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San Diego Christians Share the Gospel in Nepal, India
(SCCN) June 6, 2007 -- San Diegans will return to Nepal and India in this year and in 2008 to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ, and to train up leaders in the Most Excellent Way drug and alcohol rehab program.
Pastor John Pendleton of East Valley Christian Fellowship has taken the message to India five times, and will travel there again in September for seven weeks. He will also be preaching the Gospel in Nepal.
His group trains pastors and lends support to several dozen orphans.
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Benjamin was found abandoned in a trash dump in Sangli, India. His mother had AIDS and Benjamin is HIV positive.
A church has adopted him and East Valley Christian Fellowship is helping to pay for his care.
Benjamin is seen here wrapped in a quilt made by the ladies of EVCF in San Diego.
From the People Who Brought You "FACING THE GIANTS"
Pendleton's wife Cindy, along with East Valley Christian Fellowship Pastor Jack Forness's wife Bonnie, and Nancy Findlay (Women's Ministry Bible teacher from Mission Valley Christian Fellowship), are planning to conduct a woman's prayer conference in Bangalore, India in 2008. Cindy conducted a conference in Bangalore in 2002, and drew more than 400 women, many of them Hindu and Muslim. Some 1500 women are expected for the 2008 conference
Pastor John and Cindy Pendleton have been serving India for five years with this ministry, called "Reaching the Unreached."
The non-profit organization provides financial support for building and maintaining small churches, orphanages, and parsonages, provides Bible-study material in various native languages, and conducts Pastor-training leadership conferences.
Dozens of orphans are being housed, supported, and taught about the love of Jesus Christ thanks to a San Diego non-profit group, led by Pastor John Pendleton of East Valley Christian Fellowship
The organization also conducts Bible-training seminars and provides leadership training in “The Most Excellent Way” drug and alcohol (substance-abuse) rehabilitation program.
"We have developed many close ties with Indian Christians," says Pendleton. "We find them to be loving brothers and sisters-in-the-Lord."
"Reaching the Unreached" provides financial support as well. "Poverty in India results in many children between the ages of five and twelve living on the streets and providing for themselves as best they can," says Pendleton. "They are referred to as ‘rag-pickers and orphans’. We are involved with a church that provides shelter for these street children in Bangalore. They receive a clean living area, proper food, schooling, and training in social skills and hygiene. This enables them to rest, play, and remain clean." The kids are also introduced to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Right now, the orphanage houses 18 girls and 24 boys in two separate centers.
Reaching out to Break Strongholds
Alcoholism and drug abuse is very serious in India and Nepal. Even among the street children. “The Most Excellent Way,” a God-centered rehabilitation program, has been introduced to three cities in India, and had been
met with enthusiasm by those conducting the program. A pastor’s conference is scheduled in Katmandu, Nepal, to introduce the program there. "Most Indian pastors have had limited formal schooling," says Pendleton. "We conduct pastor-training conferences, with pastors coming from many remote areas.
"In Bangalore, we support a ministry to Eunuchs that is led by an Indian pastor and his wife. Eunuchs are shunned by Indian society due to their deviant life-style. This is a very difficult ministry, but gradually, some of them have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior."
There are about 45,000 babies born in India every day. The population of India is nearly 1.5 billion. India is expected to become the most populated country on earth soon.
"Only three or four percent of Indians know anything about Jesus Christ. For an example, in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, about 4.5 million people die every year, which means that 1,200 people die every day without knowing Jesus Christ as their Savior," says Pendleton. But "Reaching the Unreached" is truly following the instructions of Jesus Christ in sharing the Good News.
A Most Excellent Miracle!
Below is a note from Pastor John concerning Moses, who was a friend of his in India:
While in India in May, 2006, I spent a week at the Bethshalom church in Sangli with Pastor Treveli and his family. It's a small church of about 200 in an area of India that is very anti-Christian. Treveli had been jailed and beaten just for baptizing a Muslim convert. I saw the evidence of the brutality, which he will carry all his life. One of the first questions I was asked was,"If something happens to you, where should we send your body?"
My goal was to share and teach the Most Excellent Way drug and alcohol rehab program, as addiction is a very severe problem in India, and rehab is nonexistent. While there, I also did Bible teaching and preaching every day, but most of all I was there to encourage the Christians.
One of the elders of the church was a man named Moses. I was able to pray with him and his family of three children (four children now). Treveli, Moses, and one other man had been attacked by Hindus as they were sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a public place. Treveli's hand was broken, but Moses was more severely beaten. A few days later, Moses died from the beating.
On top of the anguish over his death, there was a doctor bill of $1200. With no way--absolutely no way--to pay it, they knew the creditors would soon be taking Moses' four children away as payment! The two boys would be put to work in a child labor factory, and the two girls would be sold for..........well, you can imagine.
As soon as this was learned, God provided donations for me
Moses, the adult in this picture, was beaten to death for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He leaves behind four children (three of of whom are shown above), who are the beneficiaries of a miracle that began right here in San Diego
As soon as this was learned, God provided donations for me to send to India--to cover the $1200. I telephoned pastor Treveli at about noon with this good news--forgetting that it was midnight in Sangli.
When I remembered the time difference, I thought I might be waking him up.
But that was not the case, for when he answered he said that many had been praying all day. There were still 75 people in the church at midnight continuing to pray for a miracle. He held the phone up so I could hear him announce that their prayers had just been answered and the miracle had occurred. Great shouts of joy and praise filled the church; the telephone line from India to San Diego; and I am sure, in Heaven.
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If you would like to support this ministry in India and Nepal,
you can do so much making a check payable to Reaching the Unreached.
You can mail it to Pastor John Pendleton, 7245 Decanture Cove, San Diego, CA 92120.
