We reached London Heathrow airport at 11:30 Pm and took our luggage at terminal 4. probably we realized it to be the most empty airport in the world. The first thing we searched for a place we could sit in.
at 2:30 we got up and had a wash, and at 3:30 am we were in the check-in counter, but there was none there, so we had to stand there for more than 2 hours till somebody came from the airport authorities. So we were processed. The plane took off at the right time 6:30 AM.
we reached Amsterdam Schipol airport. After seeing that we think its probably a good airport in the world. From D16 we went E6 where we took the Delta train (sorry its the plane as I am writing in the train as I travel to )
the security check was at its strictest position including removing shoes and asking 10 multiple questions like where, what , why and how????
a very modest flight with screens not working, and getting back to an Indian cuisine. There we go.
Reached Mumbai Airport at 12 Am since they were not allowed to land in the airport for some time since they had not clearance from the authorities. So we circled on the Indian ocean of 3 full circles off Mumbai.
When we did arrive the first thing we felt is the hot air blowing into our faces. At the security clearance we had to fill in to form for swine flu clearance.
We stayed on at the terminals because our train was only at 8:00AM in the morning, so from 1-5:00 am we waited in the airport. We were very tired and there was no tea or coffee available and hungry also. I was so wanting to go to a hotel and take some rest, Asha encouraged me with words like “ dont worry its day time in UK so you can stay awake” with that I didn't blink through out the night. When morning came I was happy. At 5 Am we took the taxi to the station which took 1 hour to the station. Thats when our eyes were opened to the dirty world of India.
Got into the train, it was first class but it was the worst class to climb in it was very dirty and filthy not clean and there were cockroaches all around but some how , we had a late breakfast and immediately slept according to the UK timings. So we reached the Raichur city at 10:10 PM My sister and brother-in-law and their whole family was there. It was great to see them all. We went to their home had dinner, they gave me the jeep to drive back to the Lodge, but at the Lodge there were no reservations for us, so in the night at 12 am we went on a search for a place where we could sleep that night. Finally we made it to a Lodge where we slept , it was hot. We realized that was the very room we slept in when we first moved to the village 5 years back.
Next day 25th we were woken up by the noisy traffic outside. After breakfast we met our sister and their family went to their house for lunch and then went to the village. Now it was all the time driving, well one need not have insurance in India to drive.
At the village school all the kids gathered around the the jeep to welcome us and then my family came to do the same.
The whole time we spoke of our time in UK on how it was encouraging us to grow spiritually and also help those in need. It was just like a bottle of champagne shaken up about to break loose, well it did break loose.
Over all we had a hot (in terms to weather) time there and on 28th at 1:15am we took another train to Kerala
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
O Joy complete!
Dear friends
the year has be spectacular for both of us, as we have been spending time with working with St. Mary's Hailsham. Its been a time of rest as well as a time of learning teaching and encouraging the body of Christ.
Asha is involved in the helping a number of women in the church and also doing Christianity Explored courses with many new people. She has also joined the 'The Square' a community center for youth and social work. she helps a number of young people on Wednesdays. I work in the same place on Thursday and Friday (evenings). the kids are more rough and tough in the nights. Many have Family breakdowns and are into substance abuse.
Continue to pray for the church and the Vicar David Bourne and his family.
Much love in Christ
Sangster
the year has be spectacular for both of us, as we have been spending time with working with St. Mary's Hailsham. Its been a time of rest as well as a time of learning teaching and encouraging the body of Christ.
Asha is involved in the helping a number of women in the church and also doing Christianity Explored courses with many new people. She has also joined the 'The Square' a community center for youth and social work. she helps a number of young people on Wednesdays. I work in the same place on Thursday and Friday (evenings). the kids are more rough and tough in the nights. Many have Family breakdowns and are into substance abuse.
Continue to pray for the church and the Vicar David Bourne and his family.
Much love in Christ
Sangster
Monday, November 17, 2008
Tour Guide
Dear Friends
Greetings to you in Jesus Name
We are doing fine by God's Amazing Grace.
We praise God for the wonderful ways he is using us for the extension of his Kingdom.
At the Sussex Gospel Partnership Course. We are learning thoughts for Christian living, we are indebted to David Bourne for sending us there. We realized that we hadn't listened any good christian teaching for a long time.
We have been traveling to places like Farnbrough, Winchester, Bedford and Riseley.
It was great to go to Riseley, because Asha was visiting that place after 7 years. she took me on long walks and showed me most of the places she had been to, walked and traveled. Just loved it.
We are back at Hailsham this moment to help in advancing of the Gospel.
In Him
Sangster and Asha
Greetings to you in Jesus Name
We are doing fine by God's Amazing Grace.
We praise God for the wonderful ways he is using us for the extension of his Kingdom.
