A joint effort by fundamentalist Baptist churches
to reach every region of India with the Gospel of Jesus Christ
through missionaries Indian nationals
targeting the year 2020.
We will be working in partnership with VISION.2020.ASIA whose ministry was started in 2000 by Rev. Dr. James Starr. He has made 30 trips to India in the last 14 years.
The possibility of reaching India by crowds of native missionaries in our generation is very real, since thousands are trained to plant churches across India! Although the missionaries in India have to face many difficult obstacles as they carry the message of the Gospel from village to village, they have a huge advantage over us in the West:
Advantages in investing in Indian National Missionaries
1. They can cross the cultural and linguistic barriers more easily.
2. They can be sent at a lower cost than a Western missionary.
The average cost is 1/10 to sustain a national missionary in India then to sustain a brazilian missionary in India.
In other words ... to reach India we need a strategy in which our churches can help support missionaries Indian nationals since for every missionary sent from Brazil we could support 10 missionaries in India.
But by the other hand ...
...we want that churches planted in each culture be truly indigenous in the self-governing, self-propagating and, as soon as possible, self-sustaining.
The Indian missionaries are willing to pay a high price in suffering, misery and intense persecution to see churches being established in India. Thousands of indigenous brothers and sisters are waiting to be sent. They just need our help!
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"How shall they preach except they be sent?"
Romans 10:15
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HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE?
GO:. Be ready to answer God's call, "Whom shall I send?"Surely the Lord does not call everyone to go to the field and work full time as missionaries. However there are many ways to participate in part-time: Teachers, Doctors and Nurses, Merchants, Builders, etc.. Consider visiting the mission field.
PRAY:. The most important support for the missionaries is YOUR prayer. Pray that the Lord will raise a large army of evangelists to reach all peoples who have not heard of Jesus Christ.
GIVE: Hold regularly and faithfully the work of the Lord with your money. Be a tither at your local church. Participate in your church's missionary program. And recognizing that we need to be more daring missions to unreached people adopt one of our projects in India.
- Assisting in the maintenance of a church planter.
- Supporting an evangelist during his training.
- Supporting a teacher in one of the centers of evangelization.
- Helping orphanages maintained by Indian workers.
- Contributing to the support of Brazilian workers in India.
LOVE:. Missionaries are human beings with feelings like ours that need to be encouraged by our love. There is no friendship without receiving evidence of love and affection of the other party. So too the missionaries need to feel the living bond between them and the churches that sent them to the field.
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