THE OUTHOUSE HAS A LIGHT!!!

Wow, I have been here for 26 Days and SO much has happened. For starters I am now living at the english boarding school that I taught at last week, I will explain in a moment. I will still be working very closely with the refugee camps and I will still be giving the teaching in a few weeks. During the week that I spent in Ilam I was able to lead Bible studies for about 100 new christians. I taught 4th, 5th, and 6th grade english. *I just wanted to shoot in that the cyber cafe that I am in is now blasting Celion Dion, that makes me laugh.* Anyway, I loved it, the climate is almost identical to Colorado, and the people there were amazing. There is a man up there named Robin, and the day that I was leaving he said to me over and over "you have to come back, because we love you" I really didn't think much of it at the time and just promised that I would come back. I spoke at two of their three churches that Saturday, and came back to Birtamod. I then gave two sermons on Sunday at a refugee camp, and was done by mid afternoon. I had the afternoon to just rest and hang out here in town, I went to my room and just felt like I had been run over by a demonic truck. I was under attack, and didn't know it. As I prayed through this with others and alone, I heard that God wanted me at Ilam, so I moved there. After I was back in
Ilam for a night I had a dream. In the dream I was leading Sarah around Birtamod and then I went to show her my room, andas we got there I pointed and she looked at me like I was crazy. I said "what?" and looked back at the house which had transformed into a buddhist temple. I'm quite glad that I left that place. My base now will be Ilam, I will continue to teach english to the kids there, they are mostly hindu and buddhist and the Bible has a lot of really great reading exercises in it!!
The life up in Ilam isn't quite 21st century, but I love it up there, AND the outhouse has a light!! We cook on wood, carry water from a spring for baths and do our laundry at that same spring, it's amazing. I do have a cell phone if anybody feels that they would like to call please do, although I think its kinda cost prohibitive from the US. I will put my address and # at the end.
I am starting to really see my purpose here, and a huge part of it is spiritual warfare. Satan is finding this out too. Two nights ago I went to bed early with a high fever, I wasn't too worried. About two hours after I went to bed I woke up with such incredible chest pain that I couldn't breath when I laid down. I spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to fix myself medically. The next morning I went to all of the Pastors at the school and had them pray over me, and not much happened but at least I was now thinking that it could be spiritual. That afternoon I spent adout 5 hours just talking with Jesus, not praying to God, but talking to Jesus. As I did I felt the satanic boulder roll off of my chest. EVERYTHING IS SPRITUAL. The fever hasn't been back ethier.

Please pray:

That I am able to discern what and how to battle spiritually.
For spiritual protection.
That I would continue to see that Lord's will for my teachings.
For faith and perserverence on the days that I really miss home and you guys.
For the school to see a spiritual breakthrough, through my "big rock thing" God showed the spiritual power that is suppressing the school and preventing break-through there.
That this place would find better music.
For my mom and Sarah, who are two of my biggest intercessors, therefore open to attack themselves.
And for the ministries here, youth groups, cell groups, churches, etc. for God's continued guiding.

Thank you all so much, your prayers can be felt. I promise to write a few cool stories next time.

In truth James P Lear.

mobile # 09779807903518

Mailing address:

James Paul Lear
c/o Subandra Rai
Himalayan Faith Gospel Church
Godak-6 Ilam
Mechi, East Nepal

Chow mein, black chili, and a mute girl.

Greeting brothers and sisters,

I don’t know where to start. I can't believe that I have only been here 11 days and have seen God so clearly and amazingly.
To give you an idea of where I am... I am not in the mountains like I had thought I would be-- I am in the jungle. There are foothills in the near distance and I have a feeling that if I were to hike to them I could see the Himalayas. The weather is hot and sticky. About 85-90 degrees in the days with humidity that is WAY too high. It is pretty much everything you would expect a jungle to be, big banana trees, snakes, everything made of bamboo, that sort of thing, and I love it.
The last week I spent in the largest of the three refugee camps here in Nepal. I was able to teach at a seminary and preach at two churches. As a result I have been asked to come back and teach at the next "mini seminary" they hold. It will be in November, slightly more than one month long and I will be teaching for one week on Hearing the Voice of God. Pray that the words that leave my lips are not mine but the Lord’s. Next week I will be going north into a more mountainous area called Ilam. There I will be teaching and helping at an English boarding school of about 100 students.
Now to my slightly strange title.

