If you want to reach the lost, India has largest number of unreached people groups in the world. We have never heard of Christ. Over 1.2 billion souls or 17% of the world's population live in India. It is estimated that India will be the most populous country in the world by 2028. India is a country with rich history that spans over 5,000 years, yet it only gained its independence in 1947. India has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. but 24% of the population, or 276 million people, live below the poverty level. India is a birthplace of four of the world's major religions. The people are very devoted to their religion, but India is a country in great spiritual darkness. Of these 1.2 billion people, 75% are Hindus who worship thousands of gods and goddesses. Villages and cities have numerous temples for the worship of idols. Indians are very devoted to their religion, but their religion can never meet their needs for forgiveness of sin and salvation. Another 15% of the population is Muslim, who also live without hope of ever reaching the heaven they long for. Christians make up less than 5% of the population. However, Bible-believing Christians are less than 1% of the population. How will the multitudes respond to the gospel that they have never heard? How can so many be told of the good news of Christ before their souls are lost forever? Marian Baptist Bible College was established in 1956 to train Indian people to reach their own communities with the gospel of Christ. Bible College has over 5,500 graduates who are in full-time ministry. Over 700 churches have been planted by the graduates of Barium Baptist Bible College and Seminary. One of the greatest ways to build a church is to train pastors. Christians are hungry for the sound biblical teaching as they do not have commentaries and other biblical resources in their own languages. Pastors in India need your prayers and support. Often pastors will shepherd more than one church at a time, and many of these churches are poor and cannot meet the pastor's basic needs. The Bible College ministry supports 70 pastors who faithfully preach Christ in the midst of persecution and poverty. These pastors work very hard for so little. Another area of ministry is our work with children in our five children's homes and two schools. It costs $75 a month to provide education, housing, and the gospel to the underprivileged children. These children are shown the love of Christ and how Christ died for the forgiveness of their sins. Will you be part of this exciting time of sharing the light of the gospel in this dark world? There are many ways to help. Support a Bible college student for $150 a month. Support a child in the children's home for $75 a month. Support a pastor for $100 per month. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. We are the church, we're chosen by the Christ. We have the ingring of his cross upon our lives. The highest price was paid. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave The only one who has the strength to stand. The man's distinct proclaim is the power of His hand. We praise God. I want to thank the pastor for giving me this time to come and thank you and thank you for your prayers and for the support of the ministry of the Barium Baptist Bible College, which you'll have been doing, I think, more than 40 years. We have been supporting the ministry there, and you see how the Lord has blessed the ministry. Like the psalmist says, the Lord has done great things for us. We're off, we are glad, in Psalm 126.3. and we thank God for the great things God has done throughout the 65 years of the ministry of the Barium Baptist Bible College and that God continues to lead us and guide us and we do continue to pray for the ministry as we are facing a lot of challenges in these coming years. In the last few years, we faced quite a bit of challenges with the rise of Hinduism, where people want to, the politicians would like the nation to be a Hindu nation, and has brought a lot of restrictions on preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even though we are the largest democracy in the world, We still have a lot of restrictions and so I do pray that God will continue to give us the liberty that we'll be able to proclaim. the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to a needy world that needs salvation, needs to hear the gospel and come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Just this last month, my state of Karnataka, where the college is located, they passed an anti-conversion bill, a law, now that if we are convicted of forcing people to convert from Hinduism to Christianity, then we will be held liable and we could be in prison from three years to ten years without bail. And so these are some of the challenges we face in India. So I do pray for that, that God will continue to give us the courage, the boldness to keep continuing to preach the gospel. The laws may be there, but we still have to preach the gospel. