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India schools conduct evangelistic campaigns

Dear brethren in Christ,

Greetings to you in the precious name of Lord Jesus Christ  our Savior. Our mission of training men to be evangelists have been successful with all your prayers and encouragement.

Brethren, We are blessed to be able to continue our mission of Education, Evangelism and Edification. This year has been very productive. We have been able to reach out several places with the Lord’s message. Thousands of people have heard the good news, hundreds have been added to the Church. One week Gospel Campaign program given a great opportunity to restore several souls and stand by the newly established congregations.  As part of it, we have successfully completed this one-week gospel campaign. We held this program in three villages, first two days in the village Gonada, in East Godavari District and later in West Godavari in three villages. Even though we held 40 Bible studies on an average, we had a wonderful opportunity to distribute gospel tracts in all the four villages we visited. Gospel tracts with titles such as, About Salvation, The True Church, Truth about the Bible, Biblical Truth, etc., so, great opportunity to distribute gospel tracts and introduce the local preacher and inviting them for the gospel meeting. Truly, God has blessed our efforts, these villages have gotten the good news received, hoping that more fruit will be yielded by the later efforts of the local preacher.  We are proud of our preaching students who are very enthusiastic in the mission work.  Distribution of gospel tracts, conducting personal/group studies and public gospel meetings were successfully conducted during this one week time. 

We thank you brethren for your prayers. The Lord has blessed us in a mighty way to train these men to be effective evangelists of Christ. Providing on hand experience has been our chief objective in this preacher training program. We are very confident that these preachers are going to be very active evangelists because of this practical education and training. Indeed, present religious  situation and opposition certainly requires not only an educated preacher but also one who can approach the strangers with the word of God, react positively to the opposition, being successful holding a personal/group study. We are very thankful that our Lord is leading us and guiding through this Gospel Campaign fulfilling our objective of providing practical education to the preachers. 

We are grateful for your kindness, appreciation, for your trust and confidence. We would continue our mission of training men and making them affective evangelists and send them for real world ministry.  We appreciate the elders of Lake Houston and Strickland  church of Christ and also Farmersville Church of Christ for their kind support. We do appreciate Jerry and Paula Bates for their love too. Kindly convey our gratitude with all the brethren you worship with. We pray that the economic situation in our country would get better soon, inflation has affected our economy here by affecting our daily, monthly expenses. Fuel, Electricity, cooking oil and cost of rice are just terrible, life has become expensive. Kindly pray for the economic situation, thank you. 

God bless you all. 

in Christ, 

John Dean M

Posted on November 29, 2023 .

Graduation in India

To God Be the Glory’ what a blessing it is to see the successful completion of the first Batch of Students’ 2 years Preachers Training  program. It was a wonderful beginning in the year 2019 under the Directorship of Brother Muppidi Samuel Raju; since the covid-19 havoc attacked our country it disturbed the school year after a gap we have gradually picked up, however we have encountered another horrifying situation which is the death of our Director.  After the passing away of this dreadful year, we have been able to pull up our sock and complete our mission. We are very much thankful to God for His love and to the brethren for their kind support; ultimately God made us Victorious by which we are able to send out 12 Graduates to Preach.

Gospel Tools for the New Graduates:

Our Trained Preachers are ready for the Lord’s work in a great enthusiasm. The work includes establishing new congregations and some working with established congregations. We are not able to provide any financial support to the equipped soldiers of Christ, but with our capacity we are able to provide a Bicycle, Rechargeable Mega Phone, Study Bibles [Eng,Telugu] and some literature for library

Our Passion for Training Men to be Evangelists locally compels to provide the best of Practical Training. Our preaching school is knownfor best practical education which is helping us to produce the effective Evangelists in to the Lord’s Ministry.

Library is an asset for any individual, especially its an Asset to a preaching school. We are blessed to have library at Bikkavolu Bible College, we are very much honored to dedicated this Library in Memory of our beloved brother Keith Ball who was a missionary to India, lived a faithful life by dedicating his time and efforts to spread the Good News in the nation of India, especially in Southern India. We are thankful to brother Keith Ball’s family especially his wife for their charity in renovating the school facility also the Library.  Brother Keith Kasarjian blessed this occasion by cutting the ribbon for the entrance of Library as dedication

The Reaffirmation of the Truth’ indeed required for the Church in India. The gradual dimension of the Doctrinal Standard is the emerging fear for the Church . We have been motivated to come up with some very important topic based on this line of stating that ‘Thy Word is Truth’. Speakers of the Lectureship have done wonderful job of presenting 14 lessons such as, “what is Truth”  “Truth Came by Christ” John 1:17 “Rightly divide the word of Truth ” 2 Tim. 2:15,  “Buy the truth and sell it not ”  “same Gospel ” Col.1:5,6;  “The church is pillar and foundation to the Truth  1 Tim. 3:16; ”

Even though it’s the first time conducting the Lectureship since the School Preaching School established, had a good attendance of preachers and church members from Andhra Pradesh  Telangana, also several hundreds have watched them on YouTube as it was webcasted.  We really had a good start, had earned a good experience, so our goal is to set this as a Annual Lectureship Event

We are pleased to be remarked highly for subject that was discussed widely during this two days of lectureship, we are thankful God and to the speakers. The fear awakens us to raise up and speak up the Truth and look up for His guidance.

Posted on August 8, 2023 .