Chow mein.
I guess that I had forgotten how much I liked Asian food. Not that stuff that we get at home but real, amazing, spicy, Asian food.

Black chili.
It was Wednesday of last week, I was on the walk home, through the jungle, from the service we had just attended with two pastors and their wives. One of the pastors stopped and picked something from the tree near to him and threw some in his mouth. Curious, I approached. I motioned and he let me see, it was a cluster of about 20 odd looking seeds. The pastor said it was very good for your health and that I should take some. So I did. They were slightly crunchy and tasted quite good, that is until I couldn't breath because of the fire that was now raging in my throat. Needless to say, I am not going to do that again. But I think, if you could handle them, they would be good for your health.

The Mute Girl.

I don’t know her name and I don't know how old she was, I would guess about 14, but she is responsible for my faith being about 600% stronger than it was.
It was Wednesday last week, we went to a Healing service. I wasn't quite sure what to expect but I kept an open mind about it. As we got there a man started preaching (I would tell you what about, but at this point my translator was not with me, so I have no idea). He preached for a good 5 hours. By this time I'm not really in a very "healing" mood. But them something started to happen. All of the people started to move closer to the stage and pray really loudly. The pastor started to scream into the microphone. I asked and somebody told me he was praying for healing for all the sick gathered in the front. Then I started to feel the presence of God. I don't know how to explain it, but if you have felt it you know what I mean. People started to get on the stage and talk about what had just happened to them. The first few were boring, still amazing but boring, a pain gone or an ear opened. Then this girl and her mother got up there. The mother was in tears because her daughter was mute and had not been healed. The pastor said that we would all pray in unison and God would move here. I have to confess that I was having my doubts at this point. Then I heard God’s voice say to me "if you have faith in me you can move mountains" SO i started to pray. WE all started to pray. Within 30 seconds this girl screamed "PRAISE THE LORD" into the microphone. I felt as thought I was that girl’s mother, I was so overjoyed. I was jumping and screaming.

God really is amazing.


For now that’s all I have. I hope to be able to update again soon.

Pray for me to have an impact on the children I am going to this week.

And thank you all so much for your financial and Prayer support. I am spending a lot of time in prayer so please send me your requests and I will lift them to the Father as well.

In Truth
James P. Lear

I am Here!!!

WEll I am here in India. It is a wierd sensation without a team here, I am momentairly overwhelmed with the sense that I am totaly alone, not anole in my room, not alone in my hotel, not even alone in this city, but alone on this continent. I take a moment to think about all of the wonderfull people that I left behind, tears are fought back. I open my bible knowing that even as I feel alone HE is here with me, I am just looking for i little reassurence. My bible falls open to Isiah 41.10 "He will uphold you with his rightous right hand" and I sleep peacfully not just knowig that HE in there but FEELING that he is here

In other news I left my computer power supply @ home so for now I am writing everything right before i send it, so i am sorry that this is a little sloppy.
So in my attempts to get a new power supply I went to an electronics store and asked, tyhey said no problem no problem, but we need your computer for 5 hours and half the money in advance. I said a quick prayer and didnt get a strog answer one way or the other, so i did it. Then spent the next 4 hours worring about it. Turns out this poor guy went all over Delhi and no one has the power supply I need (mom, you and the DHL guy have a date, when I get an address). But true to the culture he gave me my computer unmolested as he promised, and the advance in full, I love being in a trustworthy country.


I did get a train ticket to NJP purchased and will be leaving at 2 pm tommorow, thats 1.30 am your time I think. It will be a 22 hour train ride. I couldhave flown for an extra 75 dollars, but at this point the thought of one more miniute on a plane makes me want to vomit. But I will get to see much of the Indian countryside, which excites me.



Neph 3:17 I think is going to be my theme verse for this trip. I have really been able to take it to heart and I helps with everything. I want to get a broken bluetooth headset so that I can talk really loud to my Father while I am walking down the street.

I love you all and an thanking God for your prayers and support.

James P. Lear