Pastor Nandu, his wife Anu and daughter Apphia		Pastor Nandu performing baptism

 

 

Purpose of the Trip

            Charles and Steve went to India on behalf of Lake Forest Church with the primary purpose of evaluating the progress and needs of a training center for pastors that was started as a result of a trip made three years prior.  The curriculum for the training center was from an organization called Bible Training Center for Pastors (BTCP) that was started by LFC Lead Pastor Mike Moses’ uncle.  I would like to thank Bob Dyer, Don Meredith and the others at Joe Gibbs Racing for the significant financial support they have provided to this ministry.

            The person we went to see was Pastor Nandu Gurung.  He is also the person that started and is heading up the training center which he calls the “Himalayan Leadership Institute”.  Steve was first introduced to Nandu by Dave Grimes, an elder at Lake Forest.  His son, John Grimes, is a missionary working with Wycliffe Bible Translators.  Nandu had helped teach John the local language of “Nepali” and John subsequently helped arrange for Nandu to come to North Carolina to attend a training seminar at The Cove (Billy Graham’s Training Center in Black Mountain).