There may be some who might be considering a long-term commitment to working with ICII on the mission field of India.

Do you feel the desire to further the Gospel and help people in India? Again, we want to stress to you, anyone who lives in the US or any prosperous developed country already has a great advantage for furthering the Gospel in India, and that is you have intimate contact and relationship with those very people whom God has prospered for the express purpose of supplying for the needs of His work around the world. What you have to do to tap into this resource is share the vision, make known the need, and impart the urgency to family, friends, co-workers, fellow Christians in your own or other churches, and more. Without this vital link in the supply chain, the advance of the Gospel will be much slower in nations where there is poverty and persecution. There are lots of ways God wants to use you right where you are. Don't think that your burden for India means that you can focus just on traveling there to live and work in the field and leave your old life completely behind; that is not a practical view of the reality of the situation. Keep in mind that ICII's overall policy is to train, equip, and support native missionaries.

Foreigners living and ministering in Tamil Nadu will have to learn the Tamil language, local customs, and complex society, which will take time, effort, and a teacher. Or, they will require a guide/interpreter to travel with them. We don't have enough fluent English-speaking team members to help with either of these. But there are many capable and committed native believers trained, prepared, and even ready to lay down their lives for the Gospel. To be blunt about it, they can do almost every aspect of ministering the Gospel among the Indian people better than foreigners can. The thing they can't do without our help is raise the funds to do it. You are needed urgently for that.

That said, if you are feeling a genuine call to go to India and work with ICII, here are some guides we hope will help you understand and apply that calling to your life.