Greetings and blessings from India. We are now half-way through our mission to India. This year we have a team of 10 members: Pastor Kevin Langager and eight Bible School students from CLBI, Camrose have joined me for this mission. It is truly amazing and exciting to see what the LORD is doing in India. The AFLC of India continues to grow with more and more people and opportunities to minister.

We began our ministry on New Years Eve with a dedication service for the ambulance that we were able to purchase for Dr. Anand’s medical ministry a few months ago, and then a worship and fellowship time. During the first week, during the day, Pastor Kevin and I taught a series of classes for the pastors, Bible women and Gospel workers: around 30–40 people. In the evening we preached at Gospel meetings in a number of towns and villages. Last night we finished a series of two meetings in our third community and tonight we will begin a two night series in Annavaram. In total we will have 17 Gospel meetings in 9 or 10 different villages. There are usually about 200–400 people at the meetings and many (often around a 1/4 to 1/3) come forward afterwards for prayer, and so we often spend a half hour or more praying with people at the end of each service usually around 11 or 12 pm. It makes for a lot of late nights and early mornings, especially since we usually have anywhere from 1/2 hour to 2 hours of travel to and from the villages.

In addition to the Gospel Workers seminar and the Gospel meetings in the villages, we have also been preaching in local congregations on the weekends, distributing Bibles to many children and adults, dedicating a number of medical stations that Dr. Anand has begun in many villages (about 4 so far, with more dedications to come), and visiting and sharing with a number of children’s Christian education classes that the AFLC of India has begun in many villages. One of the schools we visited, in a fishing village called Vada Revu where we held a couple of Gospel meetings a couple of years ago, had about 30 or so children who meet before and after their regular school day, every morning from 6–9 am and every evening from 4:30–7 or 8 pm while their parents are fishing in the Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal). The children are given help with their school work, sing, play, as well as learn Bible stories and memorize verses in Telegu and English. They have begun around 17 of these Christian education classes in the last couple of years, many of them reaching out to the poorest children in the villages who had never heard of CHRIST before these ministries began. Some of these Sunday Schools have 50 or so children, with more children coming all of the time. This of course helps the parents tremendously and also reaches them with the message of the Good News of CHRIST. It is absolutely incredible to see the work of GOD’S Kingdom amongst the children and youth of India in predominately Hindu villages where there have never been many open doors before. I am thankful for the opportunity to see and have a small part in these various ministries.

The Bible School students have divided their time between helping out at St. Paul’s School (180 children ages 4–15, nursery to grade 10, teaching, singing, and playing with the children, and sharing songs) and a drime (musical mime drama) at the Gospel meetings.

Through the various gifts that we received through our ministry as well as the AFLC, CLBI and Pastor Kevin’s congregation in Tofield, we have been able to purchase over 600 Bibles, 30 bicycles for the Gospel workers ministry in the villages, four computers for St. Paul’s School, a laptop computer and two medical packs (about $10,000 wholesale of medicines for third world countries—enough to help 2000–3000 people) for Dr. Anand’s medical ministry, materials to complete the roof and floor of one church, and some supplies for the building of another.

It has a been a very full 1½ weeks that we have already spent here, and there is still much more to come. I praise the LORD for the health and strength and many opportunities to testify to His grace and truth and minister to the many needy people here. Please continue to pray for the team and myself, and for my family at home for the LORD’S many blessings.

“Now to Him who by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think. To Him be glory in the church and in CHRIST to all generations forever and ever. Amen!” (Eph,3:20,21).