Revival Now!

This is the time of year when we stop and look back, reflecting on the year that is quickly coming to an end. Thanksgiving is more than a time to enjoy a wonderful meal with our families and friends. It’s a time to thank God that we have made it through another year, because of His faithfulness to us.

As we give thanks to God, let’s also remember that many people in India have never heard about our Lord Jesus Christ, or His love for them. We want to share the message of hope with them. The year is quickly passing; the Christmas season will soon be here, and with it comes our Christmas outreach program. This year we have 19 training centers in 6 different states where 543 house church leaders are being equipped. As part of their practical training, every year we send them out for our Christmas outreach. This year also we are planning to send them out to go door-to-door from December 12^th to the 22^nd, and then from December 22^nd to the 27^th they will have public meetings with the help of other churches in the area.

Our goal is for our brothers and sisters to reach 50,000 unreached homes with Gospel packets and New Testaments during the 10 days of door-to-door outreach. Following that, we are planning to conduct 38 public meetings during the 5 days of Christmas celebrations.

To accomplish this, we need your support. Specifically, we need the following:

• 50,000 Gospel packets,
• 20,000 New Testaments
• 2000 Bibles
• Finances to help rent tents and sound systems for the 38 public meetings

Please pray and ask the Lord Jesus whether He would have you be involved in supporting this effort. If He speaks to you, our partner, and you are prompted to give, we can potentially reach 200,000 people with the message of the Gospel. Just think of the positive impact that can result by having so many new believers. The villages will be transformed, and you will be blessed, knowing that you played an integral part in getting the message out.

Thank you for continuing to pray for all of us here at Exciting Word Ministries. We are a small ministry by natural standards, and we depend on the faithful gifts of our partners and friends. If you believe in the power of the Gospel, please prayerfully consider supporting us with a monthly gift. And please tell all your Christian friends to visit our website where they can read the same newsletter stories that you enjoy! To read about our annual pastors conference, click here.

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

We want to thank you all for your prayers and support for the annual missionaries and pastors conference. Since 2019 we have not held our annual meeting, although we continued to hold quarterly statewide meetings, and monthly area-wide meetings. From the morning of November 1 through the evening of the 3rd, we held our annual conference, where 156 of our pastors and missionaries came together to seek the face of the Lord, to pray for one another, and to fellowship with one another. It was a time of rejoicing for all of us.

The theme of the conference came from Matthew 8:3, “I AM WILLING.” From the first session until the last session, everyone spoke on the subject and the Holy Spirit was speaking very clearly and specifically to everyone. Almost every session we saw our Pastors and missionaries respond to the move of the Holy Spirit and come to the altar and our brothers were ministering to one another.

One session was set aside for praying for one another. It was really a blessing to see they were ministering to one another in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Two afternoon sessions were set apart for sharing testimonies, and there were some amazing testimonies that came out of these sessions.

A village church grew from 19 to 312 in the past 3 years. One of our missionaries came from a remote tribal area where many people practiced witchcraft, and other evil practices are followed. He reported that at the last mission conference he attended in 2019, the theme of the conference was “not to be served but to serve.” He said he went back with a heart to serve, and he continued to serve the people in whatever way he could, even in the pandemic seasons. His love and willingness, and his serving attitude drew many people to the Lord and many of them became followers of Christ. Many experienced physical and spiritual healing through prayer in the church. This encouraged many new believers to invite more people, their friends and relatives, to visit the church. Today his church has grown from 19 to 312 baptized members! And most importantly, four of the witchcraft doctors came to the Lord and got delivered. Today they are going through our house church leaders training program.

Another missionary, who works on the Nepal border, reports that they are seeing supernatural displays of God’s power among the Nepali people in their area. In every meeting, they are seeing people transporting their sick in ox carts to the village church. When the church prays for them, they are seeing more miracles than before.  God is healing people from many different sicknesses, then the ones who experience the healings come back the following week with more sick and demon-possessed people to the village church. Several villages are now open to the Gospel message because they have seen friends and relatives are being healed. Over the past three years, our 5 missionaries in that area have started 63 village churches and last year trained 28 house church leaders. Another 32 are going through the training this year. New churches have been started in these areas and many of the tribesmen have been trained to do evangelism and church planting.

