Husband and Wife Planting Churches in India!

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Billions of people so many have never heard the gospel.

I just heard Amanda got Street across the street and I'm so passionate others I've opened up my recorder and this could fill on Rob Rd., Winston-Salem gave a great message of the Lodge for our new Canaan society and chief is your name and you are serving God in India in your dad put you in the eye and said, do not become a doctor or an engineer is at work.

Yet he is man all prayer and a man on a mission and when he moved from South India to North India. He saw this a lot of people and reach millions when he was in Rajasthan. It's one of the problems that he went first and start working saw the need and thought and there is no enough workers. There is a lot of harvest, but less labors so he had two boys so he said I'm gonna give my voice to the mission and so growing up. He told us.

The only purpose for your life is to serve the Lord and don't become doctors or engineers because serving the Lord is much greater than that from then on, like going up. We committed ourselves to mission and now were involved in chess funding and God is done amazing work using he's using us to reach the village people and unreached places. And yet, because 90% of the people decide in villages and like millions and their so sometimes when we go to some religious and ask people. Hey have you heard about Jesus, and they would say well he doesn't live here.

He may live to straight down the road so that most people are in current about Jesus and it is a privilege to serve the Lord because their lives are transformed this people are coming from darkness to the light and generation. They abandon idol worship in other kind of thing and they're tired of it. Tired of what they were doing and they are looking for Hope and when we go with the gospel message. The light shines in their lives and their like what we want to believe in Jesus and then the disciple making process happened because disciple making is not like overnight process. It takes weeks to months and years and we do through by empowering the local pastors in local mission is there for working in the remote villages so our work is mainly in the villages not in the cities because that's where a lot of work has to be done, especially the great commission work as an extra guy named Steve jobber who loves Jesus is committed to a ministry called international commission is a business guy who just recently said God I want to go reach America with the gospel and all the people here in WorldCom allowed place were here and the children.

The background which is refreshing by the way this could go but the children here in America even though there are hungry and there's issues they don't maybe have the same problems as the children India, who were on a large scale sold as slaves in the promised hey mom and dad your instar the kids in about homes relation will take your kids will pay some money and then will give a great job via rockstar when it wouldn't turn out that way doesn't mean India has a huge young people population and I mean if you are going to cities like Delhi or Mumbai, you would see skids begging on the street and many times you like so tempted to snatch them from this street and like take to take them to your home but you can do that because they are controlled by some local Mafia are there is a network controlling them and and sadly, the local authorities on most of time involved.

But we can prevent that from happening. We have children's program in India where we go to the villages where kids are not getting education and you know other thing because there is this System in India where if you're born in certain low caste you belong there have to do good karma in order to work your way often take a birth and a higher caste next time and then you will have a chance for salvation so these kids have no opportunity we go into the villages and give them education because you can give them a bag of rice, but that's not a great you have to like them education and when I left India we had 20 children, and with him last year we had 280 children and these are in the remote villages and God is working among these kids and their families and feel like this is how the great commission has to be moved and young people and even adult everybody needs to hear about Jesus, especially the kids are doing in these majority warriors for Jesus, or to take the gospel to India and all over the world now your first lady is here Miriam you serve with this man. What is it like being a missionary's wife and seeing all this happened in your so gracious to support this. Amanda got to know when I think actually connected with his brother before every meeting him started the business with his brother in textiles, training women how to say instead to do natural dying, and we now export this to the state by going in just being around them and their family on the mission field was extremely inspiring and challenging begin to wake me up to the reality of the need on the field you come from the American perspective where church is normal and somewhat biblical truth in biblical living taken advantage of. Here in so many ways. But when you see it in a place like India where there's true light. Some of the darkest places really began to affirm that faith you know Infante. This is truly what I believe. I believe that when I have to take steps that are complete. Contrary to the culture into my people and so just seeing then Ethan brother living out that calling in our life of faith with such joy amid such sacrifices was just some of the most Inspiring and it truly taught me so much in my faith as well just to come to Christ, you lose everything there is a caste system like you mentioned you could be severely persecuted. But then when you do come to Christ. There's a little different intensity because now you are.

There's a lot more of a mission out and in and wish you this morning you spoke to a much and were in a restaurant were a bunch of people don't have the same problems that you see none of us are to starve to death by large and none of us are enough to drive 600 miles to find a Christian, or find a church and yet the need is so great Steve jobber you seen the need here in America. But what is your question. Your thoughts for I know your heart was stirred. You rushed up to embed a nugget after he spoke. What are your questions.Yep Jeep Marianne thank you all for being here really appreciate what you're doing. India is quite a big place. How did you decide Orlando on the area that you actually work in you move around in India at all in different places. That's first board question and Marianne you mentioned earlier about a business, the chicken and the egg which came first the business because I think the business mission helps fund your ministry yet so deciding where to work. It was first of all, my dad moved all over North and yet he he was in multiple Brahmins plant a lot of churches, so I had a better understanding about the unreached places in North India where we're working now was decided by God. I think when we where it doing our Bible training. We saw this tremendous need in that place where there's just relearning people come to drink the water from that believing that their sins will be forgiven.

Zero churches zero church and zero Christian like a lot of need and it was a challenging, we remember telling our dad, my brother and I hate that we want to go to that place to start a church and he was like are you serious you have a death wish. You know what they are people there, although he was involved in the ministry that but we had a long talk all night and it be you and I was almost 4 AM. He said you know what, go ahead and if something happens we'll see you on the other side would serve the Lord. It was the commitment it was a step of faith in God honored that God use that and yet Marion can answer the business because of his words were measured were also time to rule quickly and how that been a blessing ministry was probably first I came in with a heart for mission and as a Western missionary, sometimes it's hard find that platform to get into some of these and reach places and so I studied in entrepreneurship and begin to teach the huge need among women being a lot of marginalized community there and vulnerable people have decided that we would bring a business into the into the realm of ministry and mission. It really just kinda comes as a supplement another platform to be able to share the what is the best way for us to learn more about your ministry is like a website, a safe place to be careful because there's all kinds of you know were fraught and Stevie worked in Third World countries fraught with SECURITY issues.

What's the best way folks can learn more. Find out you know about you, we have a website, small website called confirmation start org so you can check out send an email yeah God for nations.org. Only close to God the father, who love the Lord, you talked earlier to the man it was heartbreaking were you go to UK to come to get refreshed and connected built back up the Lord to come back India only to find out. Your dad has stage IV pancreatic cancer so you came back. You only a little time left with him but talk about really quick those final moments of your dad's last words to you and your brother so came back from the UK, found out he's going to only live for two weeks and every single day.

Hold my hand and tell. Do not forget about the unreached people we have a huge need here and we need you here plant a lot of churches any PR's before he died he felt both of her hands and said don't stop serving the Lord wills meet on the other side, and he gave us that open passion to move forward to reach the only people group in Carl, thank you Jesus. Steve jobber quick prayer for Jesus Miriam in their work in India wrote quick as we wrap up the segment.

Let everyone play with Steve as we lift them up and lift up this great need in any maybe got counseling listing right now to go to India to ratio for Jesus. Father God we just want to come to you and we pray for Jean and we pray for Marianne. We pray for their ministry. Lord we raise it up to you. They have stepped out in faith Lord to serve you and honor you and glorify you and we ask that you send your Holy Spirit to bless them. Bless their ministry during their bring prosperity into their lives so that they can continue to grow and share the gospel in the places they go in India and we thank you for this time. In Jesus name.

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