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INDIA DAY
OUTREACH NEWS

8 - 2018 -

Deerfield, IL
- July 13 -
Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:31

We reached there at 3:15 PM on a hot and humid day with >90F We parked two blocks from the event location inside the Trinity Christian University campus. Using a dolly we moved 12 boxes of bibles and outreach books and tracts in various Indian languages. Within a hour we were able to set up. We gave 10 gospel bags of Hindi bibles with a Hindi gospel tract and a gospel message CD. One Gospel bag in Tamil with a Tamil tract and gospel message CD. Three Urdu bibles with Urdu tract and Gospel message CD. One English Gospel bag with English tract. One Gujarati Bible with Gujarati gospel tract and a gospel CD in Gujarati. Several people gave their contact information for future communication regarding receiving Gospel bags. Event finished around 8:15 PM. Around 9:30 PM we packed and loaded back to our van returned home.

Naperville, IL
- August 12 -
Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:31

This outreach was two fold one with a booth and another on a float courtesy of ICCCNA. We reached around 10:30 AM and set up the booth as we were setting up a Gujarati couple came and we were reached out to them with a Gujarati bible. We heard through a witness that a known Punjabi lady in past did not want anything to do with the Bible she went on her own to the our booth and took a Punjabi bible and is reading it. The Parade started at 4:00 PM, before that LIC team along with local churches got the 2000 outreach bags ready as the float began Acts 1n8 band were singing songs in several Indian languages along with people from ICCCNA and many local churches and the Lord's workers gave the good news bags to up to 1500 people. We also gave 50 T-Shirts with special three gospel tracts in the bag.

Novi, MI
- August 18 -

We got to the indoor plaza by 8:00 AM and by 9:30 we were ready to reach out; within few minutes one Bengali person came with his spouse we offered a Bengali bible he said I will take a English book "Jesus saves you". Two persons came looking for a Marathi bible we were out of them told them to come back in two hours and we would get it; two of the LIC team members went got to several Marathi bibles they came and gladly took the Bibles Several DVDs of "In search of truth" in various languages were given. Many people participated in the T-shirt raffle. Gave over 1000 tracts, gave around 45 bibles, 70 books, kids Jesus books around 20, along with 800 water bottles. We received 8 contacts numbers we are planning to follow up to invite to thanksgiving or Christmas programs.

Chicago, IL
- 18Aug -

Our might Lord and savior Jesus Christ granted grace to Chicago team�to be part take in his harvest of souls yesterday at India Independence Day Parade, Devon Ave. (Chicago). Our team has shared bibles and other resources with people and people received with joyful hearts. All glory to god.

Milwaukee - WI
- 18August -

By the grace of god, �Milwaukee India Day� outreach went very well. Many hundreds of people visited Booth till 8:00pm. � Many people took bibles and books with lot of interest. Many American believers and Pastors visited LIC Booth and glorified god for what we�re doing for our Indian community.

Toronto, ON (Canada)
- Aug 19 -

Reached Toronto around 11:30 AM and were given a booth to set up that was at the main entrance(this was Lord�s doing). As we were setting up a�Somali person came and requested a Arabic bible We had several one on one gospel conversations with lot of people and reached out to Parsis, Malayasians, Chinese, Canadians All children�s gospel story books were given. Several hundreds of gospel tracts were given out.Several �In search of truth � DVDs were given out in English,Kannada,Tamil and Telugu languages. As we were packing to return a Bengali person who took bible earlier came back and brought with him a another Bengali person to get a Bengali bible. We met few Christians who were interested in working with us next year.We prayed and concluded

India Day 2018 at Indianapolis - IN
- 19 August 2018 -
"Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.� Mark 12:31

Report-1 :

The India day event was organized by the Indian Community at the Monument Circle in Indianapolis and it was a half day long celebration with lots of shows, exhibition of stalls and Food eateries and shops to sell ethnic costumes and jewelry. LIC group comprising of 7 travelled from Detroit to Indianapolis about 300 miles in 4 hours and were at the venue around noon and started distributing tracts. The LIC group set out to distribute Gospel tract- How to Know God book. Distributed almost 500 gospel packets. It is an open-air meeting situated around the monument circle and we stood at four corners and handed out the tracts. One group of people accepted the books happily. The other group refused to take the tracts and politely declined. We had 9(2 local) laborers to distribute the tracts and could engage conversations with few interested people. We contacted a Local pastor and his family and discussed greater coordination for the upcoming year�s India day program. Local group at Indianapolis was very hospitable, kind and provided us with good snacks and helped us to relax before starting on the way back home

India Day 2018 at Cleveland - OH
- 15 September 2018 -
"Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.� Mark 12:31

Report-1 :

As we were setting up two Gujarati and one Tamil Bible was given. There was steady flow of people visiting our booth and many Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi one Arabic and many English bibles and several Christian gospel books were given Several �In search of truth� DVDs were given same DVDs in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil languages were given One of person visiting our booth was not so excited that we were giving bibles after we gently persuaded him to look into �In search of truth �DVD he took it. Another person had lot of questions about the gospel, one of our friends was patiently listening to him and shared the good news and gave him a English bible. After the event we went around to see if anyone had left or thrown books/bibles/tracts etc we couldn�t find any and we all rejoiced and praised the Lord for the Lord answered our prayers

- 2017 -

India Day Outreach News at Cleveland
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- September 9, 2017 -

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us. On this Day we had outreaches in two different cities at Indianapolis & TORONTO Canada, as the Lord Provided more Labourers, so that we were able to divide and team up ourselves to reach the unreached with his grace, please go thru the below mentioned three city outreach reports

Report 1 : Cleveland

We reached around 11:30AM and began to set up even before we could completely set up a Gujarati lady came and requested a Gujarati bible. Even when we were praying before we started reaching two women came and took bibles in their languages. I witnessed many people come and get a bible in their languages. I am just going to mention a few of them.

