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A Hindu named Muslim serves Jesus!

This is brother Nagooran from Nagai district of Tamilnadu .He was born to pious Hindu parents. During the time of his birth his mother gave birth to twins, but unfortunately his brother died during the time of delivery. His neighbor Muslims thought that he too may die, so they asked his mother to name the baby after Nagoor Andavar (famous Muslim god dwells in his place) to save her son’s life. His mother without thinking about anything to save her son’s life, she named him after that god.

From childhood he was brought up in all Hindu traditions. Since his birth he was suffering from severe stomach ache. It is not an ordinary pain which many go through but an unbelievable severe pain. Always he used to carry the required medicines. When he was studying in the school along with this school books he will also carry the medicines. Because he doesn’t know at what time he may suffer by this pain he was unable to concentrate on his studies. In order to get healing from this sickness he and his mother worshipped many gods and they have visited many temples. They also performed many religious rituals like shaving their heads, walking in the bare foot, observing regular fast, paying many offering and sacrifices. But nothing cured him.

While he was in this agony, a pastor came to his neighbor’s house for prayer and their neighbor got healed through the prayer. By seeing this his mother requested the pastor to pray for his son, the pastor prayed for him and invited them to come his church for all night prayer. During the night prayer wonderfully God healed him from his 20 year old stomach pain.

His mother and Nagooran were overwhelmed with joy. This miracle led them to Christ. Immediately he started sharing his testimony and the gospel. He also started praying for the sick. Many got healed and came to know the LORD. At that time he doesn’t know how to lead the people further. When he was praying to God gave him a burden about starting a Church.

At that time he heard about our training on church planting and joined the training. This Training has helped him to establish a church and also God has transformed his own character. Now regularly thirty people attend the Sunday morning service. And thirteen of them have been baptized. He is also conducting 2 house Churches in two places. His vision is to establish TEN churches in nearby ten villages. He lives with his wife and one-Daughter We thank God for him and the ministry.

21st century apostles ready to preach the gospel…

On December 3rd, 2011 at Trichy 122 Church planters have been graduated. They have underwent 5 modules of training on Church planting over the period of 15 months. They have been taught on evangelism, discipleship, membership, leadership and worship. 

53 of the previous church planters underwent the Church growth training. They have completed 4 modules of training.

During their training period, they have been practicing what they have learned. through that 6152 people have accepted Jesus as their LORD. 3917 people have become the disciples and 2057 become members.  797 believers have been trained to do ministry. Totally 798 house churches and 101 churches have been formed. Tony, Shelly and Ben witnessed the gathering from GCC. We are thankful to God, GCC, the supporters, trainers, prayer warriors and supervisors who are behind this ministry supporting.

Church membership crossed thousand and still growing…

I am Pastor Samuel, from erode district of India. When God called me to do ministry, I went to a bible college to study the bible and learn about ministry. After completing my bible college degree I came to my town to plant a Church. I tried to plant a church and I did not know how to start the church. While I was struggling a church planter from neighboring village told me about the training Raj was offering in Trichy. I joined the training.

Whatever they taught and showed us, I started doing the same thing in my place. I started sharing Jesus through my testimony and personal evangelism. The evangelism booklet provided by them was very useful to me. First I started a service in my house on Sunday evening and out of the 13 attended most of them are my family members. But after attending the third module on membership, God enabled us to baptize 7 people by Raj. Then we as a family started focusing on winning more people for Jesus. We were doing ministry all the 7 days and almost all the time winning people. By the time I finished all the 5 modules of training, 275 people attended the service.

Then I was given an opportunity to undergo the Purpose driven Training (PDT) to grow my Church. When I came to the training, raj told us that so for you have been doing ministry, but now you don’t do the ministry but train your people to do ministry. That really challenged me. I went back to my church and I shared with them what he told me. People got motivated and we fixed first and third Saturday as training day to train believers. 62 of them are trained as leaders and through them we have started 76 cell groups in different villages. Now 1500 people are attending the worship services. We are conducting 3 services on Sunday due to lack of space. 816 people have taken baptism so for.

The reason for the success is that we just applied what we were taught. Raj often used to say that  the least of you will become thousand (Isaiah 60:21) and encouraged each one of us to have a church with 1000 people. he also used to say. you cannot do anything without God and God won’t do anything without you. That really motivated me to be God’s representative to focus on my village and the surrounding 121 villages, where we are doing ministry now. Even though we faced many persecutions and opposition from the fanatic caste Hindus, we overcame by prayers. As of now we have planted 26 branch churches. We are so thankful to raj and the training he is continually giving to our believers.

Bruce has Directed a cricket world cup song

My Son Bruce has directed a Video song for the current cricket world cup tournament happening in India. Bruce is committed to live for Jesus and committed to use his skills for His glory.

Bruce Video on Cricket world cup

Families are blessed by the family conference

Last week end I was invited to speak in a family conference arranged by one of our former Church planter in tiruvallur district. Last year we had our first family conference  for this church that focused on God’s plan for our lives, God’s order for our marriage and God’s vision for our marriage. This has bought great change in the lives of the people. The families have set their priorities right and there was a great change in their attitude towards one another. People shared how the training has helped them.

Thus they persisted me to conduct part 2 of the conference. Since we have not done anything like this before, it was a challenge for me to prepare the materials. Finally I came up with the following topics. The expectation in marriage and right way of looking at our marriage, managing money in family and sex.

When I asked each of the men and women to share what they expected out of a marriage the findings were shocking. Both husbands and wife expectations are just opposite to one another. So immediately they identified the problem in their lives. So, it became easy for them to realize what kind of person they are and what they needs to change.

One newly married couple were present in the conference, I asked her what was her expectation in the marriage. She said, she has married so that she can ask her husband to buy the things that her mother has not bought her. She wanted a scoter and a gold anklet. People laughed and laughed to hear one after another sharing their expectations.

We were surprised to know that a husband was telling that even though he has married for 5 years, his wife has never given him a kiss. One of the husband said they were married for 28 years and the wife has never put her hand on him and never went with her husband to any place alone. Two of the husbands who have never been to a Church came to the conference with their wives. Both of them have accepted Christ and decided to go to the Church. We had lot of fun games for couples that requires the couple to touch, hug, hold, and have fun has ignited joy in their lives.

Forty five  families came for the conference and went with a renewed commitment and whole new understanding about families that will bring glory to Jesus.