Funding for Youth Inter-faith initiatives
April 16, 2008 in Life
It is a crucial topic: How can young people from different faith traditions and start to understand each other better. The United Nations – usually not very strong on religious issues – want to support this and have formed an “Alliance of Civilizations”. I am really glad that they have also a youth component. Currently, they call for applications for youth inter-faith projects. Deadline is already 30 June. So hurry and read more on the next page…
The deadline for submitting applications for the Alliance of Civilizations Youth Solidarity Fund is 30 April, 2008.
Contact for Application Pack: pavlyuchenko@un.org
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Alliance of Civilizations Mission Statement & Website
| Alliance of Civilizations Youth Solidarity Fund |
| To support youth-led initiatives that promote long-term constructive relationships between young people from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, the Alliance of Civilizations last month launched a Youth Solidarity Fund.
The Fund will provide seed funding in amounts up to 20,000 USD to a very small number of outstanding youth-led projects in the following areas:
The Alliance of Civilizations places great emphasis on funding projects that have long-term outcomes and that connect youth from previously unconnected communities with a view to overcoming perceived or real cultural and religious divides. 2008 constitutes the pilot phase of this initiative and we have limited funds available. Due to an extremely positive response to the call for applications, we advice organizations who consider applying for funds to carefully consider the criteria for applications and what ‘added value’ their project will have in terms of overcoming divides and creating spaces for dialogue where such dialogue is really needed to overcome conflict or tensions. The AoC will only fund projects that are entirely managed by youth for the benefit of youth. The age definition used by the AoC is persons between 18 and 30 years old. Youth organizations are subject to the same criteria as other partners of the UN system in that they must be accountable and transparent and refrain from all discriminatory practices. The following general eligibility criteria apply for all youth organizations that seek funding from the Youth Fund. (Upon request, organizations should be able to provide documentary evidence of how they fulfill these criteria).
The call for applications is now open! . The Alliance of Civilizations Secretariat is managing the Fund and is working with partners and a youth advisory committee to ensure youth participation in the selection of projects for funding. The AoC will strive to ensure a geographic and thematic balance among selected projects. The deadline for submitting applications is 30 April, 2008. Successful applicants will be notified in June 2008
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I would like to encourage my fellow Lutheran youth that this is a chance to live out our faith by doing some practical thing that is affecting poeple in our societies.
Think about the challenges of Climate change, now even becoming deadly as most poor poeple will experience extreme poverty due to the skyscrapping food price rises.
Children will be denied their chance into schools because they are malnourished, too weak to get there, have to join the adults club in search for daily bread.
The girlchild once again will be exploited as she will have no choice for survival making grave dangers for contracting HIV/AIDS. Projects like food gardening can be one thing people would try on as it might be helping teach some sustainable farming technics as well be a source of food especially to our local vulnerables. Just a suggestion but please unfold those golden energies that we make something for humanity with God’s help.
Rolita, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zambia.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Hope all is well there with health and work? Please, we Requesting for partnership with your organisation.Below is some info about our organisation. Description of the organisation: Amboh Young Farmers Common Initiative Group (AMYOFACIG) is a civil society organisation which is Non-Governmental (NGO) apolitical, and non-discriminatory. It is a not for profit-making organisation with the vision of uplifting the living standards in rural areas and curbing rural exodus in the South West province of Cameroon by educating the rural population and empowering women groups. We emphasize the rational and sustainable use of natural resources to help increase living standards. A fight to achieve the millennium Development Goal – AMYOFACIG was formed in September 2005 with the aim of planning and realisation of rural development projects with youths and women concerned using a joint participatory approach. Our programmes could be in any of the following areas: Agro-veterinary, Human Rights and environmental Development: 1 Promotes tree planting for the protection of the environment 2 Sustainable farming systems 3 Rehabilitation and extension of tree crops farms. 4 Animal health and drugs. 5 Farm management in rural areas and marginal lands. 6 To rear both domestic animals and birds. 7 Safe use of agro-chemical especially pesticides. 8 Encourage the planting of useful local species of fruits trees in rural areas. 9 Supply information and generate public opinion on how the youth or rural groups can develop their skills. 10 We talk about their interest and what they can achieve by cooperating nationally, and internationally viable links. To meet up with our mission and vision, we have in the past, carried out the following activities. Waiting to hear from you. Regards
Tandong Calistus Jong
S.G.AMYOFACIG
BUEA-CAMEROON
00237 77497040
I realy need a financial support for our small seminary; to run the operational and fasilitation of the learning process. would you help me.