A Gujarati man came and requested a Gujarati bible saying that last year by the time he came to get a bible all were gone this time he got it and was glad. And a Physician came and took a Kannada bible for her mother. Another person got a Kannada bible for her family. A Bengali speaking person took a Bengali bible. We ran out of Marathi bibles and later on few more few people came and were looking for Marathi bibles. Several Telugu people got Telugu bibles. Several people got Tamil bibles. And Many people got Punjabi bibles. I had the wonderful opportunity to see our friends and their family members sharing the good news joyfully and respectfully. Three of our young boys were very enthusiastically and with full of energy giving/sowing the gospel bag to hundreds of people.

Report 2 : Cleveland

The India day event was organized by the Indian Community at the Middle school in Independence, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland and it was a daylong celebration with lots of shows, exhibition of stalls and Food eateries and shops to sell ethnic costumes and jewelry. The LIC group set up a booth this year too to distribute Bibles, Gospel booklet- The Reason Why and How to Know God booklet and Jesus DVD's. It was because of the good coordination of the LIC team with the Local Christian Indian believers we set up a booth. LIC group travelled from Detroit to Cleveland a distance of about 200 miles in 3 hours and were at the venue by 11:30 AM and arranged the bibles by order of 12 Indian Languages to begin the gospel distribution of tracts and bibles. Following are the highlights of the Cleveland, Ohio Day Outreach.

God provided us lots of resources in the form of books, Bibles and people. We had 15 laborers to distribute the books and also were able to engage conversations with interested people.
We provided support to the Local group to be at the frontline to distribute gospel materials. People were very receptive and friendly and accepted the booklets.
Distributed almost 500 gospel packets, 75 Bibles, 80 Rhema booklets. The Rhema booklets were handed over to youths to stimulate their thinking. Also provided RZIM CDs to some people
We also distributed the gospel literature to several people and helped the local group to distribute specific booklets/cds to people from different Indian language groups.
The Gujarati, Marathi and Telugu Bibles were in great demand as several of these language groups sought the Bibles. The event ended at around 530pm and we also waited till then before exiting the place.
Local group at Cleveland was very hospitable, kind and provided us with good lunch, snacks and also set up a fan to carry out God’s work comfortably. We thank God thru the Lord Jesus for his provision, grace, strength and travel mercies. The ministry at Cleveland was so pleasant and smooth and we could carry out God’s work of reaching the lost effortlessly.
By the end of the day several hundreds of people were reached with the good news

India Day Festival Outreach News at Indianapolis
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 20, 2017 -

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us. On this Day we had outreaches in two different cities at Indianapolis & TORONTO Canada, as the Lord Provided more Labourers, so that we were able to divide and team up ourselves to reach the unreached with his grace, please go thru the below mentioned reports.

Report 1 : Indianapolis

2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place. Indianapolis team consisting of 8 set out to distribute gospel tracts to make the Lord Jesus known there. We, started out to go for Indianapolis in two cars and reached at about 11:30 AM after driving for 4 hours. The weather was very sunny and good on that day and it helped us to be energetic for the task ahead of us. The backdrop of the India day festival was the colossal monument honoring the war heroes of Indiana who died in the battle against Spain. The Indian community of Indiana also gathered to enjoy the 71st Indian Independence Day which was attained after a freedom struggle in which many soldiers sacrificed their lives for the Indian freedom. There was lot of space around the monument and the India day stage was set here. The Monument Circle one exit was used as a stage for Song and Dance Performances and the song &dance performances were being enacted when distributing the Gospel material. Our mission was to distribute the 600 Gospel packets to people. We were surprised to see a reduction in size of crowd from the last year and the crowd were about 400-500 people. We divided into four groups of 2 people and stayed at the different stage entry points. The Gospel packet consisted of the Gospel booklet- The Reason Why and How to Know God booklet and Jesus DVD's. We started with a prayer to God to help us distribute the gospel materials and for the crowd to receive it.

Distributed 400 booklets to the People at the venue and people were very friendly this time.
Many people received the gospel booklets graciously and even thanked us in return.
Very few people did not want the booklets and almost 95% of them took the booklets happily.
We could see that 1 in 3 had the gospel booklets in their hand as they kept moving at the venue.
As most of the people already had the booklets, we decided to go to the nearby state fair and we distributed almost 100 booklets to people entering and exiting the state fair. Most of the people accepted the books. We called it off when the police instructed us to stop distributing and hinder traffic and we dutifully obliged and started home after a good day’s work of sowing the gospel seed and entrust God to make the seed bear fruit in his time.

