Prem and Indira Subedi

Prem and Indira have a big heart for mission and went back to their own country, Nepal, as missionaries after eleven years in the UK. Until 2018 they were with a mission organization called International Nepal Fellowship (INF) but are now working full time for the church based in Chakraghatti. God sowed a vision in their heart to plant a church in Eastern Nepal long before they went back to Nepal. A church was started in Chakraghatti, Sunsari district in cooperation with a church planting movement called Nepali Reformed Church (NRC) in 2012. Initially the church was established in Indira's maternal home.

As the church was growing, they felt the need for a new church building. A piece of land nearby was bought and they started to build the church in 2019. Praise the Lord, the work is now finished and the new church building was opened and dedicated in late November 2019 when they had 60 adult believers and around 40 children of various ages. Prem and Indira’s main role is to serve the church including mentoring the local leader who has been serving the church on a day-to-day basis since 2017.
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Indira and Prem
PictureThe church in Chakraghatti
Prem and Indira regularly organize training for the believers to help in their spiritual and socio-economic needs in addition to teaching and preaching in the church. Indira is actively helping local women to start income generating empowerment activities by mobilizing local resources including savings and credit (microfinance). Other involvements include: 
  • Teaching Christian Community Development at a Bible college in Kathmandu (Prem)
  • Visiting other churches of NRC to monitor the activities and mentoring the leaders
  • Teaching and preaching in other churches including Cross Way in Kathmandu (Prem is on the leadership team of Cross Way/ NRC).
  • Organising and facilitating training sessions for local leaders and potential leaders. 
  • Helping believers in the local churches in their socio- economic upliftment (socioeconomic side of the good news) through a not-for-profit company called Cross Reformed Centre
  • Attending and speaking at NRC conferences, retreats and seminars
  • Evangelism in various locations of Nepal and helping in planting churches and raising local leaders 
  • Helping people in need, for example-
    1. poor and sick and marginalized, for their livelihoods and treatment,
    2. rehabilitation of those devastated by drug and alcohol abuse,
    ​3. fighting for justice for those who cannot defend themselves through counselling and advocacy.
  • Supporting women who are in need of legal aid (Indira) 
                                                                      
Right from their return to Nepal they have a heart for children and they are fostering five children at the moment in Chakraghatti and in Kathmandu. They live a community life (eight in total) with their children and three others including a single mum.