thanks. Gbu
I mean my fellow in Jakarta, STT Gratia is located in bekasi, up town jakarta. thaks
GOSPEL and SOCIAL SERVICES
ACCORDING TO BIBLE: St.Matthew: 25:34-40
KANURU – 534329, WEST GODAVARI
DISTRICT, ANDRA PRADESH, SOUTH
INDIA
E-MAIL:b.babyraj @yahoo.com
syam.vijay@yahoomail.com
Phone numbers: 00918819225799
Cell phone: 009989608711
Rev.Dr.B.J.EMMANUEL RAJU, B.Th., M.Div, DD
Preparing Soldiers for Christ
Praise God for the Wonderful testimony of my dream mission for the preparation of soldiers for Christ. I have gotten an opportunity by the Grace of God to strive to know, follow, initiate and belong to Jesus Christ in a very deep and special way made available to a lay person. It has been raised up by Holy Spirit to answer the needs of our times and to evangelize our secular society to reach out to hundreds of uncharted people and fallen away faithful and to teach faithful how to live out and deepen their lives in Christianity in the remote tribal villages. They find their strength and energy in a life of prayer centered on the faith.
Please let me introduce myself. I am Rev.Dr.B.JOHN Emmanuel Raju, D.D. I am 44 years old. I am doing the Jesus Christ Service for the past 20 years. We have visited 15 surrounding villages regularly to lead the people towards Jesus Christ by my Gospel. On this occasion, I am distributing Gospel Tracks, new Testaments and other material of biblical subject to the people of these villages. In order to achieve these objectives, I used to visit door to door and praying for their illness and help the poor widows, orphans by providing food, shelter, clothing, medicines and financial support for their essential needs like medical treatment, education etc.
On my personnel prayers, I always remember “O my Jesus, you have said, “Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you” (Mt 7:7)
We are using our profession, education, talents and skills in the mission to serve the poor and needy. By the grace of god, I have been in this mission for over 21 years and I am very grateful to god for allowing me to be little part of his great work. Without rendering such a service people might otherwise be condemn to their state of poverty. The poor around us desperately need our service to educate, care for and lift them up from their state and teach them how to improve their quality of life and standard of living. We educate people how to make good use of resources and foods available them. We are also providing first aid in the field of health care. So many people are sick and fear going to hospitals for a variety of reasons. People are just suffering the disease and dying unnecessarily. People are afraid to open about their ailments, but when they know we are a missionary to release them and they easily open up bout their problems which are most of the time easily solvable. When remote tribal people go to hospital, the doctors are typically rough and uncompassionate with the patients. It seems they are only concerned about the money. Many times, if don’t pay upfront, no matter how bad of shape you are in, they won’t treat you.
I know people who have died because they didn’t have the funds to pay the Doctor for a life threatening surgery; we make an arrangement to provide a doctor who is a member of my mission. He takes his time and is patient with them. He also helped many people get through and recover from simple as well as serious illness.
Dear brothers and sisters, Praise the Lord. This is my service and Gospel, Social work to my surrounding village people.
In the Service of the poor and remote tribal area’s children, we are conducting regular weekly Sunday schools and medical camps, food, clothing, education etc. We are making them as good citizens of this country. Around 50 children are getting our services in orphanage home.
As on today, we have an enormous response from the village people who were massively converted to Christianity and they stand for Jesus Christ. They were participating our regular weekly masses with dedication and full faith. Here presently around 100 or above member in each church are running in 15 different remote villages with 24 churches. Each church is running with one poor Pastor who is also dedicatedly working beyond their capacity. Some of the churches does not have permanent buildings also. But still our pastors are actively conducting their regular weekly masses.
Church Members gathered under the Tree for conducting Weekly Sunday Mass
Now we have started an innovative programmed to service the old age people and widow in our churches and their neighboring areas. In these programs we are supplying food, cloths, and medicines regularly and also preparing them for gospel by door to door campaign for conducting prayers and lead the new souls toward Jesus. Pray for us as we are going to construct a shelter for them to improve their services and make this program success.
