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Dear Friends and Partners, August 31st 2015.

Greetings from Nepal!

Welcome to our monthly report – this time I am putting two

months (July and August) news together. A great thank you for

your regular prayer and support throughout the year and for the

special kindness we received recently in the disastrous situation of

Nepal. By your prayer and practical support we have been able to

assist many needy lives through our ongoing projects. I joyfully

share below the progress of our work.

Our recent time as a family in England was also a blessed one physically, spiritually and financially. It

was great to attend the conference ‘Revive’ with Ichthus and meet some of our friends. Having

family time and a chance to relax after the hectic time here in Nepal was incredible. It gave us rest

and an opportunity to plan things for the coming days away from the pressured circumstances at

home. Thanks to all of you who made our visit so special and to others who prayed for us even

though we didn’t meet in person.

1. Let’s start with news from our Children’s Home

Nine girls are doing well physically and have settled back in

to the house and their school after the frightening

earthquake. Their studies are going well and they have just

finished their second final exams. In both the first and

second terms, eight of them have passed their exams which

makes us proud and content. The eldest girl, Martha, has re-

taken her Math exam which

will open the door for her to

enter college in a couple of

months’ time. The Children’s

Home survived the

earthquake and consistent

aftershocks which are still

happening. Please pray for their continued safety. Our children enjoyed a workshop and fun park

activities recently, here are some pictures of that. Marianne from Switzerland visited us again and

stayed with our children for more than two weeks which

really blessed them. Their teacher Sabita is also working

hard to bring better school results for the children. The

House Parents and their family of four are also doing

well.

2. Scholarships

Nine children

Bishal, Bina and Himat

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As you know, we have many child-related projects and one

of these is scholarship. Through this scheme we are

currently supporting 77 children from very poor economic backgrounds,

including some children of widows. Our field visits during the last two

months showed the following progress of the children: They are attending

school regularly; schools are trying to maintain the good environment

after the earthquake; children are still in shock but working hard as

parents and teachers are trying to support them; each one of them is

making progress in their study - praise God!; most of our children are in

good health apart from pain and trauma after losing relatives and

homes in the earthquake; parents are very aware of the value of their

children’s education and our support and regular visits have given them

the feeling of being loved and cared for. We are happy to tell you that now we are supporting 14

children from Sindhupalchok (the area worst hit by the earthquake) who are physically challenged.

We have 25 children on the waiting list for educational support.

A story of new life thanks to scholarship:

Ishori Rai, 45, grew up in a very remote village, two days bus travel

from Kathmandu. She got married and, soon after she became

pregnant, her husband started to drink heavily and became violent

towards her and, when she was born, to their little daughter.

Reluctant to continue suffer unjustly, Ishori gathered courage and

left him, taking her daughter, and stayed with her mother. Her

husband took another wife.

Ishori had four brothers and

two sisters who were

living in the same

village, but they didn’t take

care of her, her daughter

and her mother. She was compelled to live life with

challenge in every step. At 15 years of age, her daughter got

married due to their lack of finance and hardship of life, so Ishori and her mother moved to

Kathmandu with a desire to have a better life.

Ishori was illiterate so instead of life being easy in the city, it was hard for her. Lack of education led

to lack of a job and of every basic life support. By the Grace of God she came to know about Sabina

who has been working among single mothers and widows. She provides shelter, vocational training

such as tailoring, and encourages women to get an education. Meeting with Sabina became the

turning point in Ishori’s life. She joined a special school for ladies like her and is still continuing with

her studies now. Their curriculum is just like a normal school for children. Now Ishori can write her

name and do simple accounts. However, Ishori wasn’t able to pay the school fees, this is how ACC

came to know her. ACC is passionate about helping ladies like Ishori with their primary education and

we wish her all the best. Her progress is satisfactory and she is very proud to now be able to read the

Bible. She is very grateful to ACC for the scholarship.

Dhan Bahadur with his

sons

Ishori’s Home Ishori with her mum

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Following the earthquake, Ishori lives together with her

mother in a newly built house of zinc sheets in Lalitpur

where she is working in a small farm owned by Sabina

which helps her financially. Very often, we easily

underestimate the little changes in a person’s life but they

can impact many lives around them. We are so pleased

to see these two ladies happy and being an example to

other suffering ladies.

3. Aanandit Dance Club

This Club has been serving the Lord through dance for two years, directly supporting underprivileged

children and in this short period of time, the

children have achieved so much. They are

learning new dance styles and taking part in

various competitions, and three boys have

got scholarships to the National

Academy which is a huge step for them.

4. Aanandit Football Club This ACC project is continuing to bless around 40

boys. We see good and bad times but, being carried by our faithful God, we

have been able to see many good things come from it. Our boys are playing in tournaments with a

few locals clubs and inter-church competitions. Wherever we go we are known as a Church football

team and these boys are really doing well in terms of letting people know about the church and its

reaching out to teenagers. The start of the rainy season

and not having our own ground, plus the recent

earthquake, made our team drift for some time but now

they are together again. We are hiring a playground for a

couple of hours every day to have our football practice

and to

engage our boys in good things. This is preventing

them from following bad peers and trying harmful

drugs. Most of our boys are from poor areas

where parents do not really care about their sons.

So, our love and attention has revealed to them

the love of Jesus for them. They are regularly

coming to church, please pray that those who do

not yet know Jesus will come to know God

intimately.