India Day Festival Outreach News at Toronto Canada
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 20, 2017 -

While everyone was busy reaching out a person came and requested to get a Hindi bible and quietly left.
Many Punjabi speaking people received Punjabi bibles
One our friend was having one on one conversations with people and sharing the gospel, and taught them how to read the bible and gave them bibles
Many Gujarathi speaking people got bibles in their languages
One Gujarathi lady came and took two Gujarathi bibles one for her and another for her mother
By the end of the day all the Jesus Film DVDs were all exhausted then a Gujarathi speaking lady came and was looking for Jesus film DVD in Gujarathi, we could not give her
By the end of the day several hundreds of people were reached with the good news
Few Arabic speaking people received Arabic bibles
All the Hindi, Gujarathi bibles that we took were over, we have only two Punjabi bibles left. Many people were reaching out, I am sure each one of them have several testimonies like these. Toronto India day has grown exponentially and thousands of people came

India Day Outreach News at Milwaukee
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 19, 2017 -

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us. On this Day we had outreaches in two different cities at Indianapolis & TORONTO Canada, as the Lord Provided more Labourers, so that we were able to divide and team up ourselves to reach the unreached with his grace, please go thru the below mentioned three city outreach reports

Report 3 : Milwaukee

God has led us to go to Milwaukee, we as a 6-member team reached at 9 am. Initially the crowd was less, gradually people started flowing. we gathered and prayed together then we started distributing the tracks, Bibles and Cds in different languages. Few people came and asked for Bibles in their own languages. Some of them asked us, how to read the bible, one of our fellow brother interacted with them and explained them how to read. Altogether There were more than 5000 people, Couple of fellow believers came to our booth and were glad to see what we were doing and encouraged us. It was a great experience for me to be a part of this ministry.

India Day Festival Outreach News at NOVI MI
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 19, 2017 -

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us. Here you go how the master helped us in the city of NOVI MI on 19Aug17.

Report 1 :

Proverbs 11:30 - the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls. (NASB) The Indian diaspora arranged the India day event to celebrate the 71st Independence Day of India at the Novi Suburban Collection center and it was a daylong celebration with Lots of shows, exhibition of stalls and Food eateries and shops to sell ethnic costumes and jewelry. The atmosphere was like that of a fair or carnival. Many automobile cars were showcasing Their latest models and conducted games for children. The LIC group set up a booth this year too to distribute Bibles, Gospel booklet- The Reason Why and How to Know God booklet and Jesus DVD's. It was because of the good coordination of the LIC team, we had 3 teams ministering at Novi, Milwaukee and Detroit Homeless Outreach. Novi LIC group went there as early as 8am and set up the stall and arranged the books by order of 25 Indian Languages to begin the gospel distribution of tracts and bibles when people start. Coming in at 9am and we continued till almost 6pm. Most of us also were dressed in Ethnic clothing so as to attract the people to our stall and also to befit the occasion of India Independence Day. The Gospel packet consisted of the Gospel booklet- The Reason Why and How to Know God booklet and Jesus DVD's. We distributed the Bible to interested people who came to the stall. Following are the highlights of the Novi Day Outreach.

Many Volunteers came up to willingly to distribute the materials because of the proximity and this helped us to be there from morning till evening.
We distributed gospel materials to about 2000 people. Many people willingly came forward and received Bibles in their native languages. We had about 15 -20language bibles to distribute plus bible apps for 700 plus languages.
I could give the gospel material to 2 of my work colleagues and this would have been difficult to do so in any other setting.
Also Distributed the Bible to my neighbor in his native language -Telugu.
I also handed out the Hindi Bible to the nearby Farmers' Insurance stall lady.
I also handed out the gospel packet to the security officer in charge of Suburban whom I happened to meet her because of my daughter who went and sat on her high chair near the exit and the security officer graciously allowed my daughter to sit. So, I felt led to help her by carrying a gospel packet to her since she could not move from her spot of surveillance.
One person - a Guajarati came to the stall asking for a Gita and when I mentioned that the Bible is being distributed, He said that reading the Bible will make him narrow minded and I replied to him that On the contrary the Bible will make him broad minded and finally he asked for a Guajarati Bible and left the stall.

Report 2 :

We got to the booth around 8:30 AM and after setting up. One of the brothers prayed and we started reaching out. I witnessed some many people receiving Bibles, CDs, DVDs, Books and tracts. I just want to mention few of them, I was there for few hours.

One older Gujarathi man came and was looking for a Gujarathi bible and got it.
A couple came and took Telugu and Kannada bible.
Many took English bibles.
Several hundred people received gospel bags with Jesus film DVDs, Reason why booklet, how know God tract and a bible app.
Many young people were given "One heart beat away book".

Like these many people were reached out, I am sure they all have many testimonies like these.

India Day Outreach News at Naperville
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 13, 2017 -

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us. On this Day we had outreaches in two different cities at Indianapolis & TORONTO Canada, as the Lord Provided more Labourers, so that we were able to divide and team up ourselves to reach the unreached with his grace, please go thru the below mentioned three city outreach reports

Report 1 : Naperville Chicago

We got to the Konch park to set up the booth around 10:15 AM. After we set up the booth first few persons who came to the booth we Chinese we gave them bible apps and Jesus Film DVDs.After that few people got "one heartbeat away book" I would like mention a few more that I saw during the little time I was there.

A Gujarati man came and was curious about our booth after we talked to him and gave him a Gujarati bible. Guajarati gospel tract and a Jesus film DVD ,Hindi Christian song CD, "he said is it in Gujarati!!, all these years I could not read the Bible in English but now for sure I will read since it is in Gujarati he exclaimed!"
Another person came as asked about his language and he said Telugu and we gave a Telugu bible with a Telugu tract and Jesus Film he was very glad and after few minutes he came with his wife and said to her "you also take one".
Another woman came and took gospel material and Urdu bible and an Urdu tract she seemed to surprise to find an Urdu bible. A Sindhi couple came and were so excited to find a Sindhi bible they stayed at the booth for a while and conversed for a while and joyfully left. I saw many more like these glory to God for sending these people.
We were on a India day parade float by the courtesy ICCCNA and were singing gospel songs in few Indian languages with the Acts1n8 band simultaneously by the side of the float few sisters and brothers were giving out gospel bags that contained Jesus film DVD, bible app for 700 plus languages, how to know God tract and The reason why "booklet they were only able to distribute about 800 bags, several thousands of people were watching, I only wished we had more workers to reach these thousands of people. I saw we with my own eyes harvest is plenty Labourers are few.

