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Dear Partner,

God loves this world more than we do, much more than we can even imagine. Is it any wonder then, when He moves in a remote tribe who are considered “untouchables” and decides to touch them with His Spirit? This month’s story is about such a tribe, a people group cast off by society, without hope in this world. But God…

What about you? Are you feeling like society has cast you off? Are you feeling like you don’t fit in? Like you aren’t accepted anywhere? Our answer is the same as this remote tribe discovered. But God! God loves you more than you can even imagine. He wants to provide for you, heal you, give you His Peace. He wants to shower you with His blessings. Sometimes we need a reminder of His plan, His purpose, and His character.

Jesus summed it up when He said “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly.” If you are experiencing things in your life being stolen, killed, or destroyed, Jesus says that is the work of the “thief.” If your relationships are being destroyed, your peace is being stolen, your hope is being killed, that is not God at work in your life.

Take a moment to cry out to Him and ask Him to impart to you His promise of abundant life, and He will do it! He wants to give you His abundant peace, His abundant joy, and yes, even His abundant provision. Take Him at His word today and expect Him to answer with showers of blessings on you.

That’s what this remote tribe did, and God began to change their lives. Like what happened to them, your change isn’t going to manifest itself immediately. You may have to listen for God’s direction in your life. You may have to start making different choices. But God tells us that “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Let’s choose to trust Him with that, stand firm, and watch God move and bring the answer.

Thank you for your faithfulness in partnering with us. We could never do what we are doing without your prayers and financial support.

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

Ravi is one of our missionaries who has worked among the Musahar community for the last three years. He came to the Lord through deliverance and healing from alcohol addiction and liver cirrhosis, through the prayers of some of the believers who worked in the hospital where he was admitted. His health condition got worse, and doctors asked them to take him to a larger hospital which is 100 miles away. His wife, who was 8 months pregnant, pleaded with the doctors and health workers to keep him in the local hospital and treat him there. Two of the nurses who are believers, seeing her helplessness, led her to a house church where she received care, food, and prayer for both her and Ravi. Ravi’s wife Malathy was touched by the prayer and the care and affection she received in the house church.  God in His mercy healed him and delivered him from his addiction.

Ravi and Malathy are from the Musahar community, a tribal people in Bihar who are known as “untouchables.” Musahar literally means ‘rat-ridder’ or ‘rat eater.’ Their primary former occupation was catching rats, and there are many who are still forced to do this work due to destitution and poverty. They are one of the most marginalized castes in India. By some estimates, as many as 85% of the population of some Musahar villages suffer from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria, with no health centers nearby. Their population is 5 million, and their literacy rate averages 3%. Most of them do not have their own land and come under the poorest of the poor, working as bonded laborers in brick factories. They are not Hindus but follow Animistic Hinduism and are deeply involved in witchcraft and sacrifices.

After Ravi came to the Lord, God gave him a great burden for his own community. He is always praying and asking others to pray for his community. In one of my (Regi’s) trips to Bihar before the covid lockdown, Ravi took me to some of the villages where his community lives, and it was eye opening for me too. They are living in very poor conditions under great oppression, bondage, and poverty. That evening, as we walked through a Musahar village to the house where they planned a meeting, I saw the suffering of the people, their hopelessness, and the demonic oppression they live under. The Holy Spirit impressed on me to speak from Luke 4:18.

I knew I was preaching to myself, but at the same time I saw our Lord delivering many women and children, who had been captivities of evil spirits and alcohol addiction. They responded to the message of the gospel. I was experiencing Mark 16:20 “the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs.” Ravi was translating for me into the tribal language. As he saw what the Lord was doing among his own people, he fell on his knees and began to thank the Lord and cry out to Him. In that meeting he was filled with the Holy Spirit and began to minister to the people. That day the first prayer group started among the Musahar. At that time, there was not a single known church among the Musahar. It is an unreached people group according to the Joshua project.

