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sermonindex Apr 5, 2007

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SermonIndex is fully behind these 2 missionary organisations and I do pray that saints from sermonindex will support these organisations that are comprimised of mostly native missionaries. We have so much money in western culture and other urban areas across the world. I think we are all without excuse to not support one these 2 organisations with $30 a month. That is 2-3 of our Christian books that we shelve in our collections of 100's of books. That is literally 5-6 fast food meals a month. Or even more sad its 10 latte coffee drinks. We need to invest in eternity, these are the last days.

"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where niether moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Matthew 6:20-21


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[b]Gospel For Asia[/b] - In each aspect of Gospel for Asia's ministry, the primary aim is to plant churches among the unreached those who have never heard the Gospel. Gospel for Asia trains and sends native missionaries because they have proven extremely effective. They are already familiar with the language and culture, and they live at the level of the people they serve, thus removing many social barriers. Gospel for Asia sends 100 percent of the money you donate for work on the mission field to the field. Nothing is taken out for administrative expenses.

Please do pray about sponsoring missionaries and investing in eternity: www.gfa.org


Here is a missionary that SermonIndex.net supports:
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MISSIONARY - RAJESH

Marital status: Married to Manju

Family Background: I was born April 10, 1978, into a Non-Christian family.

Salvation Experience: As per the traditions of my family I too worshipped spirits and natural powers. We offered animal sacrifices to appease these supernatural deities to attain peace, prosperity and healing from sicknesses. Eventually it was becoming evident to us that our devotion could not bring any solutions to the burning problems that we were facing. We were frustrated of battling with unavoidable crisis everyday that made our lives miserable. My displeasure with my faith reach its peak when my wife fell prey to the blind superstitions around and lost her life. My ignorance had killed my wife, and I could no longer trust in a religion like this.

Despite what happened it was not easy for me to turn away from my beliefs because I was a slave to these evil practices. But a time came when I saw my sister on her deathbed heading toward the same fate of my wife. Witch doctors did their best but failed and there was no medicine that seemed to heal her disease. We were on the verge of giving up and accept life at its worse. But the loving Lord had seen our plight and did not let our hopes die. A believer who lived near by, learned of my sisters' illness, came to us and offered to pray. Though little hesitant we accepted it as a final resort and joined him in prayer. The man of God assured us of God's power to heal every disease and His love for us as he bowed in prayer. It never entered my mind that I was about to witness a miracle. I could not comprehend the love of the Almighty God who had heard mere words of His servant and touched my sister with a healing touch that restored her to sound health. It was incredible! In the following days I learned more of the loving Lord and along with my entire family surrender myself under His mighty arms. Subsequently we made a public profession of our faith and joined a local church.

Words are not enough to tell how amazingly my Savior transformed my life. I was a new creation that was all I knew. Filled with gratitude I dedicated myself to serve my Lord as long as I lived. In due time I was confirmed of my calling, and I was enrolled in a Bible College to be equipped for the task ahead.

Present Ministry: As an evangelist I serve the Lord in India where the Non-Christians are in a majority. Apart from planting churches I am also involved in open-air meetings, literature distribution, house visitation, prayer fellowships and personal evangelism.

Please pray for me and my family that we may fulfill God's plan to expand His kingdom.


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[b]HeartCry Missionary Society[/b] - We are a missionary society with one great and overriding passion: that God's Name be Great among the Nations (Malachi 1:11) and that the Lamb receive the full reward for His suffering (Revelation 7:9-10). We find our greatest purpose and constant motivation for missions in God, His commitment to His own glory, and our God-given desire to see His Christ worshiped in every nation, tribe, people, and language (Psalms 2:6-12).

Please do pray about sponsoring missionaries and investing in eternity: www.heartcrymissionary.com

K
KingJimmy Apr 5, 2007

I have been greatly blessed by GFA. K.P. Yohannan's books, Revolution In World Missions, and The Road to Reality. Talk about having eternity stamped upon your eyeballs!

