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Assisting Indigenous Ministries

VITAL TOOLS —
FOOD PACKAGES
FOR PESECUTED PASTORS IN INDIA

“Tell [the Israelites], ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning, you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God’ (Exodus 16:12a).

Understanding the importance

Most indigenous pastors in India share many traits with the lost men and women they seek to reach for the
Lord Jesus Christ. They speak the language. They know the customs. They live among the people. But
there’s something else they have in common: They come from humble beginnings and often live at or below
the poverty line. However, many native pastors also face daily persecution for preaching the Gospel.

These faithful servants struggle daily to make ends meet as they labor in God’s vineyard. And food for their
families is one of the most needed things they seek as they shepherd their flocks and bring the Good News
to those still living in spiritual darkness.

PROJECT GOAL

Project Cost : $60,000

We are seeking the funds to supply food rations each month ($100 per pastor) for the next two years for the
families of 25 native pastors with Love Your Neighbor Ministries. These pastors all suffer persecution at the
hands of violent Hindus. Some have been beaten by anti-Christian mobs. Some have been forced from their homes. And some have had their fellowship halls burned to the ground. They are in great need of food packages for their families. A month’s worth of food can be bought there for $100, and will include basics like:

• Atta (wheat flour used to make flatbread)
• Dal (lentils)
• Salt
• Sugar
• Tea
• Oil, and more

AIM International wants to step out in faith and assure these 25 pastors
and their families that we will raise the money needed to provide the food
packages to them each month. Sixteen persecuted pastors have already
been chosen for this program. One of the 25 selected pastors is Raj Singh,
the ministry’s volunteer leader in northern Madhya Pradesh and southern
Uttar Pradesh. He works among the Banjara people, a lower-class,
backward tribe. Some of the Banjara worship pigs. Others are illiterate
alcoholics. Still others refuse to do any work and spend their days begging
on the streets. Another group sells their young girls as prostitutes in the
cities.

“We thank God that Raj, along with other pastors, is sharing the Gospel
and love of Jesus Christ with [the people],” ministry leader Vihaan Gupta
reports. “Many of these people accepted Christ in the past few years. Their
children are going to school and young men are doing jobs. They are
establishing themselves when they know and experience the love of Jesus
Christ. They do not have any church buildings anywhere. But they meet in
small huts or tin sheds or any believer’s house every week for worship.”

The impact men like Raj are having is incalculable. That’s why we want to help by providing food packages to them each month!

Please pray for these pastors as they face persecution daily because of their faith in Christ! And also pray that we raise the needed funds to put food on their tables each month, thereby easing that burden for our fellow believers.

This project will impact God’s kingdom in India!

India: 95.6% of the population of India is considered unreached. That
amounts to a staggering 1.89 billion people who have not heard the gospel
yet. The largest religions are Hinduism (72.4%) and Islam (15.2%).