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INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER (ICMC): TRAIN A NATIONAL CHURCH PLANTER |
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There are 60,000 villages in India that do not have any Christian witness. There are millions who have never heard the Gospel not even once in their lives. The people are responsive to the Gospel. We believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved. We must train nationals to reach them. ICMC established the Timothy School, to train men and women to return to their tribes and villages and make disciples of Jesus through planting churches. ICMC has trained over 1,400 pastors. Please pray for the many pastors trained and sent back to Orissa state. In 2008 there have been many houses and churches burned to the ground. ICMC conducted the All India Pastors Seminar (Church Planting Conference) for 7 years, with thousands of village pastors praising God each time, and ICMC gifting 1,000 bicycles and musical instruments to poor village pastors each year. The last conference was held in October 2007. TIMOTHY SCHOOL FAQ What is the Timothy School? It is a one year, hands-on training program for future national church planters. The church planting concept is a grass-roots, practical and cyclical approach. Train, Send and Mentor. Pastors from village churches recommend students for training. The graduates go back to the unreached villages and plant churches. ICMC teachers mentor and visit them in the summers. The goal is multiplying churches who disciple future leaders to send back to ICMC for training. Paul training Timothy. ICMC provides curriculum, food and accommodations. Students live at ICMC for 10 months round-the-clock with hands-on practical ministry in surrounding villages. How much does it cost to support a student? It costs $1 a day to train a church planter for one year at the Timothy School. $30 per month for 12 months. Where do the students come from? Most students come as referrals from pastors and church planters in tribal village areas. The goal is that they will return to their own tribal village area to plant churches. Some go on to get a Bible degree and then plant churches. Potential students are screened during the application process, with a goal of determining if God has placed a call to missions on their life. What does the students day look like? Practical training in surrounding villages, continual Bible study and prayer (beginning at 5am daily), work detail, lectures, and day to day mentoring by teachers who live with the students are key components. Where is the school? It is located at ICMC's remote Promised Land property. The Timothy School trains 100 to 200 church planters per year at the Promised Land that houses the students and teachers. Five church buildings with land at Mt Zion and Udiapatti and elsewhere, twenty village churches, and fifty preaching points within driving distance are used for practical application of the students. Who are the teachers?
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teachers are qualified men of God who are from the specific
states from which groups of students come. The teachers travel in
the summer recruiting from their home states and churches and visiting
church planters to encourage and mentor. They live at the Promised
Land during the school year with the students acting as a Paul mentor to
a young Timothy in the book of Acts. |
RANJITA
"Because
of paralysis, I could not move my leg and hand. I had a pool of sorrow
in my heart..."
"I knew that God could do mighty things through me, but not how..."
SASI
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"Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name o the Father and of the Son and of the holy Spirit, 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 28:19,20 |
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India has over 1 billion people, the 2nd largest population next to China with only 3
percent Christians. India is closed to foreign missionaries.
India can be reached only by nationals.
