A New and EXCITING Chapter in the Erwin Family Ministry

Greetings:

We have been given an amazing opportunity beginning March 1, and we will need your prayer and support more than ever before. We will begin serving as Development Directors for Serve India Ministries http://www.serve-im.org/ . We will truly be living by faith so whatever support comes in is what we get. When we were with Gospel for Asia and Servant Christian Community Foundation, they made it a policy to subsidize our support so that we had a consistent salary. Serve India is not large enough to be able to cover our shortfalls. So we would ask that you consider supporting our ministry and, if able, increasing your support. I am reminded by God's Word, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things will be added to you."

As long as we focus on the vision that God gives us, He will provide our needs. We must not be focused on our needs but on the vision that God gives us.

Serve India is a new and emerging ministry that is beginning to leave its mark on the nation of India. Currently they are helping 400 native pastor-missionaries to each plant 5 churches in their communities in the next 5 years. We are very excited about this vision, and we believe that God is doing a very special and important work in India. Currently there are still around 500,000 villages in India that have not had a Gospel witness or a church planted in them. India has a large army of independent native pastors who felt the call of God to go to the north of India and plant churches. It was in the late 60s that a great missionary revival began among the Christians of South India. The call was sent out, "Reach India in Our Generation!" and thousands of brothers and sister obeyed that call, most going to North India with no financial support. Today there is an army of independent pastors who have successfully planted churches.

Serve India's strategy is to come alongside these pastors and wash their feet and help them plant at least 5 additional churches. The pastors also get training once a month to help them with their outreach as well as discipling their current and new congregation.

India is truly the greatest mission field in the world. With 1.2 billion people, only 2.3% of the population is Christians with hundreds of millions who have not heard the Gospel. Most of these are in North India; some areas may only be 1/10 of 1% Christian. Ah, but the fields are white and the Vision is clear, "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations." Matthew 18:19-20.