New dancing t-shirt

Ladies carrying

grass for their

cattle

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5. Friday Fun Club We just had a great time with our children teaching them God’s plan for their life

in the last couple of months. We had a blissful month with our Fun Club kids and we are very happy

as we are serving them in God’s kingdom. It is an incredible privilege to know these young people of

poor backgrounds whose lives are engulfed by the loving action of

our charity giving them sight of Jesus. Our recent singing

competition was well

accepted and resulted

in more children

coming to the music

class now. From July,

we have started to

run our Fun Club in

local schools. Last

month, we took it to

a Montessori-based school called Aliens School. One hundred children took part in our Fun Club

programme after school and they were really happy to be with us. They played games, learned Bible

based stories and were taught some beautiful crafts. We also taught dance to them which they

loved. We want to reach out to more schools in the coming days with such activities. It is an

opportunity to share about our work in an extended area.

6. Day Care Centre

We have had little ones joining and leaving us in the past few

months. Now we are serving 18 toddlers and a new maid, Soni

Magar, has joined our day

care team. Children

continue to be loved and

cared for by our staff and

they have a new open

space to play outside in

the church grounds. This

month we didn’t use it much because of the rain, but they

are blessed to have some freedom and safety. One little boy called Supress Tamang came as a mal-

nourished child and now our love, care and special prayer has

changed his life. He has started to eat properly and looks like a

new person. His mother is surprised to see this and is very

grateful to ACC. Improvements like this attract more children to

our care.

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7. Micro-Business support/relief

We have recently taken on a new staff member to help with this project as our work is growing in

this area because many people are in need of support after the

earthquake. We plan to work in five districts of Nepal which were

most badly affected. Our team has travelled and collected 40 loan

applications from Dholkha alone.

There are still 30 to be collected.

In the past two months, we have

provided 12 loans in Lalitpur district. Our business support is

enabling poor families to

start their own small

scale businesses. People

are doing various things

such as pig farming, goat and buffalo rearing, vegetable

farming, running stationery shops, grocery, butchery and

tailoring. We believe this is helping to alleviate the spread

of poverty in this part of our nation.

8. Widow support and need-based support / relief

We have recently helped five families who were victims of

the earthquake to put roofs on their temporary houses

through our

need-based

support

project. We

also helped a pastor to pay for repairs to his bike

damaged during the earthquake, as this is vital to his

ministry work. We paid for medical care for a person

whose kidneys were both failing, and we provided

money for temporary shelter for the residents of an

elderly care home; it was so good to see them happy

with having a place for shelter in this rainy season.

9. Share and Care

We continue to provide sanitary pads and stationery to

teenage girls who possess few health items. We gave

two teaching classes, facilitated by a professional nurse

Marianne from Switzerland, about teenage life, healthy

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living and staying safe from physical abuse. It was very good to

teach our girls how to stay safe in this stage of their lives, 18

teenage girls participated and asked some good questions

regarding the teaching.

10. School support/ relief work

We have provided school bags and exercise books to children in eight schools in Lalitpur, Dolkha and

Sindhupalchok, benefitting

1,000 students. Now we will

also be providing

scholarships in those areas

to children whose families

have lost their properties in

the earthquake and are

unable to pay for their education. As we have shared before, our relief work is continued under our

existing projects. Past two months we have been helping schools, taking children for scholarship,

planning and collecting form for small business support,

providing shelter

materials. We will

give detail report in

our annual report

produce in

November.

On 29th August, together with Aanandit church we

celebrated our eight year general assembly. Same day we had Aanandit church 13th year

anniversary. The entire program went very well with thirteen people taking baptism in the morning.

We six Aanandit congregation were together on this occasion giving thanks to our Heavenly Father

for His Faithfulness through out the journey. We are carrying a great vision of rebuilding the ruins

physically and spiritually in this nation and beyond- Isaiah 58: 11-12. Here are few GA photos:

Board members and guests Giving report of 2014/15 Gift for educational progress

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Bina has got 96% in her school final year exam and

jumped one class, now she is in grade four. Well done!

Food together

Church in Sindhupalchok; only roof

now but still around 35 people are

meeting where church collapsed and

nine people died.

School bags and stationery distribution in

Sidhupalchok, we gave 180 bags for three

schools and for one church children, in this

district. 300 bags and stationery in Dolakha

district and 300 in Lalitpur Bhardeu.

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Aanandit church compound, where we will be building

prefab building for church, going to start from this

month. Please pray for this.

Prayer points

-Please pray for our desire and plans to help earthquake victims ( 40 family next month) to restore

their finances with our Micro-Business support project;

-For Martha as she starts her new college;

-For the nine children in our Children’s Home to have sound minds and bodies and to know Jesus

intimately as they grow up;

-For church and office rebuilding work (starting this month);

-That our growing working areas would be places for us to sow the seeds of God;

-For health and wisdom for all the staff;

-For political stability in Nepal (curfew and strikes in western part of Nepal at the moment);

-For all the work we are doing to support the people who were affected by the earthquake- going to

provide food and Zinc sheets for 12-15 families next week. Thank you for your generous support

which allows us to continue our work!

I greatly admire you for giving up your precious time to pray, give and now to read our report. God

bless you abundantly according to His Heavenly richness.

Warm regards,

Shusma