Revival Now!

Dearly Beloved in the Lord, we want to thank you all for your prayer support and encouragement for the Lord’s work in India. We rejoice in the Lord for His faithfulness and in watching over us to lead us.

Last month began with fears of war, and hundreds of our believers and their families were moved from their villages near the border of Pakistan to safer areas. We could see and hear the fighting. We praise God for divine favor. The fighting stopped within days and peace has been restored.

Last month we had our Sunday school teachers training program in 9 different areas where more than 642, mostly young men and women, were trained to lead Sunday schools in the villages and slums in different states. Teachers who were involved in child evangelism were leading the training. One of our teachers, Radha, is a young single mother who lives in the slum. Out of curiosity, and for the snacks which we served, she attended one of our past VBS for all three days.  Our Lord touched her heart, and along with the children, she came forward, carrying her two-year-old son, to receive Jesus as her personal savior. Through that VBS we started a regular Sunday school in that slum. Radha, along with many other women, began attending the Sunday school. Later we started a sewing center in that slum to help the poor women in that area. Over time, the Sunday school grew into a sewing center, then into a house church and this past December, 27 people were baptized in that slum. This year Radha and 11 of her friends were trained as Sunday school teachers. The first VBS was in their area, and we had over 170 children ages 8-15 who attended the VBS.

We also started 21 house church leaders’ training centers for the academic year of 2025-2026 in different states. A total of 712 people are now enrolled.

Sudharshan, at 26 years old, is the oldest of four children in a Hindu traditional “untouchable” family.  His parents work long hours as bound laborers in the fields. Sudharshan was given the responsibility to care for his younger siblings, but due to hardship, and a lack of parental care, affection, or discipline, the children grew up very self-centered and fell into bad company and addiction.

Two years ago, three of the brothers were arrested for unlawful activities and were in prison for 16 months. In the jail they met with one of our missionaries who had been sentenced to 14 months for baptizing the tribal people without the permission of the government. Our missionary shared the Gospel with Sudarshan and his brothers and every day prayed with them. They accepted the Lord into their life. Last January the three brothers were released from the jail, and last Easter Sunday they got baptized! All three of them have enrolled in our house church leaders’ training program. They are from an unreached people group, with (until now!) 0% Christianity reported among them. This year we have many brothers and sisters in the training program who are from unreached people groups.

Our 2025 VBS programs are now underway. We have VBS programs in 87 different slums and villages, not counting those being held by local churches. This year we are expecting around 10,000 children to attend the VBS program. On the other hand, we are facing many challenges from authorities and local Hindu radicals. It has been reported that in three slums our brothers and sisters were chased out and prevented from conducting the VBS. The local slum dwellers wanted to have the VBS, but while it was going on, Hindu radicals came and disrupted the VBS, and chased them out of the slums. By our Lord’s favor and grace, today we completed the 3-day VBS program in 24 places, and by the time the program finishes, we will complete the VBS in another 27 places.

A young child who lives in a slum, comes to the VBS as a poor, uneducated child, lacking basic social skills. They hear the name of Jesus and learn how Jesus loves them deeply. That child happily goes home and shares what they’ve learned with their parents, how they sang and rejoiced. Seeing and hearing the joy of the children, the parents hearts are softened, they are curious to see what is happening, so the entire families begin to hear about Jesus, and they are drawn to the Lord. This is what makes the VBS and Sunday school a very useful tool to reach parents.

Please pray for our Lord’s favor and protection over our brothers and sisters. More than 680 brothers and sisters are involved in this year’s VBS. And as we mentioned, we are facing many challenges and obstacles in reaching these children. Pray for the move of the Holy Spirit in the lives of these children, that they may be touched physically, emotionally, mentally and most importantly Spiritually.

Once again thank you very much for your prayers and support and encouragement. May our Lord’s favor and blessings be upon everyone.

Help Us Share the Gospel

As we lead the many new house churches that will be planted from the VBS and Sunday school program, please pray for us that our Lord would continue leading and guiding us to disciple the unreached with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please consider helping us in this task. Without your prayers and support we would not be able to reap the harvest.

