To Our Beloved Family in Christ

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1 Church of Christ India Mission Work Work Report Newsletter March 2018 Romans 16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. INSIDE THIS NEWSLETTER March Quick Look Quarterly Work Report Gospel Work Events Targeted Needs for April Special Request Other Needs Prayer Request and Thanks Contact Information To Our Beloved Family in Christ Greetings Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! The churches of Christ in India salute you. Grace, Peace, Mercy and Love of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always. We hope and pray you and your families are doing well and have had a blessed Easter. We hope the spring season brings many blessings to you and your families. We feel so blessed to be able to report to you the work our gospel ministry has accomplished during the month of March through this newsletter work report. We acknowledge that the work we do here in His service is only made possible by His blessings that we receive through you and your kind love, help, prayers and support. We praise God and thank Him every day for the blessings He has provided to us through you and your love and support. We are hoping and praying that you will be blessed and find enjoyment in reading this newsletter. We look forward to hearing back from you even a few words in reply are so very encouraging and spiritually uplifting to us! Thank you very much in advance for your kind reply!

2 Gospel Work Events and Happenings We conducted preachers bible study for 15 preachers. We helped 2 families with leprosy with food for the month. We financially helped 2 old bed ridden preachers for food and medicine, helped one sick elderly preacher for medicine, and 3 other old preachers for their food, medicine and gospel work. We began to plan for construction of a prayer shed and a prayer hut for two new congregations and a borewell for one of these congregations.

3 Quarterly Work Report The first three months of 2018 have brought many blessings to our mission work through God s grace and your support. We thank you for your continued love, care, prayers and support for the gospel and benevolent work we do. We praise God for blessing our work through your love, kindness, generosity and support. Here are highlights for the first quarter of Number of Baptisms: 5 Gospel Proclaimed to the Tribes Inside the Forest: approximately 200 people House Visiting Prayers: 60 Distribution of Rice and Meals: Approximately 300 Orphans, Widows, Lepers, and Poor Church Members Financial Help: 8 Elderly, Sick, Bed Ridden Preachers Preacher s Bible Study: 3 Training Sessions Borewells Drilled for Congregations: 1 Bible Study/Sewing Machine Training with Widows and Poor Church Women: 8 sessions Proclaiming Gospel to Orphans, Widows, Poor Tribal People in Villages and in Jungle Forest Area Through Benevolent Work (Distributing Rice, Meals, Fruits, Drilling Borewell): Approximately 500 Individuals

4 Gospel Work Events and Happenings We conducted preacher Bible study training again this month in our home for the preachers in our congregations. These Bible study trainings help these preachers gain a greater knowledge and understanding of God s Word so they are more able to share the Truth with the lost. We had 15 preachers in attendance this month to study God s Word with us. After studying God s Word for their spiritual growth, we provided the preachers with a nutritious meal. They all enjoyed the Bible study and the meal prepared by my mother, Sister Santha. We also provided a little financial assistance to help with the preachers transportation needs to and from the Bible study training session.

5 Gospel Work Events and Happenings We were very blessed this month to be able to continue providing the two families with leprosy with food to nourish and strengthen their bodies. These families live in one of our most poor congregations where the villagers are outcasts and shunned by most of society. As always, these families were so very joyful and thankful to God and to you for your love, concern, support and food to them to help keep them from starving and to help nourish and heal their bodies.

6 Gospel Work Events and Happenings This month we again were blessed to provide a little financial help to the elderly preachers in our congregations. These elderly preachers were so happy to receive the financial assistance to help them with their food, medicine and other daily needs. They are thanking God for these blessings and thanking you for your love and support to them.

7 Work Report Newsletter December 2017 Targeted Needs For April Feeding the Starving Poor Church Members, Orphans and Widows in our Congregations We currently serve 15 congregations in our gospel ministry. We are working to start two additional congregations in rural villages where there is no church of Christ. We have many hungry orphans and old widows in the different congregations we serve. The people in these rural tribal villages are outcasts and very poor, lacking in daily food. Please join us in helping to provide rice for these orphans and widows and poor villagers to help nourish and sustain their bodies. Prayer Shed/Hut and Borewell We have plans to start new congregations in 2 rural villages where there is no church of Christ. In order to do this, we first need to build a prayer shed and prayer hut to serve as a sheltered, central places for worship services. There is a great need to preach and teach the gospel in these remote villages where the True gospel has not yet been preached and where idols are being worshipped as gods. In addition, one of these villages is in great need of a borewell to provide clean drinking water for the members. Please consider supporting our efforts to build prayer sheds for these villages, a borewell and to start much-needed congregations here. Please contact me if you would like to help support one of these targeted needs for our mission work.