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. And just pray that God will continue to give us the liberty since we have our constitution gives us that liberty that we can choose any religion but still The laws are being put in place that we are not supposed to convert people, but we tell people we don't convert. It's the Lord Jesus Christ who converts people. It's the Holy Spirit of God that brings people to conviction. And so these are the challenges we face in the land of India, and also the way that they're trying to control is to control the funding. And one of the things that they have put a lot of regulation on how we receive funds into the ministry. And there's a lot of paperwork that we have to do and they can stop funding at any time without any reasons why they stopped it. They don't have to give us any reasons. And so we face these challenges, how we can continue to run the ministry. But the Lord has kept the door open thus far. We know that when the Lord opens the door, no man can shut it. And when God shuts the door, no man can close it. And so we know, we trust God that this is His work. He has led us for 65 years in doing the ministry and establishing, training young men and women for the ministry, and what an impact the college has had, not only in India, but even in our neighboring countries of Nepal, Bhutan, Southeast Asia, some of our graduates are ministering even to people that are working in the Middle East that have gone from India. Many Christians are there. They have a little church services and some of them are ministering there for these people. So we thank God that we are able to train young men and women to take the gospel to their own people, to their own languages. India is a diverse country. Every state has its own language and culture, and so the only language that really is very common is English. Yes, Hindi is spoken by 40% of the people, not all of it, all of them. And so the last 60 is all of different languages and dialects. And so it's a challenge. But the Bible college, we teach in English. And so we're able to train many with the gospel and the word of God. And they go out and establish churches in their communities. So do pray. that God will enable us to continue. And so my burden was, how do we continue the ministry even if the foreign funding is stopped? How do we continue? We know it is the Lord's work, and he will continue. But the Lord laid on my heart. My father had started in 1958 a school in the vernacular language, which is the second most largest spoken language, Telugu. in the city of Hubli, where he grew up. And so the school was not doing very well, and we knew that education is very important. In India, we say, yeah, we have many gods and goddesses, but two main gods in India are money and education. That's the most important people give to is money and education. And so we said, why don't we felt burdened to change the vernacular school into an English medium school and that will generate funds and also will help the ministry because many, many people will pay for an education, Christian education, not Christian education, English speaking, and they like Christian schools. Many people like the Christian schools because we do teach and many of the schools do teach and have a good reputation of giving good education. So we felt this would be a way that we could continue the ministry. And so this year we began the school in English medium. And for the first year, we were surprised. We thought we may not get many students because it was in vernacular language. We were transitioning. We didn't know. The school also had a lot of problems. My father was in the court system. for 28 years because he was accused of conversions. And so they had to go to the courts and prove that it was not true, that we were just having our assembly as a Christian organization and we never forced any Hindu children to read the scriptures or any of that nature. But they would hear the gospel. of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so he had faced a lot of challenges, and the reputation was there of the school that it had problems. But when we transitioned, we saw how the Lord opened the doors. And now in the last, I think yesterday, the administrator sent me a note saying that for the first year, for the first two weeks of the school, we have 80 children. in the school. And so we thank God for that. So continue to pray for these schools. We have started another school in Bagalore, which is about 40 or 50 kilometers from where our campus is. So do pray for that ministry. Another school has been started. The principal there said we have about close to 38 students now. Some more are coming for admission. So we thank God that at least 40 to 50 students will be enrolled in this school. And most of the children, I was told, are from Hindu families. And so this is a great avenue for us to just plant the seed of the word of God, the gospel. and teach and reach the families. That's what our goal is, to reach the homes through the children, that we'll be able to reach homes and share the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ when the doors are being closed on evangelism and open air preaching that we used to be able to do, distribution of strikes. We can't do that anymore. And so God opened these two doors for us. We are behind, so I do pray for this need. The schools that we've been building, one of the schools is completed and I'm behind about $150,000 in payment. It cost us over $300,000, so we have paid all that amount, so $150,000 is remaining, and so we got some money towards that, about $50,000, so about $100,000 is remaining, and I know the Lord will bring that in. There's nothing impossible with God. All things are possible with Him. It's His work and He will provide. And so everything that we build and we do, we are all debt-free. We don't take loans. My father said, never take loans. You'll be paying interest for the rest of your life. It's the Lord's work. He will provide. And he will get the work done. And so most of it that has been done has everything is paid for as we are almost a debt free ministry. But I know this hundred thousand also we will clear by the end of this year. We know we'll be able to clear that debt. And the Lord worked with the engineers and the contractors that work with us. They're working and they said, you can pay us as you get the money. And so