Chennai, India A land of over 8 million people, with only 10 percent following Jesus. Although India is 75 percent village life, the four major cities of India (Mumbai, Dehli, Calcutta, and Chennai) are rapidly growing. It is estimated that in Chennai over 30,000 move into the city each month....and the LORD calls out for men and women to share the Gospel of the Kingdom with this vast number of people. So then it is absolutely essential that the local believers, pastors, and bible women are trained, empowered, and supported to reach in the millions of Chennai. Yesuway Jeevan Mission seeks to come alongside believers who are sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom by offering teaching, training, prayer, literature/tracts, and mutual thinking on how to best support the ministries. Please PRAY for more believers to hear the call to reach out and share with their neighbors, family members, and co-workers. Also PRAY to the LORD of the harvest for more workers who are willing to be self supporting and upright in their dealings. PRAY for workers who are willing to seek training while doing the works of the ministry without being given buildings, land, or cars. Many workers are hungry for the lost of Chennai, so please help us help them by your PRAYERS. True Needs of Chennai More than 3000 suicides every year. Chennai has 40,000 drug addicts consuming 5kgs of heroin per month. 52,000 HIV Aids cases in Tamilnadu. 12,321 reported abortions performed in Chennai in 2006. 40,533 Homeless in Chennai. 41% were suffering from some recent disease during the time of enumeration. 83% are illiterate. 72% are Dalits and 8 % Tribals. 69% Do not have ration card. 99% Do not have bank pass book. 55% Do not have access to a public toilet 35,000 lepers in 16 colonies around Chennai. 7000 homosexuals. The addictive behavior patterns of the children were found as 48% of the children are using Pan Masala, 36% smoking, 17% alcohol, and 18% drugs. 75 000 child beggars in the city. 400 Eunuchs. 10 000 estimated commercial sex workers in the city of Chennai operating in lodges and it does not include those who operate in elite class homes. 4799 Child laborers. More than 16,000 children in the age group of 5-16 drop out of school every year. Another 6600 never enroll in schools. Slums 1427 slums in Chennai. 1231 are developed slums and 242 are undeveloped slums. TNSCB estimates indicate that the slum families in undeveloped slums work out to 1.08 lakhs; out of which 72,827 families are living in objectionable slums. TNSCB has also estimated that there are about 37,000 families in unobjectionable areas and further there are 6150 families who live in slum conditions in the encroached parts of the tenement areas which have been reserved as parks, public purpose sites etc 59 organized gangs in Chennai. Ways to Pray: Pray for lay training strategies which are helpful and spiritually enriching Pray for pastors to mentor other workers and to share the ministries Pray for church boards to be honest and full of integrity in their dealings Pray for the Advent Christian Bible College to meet the spiritual needs of their students, while giving the best practical helps to their young leaders Pray for Pastor Gellknight and his future direction as an educator Pray for the pastors of the Fellowship of Blessed Hope Churches to take on a vision for the wholestic Gospel message Pray for more hostels and social ministries to arise in the Advent Christian Conference of India Pray for the fasting prayer meetings and times of all night prayer in the local fellowships Pray for Gospel teams to be formed in each fellowship which will go out and share in the villages, slum areas, and other needful places Pray for the schools of the Advent Christian Conference and their teachers, staff, and students that these places of education will also be great places of harvest for the Kingodm.