Source: Asia Stories, June 23, 2013
Chiijik Lhomi has never been a big fan of Christians. Everyone in her community knows it. The 51-year-old woman – who makes and sells rice beer for a living – once loved to poke fun at those who believe in Jesus.
“Then my lost daughter was found,” says Chiijik, whose last name indicates the name of her ethnic Tibetan people group [the Lhomi]. “After that, I started to believe just a little bit.”
That was nearly eight years ago, and in spite of two miraculous healings in her village and countless conversations with other Christians – including Sonam, her runaway daughter who was “found” – Chiijik still isn’t quite sure what it means to be free from sin.
“I believe in my heart about Jesus,” Chiijik says. “But I cannot be baptized.”
A Southern Baptist worker in Kathmandu believes that Chiijik doesn’t want to be baptized because she feels guilty for persecuting those who shared Jesus with her in the past.
“Even though she insists that she believes in Jesus in her heart and is telling her friends and neighbors that Jesus is the one true God, Chiijik does not count herself among the Christians in the community.”
It is difficult for 21-year-old Sonam, now a vibrant, growing Christian, who so badly wants her mother to follow Jesus.
Then a few months ago, Sonam had a dream.
“I had a dream that my mother was sick. I saw my mom’s face and [I knew] she was going to die. I started to cry,” Sonam recalls. “Then [another Christian] said, ‘Why are you crying? Why did you not share with your mom? Now she is going to die.'”
Although Sonam had accompanied countless Christians over the years who had shared their faith with Chiijik, her dream made her realize she had acted only as translator.
“I had never shared Jesus with my mom from my own mouth,” Sonam says. “I knew I needed to share with her.”
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These southern baptist missionary better learn Tibetan history before write something. Lhomi are not Tibetan are from east Nepal a indigenous Himalayan people from east Nepal like sherpa are.They write all these false report to raise thousands of dollars in the name of Tibetans…doing nothing
These days it’s common to use word tibetan in Nepal to make money …even so called christian are not much different …..such a shame….