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Let me say that it is good to be home from a couple of weeks in South Asia and the Middle East.

I bring you greetings from our brothers and sisters in India.

So some of you may know, some of you may not know that part of our radical giving

in our budget here as a church, what we've set aside, cut programs or set aside comforts here in the church to free up more to give away

to urgent spiritual and physical need around the world and part of that giving has gone to fuel church planting

training across India I just want to share with you real briefly the effects of

that so I mentioned two weeks ago before I left that I was going to

B.R. India, a region of the world where physical and spiritual poverty collide together. Massive physical poverty, massive spiritual poverty.

I mentioned how this particular specific region that I was going to

has a death rate of about 5,000 people per day.

1% Christian, meaning that every single day

approximately 4,995 people from this region plunged into an eternal hell.

And so I had heard about massive spiritual and physical need in Behart.

But what I and the other brothers I was with saw last week was massive hope in Bihar. So we spent time with different

churches and church planters who have been walking through this training that we've helped

provide. Let me tell you about two in particular, two church flanters,

Rajesh and Deepak. Three years ago, these two brothers at the end of their

rope pretty much ready to quit ministry

altogether living in the middle of spiritual darkness not seeing fruit from the

gospel around them. But they go to one of these trainings and they're the

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