To read more inspiring and exciting testimonies of what God is doing among the unreached people groups of India, click the links on the right, and keep reading!

Proclaiming the Gospel…

…until He comes

We live in a time where we have many opportunities to worry. Jesus said that in the last days there would be wars and rumors of wars, and I think we would all agree that these are the last days. But if the last days began 2000 years ago, how much closer are we today to the end? Sometimes when I wake up, my mind begins rehearsing everything that has been happening in our world, from global events all the way to family issues and concerns. I have an opportunity to allow myself to be overwhelmed by all the situations. But then, almost subconsciously, I find myself singing a little song that I learned many years ago.

The lyrics go something like this: “I cast all my cares upon You. I lay all of my burdens down at Your feet. And anytime I don’t know what to do, I just cast all my cares upon You.” It’s a simple song with a simple melody, but it has a great impact on my attitude and helps me refocus as I begin the new day.

Are you like me? Do you have “opportunities” to worry about life? Try casting everything on Jesus. He wants to take our concerns, our burdens, and carry them for us. He wants us to trust Him with everything in our lives, the big things and the small things.

Whatever your challenges, whatever your struggles, or your worries, let’s agree to take every opportunity to cast our cares on Him, because He cares for us! Keep praying and never give up. If you are asking the Lord for something, keep praying. If you need His peace or wisdom, keep praying. If people around you are hurting, keep praying. If the answer to your prayer hasn’t come, keep praying. Never, never give up!

I said this last month, but it never gets old – thank you for standing with us in prayer and financial gifts! Together we will see the testimony of Jesus grow in India! “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakkuk 2:14 NASB)

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

Last month we made a long overdue visit to some of our remote tribal mission fields in Rajasthan. Our last visit was in December during the Christmas Outreach, where we spent a few days with them overseeing the outreach and attending public meetings.

We started on March 21, early in the morning and reached one of our mission stations after 14 hours of nonstop driving in Rajasthan. We were received and taken home by our sister who works among the slum children. Over the last 4 years they have been working among the slum children, reaching them with the Gospel and educating them to read and write. I have had the opportunity to teach theses sisters in the Bible college.

Five years ago, these sisters on their Outreach program visited the slums for the first time. They saw the helpless condition of a child who was scavenging little scraps of food from a garbage can and seeing the poor situation of all the children, they were heartbroken. After completing this Bible college training, they decided to start working among children as they felt the Lord was leading them. We too felt it was ordained by God. Exciting Word sent them to that particular area which was spiritually very hard ground. They were faced with many obstacles – humiliation from Hindu radicals, who called them all kinds of bad names and slandered their character. But our Lord gave them favor in the heart of the house owner and his wife (an elderly couple), and they stood with these young sisters.  

As we look back today, we can see the amazing move of the Lord through these sisters, touching the hearts and minds of thousands of slum children over the past four years. Many of these children have had to live with the burden of orphanhood when their parents moved to other states for work, leaving the children under the care of their grandparents. Children who don’t get parents’ love, good food or clothes, get an education in name only. In most of the houses in the villages we visited, many people worked in the brick kilns or onion fields for low wages.

One of the most heart-wrenching sights in the slums is the ‘runaway’ motherhood of girls ages 14 to 17, who have to carry the burden of the family. They should be playing and enjoying their life with their parents, but instead they are single mothers or taking care of their siblings.

Children longing for love

When we reached the slum around 9 am, we were expecting only 50 children. We ordered some snacks for them and waited. By 9.30 the children started arriving. We started with a few songs and, as time passed, the number of children began to grow. The number went from fifty children, to a hundred, then a hundred and fifty. Finally, by 10:30am there were two hundred children present. Many children came with their parents, some on bicycles and others on foot, walking a long distance.