Please help for construction of bible collage or children home. These are the details GIVEN below
We are also conducting bible classes & collages for the youth to make them confident to become a preacher. The total members of youth in my service and in ministry are 250 above for the youth to make them confident to become a preacher. Kindly pray for this effort as we are struggling hard for procuring books, bible material and various Gospel books and other stationary. We also are planning to provide a shelter for them. So that this programmed may take in large scale and also planning to expand our mission beyond our present remote villages. We have also delegate a responsibility to the youth who are well trained with us, to the remote villages still nobody knows about Jesus and spreading this gospel even remote corers of the tribal villages in West Godavari. In order to achieve this programmed, we are hiring a rented vehicle, with rented sound systems, electrical, visual media equipment for every week. Because of limited resources, we could not make up this programmed so successful. Kindly pray for us to procure vehicle and own electrical, visual media equipment so that we can extend our support to Gospel with these bright and young & dynamic youth achieve wonderful and fruitful result.
Distribution of Books, Slates, Plates & Glasses to the Children of Poor in Remote Tribal Area
We have distributed food items, mats, buckets and other essential commodities for the victims of the fire accident
We are distributing the ration and essential commodities like rice, mats, buckets etc to the victims of Fire accident
We are also conducting medical camp to the poor remote tribal women
Medical Camp: Doctor giving instruction to the poor patients
Distributing Cloths to the Old age Widows in the remote village by Rev. Dr.B.J.EMMANUEL RAJU, Gospel & social work missionary
At last I wish to convey that while conducting such a wonder programs, we are facing financial crisis, and social crisis etc. Despite of all these hurdles we have determined to putforth our service. So far I am conducting these programmes with the mobilization of local
Funds through my colleagues. I am a middle class person and with the help of such likeminded employee’s participation we are going in such a progressive gospel program me. We don’t have any external funds apart from my salary and some small contributions from my employees. So I am requesting all of you that any type of help such as medicines, books, visual media equipment, vehicle provision, etc may definitely helpful in Gospel and I beg you that kindly became an associate in my service by extending your support and your prayers.
For all these programmers’ are conducting under my guidance while facing so many difficulties and also I am engaging on this task round the clock for the Lord Jesus and the reason for such an effort is by the holy bible verse “I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGHCALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS” Phil: 3:14.”
FOR US SPECIFIED CHURCH IS NOT THERE THAT’S WHY WE ARE PRAYING IN THE TENTS.PLEASE PRAY AND HELP FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CHURCH IN 2008 IS OUR AIM. WE ARE TRYING A LOT.PLEASE PRAY AND SHARE OUR PROBLEM WITH NEIGBOURS .AND TELL TO THEM TO PRAY AND HELP US.
PLEASE PRAY AND HELP FOR THE POOR PASTOR, ORPHANS CHILDERNS, FOR CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHURCHS IN AND BIBLE COLLEGE IN MY VILLAGE SORROUNDING AREAS .OUR YOUTH MEMBERS ARE VERY INTRESTED TOWARDS JESUS.IAM AND MY PASTORS TOGETHER GATHERED AND DESCOUSED ABOUT THE MATTER BIBLE COLLEGE IN OUR VILLAGE .TO MAKE THE YOUTH , IN FUTHER PASTOR AND TO DO JESUS WORKS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE AND TO PREACH THE BIBLE WORDS TO THEPEOPLES IN DIFFERET PLACESES .AND WE ALSO DIDN’T HAVE CHURCHS IN MY VILLAGE SORROUNDING AREAS .WE ARE COLLECTING SOME FUNDS .THAT FUNDS ARE TOTALLY SPENDING FOR ORPHANS CHILDERNS ,AND FOR THEIR MAINTAINS..THE PEOPLE ARE INTRESTED IN CONSTRUCTING THE A NEW CHURCHS. WE TRYING VERY HARD FOR CONSTRUCTION OF BIBLE COLEGE FOR YOUTH AND CHURCHS FOR POOR PEOPLE IN SURROUNDING AREAS. THE FUNDS COMING FROM THE PEOPLE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT FOR CONSTRUCTING THE CHRUCHS AND BIBLE COLLEGE FOR YOUTH.PLEASE PRAY AND HELP IN TELLING THIS MATTER TO YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE YOUR REAIATIVES TO HELP US IN ANY WAY.ABOVE MENTIONED OUR PROBLEMS ARE IN VERY NEED TO US.WE ALSO NEED A VAN OR CAR TO CANVERS AND IN MANY WAYS FOR CHRUCHS PURPOSE .ONCE AGAIN PLEASE PRAY PRAY AND HELP FOR MY PROBLEMS.