Report 2 : Naperville Chicago

The Indian diaspora arranged the India day event to celebrate the 71st Independence Day of India at the Naperville Park and it was a daylong celebration with lots of shows, exhibition of stalls and Food eateries and shops to sell ethnic costumes and jewelry. The atmosphere was like that of a fair or carnival. The LIC group set up a booth this year too to distribute Bibles, Gospel booklet- The Reason Why and How to Know God booklet and Jesus DVD's. It was because of the good coordination of the LIC team with Hope Church, Naperville we set up a booth and LIC group went there as early as 8am to set up the stall and arranged the books by order of 25 Indian Languages to begin the gospel distribution of tracts and bibles when people start coming in at 9am and we continued till almost 7pm. Most of us also were dressed in Ethnic clothing so as to attract the people to our stall.

The Gospel packet consisted of the Gospel booklet- The Reason Why and How to Know God booklet and Jesus DVD's. Following are the highlights of the Naperville Day Outreach.

We trained the Naperville Local church group to greet people and offer the bible resources in a compassionate way.
We supported and encouraged them to carry out the distribution of gospel materials to about 1000 people. People were very receptive and friendly and accepted the booklets.
Our Music band Acts1n8 participated in the parade by singing songs by he courtesy of ICCNA on their parade float and few of our group walked in front of the float to distribute gospel packets. Our group singers sang few songs as the float progressed along the parade route.
We also distributed the gospel literature to several people and helped the local group to distribute specific booklets/cds to people from different Indian language groups.

- 2016 -

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Cleveland OH
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- Sep 10, 2016 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ to the needy. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us. The Cleveland outreach detail is mentioned below in TWO reports.

Report 1.

We arrived there around 10:30 AM and set it up by 11:30 AM. While we were waiting for the rest of the workers to arrive. Amazingly the small procession for the event came before us we joined them and marched for some time, that kind of established a warm relationship with the organizers. There are several hundred one on one encounters about the good news, I will just mention a few that saw
firsthand witness:
We started reaching out after praying for some time.
1. Towards the end of the day, unsolicited a gentlemen owner from a stall across the Gymnasium came and got the gospel packet.
2. A lady at the same time came and was requesting us for the Netaji hat with the I love India badge which we gave and also she took the gospel packet.
3. A Jain faith person came and had a brief conversation about the good news and took the packet.
4. A Marathi speaking family stopped by and clearly heard the gospel message shared by one of the local team members and took the gospel packet with a Marathi bible.
5. Many Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Arabic, Gujarathi, Bengali speaking families came and got the bibles in their language along with the good news packet.
6. One of Nepali Person Came and asked for Nepali Bibles and Material, we gave him a Nepali CD.
7. At times several people were being reached at the same time and they had a good conversation about the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. The local team comprised of four families, A grandmother and grandson of the same family shared the good news all day joyfully. their passion to reach out was obvious and also contagious to the rest of us. You could tell they had prayed and we're ready for the event. They were generous hosts to us with their support, time. fellowship, food and accommodation. We had a team of eight members went from Detroit area to work with them. We are grateful for this opportunity to reach out. Praise God.

Report 2.

We were very excited on this day, we (Four of us) started @ 8:00am and reached the venue by 11:00. Before us one of our fellow labourer was already waiting for us with Family at the Venue. As soon as we parked our car, we unloaded the resources and quickly entered in to the Venue to setup our booth. Quickly we did the set up and arranged the Multilingual Bibles and all the materials. Parallelly we also started to pack the Rhema, Gospel Tracts, and Bible App etc. we prayed and started approaching people to give the gift bags. We had a wonderful support from the local team. Around 10 people from local team including kids were present. The local brothers and sisters had provided us breakfast and Lunch also. Gradually the crowd started floating and by noon we distributed almost 60% of our resources. We also encountered many different people and they started to question us about Christianity then our local brothers answered their questions. Even we met some believers as well, they prayed for us and encouraged us. I was amazed to see one small incident that one old man came to the booth and asked for a Gujarathi Bible. In a nutshell, with the grace of God we were able to reach people with more than 400 Rhema booklets and other tracts and CDS and also multilingual Bibles. By 5:00PM we packed our things and concluded the outreach. I really enjoyed and blessed by this Ministry and the opportunity to serve the Master, I praise God, coz he is Good.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Toronto Canada
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 7, 2016 -

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Indianapolis Canada
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 14, 2016 -

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ to the needy. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us.

