Dr Simon Sircar

The church of Bangladesh today, Sunday, 8 February 2009 mourns the death of Dr Rev Simon Sircar who died this Sunday morning at about ten thirty. We mourn with and pray for the family who grieve the loss of a husband, a father and a grandfather.
At the same time we praise God for the gift He gave us through Dr Simon Sircar. Dr Sircar was probably the greatest preacher of our time. For twenty two years he headed up College of Christian Theology in Bangladesh or (CCTB). Before that he served as a pastor in Immanuel Baptist Church in Dhaka. Dr Simon Sircar was the first Bangladeshi doctor of Theology.
Simon Sircar was known widely because of his extensive preaching ministry in churches of all (protestant) denominations. Many people testify to having met the Lord through his preaching and most Christians, at least in Northern Bangladesh will have benefited from his teaching and if not directly then most certainly from teaching by Dr Simon Sircar's students at CCTB.
Here at LAMB several Christians testify to the influence Dr Sircar has had on their faith and on how God used him to bring them into and closer into fellowship with God.
It was appropriate that the texts in our church today on Sunday Septuagesima were Jeremiah 1 about the anointing by God to speak His word to us. The second text was as appropriate from Phillipians 3 about the message Dr Simon Sircar preached, the message of the "righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me." (NIV) The last reading was from Matthew 25 about the talents and the faithful servant who used the gifts of God and was rewarded with Heaven. Simon Sircar was such a servant. He is now sharing his master's happiness.