During the covid lockdown, the Musahar suffered greatly because of poor immunity and lack of knowledge and medical care. Our brothers in Bihar, with the help of Exciting Word, tried their best to help them in some villages with their medical needs and food supplies. Ravi was the one who took the lead in caring for them, standing with them in this difficult time, even helping to burn the bodies of those who died due to covid when no one else was willing to dispose of the bodies. According to Ravi “it was an awful time. No one knew what to do. There was much fear and confusion around, but the Lord gave us grace to serve them and to show His love and compassion to them.”

Another way the Lord used Ravi and other brothers was through music. Since they don’t read and write, the Musahar are very fond of music. Ravi and other brothers took the words of the parables in the Gospels and set them to tribal music. They go to different villages, singing the stories, and explaining them to the people in a simple way. Through the message of the Gospel thousands of people have come to the Lord in different Musahar villages. Over 3,800 baptisms have now been reported from that community. Last year we had our first house church leaders’ training among the Musahar. Thirty-six of them started the training, and some found it too difficult, but 23 of them graduated the training. It was a great achievement for them.

Following on that success, we are planning to give Sunday School Teachers training to 40 Musahar women this month, on June 8th and 9th. We are planning that these 40 sisters will go to 20 villages and reach out to a minimum of 1,200 children between the ages of 8 and 14 in their community. The Sunday school will be held for 6 days, three hours each day. We are expecting God to move in this Sunday school. Through the children, we will be able to reach their parents with the message of the Gospel.

Help Us Share the Gospel

The people of India are searching and open to the Gospel, despite the persecution they face. The fields are ripe unto harvest. Join us in this work with your prayers and financial support.

To find out how your support will help us, click here. 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,

Last month by our Lord’s grace, and by the prayer and sacrificial giving of God’s people, 542 men and women completed the house church leaders training in 19 different training centers. We praise God for all the brothers and sisters, and for all our missionaries and teachers, who took extra effort to go to these training centers and teach God’s word to them.

During the Easter outreach our brothers and sisters were able to reach over 32,000 homes with the gospel message, and they distributed 35,000 gospel packets and over 10,000 New Testaments. We had 22 public meetings in different places, and over 8,000 people attended these meetings. Our Lord moved in these meetings, and transformed the lives of hundreds of people through salvation, healing, and deliverance.

Kiran and her husband Monu used to live in a brick factory. They were illiterate from childhood, and worked with their parents making bricks. They lived like slaves to the owner of the brick company because their parents had borrowed money from the company owner and all through their lives worked hard, but could not repay it. Both Kiran and Monu were 18 years old. Their parents, in mutual agreement, allowed them to live together as husband and wife because they could not afford to call a Hindu priest to conduct a marriage ceremony. Life was very difficult for them. Alcoholism and drug addiction (supplied by the brick company manager to make them work extra hours) affected them deeply. Kiran and her husband became so desperate they ran away from the brick factory without even taking an extra pair of clothes with them. They walked nearly 89 miles without any food. Finally Kiran fainted on the roadside, and some believers came to help them. They were migrant workers who happened to be in the area that season, picking cotton in the field.

The believers took care of Kiran and her husband, and nursed them back to health. Kiran and her husband started working with the believers, picking cotton in the field. In the evenings, several families would come together for evening prayer. This was Kiran and Monu’s first time experiencing a peaceful evening. All through their lives, evenings were full of fighting, cursing, murmuring, and all kinds of abuse, back in the brick factory. But here all the families lived in plastic tents, but they were happy, enjoying meals together and singing and praying together.

When the cotton-picking season was over Kiran and Monu traveled with the believers to their home village and started farming with them. They started to go to the church nearby, and accepted Jesus into their lives. This was 6 years ago, and shortly afterward I (Regi) gave them baptism.

In the following year, both Kiran and Monu joined our training program. During the training they were filled with the Holy Spirit. After completing the training, they felt prompted to go back to their own people, who were still in physical and spiritual slavery. After much fasting and prayer, we laid our hands on them and sent them to their own people. For the last five years they have been working among the poor and uneducated people who are working in the brick factory.

