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Our Work.
We've created this page in an effort to give you a broad overview of our work. Follow links and explore photos to get a better taste of the various outreach efforts being undertaken by Peace Gospel.
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Dairy Farm.
Our dairy farm acts as a self-funding fuel cell for our outreach
programs listed below. We have big plans for several more dairy farms,
strategically placed to fund orphanages and slum outreach programs. The
dairy farm concept allows our native staff the ability to take ownership
in their work instead of waiting on handouts from the West.
• learn more about the dairy farm
• photos
• sponsor a buffalo
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Orphanage.
In 1996 Peace Gospel opened The Hadassah Orphanage with nine children.
Now the home includes over 30 children who have been rescued from trash
heap scavenging or a life of hopelessness on the streets. Thanks to a
new facility completed in 2006, capacity at the orphanage is now
available to bring in several more children. Through the work of our
ministry, these precious children are provided a loving home where Jesus
is the centerpiece of their education and physical well being. The
orphanage offers everything the children need to enter society as adults
equipped for an abundant life in Christ. With the growth of our dairy farm
concept fueling the way, we are prayerfully considering plans to open 10
new orphanages by 2010.
• sponsor an orphan
• photos
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Widow's Sewing School.
A cornerstone of our ministry has been outreach to impoverished widows
in the urban slums. In our early years this came in the form of physical
assistance, but in 2005 we launched a sewing school to help widows learn
the seamstress trade. After taking them through a 3 month course we then
equip them with a sewing machine and basic supplies. This allows them
to start a business and provide for their family in their husband's
absence.
• sponsor a widow's sewing business
• photos
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Slum Outreach: Clean Water Delivery.
Over 22% of India's urban population consists of slum dwellers-- those
who live in make-shift homes and get by on less than $1 per day. This
makes India home to the largest slum population on the planet, with over
60 million slum residents. Thus a large portion of our ministry is
focused on slum outreach.
According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1,600 children die
every day in India due to diseases caused by contaminated water. Peace
Gospel is laboring to deliver clean water to those living in the slums,
where water contamination problems are rampant. Providing clean water
for the poor creates economic opportunity because they can focus on
getting back to work rather than spending so much time looking for
water.
• photos
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Slum Outreach: Child Immunizations.
Peace Gospel missionaries are working in conjunction with local
governments to provide Polio Eradication centers. Often thought to be
already eradicated, Polio is still a great risk in countries like India,
especially in their thousands of remote villages. In addition to our
fight against Polio, we are currently developing a Typhoid Fever
vaccination program.
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Slum Outreach: Education Development among Dalits.
In 2005 we developed a program to reach out to the children of the
socially oppressed Dalits, or untouchables, who are considered unworthy of
education in Hindu culture. We have equipped our native missionaries to
launch three Dalit Schools that are now educating children who would
have otherwise never had the opportunity. Most recently we have launched a larger
flagship school with 80 children in attendance.
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Making Disciples: Native Missionary/Pastor Training.
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." Indeed
there is much work to be done in South Asia, but a dire lack of
laborers. At the Peace Gospel Bible College in South India, we are
training and sending out native missionaries & pastors to bring the hope of the
Gospel to their communities.
• sponsor a native pastor
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Making Disciples: Church Planting & Support.
An integral part of our mission since our founding in 1993, church
planting and ongoing support of pastors has resulted in the creation of
42 new congregations. Many of these are in "unreached" areas where the
teachings of Jesus Christ had never before been uttered. Most of these
congregations meet in homes or outdoors. We've had the blessing of
constructing some church buildings to better facilitate their
gatherings, and hope to build more as funds permit.
• sponsor a church building and its supporting orchard
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Blessing the Church: Bible Study Distribution.
In 2005 we partnered with Kardo International Ministries to coordinate
the translation and printing of their Bible Study "Wisdom for Mothers"
into the Telugu Language. The printing is already seeing high
circulation. This is the first women's Bible Study of any kind that has
been translated into Telugu. With 80 million speakers, it's the 11th
most widely spoken language in the world. One might think that resources
abound for the Church in such a major language, however literature is
surprisingly scarce. We've rejoiced in how this study has been very well
received by Christians and non-Christians alike, and is offering mothers
practical and spiritual wisdom from God's Word.
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Blessing the Church: Music.
In 1999 funds were provided for some of our native missionaries to
produce their own recording of Christian worship music in the Telugu
language. These are all original songs written by Telugu speakers. This
has been a great blessing for the Body of Christ among the Telugus, as
there are not many recorded native-written worship songs in Telugu.
• read more and download the MP3s
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