Delivi toured the vast area and found, he reported 700 Catholics among the tea garden workers and the Khasia.
He tried to make friends with the Tea Estate managers in order to have access to the villages and the people.
Delivi literally wore out his knees with the difficult walking and was later somewhat crippled.
The compound housed very little, including no church, because the parish was ‘Mobile’ going to the people.
At that time, diocesan fathers too were working in St. Thomas’ Church, in Sunamganj district.
Soon after the arrival of the Oblates in greater Sylhet, they expanded their work of evangelization to different areas and thus established different parish/mission centre.
In the beginning of their mission in Sylhet, they lived in a rented house but they later built the parish and residence at Khadim Nagar.