Yet another missionary reported that in their area many Muslims are drawn to the Lord, many house churches have started and 103 Muslims were saved and received baptism. This is in an area where asking someone to change their faith carries a mandatory three-and-a-half-year jail sentence, and baptizing a person into the Christian faith carries a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence!

Christianity is growing despite the obstacles. Another missionary reported they are seeing a great move of the Holy Spirit in their area. This county, which has a population of 2 million people, only had 230 known Christians 5 years ago. Today there are more than 4,500 Christians! According to him, God is using native believers to spread the Gospel among tribal people in different areas.

Due to the growth of the church in these areas, the Hindu radical groups are attacking the house church leaders and, with the support of the local authorities, are making false cases against them and arresting them. Seven of our house church leaders were invited to conduct a meeting in someone’s home, only later to realize the people were Hindu when they were arrested. By the grace of God their congregations were able to keep meeting, and all of the church leaders have since returned home. One of the missionaries said “there is a sense of fear in the atmosphere. Not knowing which church would be attacked, or when, is a constant threat in the hearts of the house church leaders”

During the conference, we made sure to minister to all our brothers who have suffered persecution, have been jailed, or have been humiliated in any way by anti-Christian groups.

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Hearing the reports of our brothers from different areas, truly we can say our Lord is moving in a very special way, and He is building his church in India, despite all the hindrances, persecutions, and hardship.

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,

Where does our victory come from? Does it come from large numbers? Does it come from human strength? No! Our strength comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. When Gideon faced the Midianites, the LORD told him to send all but 300 of the soldiers away, because there were too many. If Gideon had won the battle with 32,000 troops, God would not have received as much glory for the victory. Instead, because there were only 300 troops, it was clear that God did a miracle that day.

In the same way, God wants to receive glory for all that He does in our lives. We would like to operate from a position of strength, but many times God encourages us to step out and act at a time when we feel weak. Paul tells us that God told him “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

Our Nepali brothers started by simply believing the Gospel, and then sharing this message of hope to their friends and loved ones in their community. God responded with His power, demonstrating His love with signs, wonders, and miracles.

May each of us be inspired by the courage and faith of our Nepali brothers. May we step out and share this message of hope and love to our friends and loved ones. And may we trust God with the results and expect Him to respond in power, just as He did for them, because “there is no favoritism with God.” (Romans 2:11)

Thank you for continuing to pray for all of us here at Exciting Word Ministries. We are a small ministry by natural standards, and we depend on the faithful gifts of our partners and friends. Thank you to those who support us sacrificially every month. Your support is the only way we can do anything for the Kingdom of God. If you haven’t yet supported us financially, but you believe in the power of the Gospel, please prayerfully consider supporting us with a monthly gift. And please tell all your Christian friends to visit our website where they can read the same newsletter stories that you enjoy!

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

Twenty-two years ago, our summer outreach team was working in the mountains. On our way back from a village, we passed through a valley and saw a group of around 20 young men, breaking stones. On seeing the group, we approached them, wanting to share the gospel with them. When we reached them, we realized they were from Nepal. They had come to India to find work, and except for one or two of them, no one understood Indian languages. We told them we wanted to share the gospel with them if they were willing, and I asked one young man who understood our language to translate it into their language.

They had never heard the gospel, or the name of Jesus, in their lives, so it was hard for them to understand and hard for us to share. After spending 45 minutes with them, sharing the story of the prodigal son, we prayed for them and went back to our camp.

We repeated this day after day. We would go to the mountain villages, share the gospel and distribute literature, and every day on our way home, we stopped and met with the men. It was a convenient place for us to rest on our long walk, so every day we shared the gospel with them through the translator and prayed with them for their families and parents back in Nepal.

After this had gone on for a few days, they asked us to share the story of prodigal son with them one more time. We shared and explained to them what that story meant to us, and as we shared, we felt the move of the Holy Spirit in the shade of that banyan tree. We gave them an invitation to respond to the gospel, and on that day sixteen of them responded and received Jesus as their personal savior. That was the beginning of our Nepali church in that area. These brothers were thirsty and hungry after God’s word.

