Partner with us as we make and train disciples in the obedience of faith, stretching from this South Asian plateau into the very heart of the Islamic kingdom.
Our team is convinced that God plans to expand His kingdom among all peoples and places using His church as the primary tool. Thus, our team’s key ministries emphasize the South Asian church. We focus on partnering with like-minded local churches whose leaders live biblical lifestyles and lead the church’s mission. We help them embrace Great Commission tasks such as evangelism, discipleship, and church planting and train them to reach out to all peoples in their area, especially among Muslims who are often neglected due to social, political, and religious prejudices. We realize that when the laborers are more similar to the target culture and language, they are more effective. Thus, we pour much of our energy into helping the South Asian church raise up healthy Muslim Background Believers. We invite you to join us in this work!
Your partnership will enable us to develop local churches in key Muslim-populated areas. Your gift will train local believers in practical evangelism and discipleship skills and provide gospel resources so that local believers know how to multiply the gospel’s voice in Muslim communities. We help the local churches learn to identify seekers and engage them in Bible studies. As the Lord brings repentance and faith, we teach them to offer direction and training from Scripture and practical modeling of a Christian lifestyle to make healthy disciples and healthy churches. Your giving funds our team’s presence here with our brothers and sisters in Christ, getting into the trenches with them as they pour their lives out for the gospel among the Muslims in their area. We need your help to accomplish this. It all swings back to dependence upon God and His body! Thank you for your faithful support and for joining our work so that the multitudes in the Muslim Plateau can know the love of Jesus Christ.
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.
SD Cards of Gospel Resources
Micro-SD cards are still used in South Asia, making them a great tool for reaching and discipling our people group. We use an audio Bible story curriculum for evangelism and Luke-to-Acts Bible studies to lead people into discipleship and church formation. Your gift allows for the mass distribution of these digital tools in our team’s training among local churches as they embrace the Great Commission.
Bibles in Local Languages
Our team partners with a local Bible organization to purchase Bibles at discounted costs. Just $50 buys ten copies. Since 2013, one translation has been made available both as a complete Bible and just the New Testament. Your gift enables us to purchase Bibles to ensure local churches are well-equipped to lead people to faith and to make healthy disciples using the Bible as the curriculum.
1-Day Evangelism Training
As local churches begin embracing their calling to multiply the gospel and make disciples in their community, our team partners with them. We help train them in the Biblical foundation and how to share the gospel among Muslims. This usually is a one - to two-day event that includes a practicum of visiting their Muslim friends and praying for God to open the door for gospel conversations in the community.
Local Partner Travel Expenses
As local leaders own the vision and responsibility to carry out the Great Commission in their larger communities, our team helps meet their goals. Your gift will support key leaders as they travel throughout their area, training others to become skilled in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. Through this collaboration with others in their area, training, and church planting efforts are multiplied.
Bluetooth Speakers for Bible Study
Not everyone in our communities is literate, so we've incorporated an audio component into our discipleship materials. Bible stories and deeper Bible studies use directed questions to help people understand the gospel and grow in their knowledge of scripture. Your gift of $650 purchases 50 Bluetooth speakers, allowing the Bible to be clearly heard by the participants.
2-Day Evangelism Training
This follow-up workshop and retreat supports our South Asian partner churches. Your gift of $450 provides 25 participants with a deeper dive into strategic Biblical missions training (e.g., studying the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys). Also, it gives time for situational training that addresses their needs as they live and minister in their context.
3-Day Leader Retreat
This three-day leaders retreat and workshop is for those in the South Asian churches with whom our team collaborates. It enables a deeper dive into strategic Biblical missions training as we examine examples of missionaries in Scripture and just-in-time training to address ministry questions and needs of the moment. Your gift of $3000 supports 30 participants.
Evangelism with Muslims in our context is challenging. Fear often keeps local believers from sharing their faith.
Thanks to your generosity to this ministry, we are equipping Christians in this part of South Asia with the practical skills needed to share Jesus with Muslims.
A local believer has been regularly visiting Abbas* and Aisha*, a Muslim couple living nearby, and sharing with them the love of Christ:
“He’s not been drinking [alcohol] for a month, and [one of his relatives] called me this evening to thank my wife and me. I shared how God is working in Abbas’s life.
“I went out to breakfast with Abbas the next day, and he asked that my wife and I save time every Sunday to meet with his family to study the Bible.
“This week, Aisha’s mother called, saying she sees the changes in them and wants us to visit with her family, too, as they face life struggles, including anger and depression. She wants us to teach her family like we’ve taught her daughter and son-in-law.”
Praise God for the changes He is making in Abbas and Aisha’s family and their openness to the gospel!
Thank you for giving and praying for the people of this region. You are helping multiply gospel efforts to reach them for Christ, as we train believers to share Jesus.
Please continue joining us in prayer:
Praise God for His work in Abbas and Aisha’s family. Pray for their salvation.Thank you for your continued, sacrificial support for our team. We are in awe of how God assembles the essential elements for the expansion of His kingdom!
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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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