At this point, we were in trouble! Our preparations were for fifty children. The meeting was in an open field, under a big bamboo grove. They came dressed in the best clothes they had, but there was no place to sit, no floor (just a plastic sheet), and no sound system. Our sisters had ordered 50 snack boxes but now we needed more than 200, and the sisters didn’t have any more money. I asked them to get the shopkeeper on the phone. I told him that we needed a minimum of 200 boxes. He said he couldn’t do that; he didn’t have enough snacks in the shop. I asked him to bring whatever he could find, and we would pay him. Meanwhile, the sisters told the children some Bible stories, and afterwards I shared the story of the prodigal son for the parents and other adults. When I gave the altar call, 42 people responded, including some young boys and girls.

Finally, the shopkeeper arrived, bringing whatever he could in a big bag. When he saw the children, he said “this is not enough for even half of them!” In front everyone, we blessed the food and served them in leaves. They came in a single file line, and one by one we served everyone. With my own hands I passed out the food, and everyone ate and was filled, and there was enough for us too. The Hindu man who brought food said he had never seen something like this in his entire life. I gave him a New Testament asked him to read the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand with five bread and two fish.

Easter outreach 2025

As I write this newsletter, we are in the last days of our Easter outreach. Our Easter outreach started Sunday, April 6th. In an early church service, we prayed for over 150 men and women in an area and sent them for outreach. We sent out 85 teams, with more than ten people in each team. More than 990 of our House church leader trainees, including previous years graduates, joined in the Easter outreach.

We ask for all your earnest prayers for the outreach, may the Lord use these trainees for His glory and honor. The political and religious situation is rapidly changing. Hindu radicals are on a rampage, and the authorities are acting against Christians. Under this pressure, we are sending this information late and not revealing the details of the outreach.

Please pray for hundreds of public meetings that took place from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.

Please also pray for divine provision for the outreach. We need to pay for all the literature we bought for the outreach in the coming months and help with public meetings.

Please pray for divine protection over all the brothers and sisters who joined the outreach, that they may continue boldly sharing the gospel.

Help Us Share the Gospel

As we lead the many new house churches that were planted in the Christmas outreach, please pray for us that our Lord would continue leading and guiding us to disciple the unreached with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please consider helping us in this task. Without your prayers and support we would not be able to reap the harvest.

To read more inspiring and exciting testimonies of what God is doing among the unreached people groups of India, click the links on the right, and keep reading!

Proclaiming the Gospel…

…until He comes

I hope each one of you has had a wonderful Easter, remembering the sacrifice our Lord made, and celebrating the Resurrection of the King of Glory! His death paid for our sins, and His resurrection enables us to live in His blessing, “according to the power that works within us.” (Ephesians 3:20) We don’t yet have the results from our Easter outreach, but the Gospel is being proclaimed in many villages throughout the land, and we give God all the glory for that!

Even though we rejoice in our spirits because of the Resurrection, we also are aware of stressful situations around us. Spring is here and new life is bursting forth, but not without some struggles. Trees, bushes, and fields are all green with lush new growth, but pollen covers our houses and cars. The economy is doing well in some areas but struggling in others. Jobs are plentiful, but there are lots of layoffs.

Jesus promises to take care of us, but He gives us some responsibility in that also. The Bible says God will bless whatever we put our hands to, but that implies we need to put our hands to something, for God to have something to bless. It says God will forgive all our sins and heal all our diseases (Psalm 103), but we need to pray believing and receive the healing (Mark 11:23-24). And Jesus is saving many people through the message of the Gospel, but He needs us to be willing to share the message, as His fellow workers (1 Corinthians 3:9).

Above all, we need to pray and never give up. If you are asking the Lord for something, keep praying. If you need His peace or wisdom, keep praying. If people around you are hurting, keep praying. If the answer to your prayer hasn’t come, keep praying. Never, never give up!

Thank you for standing with us in prayer and financial gifts. Together we will see the testimony of Jesus grow in India! “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakkuk 2:14 NASB)

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

This is the story of a small village in Rajasthan. A few years ago, 14 Muslim families were forced out of their homes by the Hindu majority villagers. They accused them of killing a cow, an animal which the Hindus consider holy and honor as mother. They were beaten up very badly and forced out of the village. Later the authorities investigated, and found the allegation was false – the cow was killed by wild animals. The meat found in the Muslims’ homes was goat meat, which is allowed and sold in every market. The Muslims were innocent, but the Hindus who were in the majority did not let them return to their village. Finally the authorities relocated the 14 families to a new area. Over the last few years, several other Muslim families were relocated to this village. Today there are more than 47 families. They are very poor people, not highly educated, but they are very hard working people. Some are potters; some are iron smiths; others work in the brick factory.