Through them we came to know that there were thousands of Nepalis in the mountains, working in different fields. It was eye-opening for us. These new Nepali brothers in Christ led our outreach teams to other Nepali laborer’s camps in the surrounding areas. They mostly lived in tents in groups. Not being able to speak to them in their language was the biggest obstacle, but our brothers managed to share the gospel through a translator. After 9 months of people accepting the Lord, we had our first baptism service, where 32 Nepali brothers and sisters received baptism. Out of those 32, six brothers were sent to Nepal to attend a six-month Discipleship Training program. When they came back, we sent them to different locations where Nepali people were working. This was the beginning of our Nepali fellowship of churches.

Over the past 22 years, thousands of Nepali brothers and sisters have crossed the border into India to find better jobs and earn some money to support their families. They work as farm laborers, on construction sites, and other odd jobs. Many of them have gone through great struggles. But for thousands it has been an opportunity to come out of the darkness, and into the marvelous light of the gospel.

Today there are hundreds of small house churches and prayer groups among the interior villages in different states, where they meet and worship the Lord in Spirit and in Truth. They come together and meet in plastic tents or under a tree, but they carry the glorious Gospel with them to every remote area.

Last month three of our Nepali church leaders went into some of the remote areas in our country. They visited some of the believers who move into the mountains every summer, to farm green peas and potatoes. The roads to this area are open only for 5 months. The rest of the time they are closed, due to snowfall. After visiting over 32 prayer groups and spending time with them and conducting several baptism services, they reported that “it was amazing to see what our Lord is doing, among the Nepali churches in those remote areas. They are seeing wonders and miracles every day. We ourselves have seen with our own eyes that in those small prayer groups and house churches, God moves in a mighty way, delivering people from addictions and evil spirits and people are being healed. They have very little in the way of ‘facilities’ in that area, but they are not bothered about it; their trust is in the Lord.”

We met local people who testified they were healed from tumors by the prayers of house church. We baptized a 32-year-old woman who was diagnosed by a doctor with ovarian cancer. She was healed by the prayers of ordinary believers, and now, after 9 years of marriage, she has given birth to a baby girl and, along with 7 members of her family, received baptism. There are many other testimonies of people who were delivered from demonic oppression.

Today our Lord is not only moving in a mighty way in the Nepali house churches in the remote villages, but He’s using these simple Nepali believers to carry the gospel to some of the darkest and most remote places in our nation.

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What began as a very small thing, God has blessed and has become a great work. Under the leadership of these 6 men, the Nepali fellowship is now spreading the Light of the Gospel in the darkest places. It is growing and reaching to the unreached areas and spreading the light of this glorious gospel!

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,

Sarala is the sister of one of our Tribal missionaries, Balwinder, who is reaching his tribal community with the Gospel. They are gypsies, living a nomadic life in tents. They travel together as a tribe, stopping to set up camp in their own slums. Balwinder came to the Lord from this same community. When I (Regi) met him for the first time, his family of eight lived in a tent in very poor condition. From there, God chose Balwinder and saved him. He went through our house church leaders’ training program, and God used Balwinder to establish the first church among his community. Through his ministry thousands of people came to know the Lord from his community.

Three years ago, his sister Sarala was married to Vijay who is also from the same tribe, and they moved to a new place which was 100 miles away from her home. Sarala was a wonderful worshiper and Sunday school teacher and actively involved with her brother’s ministry. But in the new place she did not know any other Christians. It was a large slum, with over 800 families in it, but not a single Christian except her husband. She felt lonely and depressed. The spiritual atmosphere in the slum was very low. Drug and alcohol addiction was very common, with 70% of the men and women being habitual drinkers. Along with her husband, she visited a few other slums nearby, areas where their relatives lived, but there, too, she could not find any Christians to fellowship with. She became increasingly lonely and more depressed spiritually. Several times, she asked Vijay to move from that slum to some other place where she could have some Christian friends, but Vijay could not leave his aging parents alone. Her spiritual depression got so bad that it began to affect her physical body. She was desperate, not knowing what to do. She wanted to help people, and share the Gospel with them, but how?

