Help Workers Share the Message of Salvation in South Asia
A mother of three children who also worked as a laborer fell ill with a mysterious weakness that often caused her to fall. Medical tests did not find the cause, and medications and the religious rites her family undertook on her behalf had no effect.
Open Way for Kingdom Growth in Bangladesh
Native ministry leaders were pleased that pastors and other church leaders benefited so much from leadership training sessions that emphasized practical application of what they had learned. Ministry leaders also visited various villages offering seminars to build up believers, including the elderly, parents and youth.
Help Expand God’s Kingdom in Sri Lanka
The gospel is spreading as native ministry workers distribute Bibles and gospel tracts and visit hospital patients and homes. A worker visited one home where the children were going hungry because their father had spent the meager household income in failed efforts to cure his wife’s illness and demonic bondage.
Help Drive Evangelistic Outreach in South Asia
After months of outreach limited by pandemic restrictions, local missionaries were able to go to two villages for follow-up Bible study with new Christians. “The idea is not that we will never face opposition; it’s simply that our opposition is doomed to failure,” the ministry leader said.
Help Power Gospel Proclamation in South Asia
Local missionaries started a house church and trained a family to take the gospel to others in the area. The family visited homes and helped those who were sick, hopeless, bereaved or unemployed, and three other families began attending Sunday services.
Equip and Encourage Evangelists in South Asia
Local missionaries are proclaiming salvation in Christ in spite of violence against them and discrimination that deprives Christians of rations and other aid. “Christians, local missionaries and pastors are being persecuted and beaten, but still they stand for God,” a ministry leader said.
Help Form New Disciples in Pakistan
Local missionaries held a prayer meeting where they encouraged church members to spread the Word of God, and soon the Lord had not only grown the congregation spiritually but increased it in number. Having shared the gospel at an area home for months, the ministry leader was overjoyed that one family member recently put her faith in Christ.
Equip Gospel Workers in South Asia
A woman from a family devoted to a local religion was invited to a native ministry’s church, and as she began reading the New Testament, she felt herself changing within. “One day I felt I was a sinner and prayed to Jesus, and I felt a great joy and peace which I never experienced in my life,” she said.
Help Propel Gospel Initiatives in Bangladesh
Praises that the leader of a native ministry and two other workers traveled to a village and, visiting one home after another, saw enough people put their faith in Christ to plant a church there. The leader recently dedicated three tribal children of the new Christians to the Lord.
Equip Workers for Gospel Proclamation in South Asia
People who have received gospel tracts and Bibles from local missionaries are coming to faith in Christ. In one area, five fathers were freed from worldly corruption and entered into God’s kingdom, while a worker in another visited a home where four family members trusted in the Lord for eternal life.
