{"id":574,"date":"2017-12-21T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/?p=574"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:02:47","slug":"christmas-letter-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Letter 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship-590x395.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rice-at-worship.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Dear Partners in the Gospel,<\/p>\n<p>Let me start by thanking our Living God for enabling Christ Mission Ashram (CMA) to grow\u00a0by His grace from a small master seed to become a tree (Matthew 13:32). I am happy to inform you the\u00a0activities and progress of our ministries for past one year. I am thankful to God and all of you for your\u00a0continuous love, prayer support, partnership and support to serve 30 th years of service in India. Here\u00a0below a glimpse of joy of our activities given below:<\/p>\n<h2>Kolkata Love Reformed Presbyterian Church<\/h2>\n<p>By the providence of God our church all services (Bengali, English, Hindi) our going well by\u00a0the leadership of Rev.Sukrit Roy &amp; Monjoy Narzanary. Also this year by the leadership of Lydia the\u00a0Church Veranda &amp; Toilet renovation work has been done. By the grace of God 3 rd 4 th Church\u00a0Planting seminars (March &amp; November) and a Revival meeting for three days (21-23 November) was\u00a0conducted by Rev.Dr.Lee Jong Ho.<!--more--> Please pray that the church may grow in quality &amp; quantity.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination-350x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination-350x235.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination-590x397.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ordination.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>India Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (IRPTS)<\/h2>\n<p>God has\u00a0put in our hearts a special burden to reach &amp; equip the leaders to fulfill the Great\u00a0Commission of Jesus Christ. Therefore the IRPT Seminary was started in 1988, and by God\u2019s grace\u00a0today more than 267 students had been graduated and serving in West Bengal, Odishi, Assam,\u00a0Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, Delhi, and Nepal. We are ever grateful to EVTA, CMAI, Asian\u00a0Mission for their prayer and support and sending professors for equipping our students faithfully.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CMA-Christmas-letter-2017.pdf\">Read CMA Christmas letter 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Partners in the Gospel, Let me start by thanking our Living God for enabling Christ Mission Ashram (CMA) to grow\u00a0by His grace from a small master seed to become a tree (Matthew 13:32). I am happy to inform you the\u00a0activities and progress of our ministries for past one year. I am thankful to God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reports","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}