The following Sunday, her neighbor fell sick, and they took her to the hospital. Since they have three children, ages 7 to 12, they asked Sarala to keep them at her house and watch them until they returned. She agreed. It happened to be on a Sunday, and Sarala and her husband were just preparing to have a time of prayer. They spread a mat on the floor and asked the children to sit on the floor with them. Sarala and Vijay started singing a worship song, and as they were singing, the neighbors’ children tried to follow along. Sarala stopped, and taught them the song, and the children learned fast. Meanwhile, a few other neighbor children heard the singing and came to Sarala and Vijay’s tent. She shared the story of the lost sheep with them. Then she asked the children to pray for their parents. She led them in prayer, and the children repeated the prayer after Sarala.

This was the humble beginning of the house church that Sarala and Vijay started. First, it was a Sunday school for the children, and very soon after, the Sunday school turned into a Sunday church service. Sarala now realized that God had a plan for bringing her to these slums, her spiritual loneliness was the catalyst that opened her eyes to see the needs of the people around her. Sarala and Vijay started to pray fervently for God’s wisdom and His favor.

Shortly after this, Sarala and Vijay came to one of our regional pastors’ meetings and shared about the open door before them, and the need to reach those people in the slum. By this time, they had visited around 13 such slums in the 40 miles surrounding their home and had met with numerous people. They were literally begging us to send some missionaries into those slums. After they shared, we called them to come forward. We laid hands on them and prayed for them and sent them as missionaries to those slums. It was almost a year ago today that me (Regi) and Sherly were in one of the slums to baptize 29 people. Last month Balwinder came and gave baptism to 32 people in another slum. Sarala and Vijay both work hard to reach all the 9 slums where they started house churches in the past year. More than 123 people took baptism from these communities. God is using Sarala and Vijay to deliver so many people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. When we visit the slums, non-believers greet us and share testimonies of their good works.

Today we visited four slums in different areas with Sarala and Vijay and met and talked with newly baptized believers. Upon seeing and hearing the transformation that took place in their lives, we rejoiced with them.

Afterward, we attended the house church leaders training center that we started last month. Many people can’t write and read but they listen carefully, and 24 men and women from that community from different slums come every week, leaving their work to learn God’s word. As I was sitting with them and watching them, I asked the Lord to give me such a hunger and thirst for His word. During the class I asked them what they wanted God to do in their community. Most of them said there are 21 different camps or slums in that area, and they wanted to see a house church in every camp. I gave them a homework assignment, due by next April or May. The assignment? “Your training will finish soon, but before that happens, we want to see a house church started in all these 21 slums. Once that happens, you all will have passed our training successfully.” Everyone agreed, and we prayed together for God’s divine wisdom and strength for each one of them. We will stand with them in prayer for these slums and for their community.

As I write this testimony, I know the Indian government is coming against all Christian churches. Each state parliament is passing new bills and introducing new laws, mercilessly attacking the Christian churches, missionaries, and even ordinary believers. In spite of all this, our Lord is building His Church, drawing people from all tribes, castes, and religions.

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This is just the beginning of the story. We know that through these children our Lord will do a mighty work in each of their families and in the villages. Our primary focus was to teach prayer: How to pray, to whom to pray, and what to pray. And we know that prayer can change every situation in our life!

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,

Sometimes we complicate the Gospel. We think that people must read the Bible before they can come to faith. But Jesus said in Luke 18:16 “Permit the children to come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” All these children knew was that this was a nice man who healed the sick. This was all they needed to know to embrace the kingdom of God.

In fact, He goes on to say in verse 17 “Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” In other words, we should follow the example of children, set aside our skepticism and unbelief, and open our hearts to the One who loves us.

Do you have a need in your life that only a miracle can resolve? Do you want to see God’s promises manifested in your life? Are you praying for something that only God can do?

Come to Him as a child and you will not be disappointed. He tells us that “whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” But He also says, “the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” Set aside your intellect and just receive the answer to your prayers.