At the Sussex Gospel Partnership Course. We are learning thoughts for Christian living, we are indebted to David Bourne for sending us there. We realized that we hadn't listened any good christian teaching for a long time.
We have been traveling to places like Farnbrough, Winchester, Bedford and Riseley.
It was great to go to Riseley, because Asha was visiting that place after 7 years. she took me on long walks and showed me most of the places she had been to, walked and traveled. Just loved it.
We are back at Hailsham this moment to help in advancing of the Gospel.
In Him
Sangster and Asha
Friday, September 26, 2008
Dear friends
its been a month since we have been here in England.
I am writing to you all as we travel from Shrewsbury to our home in East Sussex. We had been to Quinta Hall for a Careforce conference. This is the first Christian Conference since we got married in 2004. There were volunteers with 21 nationalities. It was a great experience. We were Careforce's first couple. We are pleased that they have accepted us as a couple.
We had a wonderful time of hearing the word, worshiping God and sight seeings around, especially walking through a 421 meter long tunnel without lights and walking across an elevated aqueduct where boats can pass through. All in Wales and England. We praise God for this opportunity. (View Picture Link)
Friends the most constant message we have heard from God in the last week is from
James 1: 2-4
“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.” (Message Version)
God Bless you All
Sangster and Asha
Saturday, August 23, 2008
In UK
Dear
friends of Asha and Sangster
we arrived in UK. on 22nd Afternoon
Thanks for praying for both of us
Love
Sangster and Asha
Friday, August 15, 2008
Preaching at CSI Church Sharjah (UAE)
Church : CSI Sharjah worship center
Date: 15 August 2008
Topic: Gospel and Religious Pluralism
Greetings to you in the matchless name of our lord and savior Jesus Name , because there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we can be saved.(Acts 4:12)
Happy Independence day.1947-2008 August 15th 61 years, in the place where I come from we celebrate 60 years since it was under the Nizams Rule.
Introduction
Breaking the word religious Plurality which would only mean, many religions and its perceptions
Adherents of religious pluralism recognize that different religions make different truth claims. For example, most Christians believe that Jesus was (is) God incarnate and that he died for the salvation of humanity, while most Buddhists believe that enlightenment liberates the individual from the cycle of rebirth so that he may enter Nirvana.
The gospel would go a step forward to prove that the Christian claim is the truth on the basis of non contradiction.
Explaining the word non-contradiction would mean, there can be only one truth, and that there can’t be 2 truths which would eventually make one truth to be a lie.
Example: Mr. Ashish meets with an accident along with his friend Benoy, on the express way, Mr. Ashis dies, but Benoy is in no position to speak. But an onlooker reports it to the news paper that he was not looking at the road while driving, and they print it. “car hits the divider”. To Which Benoy, after unconscious state reports that the onlooker was wrong in his claims. Benoy was in the center of the accident. To which he would say “the steering wheel came off the hook”
Whom would you believe or why would you Believe?
My first point is
Isa : 45:1-8
Cyrus:
Who was he? Cyrus ; c.f 2 Chronicles 36 : 22
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the lord spoken by Jeremiah, the lord moved the heart of Cyrus King of Persia to make a proclamation throughout ………….” The lord has given all the kingdoms of the world and has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
V:4 Though you don’t acknowledge me , I am the lord there is no one besides Me….let salvation spring up (v:8)
Why did God choose Cyrus instead a heir of King David?
God’s Ways are not stuck up with His people. But his people are the world.
In our context the general presumptions of being saved are to be pious and do good works, and be a Christian. God’s view is that People are saved by Grace and not by works.
My second point is
Psalm 67
As we look at the crux of the passage in verse 4 :
May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth.
Ps 96 : 10 -13
God Judges with equity.
The Lord we worship is for justice, from the beginning, even at Egypt or the apartheid movement or the quit India movement.
The lord acted justly towards his people to which we celebrate Independence Day. Some say its because of the freedom fighter we got independence, so was the leadership of Moses, Which brought the people came back to their land. God uses his people for his purpose.
But in all this God hovers over the world. To relieve his people from their oppressors.
Our whole Justice system is based on him. Because from the beginning he is the moral law giver.
Jesus was put on the cross, to say and to fulfill the law.
How are we responding to that Law? Only by accepting it. It is finished. On the cross.
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
We are Justified
My third point is
Matthew 15:21-28
To the Dogs?
Why dogs? From the passage Mt 15 21-28 that even the dogs eat the crumbs that are fallen from the table?
Jesus’ incarnation took place firstly to his own chosen people. That is the place where he was born.
What happens? Jesus 3 ½ years preaching to his people, which would mean Samaritans also, because they were connected.
during that time a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to Him and begs Jesus to Heal her Daughter. He says that I have come for Israel and not for others. To which She says that ‘even the dogs eat the crumbs that are fallen from the table?’
