Dear friends,
We will have Couples nite for young couples in our team, once in every month at our home, mostly on Saturday's from 9 p.m to 5a.m.
We want our team and co-leaders as doers of God's word not as listeners.We face lots of cultural issues during and after marriages which are so contradictory to God's word.
For example, demanding Dowry (money), gifts, gold and other things from the bride's family before marriage, After marriage, the couple must stay with the groom's parents and the bride must live under the in-laws than with the husband, Sexual dominance by the males, Lack of privacy, no good communication, fear of society, stress in the family,
Lack of good teaching in our Churches are all adding for splitting up of our Christian couples.
God clearly guided us in this direction, started 2 and a half year ago. Approximately 10 to 13 couple attend every time with their children. It will normally start at 9 p.m and we will have fellowship till 9:30, till all will come. It's different every month. Songs, worship, discussions, sharing time, debate, God's word, confession of the sins, personal time of prayer for the couples, and so on. At the end, i.e at 2 a.m we will show them a nice movie (of course, good movies like, One night with the King(Esther), Night at the Museum, End of the spear, etc. We will give them good snacks, tea and drinks during the time.
Few High lights:
1. Once when we taught them about Sex, they were so surprised, they all confessed they never really enjoyed sex till then, always it's husband's choice. Husband's confessed they never really thought about their wives pleasure. Wow, our couples grew strong after that.
2. We taught them about Dowry system, and asked how many husbands here have taken dowry from their in-laws, again all of them lifted up their hands. They are mostly Hindu converts.We explained what Bible is telling about gifting, Jesus gave Himself for His bride and on and on. We challenged them that if they wanted to repay the money back even now, they are again surprised. They called up their in-laws and said they are sorry and wanted to give their money back, they are shocked. To our surprise almost all returned the Dowry back to their in-laws.
3. Almost all our guys are from Hindu Back ground, so we had a Christian wedding to one couple who are married for 9years. I heard them saying many times that they wish they had a Christian wedding. So we've surprised them with real decoration, garlands and wedding ceremony one night. My wife gave her the wedding saree and i gave him my wedding suit. After the wedding they were in tears.
Impacting our people for a "Life Style" and "Renewed walk' with God in all the areas of their lives.
Love and prayers,
Vijay Chris.
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