During the Christmas outreach a few of our brothers and sisters went to that particular village to share the Gospel and distribute the Gospel of John. Before this, no one had heard the Gospel. They knew Jesus as Issa, one of their prophets. Our brothers received a very warm welcome from the villagers. They visited every home in that village, shared the Gospel with them, and invited them to a public meeting in a nearby village, but they said they would not come. The meeting was going to be held in a Hindu village, and the Muslims expected problems if they attended.

Finally our brothers decided to have a separate evening meeting for them in their village. It was going to be in the evening because everyone could attend it with their family. They set the date for December 27th. One of our area ministers in charge was going to attend and give the message, but that evening on the way to the village he became very sick. He could not ride his bike, and he asked some villagers to take him to the hospital. In the hospital he was admitted with a high fever and was unable to go to the meeting. Our brothers and sisters who were trainees in our training center were making final arrangements, and already the villagers started to come to the meeting. When they realized the preacher was not going to come, they didn’t know what to do. They got together and started to pray and ask the Lord. They had an LCD projector and the “Jesus” movie in different languages, so one had the idea that they should first play the movie and then afterwards share the Gospel. Others disagreed because this was supposed to be a Christmas meeting. As they talked it over, some children came and asked if they were going to show a movie, so they went ahead with that plan.

During the meeting they sang some worship songs and with the audience’s permission they showed the “Jesus” movie in the local language. Over 200 people watched the 2-hour movie for the first time. According to our brothers, no one moved during the movie and they were impacted emotionally. During the crucifixion scene, there was a great emotional outbreak of weeping and crying, many crying uncontrollably. At the end of the movie, at the resurrection scene, everyone was on their feet rejoicing, celebrating, and there was even dancing!

After the movie ended, one of the brothers stood up and shared that this man is “Issa” the prophet, in their religious book. He went on to share the pure simple Gospel with them. Jesus came into the world, lived among us, died on the cross for our sins, and if we believe in Him and repent of our sins, we will be saved. They gave an altar call, and 78 people responded to the altar call. Our brothers and sisters laid their hands on them and prayed for them.

For the past two months, every Sunday, they have had a regular prayer meeting. Last week, I (Regi) was in that village for a special meeting. In the evening, more than 350 people attended, people from other Muslim villages too. I preached the story of the Prodigal Son to them, inviting them to come back to the father’s home. More than fifty people responded to the altar call. They brought their sick, lame, demon-possessed, paralyzed, alcoholic and all their people to the meeting. We prayed for them, and in front of all the people, those who were demon-possessed cried out and were delivered in the name of Jesus. A paralyzed man was able to sit up in his bed, even before praying for him! He went home sitting on the back of his son’s motorbike. Our Lord is moving among the people of this village with signs and wonders! People who were rejected and thrown out, outcasts, God is calling them to Himself.

Today our trainees visit the believers, fellowshipping with them, and worshiping the Lord, the True Prophet who came to save them, learning from His Word to observe all that Jesus taught us. For our trainees it was a life-transforming experience. They are normal people with no special gifts or abilities, people who are weak, but our Lord used these normal young men and women to lead hundreds of people who were in spiritual darkness into the marvelous light of the Gospel. For them it is the greatest joy and privilege, and today most of them have dedicated their lives to the Lord’s service.

This year’s Christmas outreach has been very challenging – spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially. But by God’s grace and favor, and your earnest prayers and financial support, we overcame every challenge by His strength and His favor on us to reap this harvest.

Help Us Share the Gospel

As we lead the many new house churches that were planted in the Christmas outreach, please pray for us that our Lord would continue leading and guiding us to disciple the unreached with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please consider helping us in this task. Without your prayers and support we would not be able to reap the harvest.