8 Other News and Events Our GoFundMe borewell campaign, Bring Water to Christians in India, has been open since July 5, 2017 and, as of the writing of this newsletter, the total amount raised is $1210 of the $2700 goal. We have already provided a borewell to one needy congregation through these funds. If you are able and would like to contribute to help us provide clean drinking water to more of our congregations, please visit the campaign page at the link below. Please remember that no donation is too great nor too small any amount would be greatly appreciated. Again, many thanks to our Sister in Christ and the TOPPS PR Firm for setting up this campaign to help us meet the need for clean drinking water for our congregations! Our Website If you have not already done, so, please take a look at our website.

9 Our gospel ministry has grown over the past several years to include 15 tribal village congregations. We are also striving to establish and support additional congregations in other villages and in the isolated forest regions in Andhra Pradesh. As most all members in our congregations are very poor, depend on us to provide for their daily needs and are unable to contribute to the Lord s work, we rely greatly on your kind support to accomplish all the work we do and to meet the goals we have established for our gospel mission work. We would like to again request that you pray for our mission work and pray that we will continue to be able to support the congregations we have established and are working to establish. We cannot do it without your kind love, support and prayers. In addition to your prayers, we would like to humbly ask that you continue to support our mission work during this year, Lord willing and you are able. We would also humbly ask that you kindly share this newsletter and the gospel work we are doing with your church elders and leadership. Please request and encourage them to consider including support for our mission work in this year s budget if at all possible and Lord willing. You may give them my contact information if they are interested. I would be very happy to speak to them regarding the work we do. Thank you so very much for your continued support and all the assistance you are able to give us in obtaining much-needed additional support for the gospel work we are doing here in India. We look forward to working with you in His service

10 Other Mission Work Needs While we are focusing for the upcoming month on the targeted needs of rice for the orphans and widows, and prayer sheds, our gospel ministry continues to have many other needs which you may be interested in learning more about and supporting, if possible. Return Mission Trips to the Forest Areas - There is a great need for us to return to the forest areas to nourish and further develop the gospel seed which we have planted on our previous visits. Currently, we are only able to afford to go into the forest areas to proclaim the gospel once every three or four months. We very much need to be able to fund at least one forest area mission trip each month. Preacher Bible Study Training - Our ministry currently provides preacher training sessions one time per month in our home. There is a great need for us to increase the frequency of these sessions to at least two times per week. It is very difficult to provide the in-depth bible study and training that is needed with only one session per month. Sewing Machine Training Center My mother conducts sewing machine training classes one time per month in our home. We would very much like to increase these classes in frequency to at least 2-3 times per month. Also, we need additional sewing machines in the center to be able to train additional women from our congregations at one time. PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE NEEDS OF OUR GOSPEL MISSION WORK. Thank you so very much, in advance, for your kind consideration and support for these needs for our gospel work. If you have any questions or would like further information about our work or any of these needs, or if you would like to contribute to support any of these needs for our mission work, please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your prayers and your kind consideration.

11 Prayer Requests and THANKS Sister Debbie, from the state of Kentucky, has completed chemo treatments and is scheduled to have surgery on April 13. Please keep Sister Debbie, her surgery and recovery in your prayers. Thank you! Many Thanks to You All of us here at the would like to thank you for your kind love, consideration, care, prayers and support for the work we are doing here in the service of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We thank you for taking your precious time to read this newsletter and for the interest you have shown in the work we are doing. It would be a great blessing to us to receive a reply from you just a word or two of encouragement would be so spiritually uplifting to us! Thank you so very much for taking your precious time to send us a brief reply to this newsletter. Thank you for all your prayers and support for us and all your brethren here in India. We appreciate your love, concern and prayers so very much. We are always remembering you and your families and congregations in our daily prayers. May God richly bless you in all that you do. Closing with much Christian love and many thanks and prayers! Hoping and Praying for and Expecting Your Earliest Reply, Yours in Christ, Sunil, Gospel Preacher, Church of Christ India Mission Work

12 Contact Information This is our postal address, SUNIL RAJU.G,PREACHER CHURCH OF CHRIST, TALLURI NAGAR,VINUKONDA ROAD, NARASARAOPET , GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH,INDIA. Contact phone number : churchofchristindia2@gmail.com Please visit the sites below to learn more about the gospel work and benevolent work we are doing thanks to your kind love, concern and support. Thank you for taking the time to visit these sites we hope you are blessed and uplifted by what you find there. Website: Facebook Pages: YouTube: Webstories: Forest Mission Trip Borewell Drilling Sewing Machine Training