Dear Prayer Partners,
This month we have welcomed to New Zealand Lun and Ngaiching Misao from Manipur and Kolkata. Lun and Ngaiching lead the Ohfi Kolkata ministry in Kolkata, and it is with them that we in New Zealand partner. I would like to write an outline of their story.
Lun came from poor rural circumstances in Manipur. He was a school boy herdsman when Athang Touthang, the founder of Ohfi work in Manipur, found him and brought him as a boarder/student to the newly established Ohfi school in Kangpokpi. Lun did well in this new environment, making good academic progress despite his initial lack of primary schooling. He also showed leadership skills.
Ohfi sponsored Lun to undertake tertiary study in Kolkata which he completed well. It was Lun’s experience of the intensity of slum poverty in Kolkata that led him to offer to stay in Kolkata and to work with Ohfi in the slums. Shortly after, he was appointed Director despite his young age. His appointment was made on the quality of his dedication, compassion and leadership skills.
For 20 years now, Lun has worked in Kolkata joined by Ngaiching from Manipur, whom he married a few years after starting his ministry. Like Lun, Ngaiching too came from poor circumstances. Today the couple have three children—Sarah, Malachi and Samuel. Together they have served faithfully and well in Kolkata.
For reasons relating to their children’s best interests, recently the family decided to rebase themselves back in their home village in Manipur, with Lun spending time between his family and Kolkata. This was not an easy decision for the family to make. One consequence is that Lun, and Ohfi in Kolkata, are seeking a new leader for the Kolkata ministry.
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