Dear Friends,
It is so amazing how God opens doors for the ministries of Hindustan Bible Institute to bring the good news of the Gospel to the unreached people of India especially to the young children.
Just in the last 11 months, God gave us opportunity to minister to 127,934 children1. Praise the Lord!
As I was preparing my Annual Report, I realized that God is bringing to our attention that we should be focused and investing on discipling the emerging generation so that a healthy, transformational Church and Nation can be built according to God’s good, acceptable and perfect will. It was so encouraging to read the testimonies of these young ones who gave their lives to Jesus.
I want to share a few of them so you will rejoice with us knowing your investment is making a great difference in the lives of these young children.
I am Suguna from a Hindu family. We used to worship the goddess Mariyammal. One day my friends invited me to attend Sunday school. I went there because at the end of the program they give candy. When I went there, their singing, story telling, and the way they prayed for people, really amazed me. From then on I regularly attended the Sunday school. One day my mother fell ill and was suffering from high temperature. At that moment, I remembered a memory verse that I learned in my Sunday school. “…call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me”. Trusting on His word I prayed to God to heal my mother and God heard my prayer and my mother was immediately healed. I shared with my family how Jesus answered our prayers and invited them to attend worship services. Now as a family we are worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ!
Ganesh, another child coming from a staunch Hindu family says,
My father is a Lorry driver and an alcoholic. He used to spend all his money in alcohol, so my mother goes for daily wage to feed us. There was no one to teach me or help with my school work. So I started to attend Child Development centre regularly for many years.
One day I shared my family situation with my Teacher and the Pastor. They visited our home several times and prayed for us especially for my father. God delivered my father from the alcohol habit. The pastor started to disciple my father. Now we attend the church as a family and my father is taking care of our family so well. We are very happy that Jesus has done this miracle.
Friends, do you know 35% of India’s population is under the age of 15. Each one of them needs Jesus.
We have found out that every opportunity of sharing God’s value through the music and drama teams softens the hearts of children who express their desire to know more. After a period of resistance from the school, they finally yield to God’s work and open the door for a regular children’s club to disciple the children. As they grow in the faith they invite the children’s workers to start a prayer cell in their homes. This opens the door into the community to disciple the family and others through prayer cells. Praise the Lord!
We are truly thankful to the short term mission teams that come alongside us to minister in schools with their skills, abilities and giftedness. In many occasions they open the doors for us to enter into schools.
This year we had 8 children ministry short term teams and we ministered together in 45 schools, serving 40,080 children with variety programs such as skits, mime, drama and music.
If you would like to be part of what God is doing in the lives of children in India, you can come on a short term team either as a part of a music and drama team or as a children’s team to minister to these children in schools, orphanages, hostels and even in streets.
God is at work in India especially among children. Our goal for this year is to minister to over 150,000 children. We would like to invite you to be part of touching the lives some of these children. You can do it through several ways;
* You can pray regularly for our children ministry among school children, village children, Juvenile home children, street children and children in the orphanages.
* You can sign up to come on a short term team through your local church
* You can invest in supporting a child in the orphanage ($30 a month), a Sunday school center ($50 a month) or a child in the child development center ($20 a month). Designate your support to one of the above and make your check out to “HBI Global Partners” and mail it to
. If you would like to do an online donation, log on to “www.globalpartners.org ”
* You can introduce the ministry to your friends and families to get involved in what the Lord is doing in India.
You can make a difference! Come be a part of what the Lord is doing!
I would like to hear from you. Write to me today! My email address is bgpt214@cs.com.
It is gratifying to know you follow along with the news of what God is doing in India through the ministries of HBI and we thank you for your continued support and prayers.
Praying for you and may the Lord bless you.
Your servant in the mission,
Dr. Paul (Bobby) Gupta
President
HBI Global partners
Forest, VA 24551
Donate online: www.globalpartners.org