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South Asia 2020 Update

December 12, 2020

Currently, BMI has ministry occurring in Nepal, India, and Bhutan. In addition, we have developed an ongoing training relationship with the Nepalese churches of the United Arab Emirates, and are reaching the Nepali Diaspora populations via video conference in over 20 more countries. 

BMI’s regional directors for Nepal and the Nepali Diaspora Countries are Sonam and Rita Kabo, who have been serving with BMI for over 20 years.

For many years Sonam has faithfully served as senior pastor of Elim Worship Church. Currently, all weekly services are being held virtually via Zoom.

 

 

During a typical year Sonam teaches BMI’s “Biblical Training and Mentoring Program” (consisting of 7 Steps, Encountering Christ, and 20 lessons of BMI’s practical training materials) in 2 Kathmandu Bible colleges. After COVID, Sonam will resume his teaching schedule.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2019 Sonam and Rita held over 15 training events. 2020 began with a similar pattern of training activity. In early January, Sonam held a conference in Munsong (Nepal) for over 100 church leaders. In mid-January, Sonam conducted a discipleship leadership training in Western Nepal for 25 young church leaders. On March 8, which is known as International Women’s Day, Rita led a one-day conference in Kathmandu for over 75 women on “maturity” from Sue Burnham’s book, Living with your Emotions. 

On March 24 the Nepal government issued its first national “lockdown.” Since that time, because of the government’s restrictive mandates, Sonam and Rita have not been able to travel. In response to their travel limitations, they have effectively been using online training venues. 

Sonam and Rita translated into Nepalese, “Technology and the Family.” Following the translation, they sent this material to more than 300 Nepalese church leaders and proceeded to hold a large online training for them.

In June, via Zoom, Sonam taught the BMI materials of “Pastor and his Personal Life” and “Christ-centered Theology” to over 500 believers who attended the training at Abu Dhabi Nepali Church (United Arab Emirates).

 

 

Rita continues to direct Elim Kids Academy. Due to the virus pandemic, Elim was forced by the government to shut down all operations. Starting in November, the Nepal government permitted the school to begin offering online classes. Although some of the students can take advantage of the online format, others have no internet access.

 

 

 

 

In July, Rita, who is the also the women’s director for BMI South Asia, was invited to lead a unique women’s conference online on “Marriage and the Family” for Christian Nepalese women from the UAE and other Gulf countries, such as Israel and Oman. Utilizing the BMI material of “Pastor and his Personal Life,” over 200 women participated.

 


 

In October, Sonam and Rita held online conferences for Nepalese church leaders in Kuwait. Also in October, Rita held an online training time with the women of the Federation of National Christians of Nepal. In November, Sonam and Rita taught over 400 people online on “Technology and the Family” which was organized by the Assembly of God Church in Nepal.

Significantly, Sonam was recently asked to become the head of the Church Coordination and Integration Department for the Federation of National Christians of Nepal. His role will be to train for mentorship multiplication more than 300 pastors and church leaders throughout Nepal. Two months ago, Rita was given a unique opportunity to begin serving as the Chief of the International Department of the same organization. In this role, Rita communicates with the Nepalese Diaspora team in four different continents: Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. This position will provide a special opportunity for the BMI training to go out to new pastors and leaders of the Nepali Diaspora in more than twenty countries,  such  as India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Japan, South Korea, UAE, Oman, Israel, Bharain, Qatar, Kuwait, Germany, UK, Portugal, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Holland, Romania, Italy, Australia, USA, and Canada! 

 

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Southeast Asia 2020 Update

December 12, 2020

 

Currently, BMI has ministry occurring in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia. 

Our regional director is Dr. Joshua Nguyen, who lives with his family in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. Joshua is married to Linh, who serves in ministry with Joshua and is also the CEO of a consulting firm. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua trains church leaders throughout SE Asia. In his home city of Ho Chi Minh, Joshua has developed a discipleship movement for business leaders. He also runs a special training program for young professionals called “Marketplace Biblical Mentoring Program.”

During the first quarter of the year Joshua held several training events in SE Asia. In January, Joshua led a 7 Steps training for B.A. and M.A. students in Yangon (Myanmar) at South East Asia Mission College. In February, Joshua went to Indonesia where he conducted a 7 Steps training event for 25 Indonesian pastors of a church planting network. 

Following the COVID outbreak all of Joshua’s travel have centered in Vietnam with virtual training occurring throughout SE Asia. Jonathan Burnham was scheduled to be in SE Asia in March and April with a plethora of training events. All of these have been postponed until he can travel again.

Joshua has been creative in his use of technology. While under national COVID “lockdown” Joshua utilized his Facebook page to do an evangelistic sermon to non-Christian Vietnamese. His message ended up reaching 29,000 people with over 2,000 people requesting follow up communication.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the national “lockdown” ended, Joshua led 3 separate mission trips within Vietnam to 5 different mountain tribal groups (H’mong, M’nong, E-de, K’ho, and Stieng). These mission trips consisted of 2 parts: training tribal leaders who then shared the training with their churches; and meeting some basic urgent physical needs which have been caused by the COVID pandemic. 

 

2020 marks the 5th year graduation of the Marketplace Biblical Mentoring Program. MBMP is an intensive one-year ministry training program for a carefully selected small group of young professionals. These young professionals are uniquely equipped to be effective ambassadors for Jesus in their places of business.

 

 

 

Joshua was able to conduct virtual training on “Technology and the Family” with key leaders from Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In addition, Joshua traveled to several Vietnam cities holding “Technology and the Family” training for 36 Vietnamese church pastors who, in turn, taught the material to their church congregations. 

 

 

Joshua has also been working with the leaders of the Hanoi Bible College. Following the training on the 7 Steps, leaders of the college have been using this training to train local church leaders through their satellite Bible centers in Vietnam’s northern provinces.

Regarding his intentional personal mentoring, Joshua is personally mentoring 4 young business leaders and 6 key tribal pastors.

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Ministry in Kuwait

November 11, 2020

Kathmandu, Nepal to Kuwait – Sonam and Rita Kabo were invited to address the Nepali Christian Church in Kuwait in an online Zoom fellowship. This pandemic has actually helped open more doors for Sonam and Rita to minister to Nepali Christian diaspora groups around the world!

 


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Living with Your Emotions Ukraine

August 13, 2020

UKRAINE: Mini graduation for the women on the Living with Your Emotions BMI curriculum written by Sue Burnham. They loved it!

 


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Online Women’s Conference for 250

August 13, 2020

NEPAL, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ISRAEL, IRAQ AND INDIA! Rita Kabo, the BMI Women’s Director for South Asia, taught the Sisters’ Conference for all the Nepali churches in Dubai, AbuDhabi, Sharjah, AllAin, and Fallijah. She was even joined by women from Israel, Iraq and India – about 250 women in all. She shared with them the BMI Christian Leaders’ Home material from the wife’s perspective.

 


 

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