Ministry Intelligence · Kinari × First Witness
Encouraged, Guwahati, Assam
The fruits of the Encourage Conference · a readout
On 5 September, more than 350 women gathered together to encourage one another in Christ. This is a readout on each voice heard in the three weeks following.
Measured as of Sep 29, 2026
From the hall to a voice heard
350+
women in the hall
5 September. A day of worship and teaching on growing deeper with God.
172
reached on WhatsApp
Each one greeted personally, in English and Assamese, and asked one question.
73
wrote back
In English, Hindi and Assamese, by text and by voice. Every one answered by the team.
Insight read
4 in 5 who replied said something real
59 of 73 went beyond a greeting to an answer, a testimony, or a need.
Insight read
46 gave a testimony worth keeping
Whole stories, several by voice note, of what the day changed.
Insight read
34 trusted the team with a prayer ask
Almost none in a first message. They came once a person had replied.
One woman’s four days
Every number on this page is a woman. Here is one, to show what “encouraged” means when it lands in a real season.
She used to ask God why. Four days later she asked for prayer for her brothers.
One woman, four exchanges, 15 to 18 September. Text replies in English, names withheld.
- Day 0
“You know, I usually get discouraged by many things. I used to have pain every day, and I often asked God, why? But when I heard the preaching, I understood that these discouragements are not from Jesus.”
Her first message. A testimony, and inside it a season of daily pain.
- Day 0
“When someone finds us or searches for us, where will they find us? At the feet of Jesus, or caught up in the things of this world?”
The teaching, in her own words, minutes later.
- Day 1
“Please pray for my two brothers. [Family details withheld.] Because of this my mom cries a lot. I'm so sorry for sharing so much.”
Asked what she would like prayer for, she entrusts the team with her family.
- Day 2
“May God use you mightily and bless many people through your life and ministry.”
She turns the prayer around.
- Day 3
“I hope I could be able to attend. See you on 10th October.”
Two messages, 43 seconds apart: a hope, then a decision.
What encouraged them
Kinari read every reply and clustered what the women raised. Bubbles are sized by how many women raised each theme; hover any bubble to read them in their own words. The two gold-ringed themes are the conference doing exactly what it set out to do.
Every reply, clustered
73 women · a woman can appear in more than one theme
Table view
| Theme | Women | In their words |
|---|---|---|
| Encouraged and lifted | 48 | “It was really such a blessing. I was especially encouraged by the fellowship and the way God spoke to me through the messages.” |
| Going deeper with God | 42 | “This conference encouraged me to grow deeper in faith, surrender myself to God, and become a woman who follows and serves Him wholeheartedly.” |
| Wanting the next step | 24 | “I was most encouraged by how we can serve God better in our church and family. I want to continue this journey.” |
| Asking for prayer | 24 | “I keep seeing a certain dream but don't know its meaning, and I get no chance to ask anyone.” |
| Serving church and community | 17 | “Now I'm starting to share the gospel with my non-believer friends.” |
| Struggles named | 15 | “I have pain in my legs sometimes and there is a lot of swelling. Please keep me in your prayers.” |
| Family and home | 13 | “My family does not know the Lord. Their hearts, eyes and ears are all closed. Pray that God opens them.” |
| Worship and the program | 4 | “The dance was a bit too much. Next time, fewer dances and songs, more focus on praise and worship plus the word of God.” |
Bubble size is the number of women · gold ring marks the two loudest themes
Encouraged and lifted · 48 women
Two in three said it, unprompted
And most tied it to the teaching and the fellowship, not the event.
Going deeper with God · 42 women
Not a feeling. A decision.
To pray more, to sit at the feet of Jesus, to become like Mary. Encouragement turned into intent within days.
“As a mother and wife I was spiritually lost, but after attending the conference I am very much spiritually strengthened.”
Text reply · English
“Serving is important, but being at the feet of Jesus is more important, and seeking His presence is even more important.”
Voice note · English
What they carry
34 women asked for prayer for something specific. Read together, the asks are the ministry’s pastoral agenda for the next quarter, and nothing a feedback form would have surfaced.
The 77 asks, at a glance
Every ask counted once, in four big buckets.
Table view
| Bucket | asks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Faith and calling | 30 | 39% |
| Work, study and money | 16 | 21% |
| Family and home | 14 | 18% |
| Health | 9 | 12% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
Insight read
Exams and ministry sit next to addiction and debt
From a daughter’s board exams to a brother in a rehabilitation camp. The same women, the same week.
Insight read
Nine named ministry, calling or training
One is teaching Sunday school untrained. Capability, not only comfort.