Report.1

The Indianapolis outreach was truly a work of God as it seemed so sure that it would not work out as many of our fellow laborers were busy with their different schedule. I kept praying that God would send laborers for his work and God answered the prayer. One brother who came recently to Michigan agreed to come and another three brothers confirmed a day before the outreach. So 6 of us were available for the event. It was raining on the previous day and when I checked the weather there was a thunder storm warning in effect till Tuesday of last week. However, we all decided to go ahead as we rented the car and loaded all the tracts to distribute. We started at 5:30 am and the ride of 5 hours was very comfortable in the car and we reached the venue by 10:30 am and it was raining steadily and when we went to the India day place it was totally deserted and I wondered if it was cancelled but some cops were present and they informed that the venue was shifted to an indoor hall and gave us the indoor venue place. I asked one Indian for the correct address and we reached the venue and started handed out the gospel tracts when one of the organizer objected to distributing Christian books. She checked with the board and conveyed the board's decision to not allow us to hand the literature inside the hall. I immediately decided to distribute the material outside the venue as per the leading of the Holy Spirit. There were 2 gates to the venue and 2 people each covered the gates and we started giving out the tracts. The people were content to receive and were quite open this year compared to last year's crowd and we finished handing out the 500 books in 3 and a half hours. One old man came and asked for the book and also one family kindly received it. God so blessed the outreach and all of us worked in unison and harmony and finished God's work. God is worthy to be praised who worked out everything and provided the right resources.

Report.2

I have been hearing many testimonies but this time we are the testimony to say that God's work will never stop irrespective of whatever circumstances we may encounter. It was heavily raining in the actual location which was outdoor changed to Indoor and India Day management told not to solicit inside but nothing stopped in sharing or distributing God's word. Firstly, I thank God and thanks to all brothers of Laborer's in Christ, its great privilege for me and one of the Hindi speaking brother with his son as it was first time experience for us to distribute God's word on India day occasion. God led us to share his word to many non-believers that includes many Indians, some Mexicans and Afro-Americans. Most of them asked what is it and we mentioned it as India Day gift and they just accepted it. Some of them opened and asked what is it and we mentioned it as Good News a book about true God very few denied but most of them accepted it. Praise God.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at NOVI MI
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 20, 2016 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

Thank you for diligently continuing to come to reach out , fellowship, encourage, serve, pray, be a blessing and share the Good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ to the needy. Dear Prayer partners, Please continue to pray as we are sincerely praying and encouraging you to join us.The NOVI outreach detail is mentioned below in TWO reports.

Report.1

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, thank you for praying. As soon as we reached (At 6:50) the NOVI India Day Venue, we immediately went to the booth and unloaded the material and water. Quickly we started to set up our stall. Even before we could fully set up the booth , people were coming and we began to reach out. This time we were more in numbers many fellow believers with their family and kids came to participate and support the ministry. All the English, Hindi, and Telugu bibles were exhausted and we were able to reach few Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, Marati and Kannada language speaking people. The multilingual Jesus DVD that we took were also given. more than 900 hundred Rhemas –(17 topic booklets) were given, that was a wonderful gospel material, supported by WillowCreek Church Chicago. More than 1500 how to know God tracts were given, Gospel CDs were given in Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil. More than 100 English Bibles were given. Gospel tracts in several Indian languages were given. We were able to reach people from different Indian languages. The response was overwhelming we had a few good conversations with people and many of them seemed to show genuine interest in the gospel. This time we imported the Tricolor carry bags from India, which were very useful. Overall it was a fantastic outreach. Around 7:30 pm we wound up with the word of prayer lead by a prayer warrior from one of the popular church.one of Indian evangelist also participated in this outreach ministry. Most of us were in the Indian Attire, including kids, really it was showing a unique identity,

Report.2

Firstly, we thank God for His mighty work in doing His task. We thank you all for your prayers. With great joy we would like to share our experience in serving our Lord Jesus Christ. We had a great time in India day outreach at Novi, Michigan. Early morning we went there to set up the booth and we were able to distribute some 200+ multilingual bibles, Rhema booklets and more than1500 tracts were given with water bottles. We had a good response from the people however we also encountered resistance from few people.In the evening the English Bibles were totally exhausted and we were able to give only tracks and CD's in the bag. We had a good conversations with people with different languages. In the ending one of the prayer warrior prayed and blessed our ministry.

- 2015 -

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Novi Michigan
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 15, 2015 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

All glory to God alone for sending workers into the outreach work at Novi MI. We were able to witness to many people as evidenced by below four reports.

Our sincere thanks to all prayer partners, please continue to pray the Lord is sending more workers into his harvest.

India Day Outreach Report I

Praise God for His mercy and goodness.

With great joy we would like to share that we as a body of Christ enjoyed the wonderful opportunity of sharing the Gospel of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

We were able to distribute lots of tracts and many people cheerfully received them. However we also encountered resistance and anger from few who even went to the extent of cursing us. We still considered it a joy to share the good news and were willing to dialogue with people who were interested and also had negative opinions about Christianity.

India Day Outreach Report II

Vibe in the Novi suburban place was upbeat, people were having a good social moment with friends & family, trying out North to south Indian eateries and watching stage performances of Indian pop culture shows. In midst of all this, there was our booth where we were distributing Gospel tracts to Bibles with the purpose & hope to share the good news of Jesus Christ. There were many other non-Christian religious booths doing the same, but we stand amazed at the traffic which came by our booth to inquire and pick up Gospel material. This we consider the work of God, as in, God was doing all the work by placing us at the right moment, equipping us with right words and filing us with right attitude. Serving in this capacity, challenged our knowledge/wisdom of scriptures and faith in lieu of the questions asked and enlightened us to be ready to give an answer for the hope we have (1 Pet 3:15).

India Day Outreach Report III

The tract and Bible distribution was a blessed time of sharing the love and word of our Lord with people who probably had never heard the Truth before.