After much persuasion her daughter was healed.
Why did Jesus move away from his focus?
Because his people had closed their minds and hearts to the gospel. But still he tried.
He came unto his own but his own rejected him.
The people who followed Jesus are 2 kinds – 1. Oklos (pagan crowd) 2. Laos (spiritual crowd)
The majority of the people that followed Jesus that are mentioned in the gospels that is Oklos than Laos.
They that did not have hope, recognized their need of hope. That is to look at Jesus, even if they would have been called as a dog. No matter what they had received their Hope.
My final point is
To the God nobody knows
Acts 17 :16-31
Paul is angry and upset that the people , he looks at the and they are aimless.
Paul is reasoning and preaching the good news with his people in the synagogues, and here comes the Epicureans and Stoics who basically believed in ‘eat make merry and listen to new ideas’. They Invite him to the main ‘theater of discourse’, so that Paul can present the ‘new way’.
The first thing Paul does is he appreciates them saying that they are religious, and fascinated by the shrines points to the one which has an inscription saying ‘to the God nobody knows’
Paul says= I am here to introduce it to you. He explains God to them as the creator not as a creation. Then presents the Good News the Gospel to them and offers repentance.
This incident happed in a pluralistic world.
When an opportunity like this comes the gospel walks in, the only thing is that we walk the gospel into their worlds.
What an idea sir ji
In conclusion
It’s the gospel good news – Incarnation God becoming flesh. Not only when Jesus came but that was His intention from the beginning. Adam was not an Israelite. But Israelites were called only after Jacob’s name changed.
Gospel is God reaching out to man, not man reaching to God
Max warren says, ‘What a wonderful opportunity that religious pluralism offers to Christians and to everyone else to make a new discovery of Jesus Christ. How gratefully we should accept God’s providential challenge.’
The gospel is working…God is working NOW.
· So from my first point
God uses anyone from any Anglician/CSI / Martoma / Methodist/ Pentecostal / Hindu/Muslim /Buddhist etc
For his purpose. Are we available for him to be use as an instrument for his glory. Or are we sitting comfortably like Israel? Still waiting for God to work
· Secondly
When we go through pain or suffering ? and ask for justice
Do we believe that God is a just God who will hear our cry, no matter who I am.
Do I act justly according to my heavenly father .
· Thirdly
Do we trust in Jesus in all the areas like that gentle lady?
Or do we depend on our own money /medicine/ power/ tradition/ religion/ knowledge ?
· Fourth
Are we like Athenians who are very religious. But very reluctant to ask for forgiveness and believe in gospel
There is no point in knowing about apples? How good? what nutrition? Or the color.
What matter is the Taste.
Lets taste and see that God is good. Not only for us but for all
Jesus Said: ‘Just as the father sent me (Incarnation) so I send you (Incarnation)
Closing Prayer
Amen
Jai hind
Date: 15 August 2008
Topic: Gospel and Religious Pluralism
Greetings to you in the matchless name of our lord and savior Jesus Name , because there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we can be saved.(Acts 4:12)
Happy Independence day.1947-2008 August 15th 61 years, in the place where I come from we celebrate 60 years since it was under the Nizams Rule.
Introduction
Breaking the word religious Plurality which would only mean, many religions and its perceptions
Adherents of religious pluralism recognize that different religions make different truth claims. For example, most Christians believe that Jesus was (is) God incarnate and that he died for the salvation of humanity, while most Buddhists believe that enlightenment liberates the individual from the cycle of rebirth so that he may enter Nirvana.
The gospel would go a step forward to prove that the Christian claim is the truth on the basis of non contradiction.
Explaining the word non-contradiction would mean, there can be only one truth, and that there can’t be 2 truths which would eventually make one truth to be a lie.
Example: Mr. Ashish meets with an accident along with his friend Benoy, on the express way, Mr. Ashis dies, but Benoy is in no position to speak. But an onlooker reports it to the news paper that he was not looking at the road while driving, and they print it. “car hits the divider”. To Which Benoy, after unconscious state reports that the onlooker was wrong in his claims. Benoy was in the center of the accident. To which he would say “the steering wheel came off the hook”
Whom would you believe or why would you Believe?
My first point is
Isa : 45:1-8
Cyrus:
Who was he? Cyrus ; c.f 2 Chronicles 36 : 22
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the lord spoken by Jeremiah, the lord moved the heart of Cyrus King of Persia to make a proclamation throughout ………….” The lord has given all the kingdoms of the world and has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
V:4 Though you don’t acknowledge me , I am the lord there is no one besides Me….let salvation spring up (v:8)
Why did God choose Cyrus instead a heir of King David?
God’s Ways are not stuck up with His people. But his people are the world.
In our context the general presumptions of being saved are to be pious and do good works, and be a Christian. God’s view is that People are saved by Grace and not by works.
