OUTREACH February 2012 March 2012 Vol. XLVIII No 1 FOUNDER Magazine Statement Rev. Dr. Theodore Williams “To inform our readers and create an IEM LEADERS interest in missions and impact them to CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD get involved in IEM’s missionary work Rev Dr K.T. Kurien and mission in general.” HONORARY TREASURER Mr K.P. Raja Sekhar GENERAL SECRETARY Rev P John Wesley Contents Heads of Ministry Departments The General Secretary's Thoughts ----- 2 Church Ministries & Communication Rev. E.D. Raja Singh Elias Editorial --------------------------------------- 5 Human Resource and Administration Bible Study ----------------------------------- 6 Rev. Jonathan Chavan Finance Department Bible Translation ---------------------------- 8 Mr. Solomon Swamidoss Editor: Mr. Timothy Austin Field Focus: Koya Field ------------------ 12 IEM OUTREACH is published by Indian Praise and Prayer Calendar ------------ 15 Evangelical Mission in English, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu Oriya, Missionary Biography ------------------- 27 Marathi, Gujarati,Hindi and Khasi. Those who donate a minimum of `100/- per Thank you Lord! -------------------------- 28 year (0verseas by Air mail US $50 per year) towards the ministries of IEM can receive IEM News ----------------------------------- 29 this magazine. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS may be sent by Together in mission ---------------------- 31 cheque, DD or Mo drawn in favour of Indian Evangelical Mission through your Dream becomes reality ----------------- 32 local IEM personnel or directly to the Finance Secretary. ADDRESS CHANGE: Send old and new Theme for 2012 address with your code number or recent address label. All emails to the Come down and rescue Communication Department should be addressed to [email protected] Exodus 3:8 / [email protected] Contact INDIAN EVANGELICAL MISSION 38, Langford Road, Post Bag 25097, Bangalore - 560 025 Phone : +91 080 22245256, 22480080 Fax : 22122779 Website : www.iemoutreach.org E-mail : [email protected] or [email protected] OUTREACH 1 February / March 2012 The General Secretary’s Thoughts God who is aware of our suffering, Comes down! My precious prayer partners, read the previous verse to find out, why God came down? The LORD said, “I have “Does God have eyes? Does God have indeed seen the misery of my people in ears? If so, why am I suffering like this?” Egypt. I have heard them crying out lamented Pangajam, to the evangelist because of their slave drivers, and I am who visited her. Pangajam was married concerned about their suffering. to Samuel a government officer. At his (Exodus 3:7) Three actions of God jumps work place, he receives bribe, brings it out of this verse: I have seen, I have home and gives to Pangajam. Pangajam heard and I am concerned enjoyed life by amassing the wealth. The children saw how their parents I have seen were making a living. One day, one of The Bible describes our God as one who their daughters eloped with a boy. sees us. Hagar gave this name to the Pangajam was in great distress. So LORD who spoke to her, “You are the when the evangelist visited her, she God who sees me,” for she said, “I have poured out her sorrows to him. “Why now seen the One who sees me.” are you blaming God, when things go (Genesis 16:13) She was a Gentile wrong? You have not taught your children to walk God’s ways. Now, when woman who went through misery they are into the worldly ways, do not because of ill-treatment. She saw the curse God” declared the servant of God. angel of the Lord coming and helping her in her trouble her and her When people go through suffering and perspective of God changed. God will misery, they are quick to blame God for never close His eyes, when we go everything. Sometimes we might go through suffering. He sees and sends through loss, difficulty and trials for no His angels to rescue us. He saw Joseph fault of ours so we become depressed while he was in the pit; he saw Mary and angry with God. Did God cause and Martha when they lost their these things to happen in our lives? Not brother Lazarus. This ought to give us necessarily. The God of the Holy Bible is confidence when we go through misery. different. God who created us is mindful of what we go through. He never sleeps, I have heard He never slumbers. Never question God The LORD told Cain that his brother’s about His concern, whatever blood cried out to him from the ground circumstances we might go through. and He heard it. (Genesis 4:10). When Our theme for this year is, “Come down the innocent blood of Abel was shed, to rescue” based on Exodus 3:8. This God hears that cry. God