A majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddists live in an area of the globe extending from West Africa to East Asia. These people have little or no chance of ever hearing the Gospel. Over 80,000 people die every day in an Asian country without knowing about the love of Jesus Christ and 500,000 villages in India alone have never heard the Gospel.
Gospel For Asia, is a church-planting ministry with more then 16,000 native missionaries on the field planting churches in 10 Asian countries. A native missionary is a trained church planter who works full-time to take the Gospel to the unreached and plant churches. They risk their lives daily by sharing their faith in treacherous areas.
Gospel for Asia trains and sends these native missionaries because they have proven to be extremely effective
• They are already familiar with the language and culture,
• And they live at the same level of the people that they serve, thus removing many social barriers.
Using people from their own native lands, Gospel for Asia is effective reaching the world for Christ by planting churches in unreached areas.
LCC & Gospel For Asia
Lakota is currently supporting 9 native missionaries through our partnership with GFA. God is using their lives to change the destiny of millions through their witness to the unreached. We are also in the process of helping to build a church in an Asian country so new believers can worship God, gather for family functions, weddings, and community events etc.
One of Our Supported Native Missionaries
Missionary: Gosangi Yesuratnam
Married to: Vijayakumari
Children: Two
News from one of his recent letters to us:
“I am serving the Lord as a pastor and also involved in pioneer work. I go from house to house and distribute tracts. Here, some people responded positively to the Gospel. During my ministry, I travel to the nearby villages by bicycle to pass out tracks and organize open-air meetings. I distributed 1,500 tracks and six Bibles. Three people gave their lives to Jesus. Pray that they would remain firm in the Lord.”
Background: Gosangi was born into a Hindu family in India. In the past, one of his friends, a Christian, invited him to attend a meeting. After listening to a young man preach the Good News Gosangi accepted Jesus as his Savior and was baptized in water. After he became a new creation in Christ, he longed to work to help reach others, so he left everything and joined a Gospel For Asia Bible School. After 3 years of training he now serves God, reaching the lost for Christ, in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India,
For more information on GFA visit their website at www.gfa.org