Church Planting and Summer Outreach Ministry
Church Planting and Summer Outreach Ministry
The summer outreach ministry is the grand engine of our church planting model in India. We’ve used it for over 42 years because it works. Instead of going home for summer break, many of their students and all faculty members (it’s a requirement for faculty) serve with evangelistic teams, traveling throughout India to reach many for Christ. Typically, 60-70- teams are sent out, with 6-8 students and faculty members in each team.
Here’s what each team does:
- Invite people to gospel meetings through door-to-door evangelism
- Hand out hundreds of thousands of tracts each summer
- Hold street meetings, Bible studies, and cottage meetings
- Preach, sing, and give testimonies at evangelistic meetings
- Deal one-on-one with inquirers, seeking to lead them to Christ
- Do follow-up work that results in Bible studies, baptism of new converts, and establishing of new churches
The Results
Through these efforts, over 5,000 churches (with over 500,000 souls) in all the states of India have been founded (plus 80 more churches in neighboring countries).
Another 150 home Bible studies are being conducted in preparation for becoming newly organized local assemblies. Plans are also being made to enter Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and other countries.
The students who do this work under difficult conditions for 10 weeks…
PROVES their dedication to the cause.
And this is why Peoples Baptist Ministries to India is so different from any other ministry, and WHY they’ve been so extraordinarily successful.
These men are being taught by experience to endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist and make full proof of their ministry (2 Timothy 4:5)
They are pastors and teachers in training whose job will be to perfect the saints, work the ministry, and edify of the body of Christ. (Ephesians 4:11-12).
Related
- Bible Colleges And Seminary
- Church Planting and Summer Outreach Ministry
- Bible College Extension Schools
- Women’s Ministry Vocational Training Centers
- Bethel Christian Schools
- Publishing Ministry