Finding Lost Souls Newsletter

NEWSLETTER MAY/JUNE 2007- VOLUME 29
INDEPENDENT CHURCH IN INDIA PO BOX 238 FREDERICKSBURG, PA 17026
website: www.indchurch.org email:info@indchurch.org

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Independent Church in India heard about the hardship besetting this family, and the gospel team began to visit them and bring them rice, fruits and vegetables, and other urgent needs. Raji, her sister Kanni, and their brother Alaguraja, have now come to live at Home Of Compassion orphanage.

ICII took Raji and the Home of Compassion children for a fun day to play at the park.

Pastor Britto and Kathy standing with Raji's mother, part of the family, and the cow .

Now Raji's dreams have come true as she eats three healthy meals a day and drinks clean water. Now she can study well at school. She sees now that there is purpose in her life. At Home of Compassion, she is free to be a child for the first time in her life and have some fun. Now she can learn about Jesus and realize his love. ICII has provided a cow as a micro-loan for the rest of Raji's family so they can sell milk for income, and the mother can care for her newborn child instead of spending endless hours chopping wood.

The Good Samaritan Fund - ICII wants to continue being "Good Samaritans" to many poor families similar to Raji's family, and reaching out to poor villages through giving blankets, rice and food, and other necessary needs. In the past, ICII has reached out to vicims of the Tsunami by giving disaster relief supplies and have built huts for families who have lost their homes due to a flood or other disaster. ICII also reaches out to the homeless and those who are sick and in urgent need of medical attention. Your gifts towards ICII's "Good Samaritan Fund" will help to provide for families and individuals who are in urgent and desperate need (Please click here to give a gift towards ICII's "Good Samaritan Fund" to help families similar to Raji's).

Raji

ICII distributes 800 Bibles at a Children's Camp! - Independent Church In India (ICII) realizes the power of God's Word to change lives. We are committed to bringing God's Word to the multitudes of India. Over the past year, ICII distributed thousands of Bibles to new believers in Christ. As ICII's native missionary Gospel teams start new Bible studies in remote villages, new believers are asking for the Bible so they can learn more about Jesus! The village people are instructed how to use their Bibles and they are encouraged to read them daily.

After ICII distributed Bibles, the children are very interested in learning how to read them..

The children holding up their Bibles with joy after receiving them! This village is known for its demon worship, but now many children and some of the adults have received the Word of God .

Just recently at an ICII's Kids Bible Camp held during the month of April, Independent Church in India was able to place some 800 Tamil-language New Testaments into the hands of eager village children, most of them from Hindu families who wanted to read the Word of God! These poor children, many of them having come without breakfast, were glad to receive lunch at the Camp that day. "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." (Isaiah 55:11)

New Building for ICII's First Church - Over the past year and a half, ICII's churches have experienced tremendous growth. Double services have been started at some of their churches to help accommodate the numbers of people who have been coming to the Sunday church services and still not everyone can fit inside the buildings. Instead they had been listening to the service outside. A larger church has just recently been built to hold double services at Pastor Richard's Vadipatti area, and multiple churches have branched out of Pastor Britto's Dindigul church, including a separate service for lepers, and a new church started by ICII's native missionaries in a village named Sittur.

Many people had to sit outside and listen to the service at Vadipatti because there was no room inside.

In the time of worship during the second service at Vadipatti

The village of Vadipatti is home to ICII's original home church, founded by Pastors Britto and Richard over twelve years ago. For more than four years, they have been meeting Sundays in a thatched hut, which is now old and decrepit. The past eight months the Lord has brought explosive growth to the congregation, which has now grown to over three hundred in attendance. Each Sunday morning, two services are held and the hut is still filled to capacity and there are still fifty or more people waiting outside to hear the word of God.

This spring, construction was begun on a larger, concrete-block building which will be the new home of ICII Vadipatti. This church has been sponsored by a dedicated missionary family which is presently spending time in India helping Pastor Richard. ICII's native missionaries go out into the villages, to minister to people who cannot come to church. They are conducting Bible studies in hundreds of villages every month, teaching the Word of God to thousands of believers .

The construction of the new Vadipatti
church building.

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