with an M.Sc in Microbiology to his name, further plans to pursue his PhD but he is sure about one thing : He wants to serve God! As Franco has been training him over the past 5 months, we hope that he is able to entwine his talents and studies with the Lord’s work and bring greater glory to Him in the godless land of Orissa. Following is a short account on his stay in Mumbai:

“Mumbai is a diverse city and it was encouraging to see so many cultures live together in apparent harmony. I’ve been on the run in terms of activities since the day I got here. In the first week itself I was sent to the Leadership training in Nashik where I got to learn from the lives of many leaders like Inder & Praveen Darole. These four months have been hectic in terms of the things I’ve done and learnt. I assure you the time has been well spent. The leaders made sure of it!

“Franco encouraged me a lot to understand the principles of planning, managing my time & resources well. It is a cool thing to have a motivator like him in the Church. I always liked his way of presenting things. He preaches a sermon in a very efficient way that breaks all barriers and touches hearts.

“There are many people I would like to thank, but I was told to keep it short, So in finishing I would like to thank all the leaders and friends who have interacted with me in whatever small or big way. May God bless you all abundantly!” – by Solomon

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That’s Pat Magee standing with the children and a teacher from Prerna.

Balwadi completes another batch!

We all long for breakthroughs in our life, marriage & in children. Jesus is called the Prince of Peace! Anyone who is against peace is sinning against Jesus. If you are for Jesus then you have an enemy. (Mat 24:9)(John 15:18) The enemy wants to shut the Church’s mouth because we are the only people who are speaking about peace, joy, life, salvation, unity, harmony.

How do we re-ignite our passion to see the lost saved? How do we increase our excitement  to do these things? In short how do we regain our pulse?

PULSE (Acts 4:23-37)

P = Prayer

U = Unity

L = Leadership/Lordship of Christ

S = Sharing – (Possessions/ Faith/ Life)

E = Encouragement

Great prayer will bring great increase of God’s power to meet your need. How does one PRAY…

A- Adoration

C- Confession

T- Thanksgiving

S- Supplication

One can also use the Lords’ prayer for praying as a pattern .

John 17 tells about unity. Where there is unity – God commands a blessing. There is something about God He cannot keep quiet or stop but bless when he sees unity.

When we are united we are portraying the Triune God that we worship. ‘FATHER’, ‘SON’ & the ‘HOLY SPIRIT’ Christians can be at three stages concerning unity:

A. United – Hot

B. Indifferent – Lukewarm

C. Disunited – Cold.

Are you united person? Do you have a spirit of unity? Where are you, concerning the church?

The book of Joshua records (Joshua 5:13-15), Jesus coming to take charge of Jericho, to give it to the Israelites. He won the battle for them. Jesus is our leader. He is the Head of the Church. He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

We all want Jesus to help us in our problems. He doesn’t want to just help instead He wants to take over the driver’s seat. Are you looking for a solution to your problems? Let the Holy Spirit take the centre stage.

The apostles shared their possessions, faith & their lives. They had great fellowship and their pulse was increasing. They were like little children who were excited about Jesus.

Another most thing is that they were encouraging each other. Act 11:23 tells how Barnabas encouraged the church. Our God is a God of eternal encouragement, so speak positive affirmation into one another life.

May be your pulse has gone down. Pray for the Holy Spirit’s grace to see it increase

One such opportunity is the eye camp. Part of many such ventures, an eye camp is a place where people in the leprosy colony, come to get their eyes checked and have spectacles issued at a very low rate.

It was initially observed that those living in the leper colony in Borivali had very low incomes. Because of this ailments such as cataracts in the eye, partial blindness and even blurry vision are not given due importance. It is to address these issues that Tree of Life Church along with Stepping Stone Charitable Society hold the Eye Camps every year.

Through these camps, not only do we bless those people and ease their suffering, but also, plant seeds of the love of God in the hearts of the patients. We look forward to your continued support to help these projects take roots all over the city and beyond. God bless you!

Here is what Praveen Nayak had to say:

The Prerna Eye Camp was  Peaceful and Joyful time.  There were 171 Registration.  We distributed around 145 Spectacles.  Few People and children did not need it,  2-3 needed the operation accordingly they were directed.  It was a good time at the clinic.  Pat, Margret, Michael, Usha, and myself were there.  There were 3 opticians.  The people were listening and obeying  if you tell them to stand in the queue i.e. they were cooperative. We started at 2PM and ended at 5PM.

Following are the pictures of the Eye Camp:

Picture from the Social Action at Prerna: Eye Camp