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in eastern Nepal, and trained 749
people. We were joined by Jyo琀椀, a
local translator and teacher, who
played a full part in the teaching.
Another translator and facilitator,
Milan, is now also playing an ac琀椀ve
role in teaching.
We are constantly searching for
more Nepalis like Jyo琀椀 and Milan
who have a passion for teaching
mental health in their own country.
We plan to run a course for training
such people at the beginning of our
teaching schedule for this autumn,
which is already in the planning
stages.
Church Connections
We made 琀椀me to network and connect with many pastors and church
leaders during our stay, building
new rela琀椀onships and strengthening exis琀椀ng ones and opening up
more opportuni琀椀es for teaching.
We ran 10 two-day courses in different churches and four other
shorter trainings. We also par琀椀cipated in the 昀椀rst conference held
by the Nepali Network of Chris琀椀an
Counsellors teaching on suicide
preven琀椀on. Teaching in each of the
ten churches was always di昀昀erent.
Par琀椀cularly towards the end of the
teaching, we started to iden琀椀fy
‘PRIME champions’ in each place.
These were people who not only
understood our teaching and wanted to apply it, but could see the poten琀椀al for deeper consequences of
doing so, and shared our vision for
ini琀椀a琀椀ng change in a琀�tudes and
ac琀椀vely supported us in bringing
about these changes.
In each of these ten churches, there
were di昀昀erent joys and challenges, and we have tried to put both
into words: there were true highlights in each day and many stories
to tell. We have included a few of
these stories as fuel for prayer, and
we teach in the hope of ini琀椀a琀椀ng
las琀椀ng change for communi琀椀es in
some of these dark places.
In Ilam, one pastor seemed only
half engaged with the teaching. It
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