Newsletter from India
Dear Friends, Winter, 2009
I just returned from a month in S. India where David Gnanaraj (my Administrator) and I held two trainings, attended the South Asia Conference in Delhi, and did follow-up with several prior trained leaders.
David Gnanaraj is also working with the Billy Graham Evangelist Association, preparing for a large "Festival" in Chennai in January.
I am returning to India November 4th, leading a short-term missions trip from Rustin, La. We will work in Gawahati, Assam, in the NE section of Inida. Our project: go door-to-door presenting the gospel as an entry-strategy to help jump-start new churches. This is just a 10-day venture, so I will be home for Thanksgiving. However, I am planning to return to S. India the day after Thanksgiving to lead two more Intentional Church Planting Trainings, plus follow-up the two groups of men we just trained in Andhra Pradesh
Here's a few stats from Peddapuram:
332 Villages targeted to be reached.
574,100 people living in them.
10% = 57,410 may trust Christ.
2,675 leaders to train; new churches planted
And from Khammam:
386 Villages to reach.
1,136,000 souls to reach.
10% = 113,600 may tr4ust Christ.
4,544 house churches needed.
And the same number of leaders to train!
All of this in just 2-5 years! Please Pray!!!
Exciting personal news from home; Deb and Abby have moved home! Yes, we have a sixth-grader in our house again, and its quite wonderful. Deb is planning to attend college and become an RN. Wow!
Sam and Meg have relocated to Carlsbad, a neighboring community to Oceanside, so we have all four girls living within a few miles from our house. We are very blessed.
Financially, we are for the first time challenged! Our support is lower than it should be, so we are in the RED for the first time. Thanks to all of you who faithfully partner with us, but do join us in praying for
new partners to underwrite our work.
Plus, each trip costs about $2,000 extra for all the in-country expenses; paying for each student we train, including transportation, hotels and food, and rental costs for a room to train them. EWMI has asked that all missionaries raise this money in a down economy.
Thankyou for all you are doing in and through us. The new approach to church planting we are implementing is radically making huge in-roads to establishing many new churches in India. EWMI is committed to establishing grace oriented churches where none previously have ever existed.
As Thanksgiving approaches, Maureen and I send our love to each of you. We appreciate you very much.
Dave and Maureen (760.522-0100)
davidslottje@yahoo.com
maureenslottje@yahoo.com
