It is time for me to give an update on our four-month, People-of-Peace project (see Luke 10).
The two unreached people groups we are working to reach live in
twenty-two districts (like a county), all located in the green area on
the map to the right. You may recall that our work in India has so far
been focused on only eight districts. This means there are fourteen
districts that we have not yet targeted. We are changing that this
year. Our hope is to see what is happening in the eight districts, as
evidenced by the monthly reports, jump to the other
fourteen
districts. To facilitate this, we have sent forty-two national missionaries,
all men whom we have trained, into the fourteen untargeted districts.
Their charge was to seek out people-of-peace, share the gospel and then
begin to disciple them as followers of Jesus. Our plan was to support
these forty-two men for four months, from January through April of this
year, at a cost of $4,000.00 per month. In July of this year, we will
train some of the people-of-peace that have been found and then we will
then send them out as disciple-making missionaries to the fourteen
untargeted districts beginning in October of this year; just like we
have sent people out to the other eight districts.
As
you read the reports, please pray for God's perfect financial
provision. We still have some needs for our work in India. First, we
need $3,000.00 to finish funding the four-month, People-of-Peace project. The funds have been advanced, but I borrowed
these funds from our General fund, which is the fund that supports my
family. I needed the funds by the end of March and we had a cushion in
the General fund. That cushion is typical for this time of year and it
has historically carried us through the summer months when giving often
drops. Our hope is that these funds will be replaced. Second, we need
$2,000.00 to fund our April need for the
twenty-four men who are working in the eight districts. I will be
sending the March report for these eight districts soon as well.
Finally, we will need approximately $6,000.00
to fund the training project we have planned for June. There will be
other needs throughout the year, but I will share them as they come
up. As I said earlier, this is an aggressive strategy, but we do
believe that God is doing a great work and that He will work in the
hearts of His people to provide for this need. We have simply moved
forward in faith. Instructions on how to give to these needs are at
the bottom of this post.Our missionary went to a village that has a population of roughly 4,000. In this village lived a lady witch doctor who had a good business prophesying, healing, fortune-telling and so forth. Identifying this lady's home as a major stronghold in the village, he began to prayer walk every day, focusing on her home. He felt that once this stronghold had been broken, he would find the person-of-peace in the village. He did this for several weeks. As he prayer walked, the witch doctor's business began to fall apart. She was no longer able to perform healings and tell fortunes and a sick baby that had been brought to her for healing died. All of this led to her downfall in the village and the residents forced her to leave town. After she had left, our missionary approached the owner of the home where the witch doctor was living and asked if he could rent it. The landlord was afraid of the home, thinking that it must be cursed. Our missionary rented the home and began to share the gospel with the landlord. As the landlord saw the power of God in protecting our missionary, he came to trust in Jesus and is now being discipled by our missionary. This is how the first person-of-peace was found.
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