And along with seeking God for your needs, pray with us for the families that are being impacted, as their children come to faith in Jesus Christ. Remember, the US ministry team is completely staffed by volunteers who receive no compensation other than the simple joy of serving. Apart from office expenses, more than 90% of our funds go directly to the ministry in India.

Thank you to those who support us sacrificially every month. Please tell your believing friends to visit our website (on the letterhead above) where they can read the same stories that you enjoy!

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13)

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

The past six weeks have been a very busy time for all our brothers and sisters working in our children’s ministry. We held a 4-day training seminar where more than 900 young men and women were trained as Children’s Bible School teachers. Through these 900+ young people, and with the help of hundreds of believers who volunteered as assistants, we started a 4–6-week Children’s Bible School in over 342 villages. For 75% of these villages, it was the first time anything like this had been done. Over 14,600 children between the ages of 6 and 16 attended the Children’s Bible School. Most of these Children’s Bible Schools were in villages and slums in remote tribal areas. During the school, we gave them books with different parables, that also included moral lessons suitable for the older children.

It was really hard work for the teachers because most of them were first timers, but the Lord gave them grace. In some villages, we only had 10-15 children, but in others we had 150-200 children attending the Children’s Bible School. The schools were in session 3 hours a day for 4 days a week. Often the daily highs were above 110° F. There were other difficulties too, such as finding a suitable location, dealing with opposition from Hindu radicals, and so on.

Through the Children’s Bible School hundreds of children’s lives were touched by God. In one school, many of the children were filled with Holy Spirit. Many others experienced healing and deliverance in their bodies during the Children’s Bible School sessions. And as a result, we have started regular weekly worship services in 63 villages, where these children along with their parents are now attending.

After the Children’s Bible School, our leadership team reported that over 1,200 children between the ages of 12 to 16 had received Jesus into their lives and indicated a desire to live for Christ. Many more made the decision to live a better life by being obedient to their parents, to focus on their studies and to change their attitude toward one another.

The most amazing experience was hearing the responses of the parents. We have reports of hundreds of parents coming and thanking our brothers and sisters for the Children’s Bible School because they have noticed the change in their child’s life. According to Manoj, a farmer and father of four, “My children were very arrogant and disobedient. I tried everything to get them on the right path, but it always failed. My wife and I were worried, but yesterday when I came home my children came and touched my feet (a sign of respect to parents and elders). I hugged them for the first time in years, and with joy we cried together. I realized my children had been longing for an affectionate hug from me, while I had been looking for some respect from them. I don’t know what changed them, but I love it! Please continue to come and teach our children!”

Manju’s Story

Manju is a brilliant 15-year-old young girl. She grew up in an idol-worshipping family where girls were viewed as less valuable than boys. Manju’s father was addicted to alcohol and used to beat up his wife and daughter and curse her for all the hardship he was going through in his life.

As a result, Manju struggled with many emotional issues. She was stubborn and disobedient, and in the beginning, she was hard to control. Her stubborn nature caused issues with other children, but slowly her attitude changed, and she began to be friendly with others. As the days passed, she became much happier and more confident!

Manju encouraged herself by singing songs and listening to stories about Jesus. She didn’t know much about Jesus before, but she believed everything she heard. Before long, she had a few Scripture passages memorized!

Manju began to trust in Jesus and started to pray for God to change her father, too. Manju brought her mother to the Children’s Bible School. Shortly afterward, she received Jesus into her life because of the change she saw in Manju. Manju and her mother are afraid of Manju’s father’s response to this turn of events. Please join them in prayer for him to give up his addiction and surrender his life to Christ.

Sanu’s Story

Sanu grew up in a traditional Hindu high-caste home. His parents were very religious, and they taught him all the Hindu religious practices. He attended the Children’s Bible School in his village along with his friends without the knowledge of the parents.

The first day, the lesson was entitled “How to Pray.” This simple lesson on how to pray (and to whom to pray), and the meaning of prayer touched Sanu. He had never understood the Hindu prayers he was taught by his parents. He would simply recite prayers in Sanskrit. But in the Children’s Bible School he understood every word, and it was easy. During a prayer session as he was praying tears began rolling down his cheeks. He kept praying with great passion, and suddenly, the Holy Spirit came upon him, and he began to speak in tongues. Once he started, many other young boys and girls were also filled with the Holy Spirit. After that session, the atmosphere changed! Sanu’s distress turned to hope, and an unexplainable joy came into his life.