To reach the brick factory workers, they went back to work in the brick factory themselves, so that they would be able to reach out to the people. This was very hard in the beginning but they endured all kinds of humiliation, persecution, hardship (mentally and physically) and continued their effort to save their own people. They were thrown out of the brick factory, arrested by the police for the false accusation of stealing money from the brick factory, and spent three weeks in prison. Even with this, they counted everything as joy and continued the Lord’s work.

Over the last three years we have seen the fruits of their labor, we have had baptisms every three months in their mission stations, more than 480 in all, and last May we started two training centers in their area. Forty-nine men and women, mostly illiterate, completed the training. We thought teaching them was going to be hard, but they were some of the best students and very attentive. Through these illiterate people during last December’s Christmas outreach more than 300 people accepted the Lord, and last month during the Easter outreach we had the most fruitful outreach in that area. We held 6 different public meetings, more than 3,200 people attended, and 428 of them came forward to accept Jesus into their life. Most of these new believers were not illiterate brick makers but were educated villagers who heard the gospel through the poor illiterate people. I (Regi) was in a few of the public meetings. People who came to meet me after the meeting included engineers, teachers, nurses and others who are well educated. They were testifying how our God touched their lives through the prayer of these people. (remember their society doesn’t allow these believers to their homes and despises them, but now these high caste people are coming to the untouchables for prayer.) On Good Friday, 72 people were baptized.

By seeing what our Lord is doing through these simple people we are amazed and thanking God for His favor and life transforming message of the gospel. God is on the move!

Help Us Share the Gospel

The people of India are searching and open to the Gospel, despite the persecution they face. The fields are ripe unto harvest. Join us in this work with your prayers and financial support.

To find out how your support will help us, click here. 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,

Dear Partner,

God is on the move! That is the theme of this month’s newsletter, and it reflects the general mood of the living Church, the Body of Christ. We have seen a move of God at Asbury University, in Wilmore, Kentucky. We have seen God moving in Charlotte, NC, where healings are breaking out at a local church and people are coming from far away to receive a touch from God. There is a hunger for God like we haven’t seen in years, and the same holds true in India. The status quo isn’t satisfying. The answers that people accepted in the past aren’t acceptable anymore. People are looking for real answers to real problems, and they aren’t willing to accept powerless, ineffective answers.

This is a perfect time for The Church to arise! But it’s not a time to simply share the message of the gospel in words. It’s time to stand up in the power of the Holy Spirit, and the anointing of God, and share the gospel in word and in deed. Like Paul said in his letter to the Corinthians “When I came to you, … My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.” (1 Corinthians 2:1, 4-5)

It is God’s power that transforms lives, that heals and delivers. But He wants us to boldly step out in His power and pray for the impossible. So, share the gospel in words, that Jesus can save, heal, and deliver all who come to Him. Then share the gospel in actions, by laying hands on the sick and demonized, and commanding every sickness and oppression to leave, in Jesus’ name! We often overlook this second step in sharing the gospel, and people can lose hope when they don’t see deliverance in their personal lives. Let’s step out in boldness and expect God to answer our prayers. Jesus promises us this very thing when He says, “You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” (John 14:14)

He also says we don’t have answers because we don’t ask, so again, let’s ask Him for the answers to whatever needs we face. Thank you for your faithfulness in partnering with us. We could never do what we are doing without your prayers and financial support.

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Known as the “graveyard of missionaries” since British rule, hundreds of western missionaries have given their lives to reach the people of Bihar. Today, it has not changed much. Two of our missionaries were brutally killed for sharing the gospel in Bihar. Reaching the villages of Bihar has many hindrances, some spiritual and some societal.

Spiritually it is one of the darkest areas due to witchcraft, idol worship, animal sacrifices, superstitions and other demonic religious activities. Societal issues include criminal activities, anti-Christian groups, and discrimination toward low caste people. Traveling to the villages is difficult and living among their culture is challenging.

