Restoration and Progress
We have seen the power of Gospel to change and restore the people from the darkness of evil to light of the Lord. Now there is a great joy and hope in their eyes where once there was despair. Every day new souls are coming to join to the local churches and the Gospel teams are preaching the interior villages, in spite of all the challenges of enemy. Much land to be occupied and labourers are few, the need is great.
Church in the wilderness
To achieve this task to be more progressively six out reaches are being used. 1. Cherith Bible School: Trains tribal youth for 2 months teaching for basic principles of salvation and send them out to evangelize their own communities. 2. Illiteracy runs high among these groups so NLA conducts adult education centers and elementary schools for children. NLA desires every one to be able to read Bible in their own dialect.
So we have transliteration work New Testament into Telugu language, as the Saura dialect is in Roman Script. 3. Polygamy is in practice among the tribals, so orphans run rampant to meet the desolate cry of the children, we started Mercy Children Home. Now it runs with 20 children. 4. Introducing medicine to the Saura, traditionally they never used medicine but they use sorcery whichcraft to heal sickness. NLA could not tolerate the needless deaths and began mobile medical clinics village to village also at weekly market centers. Many lives have been spared. Now Lord opened the way to establish 10 Bed Bethany Hospital, in the vicinity of hills. It is a great consolation for the suffering church in the hills. 5. Illiterate tirbals can easily understand visual gospel preaching and much effective evangelism is done through films. Thus the ministry is designed for the extension of His kingdom to the glory of the Lord.