Mission field – Bethany Center
It is the place of surrounding all the tribal villages and churches with beautiful surrounding valleys and hills. If any body likes to have short mission trips to NEW LIFE ASSOCIATION, you are always welcome to visit our mission field, we need Nurses, teachers, bible preachers, computers, to help us at work.
Still a great storage of things in my mind to share with you of all these 35 years experience in the wilderness. But, I am slow in tongue and thoughts, to express, to bring on the paper to your hand. Please continue to pray as we occupy until Lord comes which is soon.
2004-Year end Statistics 1. New Villages Visited 35 2. New Converts 30 3. New Churches 3 4. New Missionaries 15 5. Saura Bibles Distributed 50 6. Major Gospel Outreach Campaigns 15 7. Open air Meetings 15 8. Youth Retreats 2 9. Leadership Aware Camps 3
2004 update Bethany Hospital: Celebrated its 1st anniversary on 29th November. It was arranged as thanks giving day with all the pastors, church leaders, other local Government officers and Dr. Divakaran was invited X-Director of Operation Mobilization, Secunderabad. And staff of the Hospital enacted one act play, “the operation on patient”. It was a blessed experience how the Lord blessed the Bethany Hospital with one Doctor, Nursing superintendent, with other Nurses, and ward boys, and Lab technician.
Throughout the year more than 1000 patients were benefited and treated. Three medical camps one special for women and children and special mega medical camp was held in November 11 to 18 in three interior tribal villages, more than 1000 patients were benefited.
Pray for the Bethany Hospital – Medical vision statement:
1. To be the recognized health care provider of choice through continuing relationships with the quality, dedicated staff and also with the visiting physicians. 2. To focus on caring service – oriented environment, HIV/AIDS patients need support for the rehabilitation programme. 3. Selected areas of rural community centers offering medical aid to the poor and needy, healthcare delivery system.
Present Activities : Conducting free medical camps and eye camps.
Community Health : Immunization
Future concern : 1.We would like to have few community health Centers.
2.HIV/AIDS care rehabilitation center.
Village Ministry: outreaching downtrodden communities : We had 15 outreaching meetings in the villages among these communities Saura, Jathavas, Mala, Madhiga, Rellis and backward communities Kalingi, Kapu, Orthodox Hindu Brahaman communities. There was good response among these communities and screened Jesus film in the villages after preaching the Gospel.
Three churches established: Among these communities. Still more work to be done in the Orissa boarder villages. Recently, the work extended to the Orissa villages.
New tribes visited : in the Orissa , Andhra boarder with our Gospel teams. They never heard the Gospel but this was the first time the good news of salvation, reconciliation and peace. Jesus film was shown, it was more effective in the hearts of the illiterate tribal people. They invited us again to visit them. But there was a fear of enemy not to be involved in the faith of Christianity.
New Converts: came to the Lord from the communities of Mala and Madhiga, untouchable casts in two villages newly gathering to worship the Lord in every Sunday. They don’t have any separate location for gathering, but they are gathering in a believers house varanda.
New Missionaries: 15 young men dedicated their lives to involve the outreaching ministries in the interior rural areas among the Saura, Valmaki, Gadhama communities. They are in the field.
Saura Bibles Distributed: there is scarcity of Bibles in Saura dialect, but it was so costly. So we have distributed the 50 Bibles to the poor Christian families, each family each one.
Youth retreats: meeting in our Cherith Bible school at K. Gummada to encourage the youth from different churches to involve the local church activities. So that the local church will be active in the extension of the work of God in the surrounding villages.
Christmas eve : We accomplished GOOD-TIDINGS programme in every village, that is Christmas celebrations presenting the loving story of birth of Jesus Christ to the villages by enacting the dramas in stage plays. This is the way we present the gospel messages of Jesus Christ through the cultural programmes, and also screening the Jesus film in the villages. It is a great joyful days. In every village people are thrown to gather to hear the good news of Lord Jesus Christ.