Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Greetings!
By God's grace I have been appointed as the National Director for Faith International Partners (FIP) in India by Missionary Bro.Ben & Linda Bounds last year. According to God's enabling grace and mercy I and our Men have been able to work diligently for God's glory with the financial support of FIP Ministry through Bro.& Mrs.Ben Bounds, Founder and Director of FIP Ministry in the U.S.A.,So many precious souls have been saved and people trained and the new churches(House Churches and Groups)have been started and going on in many needy areas in India. I praise God for the dedoication and hard work of Bro. Bounds and his dear wife and trust that one day they will receive their rewards from the Lord. Also, Dr.Greg J.Boyle, Pastor of Faith Baptist Church of Spokane gave his encouragement and blessings to our work with Bro.Bounds. Evangelist Bill Smith of First Baptist Church of Laura,Oh, also gave a brief report of our work to Bro. Bounds as he could not come to India because of some problems with the Indian Immigration fellows. I request you ALL to pray earnestly that God would bless this work as Bro.Jonathan Mathews in Brazil partners with FIP Bro. & Mrs. Bounds to raise financial support to Missionary Partners in India.I am enclosing this following report from Bro.Bounds for your information and prayers.
With much love and Prayers and regards I remain
Your fellow servant of Christ for the Salvation of Spouls in India
Bro.Sudhir, National Director, FIP.INDIA
Isaiah 35:3-4
"Dear Faithful FIPartners,
Attached is the I Quarter 2014 Written Report from your indigenous India missionary Dr. Sudhir Mondithoka along with the Signature/receipt Page 1. We praise the Lord for a total of 122 new villages evangelized during Quarter I, 29 new house-churches established and 643 professions of faith that our 14 FIP supported missionaries witnessed and accomplished because of YOUR support of them, their families and their ministries.
Single Missionary David Manohar Mondithoka shares this conversion story which illustrates the power of the gospel even in an idolatrous heathen land of 350 million gods and goddesses!
“When I was preaching on a street corner, there were five people and among them there was a Hindu priest who is hearing very carefully about John 3:16, Romans.3:11, 3:23. Finally, he made decision to follow Jesus Christ by raising his hand. I praise God for this man. He is living good life now with happiness, he says “My heart is light, I get comfort by the word of God.” I am teaching the Bible and given the New Testament.”
Missionary Pollipamu Yesu Ratnum writes:
“A LADY IDOL WORSHIPPER, HER NAME IS KANAPALA AKKAMMA, HER IS AGE 40, WAS CONVERTED. ONE DAY I WENT TO HER HOUSE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL AND I SHOWED PSALMS.115:1-10. I POINTED OUT THAT IDOLS ARE IDOLS BUT THEY DON’T SEE ANDTHEY DON’T SPEAK OR WALK. AFTER KNOWING THIS SHE LEFT WORSHIPPING THE IDOLS AND SHE IS COMING TO CHURCH REGULARLY.”
Missionary Premadas Nallagatla and his central church believe and practice the power of prayer and the faithfulness of God to His Word in James 5: 14-15 and other passages as is illustrated in the following story:
“ God his doing great miracles through our ministry. We are just writing one of them. There was a lady named Krishnaveni living in our Town. She was an idol worshipper. She don’t know about Jesus. Her age is nearly 65. But her daughter-in-law accepted Jesus as her personal savior. She was a regular member in our church God did not leave Krishnaveni like that. He changed her Life through an incident. Once, Krishnaveni was attacked by Heart attack. At once, her son and daughter – in – law took her to a near by hospital. They said they can’t do any thing. They told to take her to a better hospital. Then her son took to a Hospital in Hyderabad. Doctors Told that within a month she is going to die. Her Son and daughter – in – law cried a lot. Doctors told them to take her Home. So, they brought her home. With the help of her daughter – in – law named Devamani, Krishnaveni came to our church. Devamani told the whole situation. My heart was deeply moved seeing their situation. I and all my church members fasted and prayed for her. Krishnaveni told, “if God heals me I will give rest of my life to Jesus”. Seeing her faith we all are amazed. Her faith brought a great change in her life. God healed her completely. With nobody help she started to come to church. All the church members and surrounding people were amazed and praised our God. She also testified in our church. In the beginning her son was a drunkard. But by seeing the miracle that God has done to her mother, he stopped drinking liquor. He also started to come to church. All the family members started to come to church and praise our Savior.
PRAISE THE LORD.”\
But Satan and his emissaries are not happy and often respond with great resistance and persecution as Misionary Ravi Kumar Tananki reports:
“Some of our church members and I visited five villages during this first quarter. We completed a gospel expedition, gospel tracts distribution and new testaments distribution. We were able to establish three new house-churches and won 45 people for the kingdom of Jesus Christ,
“ Some villages are not allowing us to preach the Bible but very secretly we are doing it in some houses and sometimes Hindu people try to beat us. When we go outreach we have to be very careful.”
Please do not forget to pray for your national church-planter as he working hard, making personal sacrifices, and even jeopardizing his life, safety and health to preach the gospel to his people.
I have also included the report a series of picture taken by him during some of his Pastor-Training sessions and other ministries. There are also some pictures taken of him and the ministry he shared with Baptist Evangelist Bill Smith, his daughter Leah and her friend Abigail earlier this year. Be blessed as you read the reports and view the pictures….and pass them on to your friends, family, church members…and Pastor!
Your missionary to the 10/40 Window,
Ben Bounds, Founder/Director
Faith International Partners
Ministry Website: www.fip1040.org"
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
Some Pictures from my latest ministry
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