The internal flights to Hyderabad were great and I arrived about midnight grateful to be collected. I am staying at the Operation Mobilisation Campus whichis one of the main centres for the work in India.
OM India has grown to be the largest field, George Verwer - founder of OM, has a real heart for the nation and started visiting in the early days. Now they have some 2000 staff across the nation.
Some of the ministries:
- STL books - literature distribution
- Evangelism teams - showing the Jesus film 3-4 times per week - I think there are over 400 teams
- Dalit Education - aiming to teach a people group called untouchables who are marginalised in the community - this is turning into an immense work with education centres being established throughout the nation
- Good Shepherd Community Churches - when the evangelsim teams have established a small group that gets to the right size a pastor is appointed approximately 2000 churches have been born.
- OM Conference centre - here on the campus the run leadership courses to support the work. All the time their is a group of students.
- Medical Clinic - healthcare provision on the site
I suspect I am missing a lot of it - I was asked to preach Sunday morning when I arrived and slept much of the rest of the day as I was so tired. I wasnt sure if they wanted me to preach for 30 mins or 1 hr 30 mins so stopped after an hour!
Tomorrow I am going on a trip to the slums of Hyderabad for which I probably will need to brace myself. It is a privilege to get to go - as a westerner you are always concerned about your safety but I love to go and see what the world is like. It migfht make it rather easy to sell the Merc when I return!
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