To read more inspiring and exciting testimonies of what God is doing among the unreached people groups of India, click the links on the right, and keep reading!

Proclaiming the Gospel…

…until He comes

When God is at work, His Light shines in the darkness. When that happens, people respond in different ways. Some respond in a positive way, others respond negatively. As the Bible says “And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God.” (John 3:19-21, NASB)

Recently our ministry teams shared the Gospel in a Muslim village, with amazing results. The people had never heard the message, and they responded with great joy and excitement. We rejoice that these people who lived in darkness for many years have now entered a life filled with light. They were saved, healed, and delivered because you, our partners, helped to spread the message of the Gospel.

This village was touched by the power of the Gospel, but other villages remain in darkness. Pray with us that the light will shine in those places, too. We know that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. But how will they call on Him if they don’t hear? And how will they hear if no one tells them? And finally, how will someone tell them if they aren’t sent? (see Romans 10:13-15)

That’s where you and I come in. We might not be able to go to the villages and share the Gospel, but we can send someone who is trained, ready, and willing to go. We can empower and enable them to travel to remote places and bring the light into the darkness. And when they do, we will share in the reward of seeing people’s lives transformed. Thank you for standing with us in prayer and financial gifts. Together we will see the testimony of Jesus grow in India! “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakkuk 2:14 NASB)

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

We rejoice in the Lord for the harvest we had during the 20 days of Christmas Outreach and public meetings. It started on December 9 and went until December 28. When we planned the outreach in October there was some apprehension because of the government’s anti-Christian polices and the Hindu radicals openly threatening believers in northern India that they will wipe out Christianity and cleanse every village in India. There were many attacks on churches, and many house church leaders were arrested, charged, imprisoned and denied bail.

When our leaders discussed this, everyone wanted to be part of the outreach. In Bihar some tribal church leaders met me and shared their vision to reach the unreached villages around them. I shared our Christmas Outreach plans and asked them to join us. They agreed, so 49 churches in a 70-mile radius joined the outreach. They were tribal people, and we had to train them to be polite, calm, patient, and to endure hardship.

On December 9th, 1,782 men and women joined together and started the outreach in five different states. They were divided into teams with 12 or more people per team. 139 teams went out, reaching over 108,700 homes in 497 unreached villages in 13 days of outreach. They met people in homes, villages, fields and on the roadsides. They shared the Gospel, gave out “Gospel of John” booklets, prayed for individuals and families, and invited them to public meetings. By God’s grace, our brothers and sisters were received with joy in most villages, while in some places they were humiliated, beaten up, and forced out of the village with strong verbal threats.

On Sunday, December 22 after an early morning service, we conducted an outreach from noon to 5:30pm. Over 27,000 believers, including men, women, and children, went to over 100,000 homes in the villages, sharing the Gospel, praying for people, and conducting open air meetings. They reported over 780 people accepted Jesus as their personal Savior, and many healings and deliverances took place, while believers prayed for the sick.

In one village, a family of 5 believers (both parents and 3 young children) were sharing the Gospel. Their oldest son ran into a schoolmate unexpectedly, who invited them to his home. The schoolmate introduced the boy’s family to his family. They began to talk, and the believing parents told them they came to their village to share the Gospel and pray for people. While they were talking, many of the schoolmate’s relatives and neighbors entered the courtyard of the house. They were very polite and hospitable. The believer’s family, upon seeing the relatives, and with the family’s permission, shared the story of Christmas. None of the villagers had ever heard the Gospel story. They all had assumed that Christmas was just the birthday of some great man. As they finished speaking and prepared to close with prayer, more people from the neighborhoods came. At this point, the number of listeners was more than 50, so in closing they shared the pure Gospel and gave an invitation. For the man who was speaking, it was his first time publicly sharing. His wife helped him share, and at the end the family sang a few songs and prayed for the people. One young woman who could not stand straight from birth, and had been brought by her parents, was healed in front of the people. Eleven people dedicated their lives to the Lord at the end of the meeting.

But as I said before, there was some trouble also. In another place, 52 believers, including women and children and their pastor, were surrounded by Hindu radicals, who locked them in the public school for 6 hours. Later the villagers informed the police, who came and released the believers.

