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NEWSLETTER March/April 2005 - VOLUME ELEVEN
INDEPENDENT CHURCH IN INDIA PO BOX 238 FREDERICKSBURG, PA 17026
website: www.indchurch.org email:info@indchurch.org

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Please pray for our goals to be
accomplished for this year of 2005...

1). Reaching around six hundred villages in our surrounding areas.
2). Starting more Bible study or home churches.
3). Building the orphanage and begin to get sponsors for the children.
4). Having more tailoring schools for needy women, widows and teenage orphans after the orphanage is built.
5). Reaching out to the lepers, sharing the Gospel, starting Bible studies, and giving leprosy compassion packs.
6). Starting our part-time Discipleship Training School to equip the saints for ministry.
7). Holding seminars on evangelism, youth, and spiritual warfare to equip the saints.
8). Half day kids camp to gather hundreds of children together for Bible outreach.
9). Starting more and more weekly outreaches to the children in the remote villages.
10). Tsunami disaster relief - returning to Kallaar village to take more disaster relief supplies, disciple the believers, and raise up laborers to oversee the village spiritually.
11). Medical camps for those with eye problems and sicknesses.
12). Visiting the sick people in the hospitals to share the Gospel and pray for the sick. 13). Starting our own TV broadcast to proclaim the Gospel and equip the saints.
14). Printing Gospel tracts and purchasing Bibles to give free to our branch pastors.
15). Producing our new video documentary of how the Lord is using Independent Church In India and sharing it in more churches here in the United States.
Future Goals, as the Lord Provides

1). To buy a piece of land and build our new Church in Dindigul. At present, our church is located in a small 3rd floor building we are renting. Many elderly people would like to come but cannot walk up the stairs. Also, the church is growing and needs more room.

2). To buy a piece of land to build our own leprosy colony, and church for the lepers.

3). To build a church in Kallaar (a tsunami disaster area) and support a Christian worker to teach the new believers.

PRAISE REPORTS

New Vehicle
For over a year the ministry has been praying for another vehicle. The Lord has recently provided another vehicle. This vehicle can take twelve people to do ministry. Now, with two vehicles, twice the number of villages can be reached and Bible studies can be started!
God provided this new vehicle in January 2005.

Orphanage Project
So far the Lord has provided for the foundation of the church/orphanage project. We plan to adopt orphans from tsunami disaster areas and remote villages around our area, so we can provide a loving place they can call home. If anyone would like to donate so we can finish this project quickly, please put "orphanage fund" on your gift. If you donate $1,000 or more to this project, we will put your name on a plaque so the children can pray for you daily.
Discipleship Training School Independent Church has been praying to start a discipleship training school. In February, they felt led of the Lord to start the first class held at their church in Dindigul. It is a part time school for equipping those who are doing ministry or for those who are interested in studying the Bible. Around eleven students have enrolled, all those are attending the Dindigul church. As the word spreads to others, Independent Churches' goal is to have more classes and students in the future.
Accomplished Goals of 2004

The Lord graciously allowed Independent Church In India to accomplish most of the goals that were listed in our March/April 2004 newsletter. Here are some of the things that were accomplished.

1). Started a new church in the area of Dindigul.
2). Reached over three hundred villages/surrounding towns in this new area with the Gospel.
3). Started home churches and equipped new believers with Bible studies.
4). Seminars were held to equip the saints and disciple the youth.
5). A weekly English praise and worship service was started at the new church.
6). A tailoring school was held for needy women.
7). More outreaches were started among the children in the remote villages.
8). A free spoken English class and a free music class was held in May.
9). More tracts and new believers booklets were translated and distributed.
10). Many with the disease of leprosy were reached.

Thank you for praying for these goals to be accomplished. Please join us in prayer for the Lord to provide for the goals for 2005 and the future goals for the ministry.