Laymen Ministries started working in Nepal back in 2000. Joel and Joyce Meyers pioneered our work there. They worked in the Katmandu area giving health talks and learning the language. Their work expanded into the translation of Nepali literature. As work progressed, they were joined by Sandra Horner who now heads out our work in North India (active link) training Nepali youth to go back to Nepal, and other regions, to do church planting.

The Meyers were very successful in their work and in the year 2001 we held the largest Christian based convention in the history of Nepal. It was called The Health Expo and was televised on National TV. We had people from many organizations who participated, such as: Nepali School of Medicine, Living Springs Overseas Mission, and Adventist Frontier Missions. The speaker each evening was Dr. Pandy, who was the personal physician to the King of Nepal. Right after the convention, Dr. Pandy invited Joel, Joyce and Jeff Reich to attend a historic meeting celebrating his health organization in Nepal, which was attended by the King and Queen of Nepal. A few weeks later, the King and Queen of Nepal were assassinated.

NORTH INDIA (2011)
TRT: 28:30

This program includes mission work underway in Nepal.

Travel to Laymen Ministries' mission project in North India and Nepal where missionaries are training students to go back to their own villages and reach their own people. Baptisms in Nepal, an evangelistic series in Sikkim and battling the roads in India are some of the adventures in this episode.

The weeks that followed the assassination the country was turned upside down by internal turmoil caused by rise of Maoist insurgents. Because of the political unrest was throughout the country, we decided to pull Meyers out of Nepal. Sandra, who was working with the Meyers at that time, moved across the boarder to North India, and opened a Lifestyle Education Center in connection with Laymen Ministries.

Today, Laymen Ministries is involved with church planting in remote regions in Nepal using national workers. We hold training seminars for lay-evangelism, have sowing and English language classed to help church members and to support local workers.

Also in Nepal we have printed many books. Recently we printed a number of titles such as: Steps to Christ, Christ’s Object Lessons, Passion of Love, Darkness Before Dawn, Studying Together, and Amazing Facts Bible Study Guides. The materials we printed a few years ago is completely gone so it was great to see these titles in print. Our immediate plans in Nepal to publish: The Great Controversy, My Bible First (Children's Bible Story series), The Next Super Power (Mark Finley) and Straight Answers From Gods Word (Bible Readings).

Please pray with us as we work in this very difficult culture among Hindu and Buddhist populations.