A Happy Path of the Woman Pastoral Staff in Zion

I am the first born child in my family, and my parents always wanted me to be given over to God just like the mother of Prophet Samuel. My parents sent me to a theological seminary so that I could become a pastor and serve God.

Before receiving the truth, my dream was only to be a pastor who serves God. In India, pastors are approved in society; they are honored and served by Christians as absolute beings to them. When they are registered in the association, they are guaranteed with lots of income. More than that, I had passion to serve God. Unknowingly, however, I had pride that I attended the second largest theological school in Asia, so I must have had some sort of arrogance due to my knowledge.

When I had almost completed my bachelor of divinity and was about to take my final examination to become pastor, the biggest thing happened in my life. By that time, I received a call from my parents, who were talking about the truth of Heavenly Father and Mother.

I was very shocked. I was very shocked. At first, it was very difficult for me to accept the truth because I thought that I had learned things properly at a theological seminary and knew the Bible very well. However, my parents were very firm in faith, and they took me to Mumbai by train to let me know more about the truth. After studying the truth, I couldn’t resist. All the prophecies in the Bible enlightened me that the place where I belonged until then was not the true church.

Finally, by the grace of Heavenly Father and Mother, I could become God’s child. Before receiving the truth, my dream was only to be a pastor who serves God. I never had any other dream except this. But after receiving the truth, I was grateful to Heavenly Father and Mother for showing me the way to heaven, so I made my mind to devote myself to God and to follow wherever Father and Mother lead me.

One day, I came to Zion and saw a deaconess, who is the wife of a pastoral staff member, serving food for members with a beautiful smile. Since then, I kept watching her; she seemed to be so busy and was doing lots of Zion work, but she was always smiling. From morning till evening, she was wearing a constant smile and zeal on her face. It passed a very good and positive message to me.

I could realize the true meaning of serving, observing the deaconess, and came to have a dream of becoming a woman pastoral staff. Even though I could not become a pastor, I thought that I could become a beautiful woman pastoral staff member who is devoted to the members. I still had a sort of arrogance in mind as I used to do while being in the previous theological school, but the Korean Deaconess, who was serving brothers and sisters in Zion with humility and a smile on her face, truly changed me.

I visited Korea for the first time in 2015 as a member of the Overseas Visiting Group. Actually, I didn’t know about Korean woman pastoral staff’s sacrifice before I visited Korea. Korea was very clean and beautiful than I had thought. I could realize that they came to India to save people of India with Mother’s heart. If they hadn’t come to India, they would’ve carried out the gospel work in more comfortable circumstances. But they are sacrificing themselves in India with hot and humid weather, practicing the teachings of Heavenly Mother.

I learned many things from the Korean woman pastoral staff. I started to put those things into practice. It really had a big impact on my gospel result, and I would like to share it.

In 2017, we got an opportunity to go to Kanpur to establish Zion. Actually, I had a very negative view of the gospel work there because of my fixed idea that the people there would hardly receive God due to their own customs.

I shared my mind with an elderess, and she encouraged me with very gracious and positive words, and I plucked up my courage.

She said, “There are seven billion jewels in the world that Father and Mother gave us; we just need to go over there and find them. We don’t know who our lost brothers and sisters are. But when we try to find them with the earnest mind of Heavenly Mother, who has lost Her children, we will surely be able to find our loving brothers and sisters.”

Her words changed my fixed mindset in a positive way. By the time we arrived in Kanpur, my perceptions completely changed. There, Father and Mother really blessed us with many good fruits. For four months we stayed in Kanpur, baptism continued every week by God’s grace.

Since then, the elderess and the pastor visited Kanpur that is 23 hours away from Mumbai. The reason for their visit to Kanpur was only to serve warm meals to the members in Kanpur. At that time, a theological student member was leading the Zion, and so the local members had to bring food for themselves on the Sabbath days.

The members of the Kanpur Zion were moved at the pastor couple who resembles Mother of love, and their faith grew rapidly. They all became good gospel workers, and they even started serving God with humility and care. Looking at them, I really realized what the role of pastoral staff is.

Thankfully, I became a woman pastoral staff member. I’m still lacking in many ways. However, Father and Mother are always helping me through spiritually elder sisters around me. I had to give up the way of a pastor, but I am much happier now. It’s because I became a woman pastoral staff in the Church of God. If I had walked the path of a pastoral staff in the place where there is no salvation, I would have been served physically. Whenever I think about how the result would be, I feel dizzy. I truly give thanks to God for allowing me to walk the path of serving God’s people with true love.

Our Heavenly Mother Herself took the role of the woman pastoral staff in the early days of our church. Even now, Mother is showing good examples by serving and smiling. I never want to lose this blessing of the woman pastoral staff. In the Zion kitchen, I will help accomplish world evangelism. I will serve members with Mother’s heart. By smiling and serving delicious foods, I’ll give energy to the members so that they can bear good fruits. I give thanks to Mother for allowing me to be in the position of the woman pastoral staff.