Most of the people received the Word with joy. The few people that did reject the material took the complimentary water and chocolates, indicating that they were not offended. One pleasant elderly lady from Punjab came back and thanked us for the Punjabi Bible saying that she was looking for a Punjab Bible for a long time. Another elderly gentleman excitedly thanked us saying that he had come to the US recently to help take of a grandchild. He said he would spend the time, he has here to read through the Bible. Please continue to thank and praise the Lord that the word is accomplishing that for which it has been sent.

India Day Outreach Report IV

Just happened to be at the booth for some time and I distributed one Telugu and Oriya Bible to a couple who were parents visiting their daughter from AP-Orissa border.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Indianapolis
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 16, 2015 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

All glory to God alone for sending workers into the outreach work at Indianapolis Indiana. We were able to witness to several hundred people as evidenced by below two reports.

Our sincere thanks to all prayer partners, please continue to pray the Lord is sending more workers into his harvest.

Outreach Report I

Lord is good to us always. He provided a team that is willing to go and we found out not one in the team went there ever. We started slow because we were not sure how were going to start the work. One of the brother spearheaded and started giving out tracks and we followed the lead. Lo and behold, the slow start came to a half with rain interrupting the program there. We were outdoors along with all the people in the program there. Once the rain stopped, we started out work again and it picked up and we were able to give out the "packets" in a quick and efficient manner. There was literally no opposition. People were receptive and some asked and we told that it 'Jesus DVD" and the took it.

We had a great time distributing the material. Lot of people were encouraged and some were happy we were doing that because they believed in the Lord Jesus. Everyone needs this Gospel.

At the end of the day we exhausted almost all our material that we took!! It felt like we did not do anything just like the verse ( Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.)!!

Our prayer is that we remember these words and be ready always John 20:21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”(Matthew 28:20)

Praise God that he kept us all safe and enabled us to work and made our work easy.

There is lot of work, let us prepare for next year from today! Only for His Glory.

Outreach Report II

Lord Jesus said "Do you not say, It is still four months until harvest time comes? Look! I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields and see how they are already white for harvesting".

We went to the harvest fields of Indianapolis to fulfill God's mandate to reach the lost there. We reached Indianapolis at about 11:30 am after driving for 4 hours and as we were reaching the vicinity of the venue it was raining heavily and we were not sure as to how it would be possible to stand in the rain and give out the Gospel material.

The backdrop of the India day festival was the colossal monument honoring the war heroes of Indiana. There was lot of space around the monument and the India day stage was set here. As the stage was covered on all sides, the festival did go on despite the initial torrential rain for almost an hour.

We heard about the previous year's outreach performance from friends and got to know that it is very hard to reach Indians at Indianapolis as they are very conservative and resistant to the gospel. So we prayed at the venue and arranged the Gospel packets( Life of Jesus DVD and a small How to Know God booklet) in plastic bags to prevent it from being drenched in the rain and started distributing the packets slowly initially.

There were lots of song& dance performances being enacted as we were distributing the Gospel material. Our mission was to distribute the 1000 Gospel packets to people. We were surprised to see a lot of Indians there about 800-1000. We divided into two groups of 2 people and stayed at the opposite ends of the stage.

People reactions were varied and different.

1) Few of the people were suspicious and resistant in the beginning and it was very difficult to reach out in the first one hour as people were not receiving and it was also raining heavily. 2) Many people wanted to know what exactly they were getting. We informed that it is Jesus DVD. Then they received it with some hesitation. 3) Some people just said no and moved forward. 4) Some people just took the plastic bags and left. They would have realized later that it is the Gospel packet. 5) Most people were friendly and received the Gospel packets happily as we handed the packets saying it is India day's gift. We even distributed to the one of the event organizers. 6) One guy came and argued and quarreled with me as to why we were distributing it there during India day event. I was upset for a little while but later dismissed his words off my mind and went on with my work. 7) I distributed the packet to one Chennai couple who were visiting Indiana just then and also one Pune Physical Therapist did have a good conversation with me.

It was the Lord Jesus working with us and He softened the hearts of the people to have accepted the packets and so we were able to distribute almost 900 odd packets in the 4 hours we were there. God enabled us to reach all of them and now we pray that we He would work on the people and save them.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Toronto Canada
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 16, 2015 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

All glory to God alone for sending workers into the outreach work at Toronto Canada. We were able to witness to many people as evidenced by the below report.

Our sincere thanks to all prayer partners, please continue to pray the Lord is sending more workers into his harvest.

Toronto India day Outreach Report :

Even before we could completely set up few people came and were looking to get bibles and rest of the good news materials.one of the first few persons came was Mr.Vaidyalingam he said" I have been looking to find a Tamil bible for a while thank God,I got one today".We had few incidents like these through out the day, which made us to recollect the words of Lord Jesus Christ that harvest is ripe in (John 4:35) .

As the day started slowly as people started to gather for India Day celebration. People slowly started visiting our booth. Some, from last year, directly came to booth to pick the Bible that they could not get last year. It was encouraging to see that. It as a diverse crowd as this event was held in downtown Toronto. Not only Indian, but also many visitors to Toronto were in downtown and stopped by our booth.

Overall we distributed tracts, DVDs and Bibles to many people. We gave bibles in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and English languages. Most of them were Punjabi, Hindi and English.

Many Chinese people came and were looking for Bible in their language which we cannot provide. We felt disappointed by it. People were also looking for Bibles in Hebrew, Dutch, Arabic languages.

There was some resistance from some people who were hostile to Christianity. They accused of us not being patriotic to India. They think that all Indians should be Hindus. We do not understand why they accused us of that. Not sure what religion has to do with patriotism.