It should be noted that the founders of both organizations have both been influenced by Leonard Ravenhill and Keith Green.

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iansmith Apr 5, 2007

I have a copy of most of the Last Days Ministries newsletters, there was an article entiteled 'Tears for Asia' by none other than KP Yohannan back in one of the 1981 issues (while Keith was still alive).

Paul Washer sat at the feet of Leonard Ravenhill, and name drops at least once every other sermon -which is OK with me.

Now I respect both of these men greatly, I have read four of his KP's books and actually spent my lunch with the fifth. But some of the things that KP says have to be taken with a grain of salt.

Do we need to support native/indigeonous missionaries? YES!

Do we need to support western/frontier missionaries? YES!

It's not one or the other, it's both. Unfortunately we spend more on 'short term' mission trips for teenagers in a single summer than we do on career missionaries or native missionaries in a decade.

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SeanHobson Apr 5, 2007

Please pray brother and sisters and store up treasure in heaven. I know I would have been supporting native missionaries had I known before. How convient God has made it now, all we have to do is send in an envelope. Truly we are without excuse--support a missionary today.

[url=https://www.gfa.org/freebook?motiv=WA60-PHB1]For a free book with more information[/url]

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tjservant Apr 5, 2007

These organizations are the real deal. I have been involved with GFA for several years, and have been greatly blessed by the messages and books of brother K. P. Yohannan.

HeartCry is also a very worthy organization. Paul Washer, like brother K.P., does not compromise. I have been greatly inspired by both of these men, and their missions.

K
KingJimmy Apr 6, 2007

I think it interesting how brother Yohannan believes God has called him to help raise up 100,000 native missionaries through GFA. If anybody recalls, this was the aim of the late Keith Green as well. While I don't know if such is possible within Yohannan's lifetime (though he does seem like he has still many years ahead of him), it is surely something that looks like a realistic goal. I think GFA speaks of helping over 15,000 full-time missionaries presently. Such is really amazing considering the agency is just over 20 years old, and such is even more amazing considering the bulk of missionaries have been raised up since they started their GFA Bible colleges in Asia in only the last 10(?) years.

sermonindex Apr 6, 2007

I think it interesting how brother Yohannan believes God has called him to help raise up 100,000 native missionaries through GFA.

May God do this and much more. Let's help Saints of God.

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repentcanada Apr 6, 2007

our churches in north america ought to support native missionaries much, much more......I heard that something like 2% of the money going in to american churches actually leaves for overseas. that is a wicked sin.

sermonindex Apr 6, 2007

our churches in north america ought to support native missionaries much, much more......I heard that something like 2% of the money going in to american churches actually leaves for overseas. that is a wicked sin.

This is wicked sin. We need to start living simplier and giving more to the needs of this lost dying world without Christ.

K
KingJimmy Apr 6, 2007

I was thinking of a rather decent sized church in my area. They have 500+ people, and a monster auditorium they are hoping to fill this year. After paying for about 4-5 staff, almost everything else goes to paying for this monster building they just erected. And that is millions of dollars, as the building easily houses over 1,000 people. It's state of the art, as it is "God's house." And once the overhead is paid, they are almost broke.

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hisremnant Apr 9, 2007

Praise Jesus!! Lion of Judah!!!!

Sermonindex wrote:
This is wicked sin. We need to start living simplier and giving more to the needs of this lost dying world without Christ.

Not only should we live more simply we should give more prudently. King Jimmy gave an excelent example of what is wrong:
It's state of the art, as it is "God's house." And once the overhead is paid, they are almost broke

This also is a sin. you and i are Gods house not some building. i will leave you with a statistic to think about.

Annual church embezzlements by top custodians exceed the entire cost of all foreign missions worldwide. Emboldened by lax procedures, trusted church treasurers are embezzling from the Church $5,500,000 PER DAY. That’s $16,000,000,000 per YEAR! That’s Billion - with a “B”! (WCT, page 3, Table 1-1) {For reference: TOTAL Christian spending on foreign missions - $15 Billion. God forgive us!} (WCT, page 8, Table 1-4)

from World Christian Trends, William Carey Library, David Barrett & Todd Johnson. The summary and analysis of the annual Christian mega-census.)

