Our Lord uses the most difficult circumstances for His Glory. Over the past two years we have experienced the pandemic, financial hardship, and emotional hardship, along with intense persecution and threats all around. The church in India is going through a storm.
Through the earnest prayer and support of people like you who love the Lord and His work in India, our brothers and sisters are proclaiming the Gospel with great energy and enthusiasm, reaching out to the unreached people groups. Our Lord who commanded us to “Go” also promised that “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”
The recent Christmas outreach and Easter outreach have both proven that, although many people groups in India have never heard the name of Jesus, now their hearts are open to the Good News like never before. During the Christmas 20-day outreach our brothers and sisters visited 58,000 homes in 298 unreached villages in five different states. Our brothers and sisters conducted 112 public meetings in different villages, and more than 2,328 people responded to the Gospel message and openly received Jesus as their personal Savior during the meetings. Many thousands came forward seeking prayer for their spiritual and physical needs. Many people were healed and delivered from addiction and demonic depression.
During the Easter outreach, more than 1,100 people openly came forward to receive Jesus into their lives through 42 public meetings we arranged. Over 16,000 people attended the 42 public meetings. Thousands of people came forward to receive prayer during the meetings. Jesus confirmed His word with signs, wonders and miracles during these meetings. As the Bible says “The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he sends forth laborers into his harvest.”
Training Native House Church Leaders
Passionate Indian believers are eager to share their testimony and faith in Jesus with their friends and relatives. They are the front line workers in the task of spreading the Gospel, and opening the doors for church planting. Every year we train up hundreds of young men and women to share the Gospel and lead house churches. During the academic year (that started last May and ended in March) we trained 422 men and women, in 16 training centers in various states.
When we train and equip them to serve their local communities and share the Gospel to the native people, God uses them to reach families and villages. This year we are planning to open 18 training centers. We have started 7 of them; the rest will be started this month. This year we are expecting over 500 people for the training.
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent.”
Children’s Ministries
During the pandemic, many families fell into poverty due to lockdowns and other financial issues. Now that the restrictions are slowly being lifted, many families in the tribal villages, especially ones with children, are facing a hard time physically and emotionally. Many people are taking advantage of the situation, pressuring parents to send their sons and daughters to become child laborers. In some cases, these children are being targeted and trafficked.
Since the pandemic started, our children’s ministries have slowed down due to government restrictions. But for the last six months our children’s ministries have become very active. Now, instead of us reaching into an area, the people from the slums and villages are coming to us, asking us to start Sunday schools in their areas. Last week we held Sunday school teacher training, and 72 young men and women attended the training from six different states. We were planning for only ten each from each state, but some other mission organizations sent their people to be trained. These trainees will go and conduct training for other young people in their native languages.
We are praying and planning to train up at least 300 to 350 young people locally to conduct Sunday schools for the next 6 weeks during the summer vacations in their villages. Due to covid fear we will not be able to invite children from one village to another village. So, we must conduct each Sunday school in its own village. We are focusing on 7,500 to 10,000 children to attend the Sunday school sessions this year. Our Sunday school introduces these underprivileged children to Jesus through different activities, through prayer, and by showing God’s love to them and allowing them to experience it, and by building relationships with them.
Please pray for the Lord to move in each of these Sunday schools.
Help Us Share the Gospel
Look at what God is doing! And He’s using your prayers and financial support! The message of the Gospel is reaching unreached villages of India through native believers, transforming thousands of lives.
To find out how to contact us, and 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,