Nepali Celebration

The unfamiliar, yet beautiful sound of worship filled the room as 25 Nepali women sang to our Savior in native tongue.  Dressed in traditional colorful wraps and scarves, some older, some younger, all worshiping.  It was evident these refugee women loved the Lord and desired to glorify him through their rich cultural heritage.  After listening to a few songs, we attempted to learn a simple one.  Luckily God is concerned with our hearts and not our pronunciation!

We heard the testimony of a few of the women from Nepal and the story of a missionary from India (above on the left) who hiked into Nepal many years ago to share the good news of Jesus to the Nepalese.  Many years later he came to the United States to work as a chemist in Michigan.  While in the US God called him to move to Atlanta to work amongst the Nepalese, but he could find no Nepalese people.  Not long later (only a few years ago), thousands of refugees from Nepal began coming to Atlanta due to unrest in their country.  Over the past few years the Nepalese church here has multiplied into three congregations of about 100 believers!

A Nepali celebration would not be complete without
some delicious Nepali food.

The purpose of the Nepali Celebration was to see people from different cultures brought together with a Kingdom focus.  It was awesome to see God unifying the hearts of our church with those from the Nepali church.  What an encouragement to celebrate what the Lord is doing among different groups of believers right here in Atlanta!