In the last few years attacks on Christians, churches, and missionaries have increased significantly. Hundreds of new believers have been forced out of their homes because of their new faith in Jesus.

Despite all these hindrances, in the last few years Bihar has been witnessing a great move of God in the villages. New believers from native people groups have been trained and sent out to their own people groups, where they have been greatly used by the Holy Spirit in preaching the gospel. Through their sharing of the gospel and prayer, signs and wonders are happening and people are drawn to the Lord in large numbers.

We have 26 full time native missionaries who are working in Bihar. In the last few years, we have trained over 400 hundred men and women through our training centers and sent them to their people groups in different areas. Through their preaching and prayer every year we are seeing thousands of people come to the Lord through the work of our house church leaders.

In the first week of February Sherly and I (Regi) visited some of our mission stations in Bihar. It was a bit scary because the first day of our visit we heard that three different churches were attacked, and believers, along with their pastors, were beaten up. Several of them had injuries and had to be admitted to the hospital. Sherly and I dressed like the native village people and carefully went to different villages visiting our missionary families. In the five days of our trip, we had 11 meetings and several baptism services.

We visited our missionaries and house church leaders and their families, asking about the progress of the Lord’s work and the difficulties they are facing. Every one of them reported how the Lord has given favor, and there were amazing testimonies of God’s protection and divine intervention in the lives of the new believers. Miracles and wonders are being seen in ways beyond their capacity to understand.  Almost every one of them reported that they were in danger. They are regularly threatened by radicals and followed by people when they go to the remote villages.

But in the midst of trouble, they declare the words of Romans: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”

In one high caste Hindu village, we had around 41 people who were given baptism in the early morning, in the wheat fields where no one would be watching. After the baptism, we left in the evening. Somehow the news of the baptism was leaked to some Hindu radicals from neighboring villages.  They came and threatened the newly baptized believers and local house church leader, and demanded they stop the prayer meeting.  Instead of having their regular worship service on Sunday the new believers came together on Saturday. Around 75 Hindu radicals came to the meeting place. They knocked the believers to the ground and beat them with bamboo sticks, women and children included. The radicals forcefully paraded them through the village, took them to the local temple and demanded they bow down to the idol and put red marks on their foreheads.  When they refused, the radicals again beat them up in front of the villagers. Again, with divine boldness, the new believers refused. They were beaten up a third time, and the radicals tore the clothes of the men, women, and even young girls in front of the villagers. Standing naked in front of the radicals, who continued to demand they bow down to the idols, the Lord gave them grace and boldness. Not one of them, not even the crying children, were willing to bow down in front of the idols. Finally, they took the house church leader and his wife and their young son and daughter. Making them stand fully naked in front of the villagers and the other believers, the radicals mixed cow dung with water and poured it on them (as a rite of purification). By this time a group of women from the village, along with the village chief, came forward, defending the new believers. They brought bed sheets and other cloths and covered them. By seeing support of the villagers growing in favor of the new believers, the Hindu radicals left the village threatening the believers.

These people are simple believers. They only came to know the Lord 6-8 months before this. They are not very educated.  They don’t know much about the Bible, nor do they have a strong theological foundation. They just know Jesus loves them. They were blind but now they can see. They were in darkness but now they are in the light. They are willing to lay down their lives for Jesus. And they know it can be serious. In this area, if one is caught baptizing a person into the Christian faith, that person may be imprisoned for a seven-and-a-half-year sentence.

Help Us Share the Gospel

The people of India are searching and open to the Gospel, despite the persecution they face. The fields are ripe unto harvest. Join us in this work with your prayers and financial support.

To find out how your support will help us, click here. 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,

Dear Partner,

If you have been a Christian for more than a few years, you have probably noticed that society in general is not always favorable toward Christians who wish to express their faith publicly. Now I’m not talking about making excuses for being rude or obnoxious, and expecting others to approve just because you are “sharing the gospel.” When we share the gospel publicly, we should do it in a way that is loving and compassionate toward others.

