The work of God at My Father's House India continues to grow with the addition of a twenty-five day old girl. We praise God for this precious gift and the other hundred and twenty plus children now at our home. The facility we have been using will apparently suffice for a while. We have no where to go and cannot find a suitable building in the extended area. So we are going to rent our current facility for another year, Lord providing, and pray for our own piece of land that we can develop. We need more space with better land & drainage. Our staff at My Father's House has offered to live in tents and we would have many hands to help us build suitable rooms for the children, staff and widows. There are millions of orphans, child prostitutes and street children in India. The ministries devoted to meeting the needs of these 'least in the world' are not meeting the need. There are child traffickers, panderers, sexual exploiters and predators in abundance and we compete with them for the souls of these children in a society that has no compassionate root. We have the opportunity to save these children from abuse and exploitation and, perhaps, lead them to faith in Christ. We need room. We could take hundreds more children if we had space for them to sleep, eat, play and study. Land is costly but souls are priceless. Please pray and help as you are able.
Wordsower has partnered with Dr. Ishak Ahmed at Northeast India Baptist Bible College and Academy to take in and care for four orphans. Their names are Binoy Surin (a boy), Romon Tanti (a boy), Gudador Mura (a boy) and Sarah Murah (Rebecca),(a girl). They are provided housing, care and education at the school and we provide the funds to support them. All four seem to be between five and eight years old. Please pray for these children and the school. We're encouraged to see this work happening and these beautiful young ones being loved and cared for.
INDIA CHURCH PLANTING
Our Church planters continue to live out the Book of Acts in Andhra Pradesh State, India. Wordsower Bible Church has almost seventy churches and many preaching points. Persecution, of course, is a daily experience. When our Pastors and their families first go into a village (and we only go where there is no Christian witness and/or where Christ has never been preached) they are generally welcomed with open arms.
The Hindus have many gods (over three hundred million!) and the folks in the villages welcome preachers of new gods readily. When, over the course of time, they realize that we really mean it when we say; the One Who we are preaching is the God above all gods, is a jealous God Who will have no other gods before Him, Who has made only One Way to Himself through the Lord Jesus Christ and Who will not abide any images to be made of Himself or His Son...then persecution breaks out. Our families are forced to the edges, or even outside, the village proper. Sometimes there is physical violence.
Our people persevere. Souls are being won. Brethren in Christ are being baptized and discipled. Church buildings are being built. The Church of Jesus Christ is advancing in this land of gross idolatry. The Kingdom of God advances and His righteousness is exalted.
Thank you for your assistance in this work of God. One Church planter and his family (all but one of our thirty-six pastors is married) receive seventy-five dollars a month. Would you consider, or perhaps suggesting to your local congregation, standing with one of these men on a monthly basis?
In Christ with you
For the lost....Jason
