equip the Church

I want to share what God has been doing in Nepal, because I believe it will move you to prayer the way it moved me.

At the Gospel Conference in Kathmandu, led by our brother Isai, we had the joy of placing 3,500 books into the hands of 500 pastors and leaders. The titles represented some of the finest Reformed publishing available — Reformation Heritage Books, 9Marks, HeartCry, and 20 Schemes. What made this distribution especially significant is that many of these pastors don’t speak English. For them, a sound theological book in their own language isn’t a convenience — it’s often the only access they will ever have to serious biblical teaching. Watching pastors receive these resources in Nepali, some for the first time in their ministry, was a powerful reminder of how starved the church there has been for solid teaching, and how much a single book can mean when nothing else is available.

That scarcity became even more real to me when I met with Paul Miller in Pokhara, where we’ve previously helped build out the seminary library. Pokhara is representative of so much of Nepal: a region where many pastors are shepherding churches with no formal theological training at all. They are faithful, they are laboring, but they are doing so largely untethered from the historic teaching of the church — vulnerable to error, isolated, and often without a single mentor or resource to turn to. This is the condition of much of the church in Nepal right now: hungry, growing, but desperately under-resourced. Every book we place is not just literature — it’s often a pastor’s first real theological anchor.

That’s why what’s ahead feels so significant. Building on the momentum of this trip, Isai has submitted a proposal for the National Gospel Conference (GCON 2027), set for February 17–18, 2027, in Kathmandu. The theme — “I Will Build My Church,” from Matthew 16:18. Isai is asking us to prayerfully consider equipping every pastor and leader in attendance with the complete Building Healthy Churches series by 9Marks: 600 copies each of 15 titles, 9,000 books in total, at a cost of $20,000.

These aren’t just books going into a bag at a conference. They are years of ecclesiology, discipleship, and pastoral wisdom going into the hands of men who are building the church in Nepal often with almost nothing else to build with.

There is a lot of possibility here. Please join me in prayerfully considering how the Lord might provide the $20,000 needed to make this happen, and pray for open doors, for the pastors who will receive these books, and for the long-term health of Christ’s church in Nepal. I covet and deeply appreciate your prayers.