Even then, we can be misunderstood. People might have preconceived ideas of our motives, and before taking time to listen, they can attack us verbally or in other ways. How do we address this? By responding with love and compassion. Sometimes the most hateful people are the ones that are experiencing the most emotional pain. They might have had a negative experience with Christians in the past, leading them to make negative assumptions about us.

I am both inspired and challenged by this month’s testimony, where young believers take a bold stance for their faith and suffer public humiliation as a result. Please take some time to pray for these believers, that they will continue to be strong in their faith and witness.

Pray for the Church in America, too. We aren’t facing the same kind of persecution, but we face various kinds of opposition. My prayer is that God would help us remain strong in our faith and the expression of our faith, even in the face of opposition.

As you read this month’s newsletter, I want to thank you for your faithfulness in partnering with us. We could never do what we are doing without your prayers and financial support.

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

A new light is dawning in every corner of India where spiritual darkness is great. Our Lord is building His church through the power of the Holy Spirit through the work of indigenous missionaries and by the prayer and sacrificial giving of Gods children.

• Exciting Word missionaries and house church leaders, as well as our house church leader trainees, have reached over 3,200 unreached villages in six different states.
• We have distributed over 8,000 Bibles and 42,000 New Testaments. We have also distributed over 250,000 Gospel of John booklets, in 7 different languages.
• Our missionaries and house church leaders started over 1,000 prayer groups and 410 house churches in different states.
• 2,100 healings were reported by our missionary brothers, small and great. Around 2,650 people testified they had received both physical and spiritual deliverance, including deliverance from evil spirits and drug and alcohol addiction.

• More than 11,000 people responded to the altar calls in different public meetings and regular church meetings.
• Of these respondents, our missionaries baptized more than 7,900 people.
• Exciting Word helped 11 of our missionaries to get a motor bike.
• We have given 23 bicycles to our tribal house church leaders.
• We have distributed 48 rugs to the tribal house churches.
• Through our house church leaders training centers, 432 men and women have graduated.
• For the 2022-2023 training center year, 542 men and women are being trained as house church leaders.
• We dedicated 11 church buildings for the Glory of God in 2022.
• Our sewing centers trained 208 poor women and widows and 25 sewing machines have been distributed to widows.

• We have 1,900 children from the slums and poor families attending weekly Sunday school in 48 different slums. In addition, we have weekly Sunday schools in different churches, where hundreds of children are attending.
• In 2022 we conducted 16 seminars for pastors and missionary families in various locations.  One of the seminars was for married couples relationships. The second type we held was for parents and their children’s relationship. The third type of seminar we held was for the family and the church relationships. Around 700 missionaries and pastors and their families from different missions and churches attended them.
• Under the banner of Exciting Word we conducted 9 youth meetings in different locations with over 1,600 young people attending where 228 young people dedicated their lives for the Lord’s work.

Despite the economic hardship caused by COVID, severe persecution by Hindu radicals, and several attacks on Christian workers, our missionaries and house church leaders continue to bring the message of gospel to the unreached villages where there is no Christian presence already ministering.

As one of our missionaries reported, from a Muslim dominated area, many Muslims are being drawn to the Lord. Many house churches have started, and more than 138 Muslims have received baptism in this past year. In this area if one is caught baptizing a person into the Christian faith, that person may be imprisoned for a seven-and-a-half-year sentence.

Another house church leader reported that a village church grew from 17 baptized believers to 170 in a one year. According to him “Many people come to the church with their different needs. Through the prayers of the believers and by the supernatural displays of God’s power during the prayers, many people are healed of physical ailments and experience spiritual deliverance. The Lord meets them where they are and demonstrates His power. This is drawing them and their families to the Lord.”

A house church leader trainee reported that because of this past Christmas outreach, there were 65 people that decided to live for the Lord in the past four weeks and he was able to start 7 prayers groups in different villages.

Another one of our missionaries who was arrested 4 times this past year and beaten by Hindu radicals in his village, continues to minister. During that time 36 families in his village have become believers, including some of the ones who have beaten him up!

