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<\/a>By birth, Prabhu Das was a dalit<\/em>, which literally means broken<\/em> or oppressed<\/em>. Indian society labels these millions the untouchables<\/em>, as they are in the caste lower than any other. Growing up poor, Prabhu did not realize anything was wrong until he went to school and found that no one would play with him, sit with him, or talk to him. \u201cWhy?\u201d he asked his parents. Then he learned of his unfortunate position in life \u2013 a position with no hope or future.<\/p>\nRather than just accept his lot, when Prabhu was a teenager, he left home and connected to a criminal organization. As he successfully fulfilled his assigned crimes of theft and violence, he built quite a reputation for himself as one to be feared.<\/p>\n
Then he encountered Jesus. A bold believer planted the truth of the Gospel; then the Good Shepherd made Himself so evident that Prabhu repented of his sins, gave his life to Christ, and turned himself into authorities asking for mercy for his crimes.<\/p>\n
Prabhu found mercy\u2026 from God and from man. Now married with two children, he lives in Hydrabad and is a regional director for Mission India. Prabhu has been saved and has been given a ministry to reach the lost. His passion now is to bring the Muslims of his nation to Christ. Prabhu works relentlessly with the \u2018joy of the Lord\u2019 as his strength.<\/p>\n
One of Mission India\u2019s effective works involves daily Bible Clubs that help children with their schoolwork while also teaching them about Jesus. Hundreds of thousands of parents have found Christ because their children have come home from Bible Clubs talking about the One who gave His life for us. When parents see positive change in their children, and then learn that Jesus is the reason, they often want to know more. This past year, Mission India has counted over 4000 churches that have been planted because of people coming to Christ through Bible Clubs.<\/p>\n
Susan and I watched a video of a young man eagerly sharing of his \u2018privilege\u2019 to serve the Lord by teaching and loving children. After finishing work at 5:30, he drives over an hour through city congestion to reach the Bible Club’s 50-60 waiting children. For an hour and a half, he works with the children, encourages them in their education, sings Christian songs, plays games, and tells everyone about Jesus. He then drives an hour to his apartment and gets the rest he needs for an early rise for the next day\u2019s work. The amazing part of this young man\u2019s ministry is that he gladly follows this schedule five days a week, fifty-two weeks of the year.<\/p>\n
Currently Mission India has over 105,000 Christians waiting to be trained to be a Bible Club Leader in their own village or community. It is as if a new believer says: \u201cI have found true life in Jesus! There are 1.2 billion people in my country, most of whom have never heard the Gospel. Everyone needs to know the truth! Here I am, Lord; send me!!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSince we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others\u2026 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself in Christ, not holding men\u2019s sins against them. And He has committed to us the ministry of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ\u2019s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ\u2019s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. As God\u2019s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God\u2019s grace in vain. For He says, \u2018In the time of my favor I heard you, in the day of salvation I helped you.\u2019 I tell you, now is the time of God\u2019s favor, now is the day of salvation.\u201d (II Corinthians 5:11, 5:16-6:2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIn the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. For the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perseverence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}