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all peoples may know Him
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| Indian Baptist church
planter Subba Rao baptizes a new Christian in one of
the areas where he's planted a church. |
Subba Rao, partner in the gospel
In a swift-running brown river, Subba
Rao baptizes 13 new believers, one after the other, as
others watch from the steep riverbank. But the Indian church
planter is especially pleased that in the previous six
months he has started nine house churches, using a new “training
for trainers” program
introduced by Southern Baptist workers through the Baptist
organization in India’s Karnataka state. Read
more.
189 top-giving churches honored
The International Mission Board has recognized
the 100 churches that gave the most to the 2003 Lottie
Moon Christmas Offering — and
for the first time the 100 churches that gave the most per
capita. Eleven churches qualified for both lists. Find
out which churches were honored.
See
what churches are planning to give in 2004.
 Your gifts help make it happen
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progress to your church, consider showing them this brief
clip showing some of the 5.5 billion people their gifts may
be reaching.
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Countdown for pastors and leaders
- Receive the Lottie Moon Christmas
Offering®.
- Share the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
progress with your congregation. Read a missionary
thank you note with
the report.
- Consider committing to pray for an
unreached people group. E-mail for
more information
- Schedule a January meeting with your
Lottie Moon promotion team to evaluate this year’s
emphasis and record suggestions for next year’s
team.
- Tell us about your church’s
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering experience. Send stories,
ideas and photos. E-mail to ime@imb.org or
mail to: International Mission Board, SBC
Publishing
Department
P.O. Box 6767
Richmond VA 23230-0767.
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Like Paul, Subba Rao once hated
Christians
Subba Rao’s father died when he was young. Wicked
people managed to take away his family’s house and
land, leaving them with nothing. A Hindu priest told him
the Christians did things like that. The Indian boy hated
Christians for years after that. But one day he heard Christians
in a church singing hymns. “Jesus came to save sinners,” they
sang. This got Rao’s attention, because he recognized
his own sin. The Hindu gods destroy the wicked, he believed. “There
is no salvation for me, according to that doctrine,” he
says. Rao went into the church. “Is it true that Jesus
came to save a sinner like me?” he asked them. Yes,
they replied. Believers gave him a Bible and showed him God’s
promises. “As I was reading in the Scripture about
the life of Jesus, that was a great joy that entered into
my heart,” he said. Rao became what he had once hated — a
follower of Christ. Now he wants to see everyone around him
follow the same Savior.
See
a photo gallery showing Indian Baptists
in Karnataka and a missionary who has influenced them.
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