Help Us Share the Gospel

The people of India are searching and open to the Gospel, despite the persecution they face. The fields are ripe unto harvest. Join us in this work with your prayers and financial support.

To find out how your support will help us, click here. 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,

It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2023. We survived one of the most challenging periods of time in our lives. Despite man’s attempts to stop God and silence the Church, He is still moving by His Spirit all around the earth. The struggles are real, but God’s power is more powerful than anything the enemy can try to bring against us. Revival fires are burning across the USA, in Iran, in India, and around the globe. As it says in Romans, “where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” (Romans 5:20)

We see a shift happening in government, in the media, and in other areas of society. People are waking up and turning to Christ. Jesus is revealing Himself to Muslims in dreams and visions. We are in the midst of a new great awakening on the earth. God is moving by His Spirit around the world, drawing all people to Himself.

You may discover that people around you are open to the Gospel more than ever before. Reach out in Christ’s love to your family, friends, neighbors, and others in your local community. Then watch God show up and see what He does!

Don’t let uncertainty in the economy prevent you from reaching out to others. You may have to adjust your plans to fit your budget, but now is the time to meet together with other like-minded believers. Do what the Church in Acts did. “breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart” (Acts 2:46 NASB)

As you read the 2022 statistics on the ministry, I want to remind you that these aren’t just numbers, they are real people impacted by your faithfulness in partnering with us. I can’t say it enough – we are so very grateful that you are walking beside us in God’s work in India.

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

Uttar Pradesh is a state in North India with over 200 million inhabitants. It is the most populous state in India, as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. According to the Joshua Project the Christian population is 0.1%. But in the last 10 years we are seeing a great move of God in that state. Thousands of house churches have started functioning in the villages. At the same time the pro-Hindu governments and radical Hindu groups are involved in attacking Christians and house churches in the villages and targeting native village pastors and evangelists. This has been very regular and recently the attacks have spiked and spread. These attacks on Christians are instilling fear in congregations throughout the state. According to native brothers, the frequency and intensity of the attacks on house churches, new believers, and Christian workers is growing every day. At least five to seven incidents are reported every day, from different parts of the state. The local brothers also reported that many pastors do not know what to do, and some of the house churches were not able to continue meeting. Fear and insecurity are growing among the new believers and house church leaders.

Twenty-five years ago, Steve Robinson and I (Regi) travelled to Jhansi, a city in central India to meet with Edwin Simon, who was a native missionary. The area is called “Bundelkhand”, and it was one of the poorest and least educated areas in central India. People lived in total spiritual darkness, engaging in witchcraft, superstition, idol worship, and sacrifices. The people were regarded as the untouchable caste, and alcohol and drug addiction were common. There were no active mission activities in the area during that time. While we were there, we met with a few young people who had a great burden and heart to reach their own people, but they did not know how to start. In our hearts we heard a “Macedonian call” (Acts 16:9).

Under the leadership of Edwin Simon, we started a summer outreach with 12 young men. This was the beginning of the Exciting Word ministry in that area. Over 25 years we have sent out numerous summer outreach teams to the area, trained up native brothers and sisters, and sent them to the unreached villages to share the Gospel. Our Lord in His mercy worked miracles and wonders through the native brothers, drawing hundreds of people to Himself, and establishing them in faith and starting hundreds of house churches in and around the area.

It was not easy. Our brothers faced great challenges: persecution from the upper caste Hindus and Hindu radicals, and discrimination in the villages. Despite the hardships, our Lord continued to use our brothers to carry the Gospel to the unreached villages, and the light of the Gospel began to shine in the darkest areas.

Brother Edwin Simon and his family have sacrificed their lives building our Lord’s Kingdom in Bundelkhand. In 2013 they lost their 14-year-old daughter, and in 2021 brother Edwin and his wife laid down their lives serving the Lord. They were working as volunteers in the local hospital and in their neighborhood, showing Gods love to the needy who were infected with COVID by carrying medicine and food to them. While doing this, they, too, were exposed and infected, and laid their lives down fighting the pandemic. Edwin and his wife were a great man and woman, with great vision and God used them to reach thousands of villages and start hundreds of house churches in that darkest part of our nation.

