Foreword
Foreword
We all are skeptical of Christians with big dreams. We don't know why exactly—perhaps we have met too many who pursued visions but whose personal lives were nightmares.
The first time we remember meeting K.P. Yohannan we brought him home for dinner, and our family dragged this slight Indian along with us to a high school gymnasium to sit through an American rite of passage—an all-school spaghetti supper. Across the paper tablecloth, the garlic bread and the centerpieces—shellacked lunch sacks filled with an assortment of dried weeds and pasta (created by members of the Mains family!)—we heard of a dream to win not only India but all of Asia for Christ.
Since that evening in the noisy gymnasium in West Chicago, Illinois, there have been many more shared experiences—phone calls from Dallas; trips to the cities and backwaters of India; pastors' conferences in open thatched-roofed, bamboo-sided pavilions; laughter; travel on Two-Thirds World roads; and times of prayer.
Very simply said, we have come to believe in K.P.
And we believe in his plan for evangelization that, with the profundity of simplicity, bypasses the complexity of technology and challenges Asians to give up their lives to win their fellow countrymen to Christ.
This book, Revolution in World Missions, reveals one of God's master plans to reach the world before the end of time. With absolute confidence we know we can endorse the integrity of its author, a man of God, and we are thrilled with the work of Gospel for Asia.
You can read knowing that those evangelists traveling into the unreached villages of Asia have more heart, more fervor, more passion to spread the Gospel of Christ than most of us who are surrounded by the comforts and conveniences of our Western world.
We know because we have seen them and talked with them, and they have put us to shame.
Internationals are the new wave of the missionary effort. K.P. Yohannan's book paints the picture of how that dream is becoming reality.
This is one dreamer of whom we are no longer skeptical. We think you will find reason to believe as well.
David and Karen Mains