In November 2007, our then newly formed church participated
in our first Samaritan’s purse "Operation Christmas Child"
shoebox ministry. In each of our shoeboxes, we included a
copy of the gospel tract "Am I going to Heaven" (see
www.gosharethegospel.com/quiz.html),
with our church contact information, (including our
website and e-mail address) on the back. A few months
later, we received an e-mail from Pastor Augustine
Venkat. Somehow, the Providential Hand of our Lord
placed a copy of our gospel tract into the hand of
Pastor Augustine as a result of some of the shoeboxes
that made their way to his village. Pastor Augustine
and I began to correspond via e-mail, and our church
began to support him and his family and ministry in
India with our prayers, and as the Lord leads, we have
supported them financially. The Lord is at work there
in India, and we are blessed to be a small part of it.
Click here to see some
pictures of the work they are doing in some of the
villages of India.
Special thanks to the people of Anchor Bible Church in
Hull, and also to Charlie Bing (www.gracelife.org) who met and helped
Pastor Augustine in Charlie’s bible teaching mission
ministry in India in early 2009.
