A Life on Mission: Tashi

On October 29, 2024, one of our longtime partners, Tashi, went home to be with the Lord. He was 94 years old and gave his life for gospel ministry.

Tashi was born into a Tibetan-Nepalese family in a remote mountain village in the Himalayas. His mother raised him alone after becoming a widow when Tashi was just 5 years old. Fifteen years later, following the completion of his studies, he was encouraged by a TEAM Mission leader to use his English comprehension to translate books into the local language. It was while translating a book, that Tashi was born again.

After 32 years of serving the Lord with TEAM Mission, especially effective in responding to the mail responses in follow-up for new believers, the Lord led Tashi and his wife to establish a new church planting ministry in a new area in the late 1970s. As part of their work, they started a Bible School and invited young people from the unreached Toya* people group to study. Several of the students became believers and took the gospel back to their people.

A growing number of Toya today (about 10 percent), name the Lord Jesus as their Saviour and Lord. In fact, Madan – another Engage Today partner – was a student of Tashi’s in the 1980s, and one of the first Toya to believe, and has been used by God among his people.

In 2009, Tashi received a lifetime achievement award for his lifetime of service in mission. It was around that time that Monoj, Engage Today field staff, introduced Tashi to us.

In recent years, Engage Today worked together with Tashi to revitalize the Bible School in order that more Toya believers be prepared for missionary work.

We praise God for Tashi’s life given in service to his Lord and Saviour on mission.

*Toya is a pseudonym