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Glad Tidings India provides financial and consulting support
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national-led ministries in India, primarily India Bible Literature |
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Glad Tidings India and India Bible Literature
share the Gospel through:
- Scriptures - seeking to place one million Bibles into the hands of Indians. Bibles are made available at an affordable cost and proceeds are reinvested into other ministry opportunities.
- Unreached People Groups - Transforming an entire Unreached People Group through Bible-Content Literacy courses, Church Planters, and Vacation Bible School.
- Church Planting - funds from the sale of Bibles train and equip national evangelists to establish
new churches throughout India.
- Empowering Women - setting women free from physical and spiritual bondage through the Gospel and literacy courses.
- Christian Education - supplying the curriculum and training of teachers to conduct Childrens' Bible Schools, reaching up to one million children per year.
- Literacy - providing training to churches and other agencies to conduct Bible content literacy classes for adults throughout India.
- Self-Support - assisting churches to become self-supporting by providing income generating enterprises.
- Used Bibles Used Mightily - Your old Bibles and Christian Books can help spread the Word of God in India.
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A donation of
$25 prints 8 Bibles and sends an adult to a Bible-Based Literacy course for 10 months!
A gift of $100/month over one year will print 400 Bibles and provide 6 sewing machines for village women so they can start a tailoring business and provide food for their children.
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- Proven Track Record rooted in Experience - Over 50 years experience in ministry in India through founder/missionary, Dr Bill Scott.
- Donations leveraged into Self-Sustaining Ministries - All donations used to purchase Bibles in 17 Indian
languages which are sold at affordable prices. Proceeds are reinvested in other ministries of India Bible Literature.
- Indigenous Strategy - India Bible Literature, founded and directed by Drs. William and Joyce Scott, is controlled and administered by Indians residing in India. Top 6 executives have each been with IBL 15-40 years, advancing from lower levels to leadership positions within the organization.
- Grassroots Directed - Funding requests originated by local churches, approved and prioritized by India
Bible Literature who also provides accountability within India for ensuring the proper usage of
all funds recieved.
- Low Overhead - Committed to Money for Ministries, not Organizations by maintaining a very
lean organizational structure in the United States.
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Why India?
- A country of one billion inhabitants, 80% of whom are Hindu, 13% Muslim, 2% Sikh, & 3% Christian.
- 310 Unreached People Groups having populations exceeding 100,000 with no evangelical church-planting strategy
in place to reach them with the Gospel (next highest country has 35 Unreached People Groups)*
- A secular democracy but with strong radical Hindu influences throughout the country.
- A land of contrast - economic strength and prosperity alongside great poverty; educationally strong
alongside a 62% official literacy rate and in actuality a much lower functional literacy rate.
- Dr Scott and his late wife, Dr. Joyce Scott, began ministry in India in 1950, eventually founding
an indigenous ministry in India - India Bible Literature, which last year distributed on average 52,000
pieces of Scripture per day.
- Hundreds of
Church Planters are waiting to be trained
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*'The World Priority of India', Mission Frontier Magazine, US Center for World Missions,Jan-Feb 2006 |
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