Literacy and Church Planting Projects based on Luke 19

Your congregation can experience a practical 12 week study of the parable in Luke 19:10-28
while changing dramatically the lives of people in India.

Luke 19 Project

• Based on Luke 19:10-28 - Parable of the pounds or minas -- Three servants were given a pound. One multiplied it 5 times, another multiplied it 10 times, and the third just hid the pound and didn't do anything.
• Launch the project - the pastor preaches a message on Luke 19 on a Sunday morning and gives everyone in the congregation (responsible teenagers and older) a $10 bill.
• Each person is challenged for the next 12 weeks to multiply their 'seed money' by using their own creative talents and abilities in their own personal lives.
• The goal is for each individual to multiply his or her 'pound' five or ten times just like the most faithful servants did.
• Pray that God will lead you what to do.
• Pray for God's blessing upon your endeavors.
• How many needy people in India will become literate, receive the Gospel, and have every dimension of their lives changed because of your activities during the next three months?

Significant features of the project are:

• It gets everyone in the church involved in doing something for missions at the same time. People care more deeply about missions because they have invested their own time and talents.
• It sets the stage where people can see God working in their own lives. It is important to believe the Bible and right doctrine, but what makes the Christian faith exciting is when people see God moving in their own personal lives. This occurs as folks pray and ask God to multiply through them the 'Seed Money' given out of Luke 19.
• It generates new money for missions and does not compete with out-of-pocket giving. In this project people are not asked to give their own money, but are challenged simply to multiply what has been given to them. Glad Tidings India supplies the 'Seed Money'.

Literacy Class.

Benefits of Luke 19 Literacy Project

• It personalizes missions. Every $25 generated will free a person in India from the bondage of illiteracy, poverty, and spiritual darkness, and will bring literacy, a Bible and a Bible course, health instruction, and basic self-support skills to a needy Indian and their family. When a church generates enough to sponsor 125 literacy students, they can be assigned a specific Literacy Project in India and receive a report at the end of the classes as to how the lives of people in those classes were changed.
• It provides a means by which your church can reach more people in the 10/40 Window, an area which contains some of the most spiritually neglected people in the world. The 10/40 Window is comprised of 3.2 billion people. This area contains 95% of the least evangelized people on Earth. 85% are the poorest of the world's poor. Of the 65 countries located in the 10/40 Window, India contains 1 billion of the 3.2 billion people living within the Window.
• Examples of Literacy projects.

Literacy Luke 19 Project Ideas

1. Buy seeds, plant a garden, and sell produce.
2. Teach computer skills.
3. Buy gas and provide transportation.
4. Give golf lessons.
5. Buy stain and refinish old furniture.
6. Baby-sit children.
7. Make and sell a quilt.
8. Repair household items.
9. Buy soap and wash cars.
10. Buy ingredients, make cookies and sell to friends and co-workers at office once a week.
11. Weed someone's flowers.
12. House cleaning.
13. Sewing repairs and alterations.
14. Buy ad for newspaper and hold a garage sale.
15. Offer personal skills - prepare tax forms, take blood pressure, tutor students, etc...
16. Make collection boxes, ask neighbors, coworkers, friends to donate spare change to change India.

Benefits of Luke 19 Church Planting Project

• Helps meet the critical need in India for the Word. Funds are first used to print Bibles in India at $3.00 per Bible. The costs of sponsoring a Church Planter (living subsistence, training costs, travel and Scripture materials) are provided through the funds received from making the Bibles available for a percentage of their printing cost which guarantees they will be valued and used and not simply taken for free and sold for the waste paper value.
• It personalizes missions. Every 1,200 Bibles printed ($3,600) makes it possible for a Church Planter to be trained and equipped to go into a village where today there is no Christian church and endeavor to plant a church in that village. The church providing the Bibles receives a photo of their Church Planter as well as information about the area in India where they are working. Periodic reports are received during the first year indicating number of decisions for Christ, number of persons baptized, nucleus house churches started, etc.
• Examples of Church Planting projects.

Ask God to lead you.

Ask God to bless what you are led to do.

Enjoy this spiritual adventure.