Assisting India Christians to reach their own communities
Indian Christians are being asked to share their faith with neighbours and friends in their home areas, and they are eager to respond.
Mission India assists these men and women, through our Church Planter training programme, who come to us and ask for training and Bible resources as they seek to reach their own people.
Mission India has developed a two-year training programme that includes 8 months of classroom study and tuition, and a total of 16 months practical outreach in villages and communities, where students make themselves available to share the good news of Jesus. Mission India provides each student with 100 Scripture books, 50 New Testaments, 25 Bibles, classroom textbooks on the topic of church planting, training/materials to organise a Children's Bible Club, training/materials to organise an Adult Literacy Class, and a bicycle for travel to outlying areas. All printed materials are in the regional language. New worshipping groups are established in the areas where Church Planting students focus for the two years.
India's constitution guarantees India's people the freedom to choose their religion, and Church Planting students respect both the Constitution and the freedom of choice it allows each citizen.
New churches benefit communities in many ways:
- Churches become a focus for prayer and worship
- They help to transform hearts and attitudes
- They encourage social development
- They spread God's love and compassion in local communities
- Churches help members overcome problems such as:
- Family breakdown
- Illiteracy
- Child abuse and neglect
- Outside pressures that impact community members
The harvest is ready - and in India the workers are ready too! All they need are the tools and the training so that many can be reached with the good news of Jesus.