by Equip the Nations | Aug 3, 2016 | Equip The Nations' Blog, India Project Information
While living in Chennai, India, a friend took me to visit a ministry that focuses on those who have been diagnosed as having AIDS. This ministry focuses on operating a hospice for women with AIDS - most of them are women who were poisoned with AIDS from their unfaithful husband. This created another problem, orphaned children of former AIDS infected parents no one wanted. They took care of women as they died in their arms and tried to find places for the children. It was an extremely emotionally draining ministry for all involved. The epidemic is wide spread across India. Please click on picture to download HIV and AIDS information for India put together by www.aidsdatahub.org. Some of our teams are focused on helping with this issue. We would like to expand our efforts, but need your support. Tommy and Sonya...
by Equip the Nations | Aug 1, 2016 | Missionaries, Rose of Sharon Orphanage
ROSE OF SHARON HOME OF HOPE- CHILDREN’ HOME Rev.M.P.Prasanna Kumar – Director M. Emmannuel Dutt - Project Administrator God is good all the time. We praise God for His many fold blessings and for partners who not only pray with us but also support us in many ways. It is our prayer that God blesses you and enables you to do much more for His glory. We praise God for the new academic session that we could begin from 12th June onwards. And we are glad to write June-July’16 report and some of the noteworthy ways in which we have received the Lord’s blessings. New Staff: For quite some time we were on the lookout for a cook and a gardener, with much prayers and long waiting the Lord has finally blessed us with two new working staff to fill these posts. We praise God all the more for their commitment and dedication towards the Children’s home. Welcoming new kids to the home: This year the Lord has added seven new children to our children’s home from age 7years to 12years. We are glad that we could cater to most of their basic needs like giving them a neat haircut, providing clean clothes both for school and home, school bags, slippers, providing clean water and healthy meals. The girls are getting slowly adjusted to the new environment and coping well with the senior inmates. The new girls have been enrolled at the local government primary school in and they love going to school every day. The senior girls in the home have resumed their academic studies in the...
by Equip the Nations | Aug 1, 2016 | Chuch Planting Jebaraj, Missionaries
CHURCH PLANTING & EVANGELISM Jebaraj, South India Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I really thank God for His Guidance, Provision and Grace. He answering our prayers and doing great things through you in our church and our planting ministry. I want to thank all of my prayer partners and supporters. These stories are “our” stories as we partner together through love, prayer, support, and gifts. TWO PEOPLE PROCLAIM FAITH THROUGH BAPTISM: This past month, we went to a Sister’s house in a village I will call ABPI to conduct house prayer. There were eighteen people gathered. I shared the word of God, John.4:14, “But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up within him unto eternal life.” I explained that how Jesus saved and blessed that Samaritan women and through her, how numerous Samaritans of the town believed Jesus. In our culture, people can easily understand this passage situation. God convicted listeners heart. Two people were intently watching and listening and they made a big step to proclaim Jesus into their life by taking baptism. They understood this being baptized into Christ. This means they were being baptized out of something. This is a good point to always make. EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KARMA AND ACCIDENT: We went as a team to a village I will call EHPI to visit the new comer’s houses. The church is doing so great we needed to visit two new houses. The first household included the husband, his wife, two children. The husband is working carpenter. Recently his son (14yrs) was in...
by Equip the Nations | Aug 1, 2016 | Missionaries, School of Evangelism - Muthu & Kavitha
School of Evangelism and Pioneering Muthu, Kavitha, and family YWAM, South India Our Family-By the grace of God we are all well. Hope you are well too. Our children, Princy, Prince and Precious have been promoted to next grades-Princy to 8th, Prince to 5th and Precious to 3rd. Thank you for praying for them. We hope and desire that they grow in the Lord and serve Him alone! We request you to pray for our children’s studies especially for Prince. He loves to play always but not interested in studies. 36 PEOPLE FINDING NEW LIFE IN DTS SCHOOL MINISTRY-This year’s DTS just returned back from their outreach. The Lord has used them very powerfully. Two teams went to two different States and ministered in 11 locations. They were able to reach more than 30000 hurting people with the love of Jesus. Many found Jesus and more than 30 of them are attending churches now. Six people were baptized. Many healings and miracles took place. JESUS HEALED LAXMI – Laxmi is a young girl from a Hindu family. She had a strange sickness and was suffering on her bed for many days. They spent lots of money and worshiped many gods but there was no healing. When our Discipleship Training Team heard about her and went and prayed in her house and immediately she was healed and sat up. Now her family is rejoicing and coming to church. The This DTS School did a great work. They graduated last week and now they serving the Lord in many places. Please pray for them. AARYEE’S TESTIMONY OF OUR WIDOWS...
by Equip the Nations | Aug 1, 2016 | Church Planting - Mark Antony, Missionaries
Church Planting & Mercy Ministry Home Page Mark and Hepsibah Village Ministry Greetings from Mark and Family! I pray for each of you and your safety. I am writing to update you on our ministry that you are helping us to achieve. I pray this update will bless you as you read it and I pray that God will open all of our eyes to His Spirit and His power, and His grace for the world. JESUS PROVES HE IS “LORD OF THE HARVEST” TO ALL: A woman we will call LTA found new love in Christ for her life by the POWER of God. LTA is from the streets and the handicraft trade. She lost her right leg in the accident on 2010. LTA works farming, planting, and harvesting rice. Because LTA is cripple and suffers like many who do not have money. Every place LTA plants rice, the people in the village say it will not grow and she is heartbroken. They tell her that she is wasting her time, energy, and money. The villagers promised her that during harvest time that she will gain nothing and stay poor. She shard these stories with my wife and I. We began to pray with her. Then God give us a verse: “And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him.” (Ge 26:12) Hepsibah and I began to declare this verse for Latha daily. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? God blessed the seeds and they grew into plants. Latha was able to have a great harvest for all to see! The villagers were...
