While the country and the world are trying to cope with distress due to Covid-19 pandemic, evangelists make hay in harvesting souls in India. Their success during this one year period is so much that they openly boast about converting 1 lakh people to Christianity and planting more churches during this period than their entire work in 25 years in India. These evangelists have ‘adopted’ nee taken over 50,000 villages in one year.

With huge loss of jobs during the pandemic, the evangelists made hay by trying to take advantage of not having two squares of meal in a day or enough medicines and converted many of the needy and vulnerable people to Christianity.

The missionaries also planted churches in localities there are not even a single Christian and slowly converted people around the area. In many hospitals one can see priests and nuns brazenly go from bed to bed under the pretext of praying for the sick family patients and exploit the vulnerability of the patients’ families.


This factual data was given by David Reeves, CEO of unfoldingWord, a Christain organization dedicated to church planting and ‘translating God’s Word — with accuracy and excellence’.

In an interview given by David to Missionary Network News, he proudly recounted about their achievements in converting 1 lakh people and planting thousands of churches in India.


Reeves said, “Because they could not meet with others during lockdown, they decided [to] simply start specifically praying for unsaved people they know. Then, they decided to follow up those prayers by phone and WhatsApp. They estimate about 100,000 conversions during lockdown as a result of this approach. Similarly, with church planting, they encouraged every church to [pray for] 10 specific villages or neighbourhoods [with] no church. Then, as restrictions loosened slightly, they were able to get into these regions. They estimate that churches adopted about 50,000 villages during lockdown, and 25 per cent now have an “opening” for the Gospel — some believers, a small house church, etc.” 

The evangelists are trained to convert economically and emotionally vulnerable people by exploiting their weakness in to increase their numbers. Their mission is to convert all non-Christians in India, mainly the Sanatan Dharma followers to Christianity.


According to the missionary group Reach All Nations, “RAN receives students from various parts of India for receiving theological education. Upon the completion of the training, they go back to their own communities. In collaboration with their local churches, they are placed in the mission field for church planting work. While they are in the field we support them in two ways. Helping them with monthly financial gifts until they are self-supported and providing ongoing biblical training in the field. Once a month we meet with them for a full day of prayer, fellowship, and teaching. We do this until the fledgling church is fully launched.”

As reported by Opindia , there are over 110 Evangelical organisations with a “Church Planting” mission in India. These organisations are highly organised with maps of area of operation and targets of conversions to be achieved and building new churches even where there are no Christians to spur conversion work.

The infamous Joshua Project, a missionary organisation which wants to keep a track of the ‘unfinished business’ by maintaining ethnological data of every community of India with detailed record of its population and occupation. The Joshua Project records also have details about the obstacles and blueprints to surmount these obstacles to complete their ‘unfinished business’ by converting the targeted population.

 

News input: Opindia. Image sourced from internet.

 

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