Thousands of people across the vast nation of India watch the Amazing Facts programs you help broadcast, read the literature you help produce, and study the lessons you help distribute. More than one thousand souls have contacted our Hindi, Telegu, and Tamil call centers for our free offers and for prayer over the past six months.
Pastor Doug’s last-minute trip to South Asia shared much-needed hope with the people of India and Pakistan. Thousands gathered at churches, schools, and hospitals to listen to his biblical messages and reaffirm their faith in God. Pastor Doug even preached to a large crowd from the roof of a school in Karachi.
Despite the oppressively hot and humid weather, over 650 people gathered for revival meetings you helped host in Hyderabad. Said one attendee, “I have never felt such a strong pull toward accepting Jesus as my Savior until I heard Pastor Batchelor speak!”
Another shared, “In the midst of this heat wave and all the troubles around us, Pastor Batchelor’s message gave me hope and a renewed sense of purpose.”
Your support enabled our outreach team in India to translate the book The Beast, the Dragon, and the Woman into Urdu so that it could be given to all who attended Pastor Doug’s meetings in Pakistan. You also enabled the translation, layout, and printing of The Richest Caveman, Pastor Doug’s testimony book, all in just three weeks!! Thank you for helping to give 600 copies of the book in English and Telugu to those who attended the meetings in India.
God also opened doors for Pastor Doug to speak to over 25,000 Sunday-keepers at the Calvary Temple in Hyderabad and share 3,000 copies of The Richest Caveman with the attendees. Please pray that those who received the book will read it and be convicted to follow the Bible truth.
Pastor Doug was also surprised to receive a large honorarium from the Calvary Temple. He is putting this money directly into furthering God’s work in India to multiply the efforts that you have already been enabling.
Your compassionate gifts are also launching a canvassing training program, bringing together students from across India to equip them with the skills to share the gospel through literature evangelism. Please pray especially for this program and the young people who will attend in preparation for working in the plentiful fields of India. Together, we can bring hope, grace, and salvation to every part of this vast nation.
Truth-Filled Literature Impacts Lives
This past spring, God used you to enable our dedicated translators to create bookmarks teaching biblical health, the Sabbath, and Daniel 2 in 11 of India’s languages. You have also made the easy-to-understand Amazing Facts Study Guides available in four new languages and prepared five witnessing magazines for distribution in Bengali. Your kind gifts significantly impacted people’s lives when these materials were shared in schools, churches, religious festivals, and by individuals.
A doctor learned about our Revelation Verse by Verse devotional and has since given out over 300 copies in the hospital where he works. A few months ago, a nurse, whom he thought was Hindu and uninterested in the devotional, felt left out because she did not receive a copy. He immediately gave her one. The next day, she asked for another copy for one of her patients. The nurse says she reads her devotional each day before going to work.
Mr. Samuel is a Tamilian Indian who lives in the United States but wanted to return to India to conduct Bible studies and evangelistic meetings. He ordered 400 copies of the complete Amazing Facts Study Guides in Tamil—150 in Hindi and 50 in English. More than 600 copies were shipped to three different states in India for him to distribute during his meetings. One Sunday pastor from Gujarath received the Study Guides and has been sharing them with a group of seniors. He is also using them to train about 50 pastors in his area. Another man received the studies and has shared them with more than 175 people.
A Teenager Finds Truth
Pintu Kumar is a 14-year-old boy who attends a private boarding school. During one of his school breaks, he was watching TV when the Subhsandesh (Amazing Facts) channel came on. He eagerly watched Pastor Doug’s sermon because he has had many questions about the Bible since he first learned about Jesus as a young boy. He heard Pastor Doug explain that Saturday is the Sabbath.
Pintu was curious to learn which day of worship was correct, so he bought a Bible for 100 rupees ($1.20). One day after watching our program on TV, Pintu phoned our call center and asked which day the Sabbath was. The call center representative your gifts make possible explained why Saturday is the Lord’s true Sabbath. Pintu was amazed to see how clear the writings in the Bible were. Now, he often contacts our call center, and your gifts help provide him with biblical answers to his questions. He has completed the Amazing Facts Study Guides and eagerly shares everything he is learning with his Hindu family and friends.
India Prayer Needs
Thank you so much for all you are doing to support the work of God in India. God is working mightily through your prayers and faithful gifts to reach hungry souls in India with the gospel. In the coming months, please pray earnestly for:
• The new canvassing training program
• Our call center staff as they answer people’s questions about Christ
• The Christian TV channels we broadcast on as they constantly face opposition
• Liberty to spread the gospel in India
• The evangelistic series and church planting project in Hyderabad