Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

I'm Chris from missions and we got another mission moment this morning as many of you know, we have lost several missionaries over the past year to retirement and other things.

And in this past spring, the missions committee voted to take on a new missionary that our church is going to sponsor.

So is with great, honor, I introduced and firetto.

He is our new missionary effective.

This fiscal year to June one, and Dan is going to talk to us about his ministry and why we have chosen to support him.

So Dan, welcome to hoosic Valley Community Church.

Thank you.

Good morning everyone.

Happy Father's Day.

A first, let me just say thank you very much about the Pastors in the missions committee for having me this morning and let me share with you just for a few minutes.

So, let me just start by introducing myself.

My name is Daniel for real and I am the English Carnation.

Pastor at the Chinese Christian Church of Greater Albany so your brothers and sisters there, send you their greetings this morning.

But this morning, I want to just missions work.

I do the name of the missions, group that I'm a faculty member of is equipping leaders International, which we call Eli, for short, and put the the website up there.

But if you just Google equipping leaders International, it'll come up if that you have an interest in looking at that next light, please, And so, you'll have to forgive me.

I just got back.

I was in Cuba for 8 days.

So I'm still kind of getting a little readjusted and this is a little separate from what I do with Eli.

But I was in Cuba for 8 Days, training a group of 50-plus pastors and and some of their disciples, a teaching a master's-level doctrine of salvation.

Course, and this is the type of missions work now that I'm engaged in training the church and pastors of theological, education to reach the lost and to plant church has a more on that in a second next song, please?

Okay, so in the Great Commission, I know sometimes in English, we say the word go, and we think that's a comand, then that's, that's true.

But in the Great Commission, in Matthew 28, the command imperative freak is to make disciples until the command to the church is to do that in our local context and also to be doing it of all ethnic, a or nation's most translations will say, Nations in a good translation.

But why Jesus is saying is not just like one Church in India, or China or whatever every distinct ethno-linguistic people group has purpose to get glory for himself from, and that happens by the gospel, being proclaimed, churches being planted and a people coming to Faith.

Or as a revelation, 5:9 says that Jesus by his blood has purchased for got a people from every tribe language people.

And Tom, this is the purpose of missions biblically.

Next song, please.

Okay, so let me talk about you, PG or unreached people groups.

And let me say these are southern baptist IMB for Mission statistics from 2018.

And I just want to explain what a yukiji is.

A UPG isn't unreached.

People group that's any again, distinct, ethno-linguistic people group that is less than 2% confessing Evangelical.

But even these numbers, as you can see, I need to be explained, you probably think it will.

Why is the United States and Canada on their bees are usually mostly small about a few thousand groups of immigrants who come to United States in urban areas and are insulated.

And you can see on top, and this is why I focus on India with my missions work.

The number of unreached people groups, even compared to number to China, is almost five times as many at work to use a difference at cystic, a non-denominational, a statistic from Joshua project.net,

it's a very good missions.

Informational website, there are 36 unreached people groups in the world of 10 million people or more 18 of them are in India.

That's a massive amount of people.

Next slide, please.

So right now because of covid-19 this fall assuming covid continues to decline, all of our training has been done, remotely over zoom and is the model that we follow is short-term trips and we trained Nationals.

And in my case, India, although Eli Works in many countries across the world to reach their own people.

And so it's a combination of local ownership, but also of the church Universal working together to complete the Great Commission.

So, just a few statistics about India, India is about 1.3 and a half, fish billion people, they will surpass China in the next 20 years.

For population, China has roughly 100 million Christians.

India has far less if we're not even talking about missions.

In terms of underage, people groups just population India is somewhere around government statistics for to 6%, but it's actually far less than that because they just say.

Will anyone?

From Eastern? Orthodox?

Roman Catholic?

Mormon Jehovah's Witness is a Christian.

Do it somewhere around 2% roughly seventy million.

Confessing Evangelical Christians in India.

Next light, please.

Okay.

So what we do is we focus on training groups of pastors, and the goal is to help them through theological.

Education to a both do the church planting that they're already doing more effectively.

And specifically we target Villages and places where there's literally no gospel presents.

No one has ever heard the gospel, Indiana called, and villages.

We would call them small to medium-sized cities.

The first time I went to India, I went to a large City Bangalore in southern idiot.

If it's about 15 million people but only the fifth largest city in India.

And there are seven of us on the LI faculty and we work with eight groups of pastors networks.

It's kind of hard to explain but these are just collections of pastors.

Not so much a denomination but And he's kind of a unique setting in the way structured.

The smallest of these organizations are hundreds of pastors, the largest are tens of thousands of pastors.

And so again, our goal is as Paul says, the Timothy and 2nd Timothy 2 that we are at raining or raising up men of God, who are faithful pass on what you have learned so that the church can continue to complete the Great Commission.

And so for example, the current photo this is from an ordinance ordination service of one of the eight groups, not the largest, this is the Christ.

Gospel Ministry is also known as the Council of reformed churches in India and they currently have over 5,000 ordained pastors and thousands in training and thousands more who have applied Now, ye Li is committed to not controlling their unfortunately Indian other places if I could turn it this way, there's been an issue historically, with Western missionaries of colonial-style missions, like wanting to control.

So what we do is and all we do is we pay for the trainings, the pastures are not charged anything, but we're working in Port in Provost areas.

So they don't have very much do everything from even the zoom Gatherings that we do together and all the equipment that's necessary for that.

The internet power goes out, routinely and water electricity or every day in India is kind of rolling.

So we buy backup generators.

Every course we teach both for our set list of pastoral certification courses and other courses outside of that are all translated into the languages that pastors speak.

And they have their given a hard copy of this.

If they have their own notes, every one of our groups has multiple languages.

So when we train, we can only do one group have one language at a time with interpreters the bigger groups in India.

Have almost every state churches and pastors that they're from in the north.

Hindi is the major language.

It's the national language of India, but in the South, they hate Hindi.

So they speak different languages in the state of Karnataka, which is a new state for us there.

Some photos, here are coming up after this.

So the trainings that we're done there, the language is kannada.

I mistakenly the first time, I went called call the Canada and was immediately corrected, but it's it's kannada.

Let me give you just another statistic.

This is from the largest group that we work with serve India Ministries.

Their leader is a man named Ebenezer Samuel.

A very, very smart gifted graduated Southern Seminary PhD.

And so his vision is that they would like to have 20,000 self-supporting independent pastors to plant five churches each year.

Reaching the goal of 100,000 church has planted in those unreached Villages.

So we have been working with them for years to certify their passes through our training and we've gotten to the point where they are now self-replicating in this area.

And so one thing we're looking to launch, next year is to do a doctor of ministry level education for their upper echelon.

Leaders of this group has 4500 graduates from their program that they have taken over from us and are at this moment currently training 6700 pastors they have play.

Did over twelve thousand churches and are working in over 50,000 villages to plant future churches.

If you can go just to the Yankees, I am out of time.

I also want to mention that all of these groups have other things they do.

Besides planting churches of this is relief effort during covid, getting Bibles out.

Giving food after this.

There's a picture of some, this is an orphanage.

Almost every Pastor in India has some sort of orphanage, especially if they're in the bigger cities, there are so many orphans in India.