My second point is
Psalm 67
As we look at the crux of the passage in verse 4 :
May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth.
Ps 96 : 10 -13
God Judges with equity.
The Lord we worship is for justice, from the beginning, even at Egypt or the apartheid movement or the quit India movement.
The lord acted justly towards his people to which we celebrate Independence Day. Some say its because of the freedom fighter we got independence, so was the leadership of Moses, Which brought the people came back to their land. God uses his people for his purpose.
But in all this God hovers over the world. To relieve his people from their oppressors.
Our whole Justice system is based on him. Because from the beginning he is the moral law giver.
Jesus was put on the cross, to say and to fulfill the law.
How are we responding to that Law? Only by accepting it. It is finished. On the cross.
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
We are Justified
My third point is
Matthew 15:21-28
To the Dogs?
Why dogs? From the passage Mt 15 21-28 that even the dogs eat the crumbs that are fallen from the table?
Jesus’ incarnation took place firstly to his own chosen people. That is the place where he was born.
What happens? Jesus 3 ½ years preaching to his people, which would mean Samaritans also, because they were connected.
during that time a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to Him and begs Jesus to Heal her Daughter. He says that I have come for Israel and not for others. To which She says that ‘even the dogs eat the crumbs that are fallen from the table?’
After much persuasion her daughter was healed.
Why did Jesus move away from his focus?
Because his people had closed their minds and hearts to the gospel. But still he tried.
He came unto his own but his own rejected him.
The people who followed Jesus are 2 kinds – 1. Oklos (pagan crowd) 2. Laos (spiritual crowd)
The majority of the people that followed Jesus that are mentioned in the gospels that is Oklos than Laos.
They that did not have hope, recognized their need of hope. That is to look at Jesus, even if they would have been called as a dog. No matter what they had received their Hope.
My final point is
To the God nobody knows
Acts 17 :16-31
Paul is angry and upset that the people , he looks at the and they are aimless.
Paul is reasoning and preaching the good news with his people in the synagogues, and here comes the Epicureans and Stoics who basically believed in ‘eat make merry and listen to new ideas’. They Invite him to the main ‘theater of discourse’, so that Paul can present the ‘new way’.
The first thing Paul does is he appreciates them saying that they are religious, and fascinated by the shrines points to the one which has an inscription saying ‘to the God nobody knows’
Paul says= I am here to introduce it to you. He explains God to them as the creator not as a creation. Then presents the Good News the Gospel to them and offers repentance.
This incident happed in a pluralistic world.
When an opportunity like this comes the gospel walks in, the only thing is that we walk the gospel into their worlds.
What an idea sir ji
In conclusion
It’s the gospel good news – Incarnation God becoming flesh. Not only when Jesus came but that was His intention from the beginning. Adam was not an Israelite. But Israelites were called only after Jacob’s name changed.
Gospel is God reaching out to man, not man reaching to God
Max warren says, ‘What a wonderful opportunity that religious pluralism offers to Christians and to everyone else to make a new discovery of Jesus Christ. How gratefully we should accept God’s providential challenge.’
The gospel is working…God is working NOW.
· So from my first point
God uses anyone from any Anglician/CSI / Martoma / Methodist/ Pentecostal / Hindu/Muslim /Buddhist etc
For his purpose. Are we available for him to be use as an instrument for his glory. Or are we sitting comfortably like Israel? Still waiting for God to work
· Secondly
When we go through pain or suffering ? and ask for justice
Do we believe that God is a just God who will hear our cry, no matter who I am.
Do I act justly according to my heavenly father .
· Thirdly
Do we trust in Jesus in all the areas like that gentle lady?
Or do we depend on our own money /medicine/ power/ tradition/ religion/ knowledge ?
· Fourth
Are we like Athenians who are very religious. But very reluctant to ask for forgiveness and believe in gospel
There is no point in knowing about apples? How good? what nutrition? Or the color.
What matter is the Taste.
Lets taste and see that God is good. Not only for us but for all
Jesus Said: ‘Just as the father sent me (Incarnation) so I send you (Incarnation)
Closing Prayer
Amen
Jai hind
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Bangalore - Dubai - Hailsham
Dear friends
sorry its been a long time scince i updated.
We got our visas to UK on 12th July which took only 3 working days.
We will be going to St. Marys Hailsham to volunteer in the church, for which i request you to pray for us. we will be involved in the ministry of the church.
it will be for a year.
ill keep you all posted of the latest as well as the book reviews.
Much love
Sangster and Asha
sorry its been a long time scince i updated.
We got our visas to UK on 12th July which took only 3 working days.
We will be going to St. Marys Hailsham to volunteer in the church, for which i request you to pray for us. we will be involved in the ministry of the church.
it will be for a year.
ill keep you all posted of the latest as well as the book reviews.
Much love
Sangster and Asha
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