May 2017
Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal Bible College graduated 16 young men and women with a BTh Degree! This degree included the students studying the BMI Biblical Training and Mentoring Program led by BMI Regional Director, Sonam Kabo. These faithful young men and women are from 8 different Districts in Nepal. God bless them as they go and use what they have learned for God’s glory!
Kathmandu Nepal
BTMP continues, even in the most challenging time in the history of the Nepalese Church of Nepal !
Sonam, Rita and Group
It is a great joy and honor for Rita and me to be able to share about what God has been doing in and through us in Nepal with all of our fellow servants of the Lord Jesus Christ – the returning King.
Despite all political, religious challenges in Nepal and the natural calamities as well due a heavy monsoon season in this part of the world, nothing could stop us from providing BTMP training courses for local church pastors and leaders into different regions of Nepal. With the new bill of anti conversion laws in the new constitution of Nepal and eight young Christian people imprisoned because of sharing their faith in Christ, Nepal government now has made an announcement that every single Christian organization, institutions and even orphan children’s homes are not allowed to renew anymore their registrations because of the false allegations of conversion into Christianity. Nepalese Christians can do nothing except cry out onto the Lord in prayer.
In the midst of all of these hardships and trials, BTMP training continues for the local church pastors and leaders into the different regions of Nepal. God’s word indeed is alive! Also, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for your continuous prayer support for us.
Sonam taught the BTMP curriculum to about 30 Christian leaders in Eastern Nepal, and Rita taught Technology and Your Family and Living with Your Emotions to the women’s leaders.
Rita Kabo is on the Board Meeting of Federation of National Christian, Nepal. Three major Christian national organizations (NCFN, NCS and FNCN) have decided to come together to voice to the government on behalf of Nepalese Christian Community of Nepal. Rita is Co-President of FNCN.
Rita on Board of FNCN
Rita Kabo
(More pictures below)
Christian leaders – including pastors, seminary presidents and college professors – from seven countries will fly to Bangkok, Thailand, to attend training sessions and strategic planning with Jonathan Burnham for the BTMP, Biblical Training and Mentoring Program. This is a new package of training curriculum put together by Jonathan Burnham with the assistance of Vitaliy Sorokun to help Bible colleges, seminaries and churches train Christian leaders. This unique program will supply students with the training they need to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the regions in which they live. It will be first taught by the BMI representatives who will then train others, and so on, and so on. This will provide for the exponential growth of well-trained, biblically literate leaders and teachers in many different countries around the world. The BTMP materials include the 48 hours of practical BMI training plus the Encountering Christ curriculum and the new 7 Steps of Christian Living.
This program is already being utilized in different parts of the world at Bible colleges and seminaries as part of their accredited curriculum. These leaders will expand this and be trained to institute the BTMP into their part of the world.
This leadership summit will include our National Directors, Vitaliy Sorokun (Ukraine and Soviet States) , Sonam Kabo (Nepal and South Asia) and Joshua Nguyen (Vietnam and Southeast Asia). The additional leaders who will become BMI Representatives to their region of the world come from the following countries: Rwanda, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, and Belarus. (Some pictured below.)
A marriage conference was held by Jonathan Burnham and Sonam Kabo in which many of the area’s pastors and their wives attended. This trip was also an intense strategic planning session with the Kabo’s.
Nepal Marriage Conference 2014