From December 23rd to the 28th, 172 public meetings were held in different villages. The public meetings were well attended. Sherly and I personally attended 16 of these public meetings, where hundreds of people responded to the altar call. In 6 different places the Hindu radicals came and disrupted the meetings. In two places they damaged the plastic chairs and the sound systems. According to the report from our leaders who were overseeing the Christmas outreach, our brothers and sisters reached over 232,000 families or homes in 1,072 villages in 5 states. They gave out 490,000 “Gospel of John” booklets to the people, held 172 public meetings in the villages. A total of 45,000 people attended these public meetings, and for most of them they said it was their first time in a Christian meeting. At the altar calls, a total of 6,954 people responded. In addition, many healings took place. One 17-year-old young man who, according to his doctor, was 85% blind, was healed in one of the public meetings. In another meeting, a 42-year-old paralyzed man carried in on a stretcher was healed during the meeting and afterwards walked home. Later, his father, who suffered from severe depression and had tried to commit suicide several times, was delivered in another public meetings. These are just a few of the many miracles reported during the public meetings.

In summary, this year’s Christmas outreach was very challenging – spiritually, physically, emotionally, and financially. But by God’s grace and favor, and your earnest prayers, we overcame every challenge by His strength and His favor on us to reap this harvest.

Help Us Share the Gospel

As we lead the many new house churches that were planted in the Christmas outreach, please pray for us that our Lord would give us direction and lead us and guide us to disciple the unreached with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please consider helping us in this task. Without your prayers and support we would not be able to reap the harvest.

To read more inspiring and exciting testimonies of what God is doing among the unreached people groups of India, click the links on the right, and keep reading!

Proclaiming the Gospel…

…until He comes

Along with entering a new year, we have entered a new season. There is a new hope in the air and a revival has begun. Not just in India, as we read in this month’s newsletter, but all around the world the Spirit of the Living God is moving, and those who have their spiritual senses attuned can feel something. There is a feeling of electricity in the air. People are opening their hearts once again to the message of the Gospel.

Many of us have been praying for a change in our country. We have been interceding for a return to godly morals and a renewal of righteousness. Now we are seeing things beginning to change, and it might be tempting to take a rest, to relax and enjoy seeing our prayers being answered. But this is not the time to relax. Now is the time to act. We have a window of opportunity to share the Gospel with hungry people. We have open doors to pray for those who are hurting and need an answer from God.

It’s true that many prayers have been answered, but just as many situations still exist where prayers need to be prayed, and answers need to be received. Jesus said, “the kingdom of heaven has forcefully advanced, and the strong take it by force.” (Matt. 11:12 MEV) Now is the time to be forcefully advancing in exerting influence on the world around us. You might feel insignificant, but each of us can have an impact on others when we allow God to guide us.

How do we allow God to guide us? By abiding in Him and letting His word abide in us. We are saved by grace through faith. But how do we nurture our faith? In Romans Paul says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17) We nurture our faith by filling ourselves with the word of God. Whether you read the written Bible or listen to someone else reading it, begin to absorb the Bible every day. You might be amazed at how your faith grows.

And as your faith grows, activate your faith through prayer and actions. When you read a Bible promise, receive it by faith. When you need a healing, receive it by faith. No matter what your need is, apply God’s word to your personal situation with full assurance that your prayer will be answered.

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

The Banjara people live a nomadic lifestyle. They work as ironsmiths, making and repairing small farm equipment, constantly moving from one place to another for work. They travel in groups in ox carts and live in tents in the fields. In the past, Banjaras were also known as criminal communities, but now many are born again, baptized, and living a life for the Lord Jesus, working hard and living in harmony with the local people.

Our pastor Charanjit and a few other brothers work among the Banjara communities. The Lord has blessed their effort, hard work and sacrifices. In the last few years, hundreds of people from the Banjara communities have come to the Lord. Last March we had three days of meetings among Banjara communities, and more than 250 families attended the meetings. It was eye opening for us to see how these people mingled together, made friendships with one another, and how those friendships turned to into more lasting relationships. Parents found wives for their young boys and husbands for their girls from within their own communities, building young families established by Gods word.