We were able to engage with Muslims and Hindus on a positive level and were able to present the gospel. We wish we had more time to interact with people one on one basis to clearly explain gospel. Many know Christianity. They think it is another way to one God. They believe that all religions are same.

We got to meet members of Christ's Forgiveness Ministries. They were distributing tracts on the other side of the street. They do this every day. We met their pastor David Lynn. I came to know him by watching YouTube videos preaching, explaining and debating with Muslims on the streets of Toronto. It was a blessing to meet Paul one of their church member distributing tracts, who helped us explain the gospel to a Muslim brother who had lots of questions about Christianity.

We had the grace of speaking for few minutes about good news with one on one meeting up to one hundred people with their names documented and few with emails.

There is lot of work that needs to be done. We need more laborers. Our prayer is that the seed we were able to plant in the hearts of people, that the God will one day bring it to fruition.

- 2014 -

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Indianapolis
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 17, 2014 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

We thank everyone who went for recent Indianapolis India day Parade Outreach on 08/17/2014 and working together to spread the "Good News of Salvation through Jesus Christ". We give all glory to God for sharing your time and resources generously may our Lord God continuously be glorified in all that we all do.

Prayer Partners thank you for praying. Holy Spirit continuously is preparing and guiding the hearts of the people to receive God's word at our outreaches.

INDIA DAY FESTIVAL OUTREACH REPORT

We reached there around 9:50 AM as they were setting up and getting ready for the parade/celebration. Since we had some time we walked around the Monument Square to see which might be a strategic place to be to reach out. Around 10:45 we participated in the parade.

We had to continuously be in a attitude of prayer, since many people rejected or were reluctant to receive the Jesus DVDs/Gospel tracts it took us about one and a half hour, before we could find a person of peace who took the First Jesus DVD that was homeless person upon receiving the tract she thanked and said I Know Him (Jesus Christ) . After that we moved around to different places around the India day celebration event stage and stood by the Mobile restaurants reaching and for few minutes at the garbage dumpster since people we coming there to dispose the plates/cups.

One of the Camera man came back after getting the Gospel tract saying I Believe in Jesus and also in Hinduism. Another person was talking and saying that there are more Caucasians than Indians at their gatherings at the Hindu Temple/Center for worship.

We were able to reach approximately 50 people who were willing to receive the gospel tracts. We had a opportunity to speak for some time with three college students from Tamil Nadu and give How to know God tract after that to all of them.

There were about 300 to 500 Indians and we did not come across any Christian organization trying to reach these people. We humble request all of you to start praying daily for the City of Indianapolis Indian community to open their hearts to receive the Good news of Salvation.

If the coming of the Lord is delayed, we sincerely urge as many as possible if you can come next year for the India day celebration at Indianapolis we can once again try to reach.

We were only TWO persons for 300-500 People, we need more workers, please pray that Lord will send more Labourers to His harvest.

Few persons asked from where did we get the Netaji hat since no one at this event seem to have it,we had to tell them the testimony of how we got it.

After spending several hours around one PM we started driving back home and reached safely.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Columbus, Ohio
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 16, 2014 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

We thank everyone who came for recent Columbus Ohio Outreach on 08/16/2014 and working together to spread the "Good News of Salvation through Jesus Christ". We give all glory to God for sharing your time and resources generously may our Lord God continuously be glorified in all that we all do.

We sincerely appreciate all the young children for reaching with us throughout the day. We are grateful to all their parents for bringing them and encouraging us and encouraging them to give out Bibles, tracts, DVDs and Bible.is Apps. Special thanks to our Brothers Danny & Michael, who worked with us in the past in Detroit area now have moved to Columbus and came to work with us. Prayer Partners thank you for praying. Holy Spirit continuously is preparing and guiding the hearts of the people to receive God's word at our outreaches.

India Day Festival Outreach Report I :

At the outset we want to say that at all our outreaches frequently, we come across some people whose hearts are not yet open to receive any information regarding the need for Personal Savior and Good news of salvation through Jesus Christ only.

People have this misconception about Christianity that it's a religion, to effectively reach we have to be well equipped to converse with them, to that effect it will be prudent, if we get involved with a church to assist us along the way, we often feel this way when we approached people at these events.

One Gujarati lady told us "We cannot put bible's in our home although we want to". Another Gujarati lady told us "Why do we care about Bible we want a Bhaghavad Gita". Another Man has told us that he thinks the Koran and Bible are the same.

Although these were not so encouraging to our outreach the positiveness has outnumbered them.

Many people were open to the gospel and are taking bibles.

A Oriya speaking lady wanted to read the Oriya bible and said she went to a missionary school, but never got the chance to read it, we told her its the truth and she should start reading it. Many Americans, an Ethiopian and an Israeli accepted the English version of the bible. A Tamil speaking lady took the Tamil bible. A Gujarati lady took one Gujarati Bible. We have given away around 600 Jesus movie DVD's We have given away more than 600 Bible App's

We were able to give several Indian language bibles to another Local Pastor, who is serving among Indians to use in his ministry of reaching the lost.

