A glorious dawn for the glory of God

“Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”                                               

It has been a bounden duty that has fallen upon all of us to proclaim the gospel to several crores of people living in the vast and expansive nation of India.  Even in the very first century, Holy   Spirit had sent St. Thomas, one of the earliest disciples of Lord JesusChrist.  Following this, in every century, missionaries have been sent generation to generation.  In the last two centuries, the Lord has sent so many missionary people and built churches in   various parts of India.  Despite this, our Indian nation is still being a nation to which proclamation of gospel is indispensable.  Only for this purpose, the Lord has raised a number of missionaries, servants of God and numerous missionary movements.

Shalom church ministries:-

Despite so many torments, trials and tribulations, thanks to the grace of God, with the succour of the Holy Spirit 520 congregations have been formed with wonders and signs by the 420 Bhil native evangelists. Initially, the Lord was gracious enough to coordinate 100 churches and as per ordinances of the church, Shalom Diocese India Network was formed and it was dedicated on 20-11-09.  In the coming days, we would clearly instruct them with matters such as baptism register, matrimony, accounts maintenance, vision of the church, growth-related works.  They would be lifted to become soul winning churches.  Not only should they become self-supporting churches, but they also should become missionary churches that support and uphold other ministries as per the vision of the Shalom Mission.   This is our goal.

For the past two years, for the formation of church network, we have had consultations with saints; we had been fasting and praying with them.  The canons of the churches have been enacted and put into force in accordance with the guidance of many government officials and children of God , especially Christian Institute of Management, Chennai.

The churches that have been raised through Shalom Mission have not been united with any other denomination; nor have they  joined any other organizations.  As per the vision that the Lord gave and  according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Shalom church will continue to function under the headship of  Bro. V.Devadass and Sis.Vahitha Devadass.  By the grace of God, the dedication service of   our Shalom Indian Church (Shalom Diocese) took place at the Berachach campus in Ananth, in Gujarat for the glory of the name of our Lord.  The Most Rt.Rev.Dr,Duraisingh James,  the Most Rev.Dr,John Sathia Kumar and the Rt.Rev.John S.D.Raju conducted the dedication service very superbly and we witnessed the full presence of the Holy Spirit.  Moreover, the holy trio consecrated and ordained our beloved Bro.Devadass as the founder Bishop of Shalom Indian Church.  These three bishops have recognized the ministries of our Shalom Mission as an honourable vessel in God’s eyes and giving importance to our function, they have sacrificed their own church activities, without expecting any profit.  Hence, on behalf of Shalom ministry, we express our gratitude from the bottom of our heart to these three chief bishops praising the Lord.  

Everybody witnessed the shower of grace of the Holy Spirit that was poured on the Shalom Church believers, elders, and evangelists’ families and praised the Lord.  Glory be to God!

The churches that are formed and raised by the new evangelists and new believers who are saved by the proclamation of gospel by Shalom mission, will be joined with  Shalom Diocese.  Moreover, on the very same day, 77 elder Bhil native evangelists were ordained as pastors who were selected with  the succour of the Holy spirit.  They were ordained by the three Bishops along with our Shalom Bishop Rt.Rev.Dr.V.Devadass.  In this grand celebration, all the evangelists’ families of Shalom Church as well as 7 elders from every church where pastors were newly ordained, participated .  Glory be to God!

The chairman of Sharing Love Mission could not participate in the grand celebration because of his ministry in foreign countries.  Yet he had sent us greetings with great delight.  Shalom Board Members, Prof.C.S.Christopher, (Palayamkottai), Mr.Arputharaj, (Tuticorin), Mr.Jebez Augustine and Fly (Nazareth), and Pas.Gnanasekaran(Chennai) took part in the celebration, took charge of it, and conducted with great effort. Moreover, we will publish full details as a special issue.

Finally, we thank you a lot for your fervent and sincere prayers and sacrificial offerings that you have sent us for these 18 years.  And I request you all to pray for ministry which is to raise 7000 evangelists and churches in 7000 villages by proclaiming gospel of salvation  to the Bhil people numbering one crore.

Pray for and support   SHARING  LOVE  MISSION!

Pray that gospel would be proclaimed in 7000 villages, and 7000 evangelists  be picked up from them and trained.

Pray that  7000 village churches would be raised.

Pray that 50,000 church elders would be raised.

Pray for Shalom Diocese in India!

Pray that Shalom Diocese in India would become a praying church.

Pray that  it would become a soul-winning church.

Pray that many local churches would be raised.

Pray that the church become a supporting and upholding church.

Pray that the church would bear witness to Christ and be controlled by the Holy Spirit.

Pray that 500 Shalom churches be raised before 2010.

Pray that many evangelist, elders and special Bible teachers for children would be raised through Shalom Bible Colllege.

Pray for Shalom Charity Mission!

Pray that education ministry would be done  to 10,000 adivasi children.

Pray that 10 Shalom schools would be started.

Pray that education scheme for elderly people  would be put into force.

Pray that water supply would be made available in all the villages.

Pray that medical facilities and primary health education and all other developmental works would be made feasible.                                                                                              

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