India is one of the most populated countries in the world, numbering over 1.2 billion people. Out of all these people, only 5.8% are Christians. 74% are Hindu and 14% are Muslim. Besides the caste-system discrimination still persisting, religious freedom has recently come under threat. Poverty touches hundreds of millions of people in India. Extremist Hindus are dangerous in India; they have gained strong political power and have begun promoting revisionist history. Their motto is "India is Hindu only." Christianity is, however, growing though it is unequally spread.

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Diku and his wife live and work in Nepal where few churches exist and their influence is so important. They are involved in church planting, education and orphans who need some where to live. His family also operate a Christian school 
where many of the local families are touched by the Gospel. He and his family live in India but have multiple ministries in neighboring Nepal. Diku operates and maintains a Christian school in Nepal.  He also does various evangelistic outreaches and discipleship throughout the country.

Dr. Enoch, elder "statesman," has national influence and respect in India as the former director of Gospel Recordings and on the Board of Directors for "Back to the Bible" broadcasts.  He is now on the board of the Bible Society of India.  With a wonderful family team (wife, daughter Nancy, and son-in-law) they have recently developed a new orphanage and ministry base to reach out to unreached villages of central India. H.I.M. has been involved this year with helping to provide meals, clothing, teaching materials, Bibles and worship instruments to this girls’ ministry.  Funds were also given to build a security gate around the orphanage property. We connect college students as "interns" with this ministry for the past three years.

Lawrence, with wife PremLata, is very seasoned and zealous evangelist/church planter working in the Bihar state (now Jharkhand) and areas of India known as the 'graveyard of missionaries'.  Living in mud huts himself for half of his life,
Lawrence is passionate for the poor and spiritually destitute.  His ability to network and promote Christian programs and workers through out North India and into areas of Nepal make him a key partner with HIM and the work in India.  His
wife and three sons all assist as a powerful music, teaching and hospitality team.

P.K. is actively involved in church services, visiting slum churches, providing outreach to rural villages, revival meetings, maintaining church property and providing livelihood ministry opportunities for local women. For example, a women’s sewing ministry was started with Expand the Heartland money. He is located near the center of India where he reaches many unreached areas. He also oversees a Bible School that trains new leaders each year.

Prasad and Susan G. are natives of S. India and presently reside in Houston, TX.  They have developed and oversee a dynamic and expanding  ministry throughout India.  They have founded a wonderful boys orphanage  and are in the
midst of a construction project to house at least 100 orphans in  the future. They also direct church planting projects, pastors, and a new  Bible school producing strong disciples.  Each year they lead missions  trips with believers from the USA to India.  Prasad has also ministered to  churches in Central American. Prasad is involved in  overseeing a growing ministry in India. He has 24 field staff and 8  mission centers-- including a new mission center near Delhi and a recent  purchase of land with ETH funds for another. He also runs a Bible  school, a reading program, an afterschool children’s program, and an  orphanage that houses 40 children. God is blessing this ministry in so  many ways. H.I.M. is involved in helping fund and maintain these  programs along with growing mission out reaches. Prasad and Susan have  been married for over 25 years and continue to be faithful servants.

Ramayon has been traveling extensively participating in prayer campaigns, preaching in numerous churches and teaching in many areas including New Delhi. With ETH funds they have been able to complete their home allowing Ramayon and Rimis to open the hostel to house village students this semester.  They are regularly working to maintain and manage the Shalom House Ministry Center and are working hard to fully utilize this facility.  They use this building to make connections within their community by hosting community meetings, Sunday school, training programs, leadership seminars and regularly practicing hospitality.  Ramayon* India-Ramayon and Rimis, his wife, have three beautiful daughters.  He oversees and leads hundreds of churches in Northeast India.  Ramayon completed his Masters Degree in the USA and is continuing studies for a Doctorate as he develops leaders in India.  One of their primary projects is to build and establish a Christian hostel for young girls separated from their village families.

Reji and family have planted a growing church in the middle of  New  Delhi. Recently, he was attacked by local thugs but remains strong in his public witness and ministries. He has hosted HIM staff and often ministers in village areas where there are no believers. Pastor Reji has ministry outreaches in Delhi and helps Prasad in his other India outreaches and programs throughout India.

Richard and his family (wife Iris) has been partnering with Fred Kornis (HIM) in pioneer church planting in unreached villages of North India for 20 years.  His widowed mother, Malti, was also one of our "PALS" leading and developing discipleship programs for women until she recently went to be with the Lord unexpectantly.  In a very primitive village area over 30 leaders have been trained, prepared, and mobilized to reach a native area of 300 villages speaking a unique native dialect. Rev. Richard maintains and preaches in his local church.  He is also involved in many outreach projects to rural villages and unrerached people groups.  These often include distribution of food, clothing, shoes and books.  He travels to these various regions, preaching and teaching and translating into the local tribal languages. His wife now helps to head up the women’s training.

Samuel is a godly man with a great vision and call to develop disciples, churches and schools in the middle of India.  His Bible school has already graduated two classes and is ready to build on their own property as God provides. Samuel also does village outreach. He is one of the key hosts to help Prasad with visiting teams.

Theo S. and his wife oversee a powerful training and outreach program, both in India and Burma. A graduate of the Masters Seminary and powerful expository preacher, Theo has developed a specialized training Center that is sending out  grounded and gifted leaders into some very dangerous and unreached areas. One of his graduates (Enu) was killed by radicals as he was sharing and translating Scripture in remote villages. We want to see an annual “Enu scholarship”
established to help encourage future students training for church-planting ministries in these hard areas.