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Beautiful feet ! Tanuja & Kishore

Missionary Lifesketch-25
I was born in a small town in Nabrangpur district of Odisha . I was brought up in a family with Lutheran traditions . My parents became believers through the ministry of the Lutheran missionaries from the West . They came on horses to our villages and preached the Gospel . It was during a time when there were no road facilities to our place . Though our parents came to the Lord through the Lutheran missionaries , there was no Church in our place . The believers were like a sheep without a shepherd .
It was in the year 1986 , when missionaries from Blessing Youth Mission came to our village and surveyed the entire region . They located our place and established a Mission Station . They started to reach out to all the villages in the locality . We as a family started to get involved with the ministries of Blessing Youth Mission . I had a privilege of attending Blesso ' 87 in Sunabeda , Odisha . The theme of the camp was , ' Like
Jesus .' I accepted the Lord in that meeting and was filled with the Holy Spirit . After returning from the camp , I started to grow in the Lord .
But , during my college days , I started to get involved in politics . Unfortunately , I was framed in a false case and was imprisoned for 9 days in the district jail . This made me to hate politics . On the other hand , I had an inner thirst for something more in life . I started to interact with the missionaries who visited my place . Their vision and life affected me . The miserable condition of Christ-less multitude burdened my heart .
In the year 2006 , I joined as a full time missionary with Blessing Youth Mission . Since then , God has taken us to various Mission fields and used us for His glory . My wife , Tanuja is also very much cooperative in the missionary work . During our stay at Ramagiri Mission Station , we were involved in establishing a Day Care Centre for the poor tribal children . There were neither roads nor electricity connection in the place where we were planning to establish the Centre . But God went before us . We stayed in that interior village for two years . During those years we had three bike accidents , but God protected us . Today , many of the children are pursuing their higher studies from that interior place .
Later we shifted to another place in the nearby Taluk . It was a politically sensitive area . During the time we stayed in that place , there were several landmine blasts . However , the thirsty souls found Christ amidst such terror .
Presently we are based at Jeypore , a city in Odisha and are involved in Youth and Revival ministries . Ever since the launch of Bless Bharat Project , we could raise many lay leaders from Southern Odisha . Under ESAP ( Every Street A Prayer Cell ) programme , we could form several prayer groups .
God has blessed us with two children , Ruth , who is in her 8th grade and Rejoice , who is in his 5th grade . Pray that we would become sharp weapons in the Master ' s hand .
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