God’s Calling and Commitment

I was born and brought up in a nominal Christian family. When I entered adolescence, my life was turned upside down. Very often, I could not understand and control my life, and often

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brought disgrace and humiliation for my family. I was spiritually blind and knew nothing about the spiritual aspects of my life. Frustrated, disappointed and depressed, I yearned for a meaningful life. On 15 November 1986, I took water baptism, but it was just a ritual practice of the church.

In 1989, mid-summer, an evangelist visited my home and with great compassion, shared the love of God. A word of prophecy about God’s call for me to be a messenger of Jesus Christ in a foreign land was pronounced and that, remarkably, stuck in my heart.

I prayerfully decided to attend a Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training School (six months course) in Madras. It was on January 11, 1991 I landed in Madras. Though things had begun to change in my life, I was still struggling with many bad habits.

It was on 7 March 1991; an American YWAM teacher offered a special prayer for me. The anointing of the Holy Spirit flowed, and I was mightily touched. On that day, I experienced being born again and the empowering of the Holy Spirit in my life. I committed my life to the Lord and decided to be in the full time ministry.

Resumption of Ministry until today

During the discipleship training school outreach program in South India, I was very much motivated for missionary work. Meanwhile, my four years of study at Bible College challenged me greatly for missions.

In the spring of 1995 when I was about to graduate from a Bible school, I had a vision to go to Nepal. I responded, by faith, to God’s call even without knowing what sort of ministry I would be doing or with which organization I would be working. The Lord led me to a place where I could strengthen my faith and develop my character to be a Christ-like character. That is how, amazingly, I went to Nepal and work with YWAM, Nepal. I never thought that I would be involved in a ministry, living by faith. Faith-living ministry has enabled me to be joyful in hope, to endure in affliction, and to be persistence in prayer (Romans 12:12).

During my involvement with YWAM frontier missions, I saw the desperate needs for laborers in the Himalayan region. Knowing the needs of indigenous workers, I decided to get involved in training people who in turn can train others. This was a great paradigm shift in my ministry focus.

Expansion of the vision was accompanied by further studies in seminary. This brought me a deeper insight, a clearer perspective on missions, acquired new skills and taken place further spiritual formation, character formation and leadership development.

On 12 December 2002 I married Amenla Jamir who is a missionary to Nepal from Nagaland. We have a son, Sunepmoa, who will turn 3 years in January 2009. On 7 June 2003, my wife and I started Antioch School of Missions by faith to train church planters, missionaries, and evangelists in Himalayan region and beyond. By the grace of God, we have successfully completed four schools and sent out 36 of them from Nepal, India and Bhutan. Our graduates are mainly involved in church planting ministry in Himalayan region. To God be the glory!

Yanger Longkumer
Kathmandu, Nepal