Think about this the next time the basket is passed at your church.

Hissertvant rich

Matthew 4:17

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Tears_of_joy Apr 10, 2007

I hope there is no problem to put these two links here, I think it fits in this thread. I just found on a sister's Lis (myfirstLove) site, link to a mission called "A Ministry of Heaven's Family"

From what I read and saw so far, this seems godly mission.

http://shepherdserve.org/
http://www.orphanstear.org/

I will spare my further comments, the links say everything.

sermonindex May 2, 2007


Here is a missionary that SermonIndex.net supports:
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[image][img]https://www.sermonindex.net/images/RAJESH.jpg[/img]

MISSIONARY - RAJESH

Marital status: Married to Manju

Family Background: I was born April 10, 1978, into a Non-Christian family.

Salvation Experience: As per the traditions of my family I too worshipped spirits and natural powers. We offered animal sacrifices to appease these supernatural deities to attain peace, prosperity and healing from sicknesses. Eventually it was becoming evident to us that our devotion could not bring any solutions to the burning problems that we were facing. We were frustrated of battling with unavoidable crisis everyday that made our lives miserable. My displeasure with my faith reach its peak when my wife fell prey to the blind superstitions around and lost her life. My ignorance had killed my wife, and I could no longer trust in a religion like this.

Despite what happened it was not easy for me to turn away from my beliefs because I was a slave to these evil practices. But a time came when I saw my sister on her deathbed heading toward the same fate of my wife. Witch doctors did their best but failed and there was no medicine that seemed to heal her disease. We were on the verge of giving up and accept life at its worse. But the loving Lord had seen our plight and did not let our hopes die. A believer who lived near by, learned of my sisters' illness, came to us and offered to pray. Though little hesitant we accepted it as a final resort and joined him in prayer. The man of God assured us of God's power to heal every disease and His love for us as he bowed in prayer. It never entered my mind that I was about to witness a miracle. I could not comprehend the love of the Almighty God who had heard mere words of His servant and touched my sister with a healing touch that restored her to sound health. It was incredible! In the following days I learned more of the loving Lord and along with my entire family surrender myself under His mighty arms. Subsequently we made a public profession of our faith and joined a local church.

Words are not enough to tell how amazingly my Savior transformed my life. I was a new creation that was all I knew. Filled with gratitude I dedicated myself to serve my Lord as long as I lived. In due time I was confirmed of my calling, and I was enrolled in a Bible College to be equipped for the task ahead.

Present Ministry: As an evangelist I serve the Lord in India where the Non-Christians are in a majority. Apart from planting churches I am also involved in open-air meetings, literature distribution, house visitation, prayer fellowships and personal evangelism.

Please pray for me and my family that we may fulfill God's plan to expand His kingdom.


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heartablaze May 29, 2007

This is a very important aspect of missions that is overlooked way too much. Do we think that those who are not westerners can't plant churches or something? What, then, is the point of our going there? I am in agreement that we need both- God calls both.

As an aside, did you know that there are Korean missionaries that come to the US? Or that there are missionaries in this country as in all countries?

K
KingJimmy May 29, 2007

I went to Bible college with a missionary-pastor that was from the former Republic of Zaire in Africa. Many people do not really realize it, but America is one of the largest countries in this world that needs missionaries. I think my pastor said we are the 3rd largest mission field in the world. We still have over 100 million people in this country that don't know Jesus. I've gone door-to-door here in the Bible belt before, and have knocked on the doors of individuals who were 40+ years of age that didn't even know the basics of the gospel.

J
jarona Jul 4, 2007

I heard that South Korea sends out the 2nd most amount of missionaries into the world. The 1st being U.S. missionaries the 3rd being Brazil. If anyone feels they may be called to missions check out www.ywam.org it is an awesome missionary org. that has done work in hundreds of nations and is doing lots of reaching out and bringing the gospel to people today.

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