THIS IS THE PHOTO OF WHICH YOU HAD ARRIVE TO MY VILLAGE BEFORE 10 YEARS BACK.BY COMING TO MY VILLAGE SO MANY WONDERFUL GOD’S THING THAT WERE DONE BY YOU.AT THAT TIME ONWARDS I AM TRYING TO GET YOUR ADDRESS OR YOUR E-MAIL .I ASKED THE SADRICK BUT HE DIDN’T GAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR’S.I ALSO HAD WROTE AN LETTER TO YOU THIS MONTH .YOU TOLD THAT
“I HAD SEE SOMANY VILLAGE’S IN INDIA AND ALSO SEEN SO MANY FACE’S”.FOR THAT I HAD KEPT THIS PHOTO AND ABOUT MY SERVICE AND ALSO ABOUT OUR CHURCH PROBLEM.
Therefore, it is requested to my entire brother and sisters in the name of Jesus may kindly pray AND HELP for me and my services for the poor and remote village people.
Thanking you
Rev.Dr.B.JOHN EMMANUEL RAJU.
hallo.
i am a kenyan youth called walter obonyo, i am a leader of a youth organisation called NAKATO ,
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hello.
i am a Kenyan youth called walter obonyo, i am a leader of a youth organization called NAKATO ,
I am happy about your programs and i would like to know your funding circle and the cretaria of application
thank you
Hello,
we want to participate in ur good work.
Thanks,
Guddi
Dear Sir,
i would like to know funding criteria.
Thanks,
Guddi
The Yusuf Meherally Centre’s commitment to rural development is evident from its work in the fields of agriculture, dairy farming, medical aid and education.
The self-help scheme of the Yusuf Meherally Centre helps local women use profitably the crops they raise on their fields. Here, oil is extracted from gingelly seeds.
A WALK around the 150 acres (60 hectares) of the Yusuf Meherally Centre at Tara in Maharashra’s Raigad district, near Mumbai, reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary. In one corner of the complex stands an old fixed-wheel bicycle. Haresh Shah, one of the joint secretaries of the managing committee of the centre, explains that it is used as a charger for the batteries that power the centre’s various activities. He remarks that he is considering one of Mumbai’s commercial gymnasiums to install a few such cycles so that “socialites can work out and pedal for social change at the same time.”
In another area of the centre, Deepak Suchdev from its agriculture unit enthusiastically propounds the daily use of `amrut paani’, a concoction of fermented cow dung, cow urine and black jaggery, which promotes plant growth without the usual hazards that synthetic fertilizers entail. And later, G.G. Parikh, vice-chairman of the centre, speaks of the proposed construction of rainwater harvesting tanks large enough to store 2,000 litres of water – what is special about these tanks is that they are made of leaves using a binding compound that local Adivasis make.
Despite the folksy touches, it is not a back-to-the-past philosophy that the centre propounds. In fact, some of the work, especially in agriculture and dairy farming, challenges age-old methods. Water conservation methods such as dryland farming (for paddy) and mulch bed farming propagated here are completely against traditional farming practices. So is the no-tilling policy on the centre’s fields in order to prevent the unnecessary loss of moisture and the needless release of gases into the atmosphere. Likewise, the on-going project to prove that cattle need not be milked in order to maintain them economically also goes against accepted wisdom and practice.
Mulch beds at the agricultural unit of the centre.
The seemingly radical ideas of the centre are grounded in a set of assumptions that are intertwined with a progressive philosophy. They are set out by Parikh, who says: “India still lives in villages and despite all the earlier thinking will continue to live in villages for a long time. Without rural development, the country’s development will not be sustainable. The present development is elitist, city-based and energy-guzzling and the current rate of urbanisation is not sustainable. It has to be reduced and this can only be done by raising the incomes of rural people.” The centre’s projects are tailored to suit these requirements.
