WE NEED HELP

CHURCH PLANTING FOR POOR PEOPLE

I will build my Church", said our Lord. (MATT: 16:18)

The Church is the primary agency of the Kingdom of God on earth. Churches are God's strategy for evangelizing the unevangelized.

By the Church of Christ in India, strategies for planting churches among the unreached people groups in India, transforming the interior rurals & tribals by the power of the Gospel. "A Church among every people and the Gospel to every person" is our vision. "To plant Churches that plant Churches and to cultivate mission active churches"(Mark16:15) is our goal.

To reach our vision & goal, we are covering every unevangelised village, even in the dangerous jungles also. Many villages where we have been conducting our Church Services are very backward areas; and even some of those villages have no road facilities, and we have to walk about 15 to 25 kilometers through the terrible zigzag jungle routes. ships. Often, our missionaries use the COW-SHEDS as the church gathering places --worship centers-- as we have no permanent places to worship in. Hence, we are facing many troubles in our worships irrespective of the summer, winter and rainy seasons.

In His grace, the Lord is blessing our Church Planting Ministry, and our missionaries and field workers (evangelists, and preachers) are success in reaching out many unreached people groups, through various outreach programs and door-to-door evangelism. Every day and week many souls are added in the Kingdom of God, and thus the Churches are being established in many remote forest areas also. It is amazing to see some believers gather together under some trees also in the jungles to worship the Lord with overwhelmed joy of salvation.

Please join your hearts in praying for the construction of some Church buildings, as many of our village churches services are being operated in some small huts, temporary tents, thatched with palm leaves etc., All these tribal & rural churches are in need of some permanent construction. We are praying God to send PRASAD who can bless with their kind help in constructing the church centers in the villages. We are in the urgent need of construction of 3 churches in different parts of Andhra Pradesh, India. In four different villages, and two semi urban areas, we are in need of purchasing the land for Church construction. In three villages, the thatched church constructions are immediately needed the repairs or permanent church buildings. Please invest your money in God's Kingdom.

We follow certain strategies in reaching the unreached tribe or village, before we establish a Christ Worship Center among them. Please contact us for more details on this Church Planting Programme. We urge you to become our Faith Partner in this important church planting work in the remote regions of India.

OUR NEEDS: Please become our Faith Partner, and support us to reach our goal of evangelizing the unevangelized through our Out-reach & Door-to-Door Ministries. We are in need of some bicycles, to use in our interior village outreach ministry. Each bicycle cost about $70 US. You can enable our village evangelists to work more effectively and to cover many villages, with your gift of one bicycle, as most of our evangelists do not have bicycles, and doing the out reach by foot.

You also can be a part of our Outreach & Door-to-Door evangelism by sponsoring our evangelistic team to go and cover at least one unevangelized village for Christ. We need 350 US$ to cover one entire village, through gospel tracts, door-to-door evangelism, witnessing, street evangelism and evening gospel meetings etc.,

You can not go to every village, but our evangelists and Out-reach missionaries can go. Please send us to the unreached interior villages, on behalf of you. We also invite you to come and serve the lost along with us, on short-term missionary trip. You can really become a great tool of blessing in many live

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God has given His church a three - fold work to do.

1. Evangelism – preaching the gospel
2. Edification – teaching and building up the saved
3. Benevolence – helping the needy as opportunity presents itself

we are trying our best to do the first TWO THINGS. And the THIRD one with the help of kind hearted personalities like you. I praise God He is wonderfully working through people to implement His will. The Gospel Advancement Alliance of India distributes the Holy Bibles to the poorest people, who are unable to afford a single copy of the Bible, for their personal or family use.

The daily income of a poorest person in the rural & tribal India is a maximum of 40 to 50 rupees (about One US Dollar) which he earn for his labour work. He has to meet the needs of his entire family with the smallest income (daily wage), which is not sufficient to provide the needed food even to his little children also. In this position, it is very difficult task for a poorest rural & tribal person to purchase a copy of the Bible in his own dialect. To meet this need, the GAAI have started this Free Bible Distribution Programme, to provide the Holy Bibles to the poor believers in the remote areas. Many villagers, now, have their own Bibles in their houses (mud-huts). In some villages, the villagers gather together to hear the Bible, while one person read out aloud for all of them. The reason is, that no other person in the village do have the Bible, and also most of the villagers are illiterates and can not read or write. So, they hear the Bible while one person read it out for them, in the evenings.

Hence, we are providing the Holy Bibles to the poorest needy, free of Charge. We have many incidents when the people wept aloud when they receive the Bible from us. We also can see the true value & honor of the Bible as many villagers, dare not even to touch the Bible with dirty hands, as they treat it as the image of God.

The Indian Bible Literature and the Bible Promoters of India have provided the Telugu Holy Bibles to us at subsidized cost. We distributed more than 800 Holy Bibles during the past 15 months. Out of these, 500 Bibles were sponsored by the Church of Christ Ministries. The rest of the Bibles were collected from various individuals by the local churches.

Please pray and help us, as we are in need of many Holy Bibles, for the distribution among the poor. At present, we distributed Telugu Bibles in many interior villages. We have many requests for the Bibles in Telugu language. Please donate a Bible to one poor family.

To be frank, there are hundreds of villages are in the great need of the Bibles. It is sad to say that even some village pastors and evangelists also do not have a good Bible for their personal or ministerial use.

Your loving brother in Christ

G.BABU. 9392501381
GIDDALUR CHURCH OF CHRIST