W.O.N. JANUARY REPORT

WON CHURCHES:
God has blessed this work with 20 full time pastors and so far we are able to establish 30 congregations in 4 districts in the state of Andhra Pradesh and one church in Manipur (near NEPAL). The wind is blowing again as it was blown on the ay of Pentecost. The hand of the Lord is moving in a tremendous way upon our nation and every where people are coming to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and experiencing the power of God in their lives in spite of the persecutions to the body of Christ in the states Orissa, Gujarat, Bihar etc.
WON Pastors are busy with Church annual gospel crusades in their particular villages (Every year we do from the months of January to June.) Our job is evangelism and our passion in winning souls out where the people are, our hearts desire is to fulfill James 1:27. (The religion God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: is to look after the widows and the orphans.)

EAST COAST BIBLE COLLEGE:
After along busy days of Christmas prayer meetings students are making up themselves to fulfill the requirements for their up coming gradation. All the graduating students are very excited for the up coming gradation. So far we are able to send three groups contain 20 students in each group, most of them are involved in church planting ministries and a few of them are perusing further studies. This year we have more than 20 students who are getting ready to step into the mission field. All these students have come from 6 different states from all over India. Our desire is to equip the students and commission them to reach India and win the people for coming Christ.

EAST COAST CHILDREN HOME:
Kids are growing fast in their stature. Most of the kids came at a young age and now they are looking very grown up. At the moment they are enjoying their winter break as they have finished their half yearly examinations and are looking forward to accomplish the academic year to promote to the higher classes. All the high school kids are making a habit to fast and pray on every Saturday for their sponsors and families along with the Bible college students and churches believers. It is awesome to see a great commitment in their lives towards the Lord. Our prayer is that let these kids become a channel of blessing to the nation India and herald the name of Jesus Christ.

WON VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER:
After the six months of training in computers, tailoring, and spoken English courses students have left for their own villages. These students are going to come again in March to collect their certificates along with the Bible College students upon the graduation service.
We are also praying and planning to take up another 20 new girls and train them in the above mentioned courses. We were challenged by seeing young girls’ lives in the villages and we want to bring them out and show them that their lives are precious and should not be limited to the four walls and religious rituals. Because of the culture here in India village girls are not allowed equal opportunities along with the boys, because of this many are ignored and neglected. We here at W.O.N. want to prove that Jesus has plans for each and every one and that our lives are precious to Him. Most of the girls experienced real freedom in their spirits and many of them are delivered from the bondages. They have gone back to their homes as new creations with great thoughts that they are set free and are no more in the bondage. Praise God for all their testimonies with the tears we are thankful to God.

Finally Glory and I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your valuable support of prayers and financial blessings towards this blessed work in India.

IF YOU BELIEVE ANDI BELIEVE INDIA WILL BE CHANGED. (Praise Song)

Thanking You,
In His Mission
Jeevan & Glory

WHY SHOULD WE BE INVOLVED IN GOD‘S MISSION?

Our nation India is vast, with more than 6, 00,000 village in it. While more than 50,000 villages have no churches in more than 300,000 villages have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It may sound unbelievable, yet it is true. There are more than 4,500 people groups in India. Our nation needs to be reached with the Good news. There are thousands of people in India, perishing without the saving knowledge of the one true God, Jesus Christ. We have to fulfill the will of God, according to 1 Tim 2:4, which says “God our saviour, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth”. We have to involve in God‘s mission:

BECAUSE IT IS GOD‘S COMMAND:
Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation.” (Mark 16:15) with these words, Jesus made it clear exactly what his disciples were to do – they were to spread his teaching in his name, preaching salvation unto the ends of the earth. (Rom 10:18). If you consider yourself a “disciple” of Jesus Christ. Every believer is called to spread the ‘Good News’ about Jesus to those who have not yet heard. Jesus command is definite and clear –it is his great mandate, His Great Commission to the soldiers in his holy army. We must go, because our great General has commanded us to go.

BECAUSE THE NEED IS SO GREAT:

Today, the need is the greatest it has ever been in the history of mankind. There are more than 3000 ethnic people groups in India. They are yet to have a worshiping fellowship among them. There are 222 languages in India, each of which is spoken by at least 10,000 people. Of these, 71 languages do not have any portion of the Scripture in their own mother tongue? There are about 27,000 postal codes in India. In 1998, it was found that 18,000 of these postal code areas did not have single resident Christian workers as a witness. Do these figures move you at all? Does it matter to you that an estimated 20,190 unsaved people die every day (approximately 841 every hour… 14 people every single minute) to face the judgment seat of Christ?

BECAUSE THE WORKERS ARE FEW:
Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ… how shall they hear without a preacher? (Rom 10:17,14) India is closed, to missionaries from other countries, but Indian missionaries can travel to any part of our country and preach the ‘Good News’. The North Indian states, where more than 600 million people live, contain less than 2% of Christians: Rajasthan (0.12%), Uttar Pradesh (0.15), West Bengal (0.6%). Tripura (1.2%), Punjab (1.10%). Orissa (1.9%), Maharashtra (1.3%) Gujarat (0.39%), Bihar (1.1%), and Jammu and Kashmir (0.14%). More than 90% of our evangelistic efforts are carried out by about 4.5% of the Christians in our country. More than 98% of our Christian books and magazines address only Christians. More than 98% of income is spent on Christians, themselves. There are about 30,000 local evangelists, working in cross cultural situations. Our evangelistic efforts should increase to meet this tremendous need.

CONCLUSION
Is there any doubt in your mind that God wants everyone to be saved? If you believe this, and you really love Jesus, then WHY are you so timid about getting involved in this great thrust to be bring the Gospel to all the nations? Come let us build his kingdom together.