Sponsor a Nepali child There are about three dozen children cared for outside of Kathmandu by Nepali partner ministry SARA. We support SARA and these children through Project 1:27, which is based on James 1:27 (“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”). You can sponsor an orphan for US$50 a month. This will provide food, medicine, and clothing. But even more, it will show the love of Christ to a child and answer His command to “look after...
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The Lord is in the details By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Trekking toward Tsum Valley in central Nepal. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Eduárd Nitkovszki went shopping in his native Hungary in preparation for Mission: Nepal 2019, Part 2. Eduárd was excited to finally be GO-ing back to Nepal, four long years after he’d been on his first Evangelic Expedition with Climbing For Christ. “In a store I just passed by a baby snowsuit,” he recalled. “The thought came that there will be a baby there on the mountain somewhere that needs it. ...
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Mission: Nepal 2019 (Part 2) By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Sunday, Nov. 17 Team photo (left to right): Gary Fallesen, Samuel Gurung, Jordan Rowley, Brandy Fisher, Corey Slider, Megh Gurung, Eduárd Nitkovszki, Kashi Lama, Matthew Fisher, Bhuddi Gurung and Amar Gurung in Tsum Valley. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Jordan and I flew 31 hours from Kathmandu to our homes in Rochester, NY. Brandy and Matthew flew similar hours to Beaver Mines, AB, Canada. We headed West while they went East. Eduárd traveled West and North to reach Hungary in abou...
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Tsum Valley. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) The Mission: Nepal 2019 (Part 2) team finished an 11-day trek surveying the Tsum Valley, where there are no known believers. Seed was scattered. One day there will be a harvest. CLICK HERE to read the daily Dispatches from this 17th Evangelic Expedition to Nepal. 
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Trekking into Manaslu. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) CLICK HERE for daily Dispatches from Mission: Nepal 2019, Part 2.

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Good news from Nepal “Freedom of religion is not guaranteed by law. Non-Hindus cannot proselytize. If they do, they risk fines, imprisonment and, in the case of expatriates, expulsion. Despite this law, the Church in Nepal grows because of courageous evangelism. … Neither laws of man nor threats of violence deter them from sharing the Gospel.” – Operation World Megh Gurung, our kingdom worker in Nepal, visited the Church in Humla in September. Despite a blackout of electricity while a dam was under repair and a torrent of rain, he called his trip to Nepal’s rem...
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The Voice in the wilderness When we first arrived in Humla, a remote district in the northwest corner of Nepal, we could count the number of Christians on two hands. There were seven young men in a tiny house church in the district headquarters of Simikot and a brother and sister in an otherwise Hindu village perched on a mountainside a few hours away. Our Mission: Nepal 2012 team was invited to a Bible study in the house church, where we worshiped and prayed with a few of the men. Later, we prayed with the brother and sister in secret for fear of bringing persecution to their home. From 20...
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Soldiering for the kingdom The revered Gurkha soldiers have roots in the region. Soldier for Christ Megh Gurung dreamed of being a Gurkha when he grew up in the area, a place he says “is very rich in culture and heritage.” It’s also steeped in high mountains, Hinduism and Buddhism. Climbing For Christ returns to the Annapurna Region in 2019; this time exploring the Manaslu area, where the world’s eighth-highest mountain looms at 8,163 meters (26,781 feet). “I hope we can open the door to hearts in those areas,” said Megh, our kingdom worker in Nepal. He p...
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The church at Korchabang in worship. (Photo by Megh Gurung) CLICK HERE to read Remembering Visits with Joy, Mission Moments from Nepal.

Remembering visits with joy By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ The church at Korchabang in worship. (Photos by Megh Gurung) I better understand now Paul’s letters to the young church of his day about longing to see them. In 1 Thessalonians 3:6, he wrote about Timothy’s return from the church at Thessalonica: “He reports that you always remember our visit with joy and that you want to see us as much as we want to see you.” In July, our Nepali kingdom worker, Megh Gurung, went to see the body of believers God has used us to help build up in th...
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Thriving through challenge Visiting the house church at Ghapa during Mission: Nepal 2017. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Pastor Dulsar and the church at Korchabang planted a church in nearby Dharmashala in the remote reaches of Nepal’s Mid-West district of Rolpa. Climbing For Christ was blessed to help both villages build houses of worship. As the Dharmashala church was under construction we were introduced to another church plant in Ghapa. This house church has grown to 51 saved souls. Dulsar, a former Maoist, has been busy since we met him in 2012. CLICK HERE to read the story &ldquo...
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The church (blue roof) at Simikot, district headquarters for Humla in the northwest corner of Nepal. (Photos by Megh Gurung) Enjoying a spiritual feast in Humla By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Megh Gurung desired to take flight and leave the Humla District. But God had other plans. “I did not get (my) flight,” he explained, “and spent time with Kali, Thana, Hari, and (Pastor) Harka’s family. We prayed.” And prayed. And prayed. The group spent two hours together at the church at Simikot. “We prayed for the Humla District and for...
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The church (blue roof) at Simikot, district headquarters for Humla in the northwest corner of Nepal. (Photo by Megh Gurung) CLICK HERE to read this Mission Moments: Nepal story.

Following in God’s footsteps By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Our team treks past the church at Yarsha. (Photos by Gary Fallesen) Wherever you GO, there God is. Moses instructed Joshua not to fear: “The LORD himself goes before you” (Deuteronomy 31:8). Then Joshua heard it from the LORD Himself: “Your God is with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:9). David recognized there is nowhere in the universe that God will not be present: “If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!” (Psalm 139:8)....
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Mission: Nepal 2019 (Part 1) By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Friday, Feb. 22 Clouds hung over the valley as we ascended into the Manaslu area. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) We were in a Middle Eastern airport early this morning when the call to prayer rang out. I was again reading about Jesus giving us the power to “bind and loose” as found in Matthew 16:19 and Matthew 18:18. These commands have come up time and time again in recent weeks and they remain my prayer, first for Nepal and then for the other areas where God is sending us. T...
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Ganesh Himal, Nepal. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) CLICK HERE for Dispatches from Mission: Nepal 2019, Part 1.

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(Photo by Pastor Tej Rokka, SARA) Jwaye Nwel. Joyeux Noël. Feliz Navidad. Merisa Krisamasa. Khrisimasi yabwino. Krismasi ya furaha. Wada Din Mubarik. Merry CHRISTmas! Our brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the Climbing For Christ world are celebrating the birth of our Savior, including the children of the SARA (Savior Alone Redeems Asians) Home in Nepal. These children are sponsored by our Project 1:27. We wish them and you a very merry CHRISTmas.
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Sign of the times: Nepali worker Megh Gurung notes that warnings like this are being posted around the country by the Hindu majority. “But (we’re) not getting fear from them,” he says. “God’s work is going on well here.” (Photo by Megh Gurung)