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NEWSLETTER Oct/Nov/Dec 2003- VOLUME THREE
INDEPENDENT CHURCH IN INDIA PO BOX 238 FREDERICKSBURG, PA 17026
website: www.indchurch.org email:info@indchurch.org
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Called By His Grace
My only desire is to give the light to the hurting and
empty hearts through preaching the Gospel.
I was raised in a very strict Christian family. But when I became a teenager I began to stand against Jesus. I began to persecute believers and many times when I seen them doing the ministry I would beat them and try to stop them from preaching the Gospel. My parents were so sad about my ungodly life.
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Pastor Isaac Frank traveling a dusty trail to reach a tribal group with the Gospel many miles away.
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Because of the ungodliness in my life I felt an empty void in my heart. I had no peace and I only felt loneliness and bitterness. I had a fighting spirit in my life. One day when my mom gave me a Bible, I tore it and rebelliously told her that I would not read about these myths any longer. Through my drug addiction and bad habits I got a lot of diseases in my body, so I began to die day by day. I began to feel that I had no hope for my life. One day I felt strongly that I was a sinner, and was sinning against God and His kingdom. Then I asked God with tears to forgive and heal me. I told Him that I would work for His kingdom. That day onwards, the Lord healed me of all sickness.
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| The Lord met me in the time of my deadly sickness and healed me and filled my void heart. God filled my heart with His joy and love. In 1990, I felt that God was calling me to do His ministry and to leave my job. So I left my job and obeyed His call upon me. The next three years God helped me to study in the Bible college. God provided all of my needs miraculously. In 1993 I got married and at that time I got the friendship with Pastor Britto and Pastor Richard. I strongly heard the voice of God to work with Independent Church in India. Now I am doing ministry at Burgure in Tamil Nadu, where a Christian is very hard to find. Through the encouragement and prayers of the leaders of Independent Church, God is using me in this place to reach the souls. |
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Branch Pastor Isaac Frank is a humble man of God that Independent Church In India has raised up...
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| God helped me to reach sixty villages and more than 35 people are now coming to my church. In my area it is very hard to share the Gospel, because most of the people are high caste people. Many times, when I visit the villages to do ministry, they rebuke me for preaching the Gospel. Many villages have told me not to come anymore, but I am doing ministry with boldness, and I am even ready to die for the Gospel. I have seen many people delivered from witchcraft and come to the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Pastor Isaac and his wife Rani held a Bible camp meeting outside their church for hundreds of children hungry to hear God’s word.
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I am also praying for the
following ministry needs:
Video projector and generator to show the Gospel films in the villages, Gospel tracts, Bibles, and visual aids for the children’s ministry. Also ninety dollars per month for my ministry. If God provides for me these ministry needs, it will be very supportive to me to spread the Gospel more in many villages. I can reach lots of unreached areas by the grace of God.
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Also by His grace, God helped me to start the branch church in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Twenty-five people are now attending this service. I am also praying for God to start the branch churches at Karnataka and Kerala state this year. God is doing His mighty works in myministry through your prayers.
My wife Rani is teaching a Bible class to 250 students everyday in a Tribal School. Please pray for my two sons. My oldest son is seven years old and is paralyzed in his right hand and leg. I am crying before God because of His suffering. I am praying that the Lord will raise him to do His ministry as an almighty testimony. |
| I feel that it is a privilege to work with Independent Church In India. God put the flame in my heart to reach India through Independent Church In India, and I thank God that I can fulfill the will of God through them. I am praying God to use this ministry more and more to reach the souls. |
God put the flame in my heart to reach India through Independent Church in India and I thank God that I can fulfill the will of God through them.
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