Sanu’s newfound faith and experience in Christ impacted his parents. Sanu’s mother had issues with headaches for several years. Sometimes she was in bed for days. After the experience in the Children’s Bible School, Sanu went back home. Finding his mother in bed, Sanu felt the Lord leading him to pray for her. He prayed, and the Lord instantly healed her from 20 years of headaches! The following day Sanu’s parents came to the Children’s Bible School, and they too received Jesus into their life. At the end of the 4-week Children’s Bible School 72 children from 12 to 15 years of age received Jesus into their lives. Since then, regular Sunday worship has been going on in the village, with over 120 people attending! Recently, Regi was in that village fellowshipping with the new believers.

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This is just the beginning of the story. We know that through these children our Lord will do a mighty work in each of their families and in the villages. Our primary focus was to teach prayer: How to pray, to whom to pray, and what to pray. And we know that prayer can change every situation in our life!

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,

How many times have we been hampered in relationships with others, waiting for them to respond in some way, only to later discover they were waiting for us? That’s what one father came to realize when his children attended our Children’s Bible School during their summer vacation. He had been waiting for them to show him respect, and they had been longing for him to show them affection. When the children’s lives were impacted with the Love of Christ, the emotional logjam was broken, and relationships began to be healed.

Sometimes we may experience this in our own relationships. Instead of waiting for the other person, why don’t you reach out and take the first step toward reconciliation? Regardless of who is right and who is wrong, “love covers a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8) Peter, the hot-tempered, headstrong apostle knew this very well. He thought he was never going to deny Jesus, yet in the heat of the moment, he did, not just once, but three times. The love of Jesus covered Peter’s sin of denial.

In this day when much of society is polarized, those of us who believe the Bible is the Word of God may tend to use it as a hammer against society around us. While the Bible is clear about God’s position on many things that trouble our society, there are many people who don’t hold that view. Without relaxing our personal convictions, let’s purpose in our hearts to reach out
to them with the Love of Christ, because “the kindness of God leads [them] to repentance.” (Romans 2:4)

Sometimes this same situation occurs in our relationship with God. He has given us “everything pertaining to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3) and yet there we sit, waiting for Him to give us something He has already given us. Our life becomes a stalemate. He has already taken the first step. Let’s respond by thanking Him and expecting to see His provision in our lives. That’s what our Bible School teachers did, and the results were amazing – over 14,000 children impacted with the Gospel!

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13)

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas

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.

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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,

Look for the open door. As the world seems to press in from every side, God has given you an open door. You may not see it, but it’s there. You may have experienced financial hardship. Maybe it has been difficulty in your health. Or perhaps there has been hardship in your family or personal relationships. Regardless of what kind of hardship you have been experiencing, God has put before you an open door. If you are feeling the temptation to give up, resist it.

God has a plan for you. Regarding any kind of temptation, His Word says, “No temptation has overtaken you except something common to mankind; and God is faithful, so He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13, NASB)

This includes the temptation to stop believing that God is faithful. Maybe you have been praying for relief in some area, and for some reason, the breakthrough has not yet come. Maybe it is in your health, or maybe your finances have taken a turn for the worse. Whatever the issue, now is not the time to give up. The signs are clear. We are in the end times. The adversary knows that his time is short, and he is trying to knock us out and cause us to lose faith. Don’t give in. “Let’s not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.” (Galatians 6:9, NASB)

Our teams were weary, but they didn’t give up. And now we are reaping the harvest. We will be reaching out to more than 10,000 children in our Sunday school programs. We saw more than 3,000 people give their lives to Christ in our public meetings.

You may be weary, but don’t give up. Look around you. There are people in your community who need to hear about the love of Christ. Reach out to them. You may be surprised at the harvest you will reap.

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13)

Blessings in the Wonderful Name of Jesus,

Thomas