THE Yusuf Meherally Centre was founded in 1961 in Mumbai in memory of Yusuf Meherally, who was a freedom fighter, the founder of the National Militia and the Bombay League, and a man who played a leading role in peasants’ organisations and trade unions. The centre was formally inaugurated in 1966 by the then Vice-President, Dr. Zakir Hussain. The initial objective was to promote national integration and study the problems of urbanisation. Later, rural development, using urban resources and local people’s participation, became its main thrust area.
In 1967, doctors of the centre went to Tara, a village on the Mumbai-Goa Highway, for a health camp. The local panchayat gave them a small house to hold the camp, from where they treated patients. With no other medical aid available in the area, the camp was eagerly awaited by the local people and widely attended. But it was not just the local people who benefited from the camp. A favourite story of the centre is about how it received its first large donation. The well-known scion of the Wadia family, A.C.P. Wadia, was travelling on the highway when he met with an accident. The doctor at the camp came to his aid and a grateful Wadia donated Rs.25,000 to the centre. Soon a full-fledged centre was established in Tara.
From an institution providing itinerant medical aid, the centre has grown into a full-fledged rural development agency that handles issues relating to women and Adivasis, health care, education, rural industries, watershed development and organic farming.
Since the early 1990s, the centre has been engaged in presenting to the nation a replicable model of rural development. It is based on the Meherally Centre’s definition of rural development as “micro-watershed development plus organic farming, including vermi-culture and vermi compost, plus non-conventional energy plus village industries and marketing their products in urban and semi-urban areas, in addition to the surrounding villages”.
The work done by the centre over the years is impressive in its variety. From comprehensive medical aid to extensive research in vermiculture to ongoing research in dairy farming, the centre has an open-minded approach to anything that can contribute to rural development. Its work with local Adivasi people is particularly significant; the problems of poverty-related suicides, alcoholism, abandoning of women and bonded labour, which were common among the Adivasis here, have considerably diminished thanks to the centre.
Despite inadequate funds the centre surges ahead with its projects, holding firmly to the belief that good work will ultimately attract attention. The philosophy has been rewarded, particularly in the case of its efforts in education. The centre runs two high schools, one of which functioned on the local temple premises until it shifted recently to its own premises on three acres of land given by the panchayat. Its Marathi medium school, which was started in 1990, has 529 pupils, while the Urdu medium school, which was established in 1997, has 65 students. Despite the fact that they receive limited government grants, education is free in the schools. Though the schools have only day students, the centre insists on their becoming
boarders in the last two months of the academic year. The headmistress, Arti Patil, explains: “The pre-exam time clashes with the harvest season and parents sometimes do not send their children to school for that entire period.”
The centre’s funding is via membership, donations and grants. A small amount is raised through the rental from its campsite and through the sale of products from the village industries that the centre runs, which include a bakery, a carpentry shop, a pottery unit, a soap factory and a ghani oil press. The centre’s annual production is Rs.40 lakhs and it employs 35 local people who are below the poverty line (BPL). Parikh says: “We have submitted two projects to the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), namely, a Common Facility Centre for Self Help Groups with a total outlay of Rs.80 lakhs and a project under the Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP) for Rs.6,00,000 for which approval is awaited from the KVIC. Besides, projects such as the production of masala, pickles and soaps and other food-processing activities, with a total outlay of Rs.60 lakhs under the REGP, are being prepared for submission to the KVIC. They are targeted to provide direct employment to about 100 BPL people.”
sThe impressive skills, the innovative technologies and creative products unfortunately do not attract the public’s attention because of the centre’s inability to practise hard-nosed marketing strategies. Even the managing committee agrees that some change is required in its approach. Of one thing, however, there is no doubt, and that is the centre’s commitment to rural development.
Thanks,
Guddi
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Yusuf Meherally Centre
Dear All,
I am representing KCYM, Archdiocese of Verapoly. We would like to have youth interchange programmes and other Mutual Helping Programmes.
Even Like to know more about your esteemed organization
Shine Antony
we will be pleased to be involved on youth exchange programme and symposiums so that we can access broader knowledge and experience in youth activisim especiially on peace building.we work with the Nationa Peace Council-in Ghana.please keep us posted.
THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR
Alhassan A Ganiyu
Our NGO is a tribal / indigenous people’s NGO is working for tribal people living in remote tribal areas. In Maharashtra we are handling the issues of women, children, bonded labors, child labors. Thousand of Korku tribal children are dying due to malnutrition. We the tribal / indigenous people of tribal remote areas from Maharashtra State, working “on the issues of human rights” of genuine poor tribal people on the principle of “Pay back to society “by spending money from our own pockets since 2001. Our NGO is a non-profitable and we have no any source from any other side.
Our main objects1] Protect and prevent the fundamental rights of tribal peoples,
2] To make the focus on educate of the women / children
3] To provide the training to women / children
4] To bring the new generation in nation development flow,
5] To abolish the slavery of tribal people, by preventing from
Bonded labors, child labors, sexually exploitation of women and female children in working places, transportation of labors by one contractor to another,
6] Adult education in old generation
7] Protect and prevent customs, customary law, traditions
8] Protection of traditional tribal land and intellectual properties,
9] Protect and prevent the cultural identity of the tribal people,
10] connect the tribal people with international communities,
11] and other……
Presently focusing on the issues
1] Below 10% Education- Now there is a below 10 % education in primitive tribal women and girls, need of education in their own language, cultural education by avoiding miseducation giving by some private institutions in Madia and Kolam tribes, Gadchiroli and Yevatmal Distt.
2] Un-married mothers- In Yevatmal Distt, Kolam primitive tribal un-married girl are becoming mothers without marriage. Now the female children of un-married mothers are also becoming the mothers by attending the age of 13 to 15 years. New born babies have no fathers.
3] In naxelite areas tribal people are killing the tribal people. Tribal Police and tribal naxelite both are dying. Now the problem is that, widow of naxelite people are wondering for bread and butters, no any provision of their resettlement of Government level.
4] In Amravati Distt. {Hon`ble President and starvation. Government is proving the saline and medicines to Korku children, but no provision of food for their mother and again these children are facing the crises of hungry stomach i.e. without mother’s milk.
5] In the remote tribal areas, still there are some tribal people, they don’t know the name of our Country, names of the President, Prime minister, Nation flag & anthems of India, they know the name of Naxelite people.
6] Some tribal people have no shelters, clothes, foods and they are counting the days of dying.
We people are connected with the poor tribal people and handling their grass root level’s problems since 2001. But we have no supports and financial helps from any sources.
It is, there fore, we are requested your kind honor to register our NGO with NGO`s scheme of your department for help for us. We hope that, your honor will provide the all type of information of forth coming schemes, projects, funds, training schemes, funding sources etc. by considering the problems of our genuine primitive tribes people of India.
Thanking You,
Yours Sincerely,
MADAVI L K
President,
MULNIVASI MUKTI MANCH
Regd. 273
300 NIT Plot, Nari Lay Out,
Ring Road, Nagpur- 440026
lkmadavi@yahoo.co.in
094221091072
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Dear Beloved in Christ,
Greetings to you in the blessed name of Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I prayerfully bring to kind perusal abot the ministry e are doing h ere in India. I am really very happy to share with you about our details of our independent mission work Bethel Church Ministries in Chintaluru, East Godavari District, India.
About Bethel Church Ministries…
Bethel Church Ministries is started as Bethel church by my father Pastor Prabhudas in 1965. He pastored this church for over 33 years. He dedicated me for the ministry and longed to see all his children in ministry. He received His home call in 1998.Then I was just an young believer. But circumstances led me to carry on the ministry of my father. But in the same year God saved me and called me for His glorious ministry. And I started to pray like JABEZ to expand my territories. And I prayerfully started to expand the sphere of the ministry in accordance of His will and guidance of the Holy Spirit. So Bethel church is developed as Bethel Church Ministries.
Bethel Church Ministries is Independent Christian Organization, The organization is a philanthropic Christian ministry and has no formal relationship with any denomination or any Church but seeks to interact with all churches who are with same vision and individuals who share the same vision. We help children regardless of race, religion or sex especially in the areas of providing education, medical care and subsistence to the needy children. Love Bethel Church Ministries provides spiritual guidance and counseling through holiday camps and seminars, to teach them the Word of God, life skills and values based on Biblical principles.
Bethel Church Ministries: Our Gospel Outreach service (Mathew 25:14-30): We are doing ministry in the very remote villages in Andhra Pradesh. As you are aware India is a pagan country bounded by 330 million pagan gods. There are 4,00,000 villages where people still do not know Jesus. Together with my fellow workers, we go house to house with the gospel of Christ in the slum and rural and remote areas, where the gospel has never been proclaimed. People in these areas are either have not heard the name of Jesus before or have not accepted Jesus in their heart. They are Idol worshippers, so we are touching their hearts with the truth of God’s Word. Our dedicated Pastoral team with all rented equipment of Sound system, Portable Generators and hiring of vehicles go to some of these villages of our state Andhra Pradesh preach the Good News and see that 30 to 40 people are saved and a church is planted over. We leave the new Pastor for the work and see that the Pastor is supported financially to look after his family.
Bethel Children Home: We have been caring some orphans and semi orphans. We found these homeless children in rural villages of India and we found them totally lacking comfort and parental love. Daily I see numbers of helpless, abondened, street children and orphans in the villages and public places of the towns. Please remember them in your daily prayers; they suffer for of food, clothing and shelter. Some have been starving for days on end. Their condition is truly sorrowful.
Co-Pastors / Evangelists: We have 25 Co – Workers ( most of them are saved in our ministry and dedicated for the task of preaching of Gospel) who are laboring with Bethel Church Ministries in the remote villages, Tribal areas, slum areas and in the most neglected places. Even though our co-workers are very poor they are totally committed to carry out the Great Commission. Our co-workers, cover over 45 villages, they preach, hold Bible studies, establish churches and pastor the growing congregations. Most of groups meet in the homes, in simple thatched roof churches, under trees and even on the road sides. In fact, many of our pastors do not have their own houses. However we are determined to see that the Lord’s work is done. The pastors are facing many hardships during Gospel Outreach, such as hunger, prejudice, poverty and lack of basic resources. The village churches are unable to feed the pastors so we are extending a little support which is not enough for their lively hood. We look unto the Lord for His providence to support regularly and sufficiently. You please pray for this desperate need. For example, our pastors don’t even have their own bicycles.
Widows and leprosy help: – As we go into the villages to preach the gospel, we encounter many widows who are begging on the streets, and some times some of them are not able to have even one meal a day. Also we see the desperate leper’s who are treated as the cursed ones begging for little food to live. When we see them, we are reminded the Lord saying, the sheep are scattered in the villages without a shepherd. The Lord is also saying; reach out to the widows with the gospel. Such widows are without help and care in these villages. We are able to look after them by giving them partial help with clothing, food and free medicines. In the near future we have plans to make shelter for them. We are praying to the Lord to get the required resources from agencies and churches to continue the ministry.
Our strong faith in God: We are completely depending upon the Lord’s provision. God knows our needs and hears our prayers. He provides for our every need, through people like you, so please do uphold us in all your prayers. Proverbs 3:27 whenever you are able, do good to people who need help. We know we could never accomplish it without the helping hand of friends like you. We indeed pray that you will be encouraged to partner with us and uphold this ministry.
As the lord leads you , please try to make an effort to become a partner and sponsor for the work of Bethel Church Ministries, or perhaps you and your friends and churches, that have a heart for Jesus, by becoming a partner or sponsor for the mission work in India. As the financial needs are more we desperately need your help, support, guidance, fellowship and prayers. Your mission trip to India would really help us to have relational foundation with you and also helps you to know who we are and also weather we are working genuinely for His Kingdom. If you are interested in knowing more about our ministry, want any pictures and any other information; please do not hesitate to contact me. Please do pray for our needs and your help will reach more people. We really appreciate your visit to our place next tie you come to India. We are praying for you and for your dear family and we hope to hear from you a positive response. We also need spiritual materials which help us to reach every hook and corner of remote areas.
I would like to introduce my family. My wife is Baby Rani, Children are 1) Lillian (7 years) 2) Joyce (5 years) Please continue to pray for all of us here.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Yours in His amazing grace,
Emmanuel Raju. Bunga..
My contact address is,
Pastor. Emmanuel Raju.Bunga,
Bethel Church Ministries.
CHINTALURU, 533 232,
E. G. Dist,A P India
Cell +91 94407 72539
E-mail: emmibunga@gmail.com