A Tribute by Ajith Fernando 15th January 2018 On 13th January 2018 at the age of at the age of seventy-one, Suriyakumaran Williams went to be with the Master he had served so faithfully and lovingly. He had battled Alzheimer’s disease for eight years. MY FRIEND And I lost a friend of fifty years. We …
April 2011 Questions Regarding Discipleship Strategy of Robert Coleman For a Doctoral Student Please give your name, along with when and where you were in one of Dr. Coleman’s discipleship groups. Ajith Fernando—part of discipleship group from 1972 to 1974 at Asbury Theological Seminary What church did …
Colton Wickramaratne is the Elder Statesman of the Evangelical Church in Sri Lanka. This was given at his fiftieth wedding anniversary in 2005 COLTON AND SUSANNE WICKRAMARATNE I am very happy to be given the honour of speaking at a key event in the life of a couple I greatly admire. …
Wang, Stephen Wang. The Long Road to Freedom: The Story of Wang Mingdao. Translated by Ma Ming. Ellel, Lancaster, UK: Sovereign World, 2002. The author of this inspiring biography of the Chinese Christian leader Wang Mingdao was converted through Wang Mingdao’s ministry. The biography is a frank account showing even the weaknesses of …
Dr Ajith and Nelun Fernando 25 Kassapa Road Colombo 5 Sri Lanka Phone 2590009 Mobile +94-777-698048 (Ajith); Mobile +94-777-917861 (Nelun) E-mail: ajithyfc@slt.lk; nelun2009@gmail.com 30th November 2010 I have known Aunty Niva from my childhood days as she was my mother’s good friend. But I got to know her better in my …
When I think Roger and June Hedlund, the word that comes to me is ENABLER. I was an unknown young youth worker who had written a New Testament studies Th.M. thesis on Exegetical Arguments for Universalism at Fuller Theological Seminary. I wrote a …
Written in 2008 LIVE TO BE FORGOTTEN By AJITH FERNANDO Recently I read the booklet Live to be Forgotten: D. E. Hoste by Patrick Fung, the General Director of OMF (the organisation Hudson Taylor founded). The book is published by OMF Hong Kong. It is a short reflection on the …
Ajith and Nelun Fernando 25 Kassapa Road Colombo 5 Sri Lanka Phone 2590009 Mobile +94-777-698048 (Ajith); Mobile +94-777-917861 (Nelun) E-mail: ajithyfc@slt.lk; nelun2009@gmail.com 3rd November 2010 To William Taylor Dear Bill, I hear you are turning 70 in a few days time. How young 70 has become in our present …
22nd July 2003 SOME LESSONS LEARNED FROM MY FATHER’S LIFE AND DEATH My dear friends, Thank you very much for your kind expressions of love over my father’s death. My brother Priyan was alerted that he was going down a day before he died, and he was able to come to …
Roger Headland: American South Asian Ajith and Nelun Fernando 25th February 2010 Dear Roger, I praise God and rejoice with many who join you in wishing you a happy seventy-fifth birthday. May the Lord continue to use you to further the cause of his kingdom, especially in South Asia. God has …