is sensitive to verse begins with the word the the cry of His people. I was trying to conjunction “So”. Therefore we need to scan through all the incidents recorded OUTREACH 2 February / March 2012 in the Bible where the Lord heard the a sizable amount with 743 people cry of the people. I found that He hears including our retired missionaries. all what we say, what we cry, and what Kindly contribute throughout this year we ask. Once the Israelites cried out for towards the Christmas Gift for 2012. meat, and the Lord heard. The Lord This will be disbursed during Christmas. heard people talking against Moses. In We thank Rt Rev M Ezra Sargunam, the response to our cry, He comes down to Bishop President of Evangelical Church recue us or meet with us. (Numbers of India preached a powerful message 11,12; Psalms 3: 4; 145: 19) during the “Commencement Service” I am concerned at Outreach Training Institute on 6 January. Twenty seven missionary When the read the Bible, we can picture candidates from 10 different states were God as hyper-sensitive about everything trained for a year for missionary work. He is concerned about. He not only sees Dr Sajan Gorge, the founder of Global and hears but also acts on what He Christian Indian Council was our guest hears. Our God is an active God. He is of honour. He shared that 1700 conscious of what we are going through incidents persecution took place against because He is compassionate and Christian in our country. gracious. The silence of God should not The IEM Board met on 7 January 2012 be misunderstood as God not being under the leadership of our Chairman concerned. His deliverance is on the Rev Dr K T Kurien. After the Board way. Continue to walk in faith and you reviewed the progress of the Mission, will see the salvation of God. they asked us to plan on the year of When the temple at Jerusalem was Golden Jubilee Celebration which falls dedicated, the Lord, the Lord said to on 2014-15. Solomon, “Now my eyes will be open We praise God for the blessed State and my ears attentive to the prayers Conventions in Kerala and in Andhra offered in this place. My eyes and my Pradesh. I want to record my thanks to heart will always be there. (2 Rev .George Raju our former Associate Chronicles 7:15, 16) The Lord’s eyes, General Secretary, who stirred our ears and His heart is always on His hearts through the ministry of the Word people. Therefore, why worry? Keep of God. trusting in the Lord. We are encouraged IEM and many other Missions through these verses but think of organizations from many nations are millions who do not know this part of a network of called Faith2Share. wonderful God. Shed tears in the Faith2Share organizes international presence of the Lord, crying that God consultations time to time in different will show His grace upon the unreached parts of the world. God willing, I will be and uncommitted people. taking part in one such consultation, in I want to thank each one of you for Antalya, Turkey from 4-10, March, 2012. generously contributing towards the This month, we focus on the Bible missionaries’ Christmas gift. We shared translation ministry of IEM. The best OUTREACH 3 February / March 2012 gift that we can give to the people we prayer partners and readers of IEM are serving is the Bible! We have many OUTREACH to consider sponsoring at teams working towards this end. Our least one family’s expenses (Rs 4000/-) mission field focus is on the Koya which includes travel and accommodation. people of Khamman, Andhra Pradesh. Please do pray with us towards this end. You will also find many reports of Due to a heavy financial crisis, we have various significant events during the made this issue as a bimonthly for recent past. February and March only. Please do The IEM Family Missionaries’ take time to pray for us. We shall meet Conference will be held on 19-24 May you again through the IEM Outreach in 2012 at TWR, LTC Paramankeni, near April 2012. Chennai. Around 1,200 people including With loving regards, IEM missionaries, their children and workers will be participating in this Yours in His Joyful ministry, historic occasion. We will be around 1,200 people including children. We will be meeting after 4 long years. It will cost us Rs 4000/- for one family to P John Wesley attend this conference. I request our IEM Missionaries’ Family Get-together May 19-23, 2012 TWR-LTC Paramenkeni, Chennai fter 4 years, IEM missionaries, staff and their children will gather together for a refreshment around the Word and also to catch up on Athe what’s happenning in each others’ lives. It will be a times of sharing, a time to laugh and for the children, it will be a time to bond.