In one of my trips to that area I met a young man named Jeven, an alcoholic who was attending a small public meeting. I was preaching to the people in Hindi and a local brother was translating into the local language for me. Jeven, who himself was unable to stand due to being intoxicated, came forward to try to correct my translator, who was not translating correctly. When Jeven’s interference became a great hindrance to my preaching, I reluctantly agreed to let him translate for me. To my surprise, he did very well. By the response of the people, I understood they were getting my points and at the end of the preaching, I gave an invitation for people to confess their sins and receive Jesus as their personal savior. More than half of the people who were in the meeting responded to the altar call. As they came forward to be prayed for, Jeven was the first one who came forward and knelt before me asking me to pray for him. Jeven dedicated his life for the Lord and God gave him a burden to reach other young people who are alcoholic, and drug addicted.

Just this month, Dec.1st to 3rd, I (Regi) was with Brother Jeven who invited me to speak at a three-day youth meeting. It was held in the same village where Jeven translated for the first time. We had around 200 young men and women from different villages of that area. Young people from the age of 16 to 26 years old, who are being transformed and delivered by the power of the Gospel. This three-day meeting was a time of great revelation and a realization of God’s faithfulness and rejoicing in the harvest. During the three days, a great number of people dedicated their lives to serve the Lord and reach their own communities with the message of the Gospel. Through them we heard great testimonies of God’s protection and deliverance from the hands of Hindu radical groups.

As a Christian leader in the area, Brother Jeven and his family are facing constant threats from the authorities and Hindu radical groups. He has been arrested 6 times by the police and spent several weeks in prison, but he continues to serve the Lord and reach the unreached people. According to the Joshua Project, there are more than 750 people groups yet to be reached in that area.

Help Us Share the Gospel

The youth of India are searching and open to the Gospel, despite the persecution they face. Join us in this work with your prayers and financial support.

To find out how your support will help us, click here. 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,

Christmas is the time of year when we pause our busy lives and thank God our Father for giving us His Son, Jesus Christ. In addition to the spiritual blessings, we remember all the other blessings the Lord has showered on us, including the numerous times when God protected us, delivered us, provided for us, and for our loved ones.

Not only do we have reasons to be thankful in our own lives, but we can be thankful that God is still moving on the earth. The Gospel message still has power, and people who put their trust in the Lord are still being touched by His love and His mercy. I know that we all have struggles and challenges. I am not trying to minimize the real issues each of us is confronted with. I just want to remind us (myself included) that we each have a choice regarding what we will focus on. Instead of dwelling on the struggles, let’s make a conscious choice to dwell on the blessings we have received.

Our brothers and sisters in India have a much lower standard of living than the average American. In fact, if you can afford to own a car, you are richer than most Indians. Can you imagine going to work in an ox cart? What about shopping? How far could you travel? Every time we get in our car, we have something to be thankful for. Our brothers and sisters in India still find ways to be thankful, even at a much lower standard of living.

By the time you read this, our Christmas Outreach program is in full swing. More than 500 house church trainees are sharing the Gospel message door-to-door in the villages. Thousands of people are being touched by the Gospel message, but we still need your financial support to continue reaching them and discipling them. Will you consider a monthly gift to help us reach more unreached people with the message of Christ? Just $30 a month will reach 30 people with the message of new life in Jesus. That’s just $1 a day to change someone’s eternal destiny. You will be storing up treasures in heaven, and when you get there, these grateful people will thank you for your faithfulness!

Every believer has been given the mandate of the Great Commission. The only question is, how will you participate and carry out your part in this command? If you decide to join with us, we will gladly work together to reach the unreached. We believe that 200,000 people can hear the Gospel this month, and then we will endeavor to disciple them into 2023. Just think of the positive impact that can result by having so many new believers! India will be transformed, and Christ will be glorified!

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas