DAPHNE RADEMAKER - SERVING YOU - TO LIVE IS CHRIST = GFA

Daphne Rademaker with 'Serving You' with scenes from the movie 'Call To Harvest' produced by Gospel For Asia Mission, http://www.gfa.org/video-joseph.

MinistryWatch.com's Take
May 2004
By Dan Wray

"Some Have Not the Knowledge of God"
"2.7 billion people of our generation are still unreached with the Gospel. What answers are we prepared to give to the living God when He asks about the blood of these multitudes on our hands?" With this stark assessment, Gospel For Asia's (GfA) K. P. Yohannan makes personal a call to the harvest, an entreaty to traverse a bridge with the Gospel, from western preoccupation with transient pursuits to lost multitudes of Asians who are still unevangelized. GfA's mission, expressed on the ministry website, is "to reach the unreached of Asia with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and fulfill the Great Commission through recruiting, training, sending and assisting qualified laborers to win the lost and plant local churches in partnership with the body of Christ." GfA's principal efforts involve discipleship of native workers within the 10/40 Window to take the Gospel to their own people without language impediment or cultural distraction. In addition to the very obvious reasons, GfA expresses the estimated cost effectiveness of such a method by a factor of 40:1, a point not easily ignored in a day in which costs are rising and charitable contributions have reportedly dwindled.

Making disciples
GfA reports the establishment of 133 Bible schools throughout India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, with a collective enrollment of approximately 7,000 and 98 percent of graduates ministering in places where the Gospel is unknown heretofore. This places average individual enrollment in excess of 50 students per school, small by Western standards, yet admittedly too large to be considered merely home Bible studies. In addition, GfA estimates that collective church planting efforts result in an average of 12 New Testament fellowships being started daily. One wonders what western schools achieve a 98 percent graduation rate, and how many are able to accurately report this kind of success in church planting. GfA reports an astonishing 21,000 churches or mission stations inaugurated to date, using an indigenous model -- self governing, self supporting and self propagating -- in areas where no church had existed previously.

10/40 Window
Emphasizing evangelism in the 10/40 Window -- a rectangular area extending from West Africa to East Asia, from 10 degrees north to 40 degrees north of the equator, home to the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists -- GfA's Bible Society is sponsoring an effort to place a copy of the Bible with every family in this high density unevangelized region. In India alone, more than 300 million Dalits -- "untouchables" according to India's historic caste system -- are hungering for the hope embodied in the Gospel.

GfA appeals to its support base for special funding to underwrite specific church building projects in areas of the 10/40 Window where land and building costs are prohibitive for the nationals. GfA's printing presses are producing nearly 50 million tracts, booklets and other items of Christian literature annually. Finally, GfA has developed a comprehensive schedule of radio programming to penetrate the airwaves of the 10/40 Window, reaching millions who would otherwise have little or no chance of ever hearing the Gospel. The observation of the Lord Jesus during His earthly ministry is an ongoing reality. The harvest has never been more plentiful than in the 10/40 Window today, where an estimated 80,000 die daily without knowledge of the Gospel. In India alone, GfA estimates there are 500,000 village settlements where the Gospel has never been preached. As in the days of Christ's ministry, laborers are still wanting.

GfA in the marketplace
It has always been GfA's practice to send 100 per cent of financial donations directly to the support of its missionaries -- presently reported to be 13,500 -- withholding nothing for administrative costs or overhead. Administrative and homeland staff is responsible to raise their own support with GfA providing training in the establishment of a support constituency. GfA sometimes hires salaried personnel in rare cases, presumably to attract qualified applicants for specialized skill positions.

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[nonew3]

One star because I am a former GFA missionary supporter, and I experienced firsthand the way GFA treats missionary supporters who become violently chronically ill and poor. It was very eye-opening, and they are one of the reasons why I quit Christian churches and the vast majority of Christian organizations for good. I am now a Messianic, in part because of GFA and KP Yohannan.

[mytreasure777]

I praise the life of total dedication of these brothers having to live from such poor donations as from us. I appreciate the efforts of this extraordinary man KP Yohannan trying to make us - the 'rich family'- to give what belongs to God back to God, to the mission fields, sometimes even using hard words of rebuke in an attempt to awaken us up. Isn't that we so often give so much to Caesar?...

[nonew3]

If they are so good like you say they are, then why don't they apologize to me for how they treated me when I was very sick?

[mytreasure777]

May the Lord heal your wounds dear brother and take out the bitterness from your heart. When you work in such hursh environment with so little to live from your language or behaviour might become very rude. Looking at the language of apostles you might say that is not very polite and sweety which so many times hides the hypocrisy. I bet the Pharisees had excellent manners and rich vocabulary. Pharisees would always respond to your emails very politely, maybe not so often the apostles...

[daughtersofzion03]

Would it be possible to upload "resting place" sung by Daphne as well? thanks.

[sarit010566]

The True faith is trough YESHUA by the TORAH! As HE came to TEACH ' I didn't came to change the law, but to fullfill it'..and also he said: "The FATHER is looking for a servants to WORSHIP HIM in SPIRIT AND TRUTH!!! There is NO RELEGION with GOD!! only PURE FAITH !! because THE ONLY GOD IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL!! HE IS MADE OF SPIRIT!

HE has NO IMAGE!! NO FORM!! ONLY SPIRIT!! and YESHUA came in flesh TO WORSHIP THE ONLY TRUE GOD!! IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH!! 'WHO EVER HAS THE EARS, LET HIM HEAR' !!!

[rlpDean]

beautiful song

[EveningsGlory]

an ever growing list of blocked users eh? hmm

[EveningsGlory]

Quite frankly, a Christian is someone who follows Jesus example, and loves others unconditionally and puts serving others at their top priority list. Sooooo many people don't understand that, and they don't understand what true Christianity is about. I pray you will one day experience what that is like.

[nonew3]

I even wonder if the people who did not treat me well at GFA, might not be true Christians either.

[EveningsGlory]

the truth of the matter is so many people call themselves christians but dont have a clue what it means.

Sorry to hear your experience was not good.

[nonew3]

Excuse me?!  I AM doing things for others! You are now blocked. Congratulations! You are now on my ever-growing list of blocked users! And, note this: NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN, javimendo123. Now, excuse me while I return to studying law books, Braille, and ASL, and GOOD BYE. LEAVE ME ALONE.

[javimendo123]

What are sorry state you are in... it's all about you. There are people who are in worse situations and have a positive look on life. All you can talk about is how YOU should be treated; quit being so pathetic and do something good for others. Get a life and get on with it. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

-Mark Twain -