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Some Have Not the Knowledge of God 2.7 billion people of our generation are still unreached with the Gospel. What answers are we prepared to give to the living God when He asks about the blood of these multitudes on our hands? With this stark assessment, Gospel For Asias (GfA) K. P. Yohannan makes personal a call to the harvest, an entreaty to traverse a bridge with the Gospel, from western preoccupation with transient pursuits to lost multitudes of Asians who are still unevangelized. GfAs mission, expressed on the ministry website, is to reach the unreached of Asia with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and fulfill the Great Commission through recruiting, training, sending and assisting qualified laborers to win the lost and plant local churches in partnership with the body of Christ. GfAs principal efforts involve discipleship of native workers within the 10/40 Window to take the Gospel to their own people without language impediment or cultural distraction. In addition to the very obvious reasons, GfA expresses the estimated cost effectiveness of such a method by a factor of 40:1, a point not easily ignored in a day in which costs are rising and charitable contributions have reportedly dwindled.
Making disciples GfA reports the establishment of 133 Bible schools throughout India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, with a collective enrollment of approximately 7,000 and 98 percent of graduates ministering in places where the Gospel is unknown heretofore. This places average individual enrollment in excess of 50 students per school, small by Western standards, yet admittedly too large to be considered merely home Bible studies. In addition, GfA estimates that collective church planting efforts result in an average of 12 New Testament fellowships being started daily. One wonders what western schools achieve a 98 percent graduation rate, and how many are able to accurately report this kind of success in church planting. GfA reports an astonishing 21,000 churches or mission stations inaugurated to date, using an indigenous model self governing, self supporting and self propagating in areas where no church had existed previously.
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_________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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