How Does Serve India Plant Churches?
Serve India Ministries is all about church planting; specifically, partnering with local churches to plant a church. After 10-20 pastors are identified in a district, each will agree to target five area villages to plant churches in and meet together once a month for two days of prayer, training and fellowship. Serve India Ministries assigns a facilitator train the pastors through a 5-year curriculum that was written by our partner organization called BILD International. Getting this many pastors in one room together is an incredible time of encouragement and greatly builds the faith of soldiers of faith!
Pastor Rajan M (A new church is born!)
One of the recent updates we received from India tells of Pastor Rajan M* in Tamil Nadu. Pastor Rajan was very excited to take part in this valuable training and identified 5 villages that needed to hear the Gospel and have a local church.
Pastor Rajan initially focused his attention on a particular unreached village called T M* The key strategy for effective church planting in India begins with daily prayer for the village along with regular visits of house visitation and tract distribution. Pastor Rajan was particularly gifted to share the love of the Lord with villagers. It was many months of visits without any good response to the Gospel. But without losing hope, Pastor Rajan continued to pray and visit and finally a family came forward to offer their home for a prayer meeting. As God began to minister, more people began to come to the prayer meeting. Now the prayer meeting has developed into a church in which 15 people attend regularly. Pray that this church will grow in its ability to minister to this community.
Pastor Rajan is an example of how the current 450 pastors partnering with Serve India plant churches. The goal of each pastor is to plant 5 churches in 5 villages in 5 years. Currently these pastors are targeting over 2,000 unreached villages where a Gospel witness has never existed.
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* Because of anti-Christian elements, the full name of the pastor and this village he is working in are not given.
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