During those meetings, some of the elders from the communities came to us with a special request. Most of the young girls live with their parents and help them in their work, but these young girls have no confidence since they are not educated. In fact, they can barely read. Since they began attending the church services, their parents had seen great positive changes in their lives. So their request was for us to start a skill development program for their daughters. As a result, we started three sewing centers in three different areas among the Banjara communities.

Last week, Sherly and I visited two of those sewing centers and met with the young women. We were amazed to see that in both training centers more than 25 women were being trained to sew dresses and make candles. And the first batch of 69 women had just completed the training in three different sewing centers in Banjara communities. They have already started earning some income from their new skills. They are planning to open shops in different areas where they can sew dresses to make a living and be able to contribute to their families. During one graduation service some elders of the Banjara community came and told us, “When Jesus came to our lives, He not only changed and transformed us, but he also changed and transformed our families and the destiny of our children. We no longer are slaves of our traditions, but we are free from all bondage!”

During this Christmas season, all these sewing center graduates and hundreds of men and women will be joining the Christmas outreach, working together to tell the untold, reach the unreached, and touch the untouchable with the Gospel message.

Another life changing experience occurred in a slum during the last Christmas outreach public meeting, reported in our newsletter from January,2024. As Sherly and I walked from the car to the meeting place, a young, disabled girl shouted at us to stop. Unable to walk, she crawled toward us with her hands, dragging her useless legs behind her through the filthy water along the road. Seeing her struggle, we walked over to her. She greeted us and said she recognized me. She said we had given her a wheelchair several years ago, but her alcoholic father sold it to buy liquor. Here was a young girl in torn dirty clothes, soaking wet in 40° weather, shivering, sitting there looking desperate. In tears she said “I heard that you were coming here to preach, so I waited for two hours by the road, hoping I would see you. I don’t have a good dress to wear to the meeting, so I waited here, just to ask for another wheelchair.” Sherly walked back to the car, opened her suitcase, and got some of her clothes, a sweater, and a light blanket. With the help of another sister, they took her to her one-room house to meet her mother. I sent two of our pastors to a nearby medical shop to buy a wheelchair. Finally, I joined the meeting. By this time, we were late. Over 500 people from the nearby slum were present in the meeting. I preached a simple Gospel message, gave an invitation, and a good number of people responded. We prayed for the sick and needy. At the end of the meeting, I wanted to publicly present the new wheelchair to the girl. My wife informed me that, now that she had a nice dress, she was sitting in the meeting. I asked some of the sisters to bring her to the front. As they lifted her, everyone recognized her and was aware of her condition. There was no life in her legs, but as she was brought to the front, she cried out loudly. Everyone thought she was in pain, but it was easy to see that while the other sisters carried her, she was moving her legs! After a few meters, she took a few steps. As she put weight on her lifeless legs they became strong, and she began to walk on her own. She fell several times, but each time she got up and walked again in front of the people. I fell on my face and people were in tears, shouting “Hallelujah! Glory to God!” I was crying, looking at the wheelchair that I bought for her. The most I could do was give her a wheelchair. I was trying to be kind and caring, but my Lord went far beyond that. He gave life to her legs and lifted her up! All glory and honor to our God alone!

As her healed legs gained strength, the young girl started a Sunday school in her slum. Then she went to other nearby slums and started more Sunday schools. Now she and her brother, along with a few other young belivers, are overseeing 7 Sunday schools on different days. For the past year, through her testimony and young people sharing the Gospel, we have baptized 89 people in that area. They all live in the slums, are poor and uneducated, but now they rejoice in the Lord. Last week I was in the slum for a meeting. They told us they wanted to build a church and asked us to help them buy a small piece of land, (1800 sq. feet.) and build a prayer hall for them to come together to worship. God is building His church, in the highways and byways, in the mountains and in the valleys, in the villages and in the slums.

