We praise the Lord for 250 new pastors this fall! Now we need sponsors.

As you know, we are now serving 450 independent pastors in India. You can feel the momentum in India start to build as more and more pastors are starting to get a vision for being a part of planting 100,000 churches. Isn't that a wonderful God-sized goal!

As of now we have 350 of these pastors sponsored, so PLEASE pray for the USA staff that we can quickly find the sponsors that God has prepared for our ministry.

I am preparing to send out some mailing to people we met at recent home school conferences asking them to sponsor a pastor or a Stepping Stone child. When Brother Ebey comes to the USA in the fall, he will have 250 more pastors. It is very important that Serve India Ministries Development Department goes to the next level. We hope to have our community-based web site launched by the end of the month, and it will be a tool that our key friends can use to recruit 20 donors to sponsor a specific mission field and they will be able to encourage each other and pray together on a community bulletin board specific to their mission field. We also plan on hosting an online prayer meeting.

We are also preparing for a two-month tour that Brother Ebey and Gene Mackie will be going on from September 18 through November 25, and during that time our prayer is to schedule speaking opportunities on each Sunday and Wednesday and personal visits with donors during weekdays. They will be traveling from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, then back to Iowa and Illinois before flying back to India in late November. The goal will be to sponsor 250 pastors and 1500 Stepping Stone children.