Five times a year, Utsang and two church elders leave home for fourteen days. The first leg is an 18-hour bus ride, delayed, often, by mudslides or snow. After that, they go on foot. Through jungle. Up mountainsides. Along steep climbs that take hours. All to reach small churches scattered across the Himalayan foothills that most people will never visit.

Utsang isn’t a young man anymore. These journeys cost him. He comes home exhausted, sometimes fighting off infections from the brutal cold. But he also comes home full of joy because he’s seen what God is doing in those mountains, and he can’t stay away.

On their most recent trip, the team ministered in five churches, two planted a decade ago and growing significantly. There were new buildings to dedicate, new believers to baptise, and congregations packed into cow sheds and old houses, worshipping from early morning to late at night.

In one village, believers shared how they’d faced persecution in a majority-Hindu area. They testified with joy that the King of Kings had brought them through.

This is what faithful, unglamorous, costly ministry looks like. And it’s bearing serious fruit.

Pray with us:

• For Utsang and his team, for health, strength, and flourishing ministry.
• For the young churches, for growth in grace and ongoing fruit.
• For the unsaved, that God’s love breaks through in every community.
• For better transport, a practical need that would open up even more of these mountains.