India Day Festival Outreach Report II

“We were totally impressed with the children spearheading, especially Hannah and Rohan, who were having polite conversation and handing over the Jesus DVD with the gospel tracts. When people rejected they still said have a “Wonderful day Sir or Madam”, and when one gentleman asked Hannah if she knew that Jesus and Vishnu were brothers, she said, No I did not know that, and then asked that person, do you know that Jesus is the only God that claims to be alive, and for which this person said, yes it’s true, and walked away”

There were people who willing took the Bibles, some in different languages to give to friends, and one lady took a Punjabi Bible for her parents. On the other hand there were people who walked away at the mention of Jesus or the Bible.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Chicago, IL
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 16, 2014 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

We thank everyone who went for recent Chicago India day parade Outreach on 08/16/2014 and working together to spread the "Good News of Salvation through Jesus Christ". We give all glory to God for sharing your time and resources generously may our Lord God continuously be glorified in all that we all do.

Prayer Partners thank you for praying. Holy Spirit continuously is preparing and guiding the hearts of the people to receive God's word at our outreaches.

Outreach Report in Chicago during India Day 2014.

OUTREACH REPORT I

Four of us traveled to Chicago for India Day 2014 on August 16th . Two of us Standing on the North side of Devon Ave probably distributed about 400 tracts and Jesus DVDs and How to know God tract in English. Most of the crowd appeared to be either Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati speaking. One lady specifically asked for a Gujarati DVD. We did not carry tracks in those languages. It was little disappointing. Nevertheless we still distributed lots of tracts. We need to carry tacks in all major languages possible to these type of events also. We were very glad to see at least 4 Christian floats in the parade. One interesting thing we noticed is, all the Telugu churches came together to create one float for parade. Also we felt immense need to pray and encourage participation of local churches more at these outreach activities to be on the street during the parade since several thousands of them were on the Devon street going up and down on the side walk for the parade. Chicago is a major city and there is lot of activities going on at any given point of time.

We had a healthy conversation with lot of people who were interested in knowing more about the Gospel. However we also encountered resistance and anger from few who even went to the extent of cursing us. We still considered it a joy to share the good news and were willing to dialogue with people who were interested and also had negative opinions about Christianity.

OUTREACH REPORT II

Another two of us were standing on the south side of Devon ave at a small intersection through which people were passing,some of us was were nervous in the first 20 minutes not knowing how the people would respond to our Gospel Tract distribution. All sorts of peoples(Hindus, Muslims, African Americans, Christians, North Indians) crossed us and even many North Indians passed us and they all took the Jesus DVDs and the Gospel tracts graciously. we were surprised to see many north Indians take the gospel. Many Gujarati and Punjabi people took the materials joyfully. Many Muslims also took the tracts.we did not wish or say anything to the people in the first half hour while handing the Jesus DVDs but later started smiling and wishing the people and noticed more people stretching their hand to receive the Jesus DVDs we reached approximately about 300-400 individuals.

India Day Festival Outreach Report at Novi, Michigan
" Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31
- August 09, 2014 -

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,

We thank everyone who came for recent Novi Michigan Outreach on 08/09/2014 and working together to spread the "Good News of Salvation through Jesus Christ". We give all glory to God for sharing your time and resources generously may our Lord God continuously be glorified in all that we all do.

We sincerely appreciate all the young children for reaching with us throughout the day on and off. We are grateful to all their parents for bringing them and encouraging us and encouraging them to give out tracts, DVDs and Bible.is Apps.

Prayer Partners thank you for praying. Holy Spirit continuously is preparing and guiding the hearts of the people to receive God's word at our outreaches.

We began setting up at 8:10 AM and started reaching from 10:00 AM until 7:30 PM .

As you all know many testimonies are there about what the Lord did in Novi Michigan, we cannot possible write all of them because several of them were reaching and each one has unique experience but here are few testimonies from the Outreach.

1. A Tamil speaking person said he is on a vacation visiting family and wanted a Tamil bible so that he can read it while he is here.
2. A elderly gentlemen requested a Hindi bible and seeing that his son asked us to give one for him also.
3. A Punjabi person wanted a Punjabi bible and was very thankful and said he wanted to read the bible.
4. Few Tamil speaking persons took Tamil bibles.
5. Three Kannada speaking persons wanted Kannada bibles.
6. Several Gujarati speaking persons took Gujarati bibles.
7. Few Telugu speaking persons took Telugu bibles.
8. Two Bengali speaking persons requested Bengali bibles.
9. 600 plus Jesus DVDs along with How to know God Gospel tracts were given who were willing to take it.
10. Several Hundred Bible.Is Apps for more than 700 plus languages were given.
11. 100 plus were given Your last day movie Apps.
12. Gospel tracts alone were given in to few people who wanted in their Indian language.
13. We were able to have few conversations with people regarding the Gospel.
14. A Michigan senator from 7th district came to our booth and was pleased to see the Community outreach work.
15. A person from AM 1500 radio came and took information about our outreach work and said he would like to look up information about the outreach to present to his radio station.
16. We were able to film Videos from several individuals regarding the advantages of festival outreaches.
17. Several persons said that they a bibles in their own languages from our previous years outreaches.
18. A person took two Punjabi bibles to give it to his friends.
19. As we were setting up the first person who was next our booth inquired about the Netaji hat and we had to share the testimony of how we got it at Toronto Outreach.After that four more persons who came our booth asked about the hat and we had to share the testimony with them also.

India day Outreach Report :

In the Bible the prophets were told to stand and preach at the “gate” of the temple and the “gate” of the city. The scriptures say that wisdom cried out at the gate and they hated him that rebuked at the gate. The gate is a strategic location because that is where everyone must go in and out. So when our friends all from LFC preached at the India day 2014 at Novi, we all stood next to the LFC booth where everyone leaving had to pass by. That way everyone could get attention of LFC distributing the tracts and bibles and some could read the gospel sign.