Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Serve India Minsitries; The Time Has Come!

Greetings: By the time that you read this article, we will have begun our service with Serve India Ministries. This is the most difficult yet rewarding assignment we have ever had. We are teamed up with three other USA staff who, like me, are raising their support and investing there lives into the mission field. I am serving with:

Gene Mackie, a former contractor who has done work in Sudan as well as with Gospel for Asia. Gene keeps the ministry schedule up to date as well as manages many of the correspondences from the mission field to the supporting churches and donors.

I am also serving with Susan Westfall, a 20-year veteran of the mission fields of South America. Susan also served a tour with Gospel for Asia as the videographer. Susan has dedicated her life to fulfill the great commission, is our Operations Manager, and runs a very disciplined and tight ship. When it comes to administrative budget, we are very lean and mean because all of the missions-dedicated funds are sent to India for their specific projects. Not even the administrative budget in Asia is taken out of the proceeds. All the administrative funds are raised separately.

We also are blessed with Todd Cornwell, who is a gifted CPA and has given his time to Serve India as well as an adjacent ministry called Good Measure. Todd defines integrity and keeps us very current with tax law and our IRS reporting.

Then of course there is Brother Ebenezer Samuel, and his bio is too long to enter in this blog, but here is a link that you can go to in order to learn more about our founder.

He is a 32-year veteran of the mission fields of India, beginning as a young man with Friends Missionary Prayer Band, where he would preach from village to village for just $25 per month. He then served as the director of Trans World Radio India for 13 years as well as the Asian director of Gospel for Asia. He carries our God's vision very well, and I will tell you more as time goes.

Pray for us as we serve, and please be generous as the Lord enables you; the Lord's return is closer and closer so let's serve together and await His return.

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