Overseas
Friends of UESI-USA
685, Hillswick
Circle, Folsom, CA 95630
http://www.ofuesi.org
December 2002
Dear
brother/sister in Christ
Greetings
in the most highly exalted name of our Lord & Savior
Jesus Christ. It’s a joy for me to meet you through
this letter.
At the
outset, let me wish you a very happy and blessed
Christmas. May the Lord bless you, guide you and
lead you as you venture into the New Year 2003.
When
I look back at the year 2002, many things happened in my
personal life as well as in OFUESI- USA. I will outline
some of the things that happened in the past year. Please
read and pray for OFUESI in your personal, family and
corporate prayers.
- Non Profit Status:
I am extremely happy to announce that Overseas
Friends of UESI-USA is a non-profit organization
in USA. Even though it took long time to get the
non-profit status, we are happy that we got this
status in the most needed time. I would like to
praise God whole-heartedly for helping &
guiding us through this process. And also thank
you all for praying diligently. Beginning from
January 2003, if you want to send money to UESI,
you can write a check to OFUESI-USA and send it
to sis. Latha Jesudass, 26035 Bouquet Canyon,
Apt. # 228, Santa Clarita, CA 91350. You will
get a tax-exempt receipt from OFUESI- USA.
Praise God that we were able to send around
$20,000 to UESI from OFUESI-USA Graduates this
year.
- EGFs: We have
renamed Prayer cells as EGFs (Evangelical
Graduate Fellowships) , which is a familiar term
for all of us. The strength of UESI is in Fellows
hips, where we understand each other, grow in the
Lord and support each ot her. We have EGF groups
at San Jose, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas, TX; Clarksv
ille, MD, Atlanta, GA and Philadelphia, PA. We
praise God for these fellowship groups where we
could meet for Bible Study and prayer. We are
praying that there will be new EGFs started at
upstate NY and San Diego, CA. Please pray that
the Lord may help us to start the EGFs in other
places around the country. If you are interested
in starting one in your area, please let us
know. It was decided that these EGFs should meet
at least 4 times a year.
- Regional Conferences:
The Lord helped us to have two Regional
Conferences – one in the East coast and the
other in the West coast. Lord willing we will
have a conference in one of the other regions in
the coming year. Also we are planning to form a
Committee for the Eastern Region. Please pray
that the Lord may rise up committed people who
can take up the responsibility and coordinate the
ministry in the other regions.
- National Council:
By God’s grace, we were able to expand the
National Council to 12 people. We had our Annual
meeting on November 9th at
Clarksville, MD. It was a great time of sharing
and recommitting ourselves to carry on the vision
the Lord has given us. Bro. Surendr a Parmar
represented UESI in the meeting.
- Bro. Surendra
Pramar’s visit: Bro. Surendra Parmar ,
Secretary, National EGF, UESI visited us in the
months of October &a mp; November. He was
able to meet some of our graduates and encouraged
them. Also he spoke in the EGF meetings at
Atlanta, GA; Clarksville, MD, and in the Western
Regional Conference and National Council meeting.
All of us were encouraged by his ministry.
- Website: I would
like to remind you about our website, http://www.ofuesi.org. If you haven’t
visited the website, please visit now. Bro.
Prakash George & team has spent lot of time
and effort to set up the website. Please fill out
the Survey on the website so that we can have
your latest contact inform ation with us.
- Address List: We
are in the process of updating the Address list.
Please send us your latest Address, Phone no. so
that we can easily pass on information to you.
Also if you know any one who is from UESI
background or interested in the Students ministry
in India & USA , please send us their contact
information.
- Missions: For the
first time, students from India, have became the
largest group of international students in the
US, this year. We are exploring the possibility
of teaming up with local campus IVCF to reach
South Asia n Students. Please pray and join us in
these efforts.
- Urbana 03 Convention:
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, USA is hosting
the Urbana 03 Convention during December 27-31,
2003 at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Please pray for this Convention
and OFUESI-USA will be participating in this
Conference. For more details, please visit http://www.urbana.org/u2003.quickfacts.cfm.
- UESI News: You
might have received UESI InTouch for the m onth
of December. I don’t have to tell you the
importance of prayer. UESI is a movement built
upon faith & prayer of individual Graduates,
Staff and Students. Please pray for the items
mentioned in the newsletter. I would like to
bring to your notice the financial part of the
newsletter. There is a deficit of Rs. 2.75 lakhs
(around $6000) for the month of Novem ber and so
we need Rs. 9 lakhs (around $20000) for December.
December is a busy month and every one will be
celebrating Christmas and arranging Christmas
programs in India. Our staff workers need our
support. Please pray and as the Lord leads you,
support UESI ministry.
- UESI Golden Jubilee:
Please pray for UESI Golden Jubilee Celebrations
to be held in the last week of December 2004 to
celebra te 50 years of God’s faithfulness.
Pray for the conference committee as they are
planning for this conference.
If you have any comment or
suggestion, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for your partnership in this ministry for the
cause of students in India and United States.
Yours in His Service,
Paul Sudhakar Sunkari
Secretary, OFUESI-USA
email@ofuesi.org
"Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom
his favor rests. " – Luke 2:14
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