Join us as we train local believers on the desert's edge to embrace their role in the Great Commission and make disciples among the unreached nations around them.
Our team strives to saturate our area with the gospel by helping local believers own the Great Commission. We believe that every one of us has a role to play in making disciples and building God’s church, and as we train local believers with that heart focus, it will lead to a church planting movement that each of them owns as their ministry.Reaching 11,769 villages and 25.4 million people is a major task! It requires broad discipleship training across our region to equip every believer for the work of ministry. Digital tools make evangelism, deep discipleship, and biblical literacy accessible to all. Side-by-side mentoring sets an example of boldness and faithfulness that will develop a lifetime of ministry based on house-to-house evangelism and discipleship.Join us through prayer and financial support in this great endeavor! The Lord sees a harvest field here. Come and labor with us as a partner in this exciting work!
Gifts toward specific efforts show us what you are excited about. Occasionally, we may redeploy gifts as we follow God's leading with urgent opportunities or changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
Practical Ministry and Leadership Trainings
Training for believers focuses on personal discipleship and evangelism, principles for church planting, church health and maturity, and leadership character and skills. Your gift enables us to host believers for training sessions throughout the year so that they will share their faith and embrace their role in the Great Commission.
Increasing Gospel Access
Many South Asian believers are eager to take the gospel to the least-reached, but the costs of travel expenses can be a major obstacle. Your gift will help provide travel costs so national Christians can take the gospel farther into unreached villages, enabling them to disciple emerging leaders in those new-work areas.
UUPGs Exploration and Engagment
Of our state's 49 UUPGs, 20 remain "unexplored", 21 are in the early stages of engagement, and 8 now have their first identified followers of Christ. Your giving will allow us to support and send a national partner to seek out and assist in engaging the people groups. This project envisions a local believer working along side existing networks to encourage and follow-up with specific efforts among UUPGs.
Strategic Resources
Your gift will help us print ministry training resources for local believers. These resources guide our training process and aid the growth of our national partners and their ministries. Local-language Bibles (about $3.50 each), and SD cards loaded with a complete audio Bible and ministry resources (about $1.80 each) are generously provided through other gifts and partnerships.
Expanding our Team's Reach
Our work results in a lot of travel as we share the gospel, disciple new believers, nurture churches, and develop leaders. Your gift will help enable our team to go to more villages and cities to share the message that Jesus saves!
Muslim-Focused Ministry
18 of our state's UUPGs are Muslim people groups. While much work involves broad engagement of all people, we also recognize the need to mobilize specific efforts toward equipping belivers share with our state's significant Muslim population. Your giving will enable ongoing training and targeted outreach events.
National Partner Ministry Expenses
Select national partners are network leaders involved in going and sending to the least reached. They serve the lost directly through evangelism and church planting and also serve with our team as trainers, translators, and strategists. Your giving covers all their ministry expenses, helping them stay focused on the unreached and raise up new leaders.
Your generosity to this ministry has impacted many across South Asia!
The Devi* family is part of a least-reached people group in this region who came to faith through this ministry.
They were trained by local leaders and equipped to do house-to-house evangelism with an SD card that people can use on these phones.
We were unaware God was already using the Devis to reach an unreached, unengaged people group (UUPG) in the region until our recent UUPG survey.
Praise God for the ways He is using your gifts to bring the gospel to the lost!
Training efforts continue! Recently, a group of 25 local believers leading evangelism and discipleship efforts among a specific UUPG gathered for prayer and training.
Together, they celebrated testimonies of overcoming fear and prejudice as they shared the gospel with over 200 in this UUPG.
God is using your sacrificial gifts to equip and encourage South Asian believers to embrace the Great Commission.
Please join us in prayer:
Thank you for your generosity that pushes back the darkness with the light of Jesus Christ.
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“Why did it take so long for us to hear about Jesus?” asks Pramode*
When he and his family were baptized, the lostness of his community and his love for Christ led Pramode into ministry. Now pastoring a church that meets in his home, he weeps with disbelief that God uses him to share the good news.
Before hearing the gospel, Pramod was a witch doctor. Many came to him seeking power over their suffering and fear, but his home was full of fear.
Your generosity to this team brought Pramode the good news, and Jesus brought peace and hope into the chaos and darkness of his family.
Pramode’s testimony is just one of hundreds of stories of life transformation in one of the least reached corners of South Asia because of your gifts. Last year, you were a part of the faith journeys of 1,853 new believers among our partnering networks.
We are also focused on training church leaders, connecting with four major regions and identifying strategies to reach 14 unreached, unengaged people groups (UUPGs).
While God is providing new opportunities to share the gospel, we are seeing organized persecution unlike anything seen here in over a decade.
Many pastors have been questioned or arrested, and community opposition has forced some churches to close.
Your giving and prayers deliver the love and hope of Jesus to those struggling to find light in the darkness. Thank you for your faithfulness!
Please join us in prayer:
Thank you for sharing Jesus in this corner of South Asia through your faithfulness to this ministry. God is multiplying your gifts for kingdom purposes!
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The goal represents the cost of our team’s ministry activities for this calendar year. The Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) fully fund our living expenses. The goal amount resets every January 1st. All gifts completed through this form are directed to our team’s ministry strategy.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Giving to one of our specific team efforts allows us to know what you are excited to see God complete within our ministry. Occasionally, we may need to redeploy gifts within our team strategy as urgent opportunities arise, as we do our best to follow God's leading, or adjust to changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the posted goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Our living expenses are fully provided by generous churches and individuals participating in the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO). These gifts enable us to remain on mission without interruption. Your support is a partnership with these churches, providing for us and our colleagues through LMCO. Our team receives recognition when partners give below to make our presence here possible.
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® is a registered trademark of WMU.
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