we're able to do that. So do pray for that need that God will enable us to. pay this off so that we'll be able to reach the people of India with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through education, through outreach ministries, and other things. One of the other things I want you all to pray for is our printing ministry. We had received a press, a big web press in the year 2000. and to print Bibles bearing precious seed. But things didn't work out the way it should have, but there were some problems with them, with the organizations that were working with us, and we were not able to print any Bibles for almost 22 years. We came to a point where we did not know what else to do because I'm not a printer, I've been in the ministry, I've been trained as a physician, that I work here in the United States as a medical doctor when I'm here and support my family and all the other extra money we put into the ministry that I make. And so we were wondering what to do. This was a big burden on us because it's very expensive machinery that we had, the binders and the binding machine and the printing machine, web press. So what to do? So we called a Christian printer to come and help us who had a business in Mumbai to sell the press. Because everybody that came and said, what are you going to do with it? I said, I'm not a printer, I don't have much help, and it costs a lot of money to print. The paper cost, the ink, the electricity, the labor. I said, we don't know what else to do, but they all said, why don't you sell this and invest in the schools and other things. Many of godly men who came and visited us. And so we were planning on selling the press, but God closed the door. And one of our friends, the evangelist, Dr. Verghese, he was with Gospel Literature of India. They had closed their ministry, and he said, Dr. Chelly, I was very grieved. and had tears in my heart because we were not able to print gospel literature for the people in India. Why don't we print? The machine came for Bibles. Let's pray. Let's ask God's wisdom and let us print the Bibles. Let's not sell the press. And the same thing, the printer also said, why don't we do that? I said, well, then you've got to help me with the printing. He said, you raise the money, I will help you with the printing, and let's move forward. Then I said, what about the copyright that the Bible Society says they have all the copyrights for all the languages in India? So he says, you don't worry about that, you start something with your graduates, you'll begin to work with it, and we will help you to get through all of those things. Dr. Verghese assured me that. So with that, we asked, I asked one of our graduates to work on a Telugu Bible and he did work on it and then by God's grace we were led to a born-again believer who was a linguist who had a very good knowledge of the Telugu language, the most spoken language, the language that my father and we had spoken at home. So we said we will do that. And so now we thank God that the Bible has been translated. We did a new Bible with more than the language that we speak today. They had used a lot of archaic words that were not understandable for common people. And so most of the Bibles that we'll print will be given to as free distribution for unbelievers of all people in India. And so pray for that. I know Brother Fitzsimmons visited us in the month of March in Bangalore. He was there. I know Brother John Conrad. We've been working. We've been building churches even in India with them with the Carpenters Project. And the Carpenters Project gave us $70,000 to print 7,000 Bibles. And so we are printing those Bibles now, so we'll have 7,000 Telugu Bibles for distribution. So do pray for that ministry. Then Dr. Keene, who was part of it in the beginning, now is excited that we are beginning to print the Bibles, he said, we'll be able to help you. In what way can we help you continue to print these Bibles again in the land of India? So I said, you can pray and help us to get paper. That is the most expensive cost. So do pray for this, that we'll be able to distribute the 7,000 Bibles, people ask me how you do that, I was told that one of our graduates said that in the state of Andhra Pradesh where this language is spoken for second most spoken language in India, they said in every county you have one graduate. who will be able to distribute these Bibles to people that need it. And so do pray for that, that God will enable us to get not only the Bibles, but also Christian books that will enable pastors and laymen to study the Word of God and to teach. And so these are some of the great needs we have. So do pray for them. I know I'm taking much time. Pastor is getting anxious here to come and preach. I won't take much of his time. And so do pray for us. Thank you for helping us through all these years, praying for us and faithfully supporting and that God is taking the work further. And we'd like to see God work a mighty way and pray for us as we continue our travels. And going back, we'll be starting our college this year in July 4th. We'll open the academic year for the Bible College to do pray for that and also pray for the future. The needs are We like to see a cancer center open. We see a lot of people with cancer and money dying because of poor treatment. I was trained as a physician. My burden is also to get people good care, health care, and also do some our way of reaching people with the cross. So we would like to start a hospital. Do pray for that. In the future, we are trying to do it in a year or two. So do pray for those needs and pray for the nation of India that people will turn to Christ. Thank you for all your prayers and support.