Help Us Share the Gospel

As we conclude the 2024 Christmas outreach and look toward 2025, please pray for us that our Lord would give us directions and lead us and guide us to reach the unreached with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please prayerfully consider helping us to reach the unreached. Without your prayers and support we would not be able to bring in the harvest.

We are coming close to another Christmas and in India’s present situation Hindu radicals are intimidating and attacking churches and Christian activities. They are putting pressure on the Christians that are sharing the Gospel with others who have never had an opportunity to hear the Gospel before. Christian festival seasons are always an open door to reach out to the unreached.

Last year our Christmas outreach team went to an unreached village in Rajasthan. No one in the village had heard about Jesus.  Our team visited each home sharing the Gospel and distributing the Gospel of John to the ones who could read. Two members of our outreach team, a husband and wife entered a yard of a home and found a 30-year-old man lying in the bed in the sun. Our team tried to speak to him, but he did not reply. After a few minutes the man’s wife came out to our team members, and they shared the Gospel with her and inquired why her husband was laying unmovable in the bed. She told them that he had a bad stroke and became paralyzed two years ago. Our team members asked her permission to pray for him. As our team members approached him the man’s wife said please don’t go near him, he smells bad because he has bed sores, and they are in very bad condition.  

She said the doctors in the government hospital won’t keep him in the hospital and sent him home. She told them that they have three children, the ages are from 7 down to 3. She is cleaning other people’s homes so she can feed her children.  The past three days her youngest child was sick so she could not go and clean. It was a very sad situation.  Seven of our team members came together and laid hands on the paralyzed man and prayed for him.

While they were praying for this man a group of Hindu radicals came to the house and began to shout praises to their Hindu god and goddess. Before finishing the prayer, they forced our brothers out of the house, and even kicked the backs of two of our brothers. They humiliated them and chased them out of the village. Our team members, with very heavy hearts left the village praying for our Lord to heal that paralyzed man.

Our brothers were busy with the Christmas outreach and public meetings. Near the Christmas outreach at a nearby village our brothers started a prayer meeting for the first time. A month after the weekly prayer meeting started, in the neighboring village, two young men brought a 30-year-old man to the meeting.  Everyone thought he was brought in for prayer. During the prayer meeting this man stood with the help of the young men and shared that, “a husband and wife came to my house along with a few other young people [referring to our Christmas outreach team], they laid their hands on me and prayed for me.  While they were praying for me because I was paralyzed, I felt a burning sensation going through my body. I lost my voice two years ago but that day I was able to make some noise.  But no one could hear my voice because of the Hindu radicals shouting. The people praying were forced from my home that evening. But then, I was able to call my wife and my children by name. This past month I was able to talk and able to eat with my own hands and with the help of my wife I can walk. We wanted to meet the brothers and sisters who came and prayed for me, but we didn’t know where they were located. Yesterday, these young men who were part of the Hindu radicals that beat up and humiliated the brothers and sister came and told me that they have seen some of them every Friday.”

This man had been paralyzed and bedridden with bedsores. He smelled badly and there was no one to care for him or help prevent bedsores by turning him from one side to the other. He lived in poverty and had been left to die by the doctors. He had even asked his wife to give him some poison to kill him because of his hopelessness these past two years. But by the power of prayer and by our Lord’s mercy, this man was standing and giving the testimony that Jesus healed him by His power through his people.

This testimony being shared in the village has opened doors for invitations for our brothers to come back to the same village from where they were chased out. In the month of October, I (Regi) had the honor to conduct the first baptism in that village. 32 people took baptism including the man who had been paralyzed and his wife along with 11 men who beat up and humiliated our brothers and sister.

Help Us Share the Gospel

As we prepare for the 2024 Christmas outreach, please pray for us that our Lord would give us directions and lead us and guide us to reach the unreached with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have a great need for resources, and financial needs for this outreach program. See this month’s partner letter for more details, and please prayerfully consider helping us to reach the unreached. Without your prayers and support we would not be able to harvest this harvest. To read more inspiring and exciting testimonies of what God is doing among the unreached people groups of India, click the links on the right, and keep reading!

Proclaiming the Gospel…

…until He comes