Prayer asks, in depth
Women asking, by subject. Hover a bar for the asks in their words.
Table view
| Item | women | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Studies and exams | 10 | “Please pray for my family and me, and for my upcoming half-yearly exams.” |
| Ministry, calling and training | 9 | “I am taking responsibility to teach Sunday school children, but I am not well trained.” |
| Their own walk with God | 9 | “Pray for me that I can give time to God and build a strong relationship with Him.” |
| Health and illness | 7 | “I want you to pray for me. I am sick.” |
| Family and children | 4 | “Please pray for my family; we are six members in the house.” |
| Addiction and hard relationships | 4 | “[Family details withheld.] My mom cries a lot.” |
| Family who do not yet believe | 3 | “My family does not know God.” |
| Money, debt and work | 3 | “Pray that I can soon be free of my loans and EMIs.” |
| Someone to talk to | 2 | “I get no chance to ask anyone.” |
| Understanding dreams and hearing God | 1 | “Until I understand the meaning of a dream, there is some restlessness in my heart.” |
| Marriage and discernment | 1 | “My prayer request is just this: what is the Lord's will regarding marriage.” |
“I know my God is very faithful, but because of my own decisions I have become very distant with Him. I seriously want to get out of it but haven’t been able to.”
Text reply · English
Key learnings
The story in four lines.
- The conference did its job. Two in three women who replied named being encouraged, and within days it had turned into intent: to pray more, to serve, to come back.
- The encouragement landed on real weight. 34 asked for prayer, and the list runs from exams to addiction and debt. This was not a comfortable room to begin with.
- Trust is built in exchanges, not messages. Almost every prayer ask came on the second exchange, after a person had replied. Nobody pours out to a broadcast.
- Courtesy is a door, not a wall. “Praise the Lord ma’am” carries no information; asked again, 10 of 24 such women went deep. These women need conversations to go deeper.
Where to be better
In 655 messages there is exactly one critique of the program. That is not the absence of critique; it is the culture. So here is what the women said, and what the numbers say that nobody wrote.
They said it
Every signal a woman put into words. Hover for the quote.
Table view
| Signal | Women | In their words |
|---|---|---|
| Who is writing to me? | 3 | “Hello, who's this?” |
| Softly disengaging | 3 | “I am very sorry, I am going away to do church ministry for a long time.” |
| No one to ask spiritual questions | 2 | “I get no chance to ask anyone.” |
| Record and share the teaching | 1 | “If possible, next time please record the video and send it.” |
| Untrained for the role given | 1 | “I am taking responsibility to teach Sunday school children, but I am not well trained or have no idea how to teach.” |
| Reach beyond one community | 1 | “If you work only with the Bodo community, you will not be able to bring the message to all the people of Assam.” |
| Open with praise and worship; less dance | 1 | “It would have been best if the program had started with prayer, praise and worship.” |
| Assamese did not land for everyone | 1 | “I don't get it, whatever is written in Assamese.” |
| Cannot get leave for 10 October | 1 | “Pray that I can attend on 10 October; I don't get that much leave from the office.” |
Program
Open with praise and worship
Less dance, more worship and the Word, at the start. One voice, four messages, and a reason: it connects the room before the teaching.
Trust
Say who is writing
Three asked “who is this?”. Two more said, in different words, that they have nobody to ask.
The data says it
Silence
99
women reached have not replied
Move: one more touch, by voice, in her language. Then rest. The reminder brought 22.
Courtesy
14
wrote back with a greeting only
Move: ask the second question, once. It worked for 10 of 24.
Depth
30 of 34
prayer asks came on the second exchange or later
Move: next time, “what can we pray for?” is the opener.
For 10 October, and after
Three moves. Each one comes straight from what the women said.
At the door · 10 October
Start with worship. Then let them hear each other’s prayers.
One woman asked for praise and worship before the teaching, because it settles hearts before the Word. Then read out the 34 prayer asks, no names, and give each one to a woman in the room to pray through October. Let every woman in that hall hear that she was heard.
After the door
Staying encouraged, how God intended
Encouragement was never meant to be an event. It is a state, kept alive by praying for one another. Gather the 34 who asked for prayer and the women who offered it back into an intercession group: WhatsApp, weekly, by voice, in three languages. The conference is the door; the praying is the ministry.
The year
Build the equipping track the asks describe
Nine women named ministry, calling or training; 24 asked for the next step. Start with the women who asked to be equipped. CMI’s gift is discipleship, so partner with OneHope or another equipping ministry to train the teachers in what they already do.
