IPAS FUTURE PROJECTS HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE INDIA PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF SEATTLE IN PALAKKAD IN THIS MISSION WORK ♦Tailoring Centers Pray daily for our mission MISSION FIELD NEWS ♦Annual medical Camps fields September 2009 ♦Providing Sources for Self Visit our mission fields employment Become a partner Jesus calls us to reach Yes, on the model of Jesus' ♦Providing free education for school Become a volunteer in mission with the gospel ministry, IPAS also is doing the children field activities More than one billion people live gospel work in an exemplary manner. life in a way that so honors the in India and this country is the Evangelism IPAS passion is to fulfill the Love is the most important tool Lord, using evangelizing as a world's largest Hindu nation, the when it comes to sharing the means to show God's love to second largest Muslim nation. Great Commission in Matthew Gospel. Another tool might be the others. Biblical evangelism can Most people in India don't know 28:18-20 way a message is conveyed. If take on many forms, but the God's GOOD NEWS for them! believers shout from the rooftops most important technique is But God is at work in India IPAS Mission condemning people, unbelievers living in a Christ like manner. today. Jesus Christ loves India. The Mission of India Pentecostal will probably not listen. However, Millions of people in India are Assembly of Seattle is to impact words that love yet still convey Believers need to let that gentle open to Jesus Christ as never the lives of spiritually dying the truth about the message of spirit that the Lord has given them speak volumes to those before. people through the process of Christ might encourage people to personal transformation with the do more listening. God is the One who notice something different Jesus went about all the cities love and power of the LORD who works on people's hearts in them. "Jesus answered, 'I am and villages, teaching in their through Biblical evangelism. He the way, the truth, and the life no synagogues, preaching the gospel Jesus Christ and to equip them to is the One that can soften them man cometh unto the Father, but of the kingdom, and healing become effective disciples and toward Himself. Christian must every sickness and every disease turning the Harvest field into by me'" (John 14:6). remember to live among the people". Harvest Force there by Mathew 9.35 transforming the communities. MISSION REPORT FROM SEATTLE
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As our Lord commanded us to go forth IPAS FIELD MINISTERS HISTORY Snake worship has been widely and preach the gospel to all the Palakkad is the land of Palmyrahs and prevalent in these part. The worship of nations, IPAS has decided to start a Paddy fields. Along with Kuttanadu, ancestors is also practised by Hindus. mission station in Kerala, India. IPAS Offerings are made to departed souls Palakkad is major paddy growing area of Mission Board authorized Pastor P.L. the State. It is often called as the "gateway on new moon Sankranthidays. . Mathew to start mission work in rural of Kerala". The Sahya Ranges bordering Muslims are the second largest area of Palakkad District in a place community. A particular section of the the region and the 32 to 40 km. long gap in where neither Christians live nor any the mountains exert a dominant influence Muslim community whose mother tongue is Tamil, are known as mission work has taken place. on the climate of the region. This gap is He visited the Palakkad District in known as 'Palakkad Gap'. In the past, this Ravuthars. These people came here as traders and soldiers. They belong to May 2009 and stayed there for some land was known as Palkkattussery. Etymologists trace the word Palakkad the Hanafi sect of Islam Most of them weeks to study the villages. He from Palanilam meaning the dry area. reside in Alathur, Chittur, and arranged meetings in a Church hall of Pastor Mathew P Lookose Palakkad taluks.The way of life of this Palakkad has a long history dating back to an Independent Church at Kalladikod And Daisy Mathew the paleolithic period which was particular section is much influenced in Palakkad Dist. During these substantiated by a number of megalithic by the Tamil culture, especially in meetings, he donated school supplies marriage customs and food habits. relics discovered from this region. It also (bags, books, umbrella, pencils etc.) to housed the Capitals of two kingdoms such 125 children those living in poverty, as Palakkad and Kollengode, which were about three hundred people attended in prominence till a century back. these meeting and received the word of the God. Religion and custom Hinduism is the predominant religion in About Mission stations and the district. Nearly 76 percent of the Pastor Paul Kasu population belongs to the Hindu evangelists As Pastor P L. Mathew was not And Thatta (Thankamma) community. All the subcastes of Hindu community are well represented in the familiar with this area, he sought the Vadakarapahty Panchayath district. The Vellodis and Nedungadis, two cooperation of Pastor K.T. Thomas, Elippara Ph No. 9539735052 sections of the Nair community, peculiar the pastor of an Independent Church. to Malabar area, are represented in this Seven evangelists showed interest to district also. Sections of the Hindu join our mission work, but only two community, peculiar to this district are evangelists were selected. With the Muthuvan, Mannadiar, Guptan and Tharakan. help of local people, pastor rented two Vishnu and Siva are popularly houses in two separate villages for our worshipped. Kshethrams and Ambalams evangelists and provided necessary are dedicated to these major deities. The furniture. He also conducted initial Pastor N Abraham Kavus and Kovils are dedicated to deities training for these evangelists. If God And Smitha, Abhishek like Ayyappan, Subrahmonyan, willing, pastor and family will to move Marutha Road Panchayath Bhadrakali, Hanuman and even malignant to India permanently and will provide demons. leadership to this work. Kallepully
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