It’s India.
It’s 120 degrees.
And, it’s church planting!
I don’t know anything about planting a church. Yet here I am, leaving tomorrow for some very remote village to help start one.
Adventures in Missions (AIM) has partnered with Indian Christian Ministries (ICM) to get involved in planting churches. So, here we are – the first team (actually teams – there is another team with us this month) to actually go and try this out.
Part of ICM’s vision is saturation – they want to saturate India with the gospel. To do this they want a church in every village! They have an amazingly organized and effective system for this. And we get to help!!
We will be going out to a very remote village to preach the Gospel, go door to door, introduce Jesus to people who may never have met Him before and evangelize to Muslims and Hindus. We will give opportunities for salvation and baptism. We will also find land, raise money for the temporary church, build the structure, and find a person we think would be a good pastor. Then ICM trains the pastor and after 100 people are saved they build a permanent church building.
Even though it is really exciting to go out and start from the beginning it is going to be really rough too. We will have no running water – just one foot pump that is used by the whole village. We don’t think we will have electricity, but there may be some erratic generated power. We will be sleeping outside in our tents. And, most excitingly, I have been told that to use the bathroom we have to dig a whole in the middle of some field! Often, I find, on this trip, my spirit may be really excited and willing to be doing what we are doing… but my flesh is, most usually, resisting with everything it has. Sometimes it is just hard to be out here.
But, lucky for you – you can get involved from the comforts of your home!!! You can be a part of planting this church without having to dig a whole in a field or live outside in 120 degree weather! You can be part of giving Life to a village that is dying! You have the opportunity to bring Jesus into a village where Christianity is prohibited! You have the chance to make a lasting difference! If you would like to get involved, here’s how:
We need your money… $2000.00 to be exact! There are 11 of us working on this project, so if each person raised $190.00 we would actually be over budget! So, to brake this down even further… I need 19 people to give $10.00!
So if you want to be part of bringing salvation to a village in a restricted nation… if you want to be a part of the Great Commission here in India… here is a very tangible way to get involved! Just go to this (link/website) and donate!:
www.indiachristianministries.org
Thank you for all your continuous love, support, prayers, encouragement, and involvement! We couldn’t do this without you!
