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The International Mission Board encourages Southern Baptists to give through the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions through their local churches. We do, however, offer online giving options to individuals to support strategic priority needs. We also present information about making planned gifts.

Asia Challenge:
Strategic Priority Needs

345 Unengaged Unreached People Groups of South Asia
 In India alone there are 325 Unengaged UPGs, which have a population over 100,000 and an additional 181 Unengaged UPGs which have a population under 100,000. For the fulfillment of Matthew 24:14 to take place, all of the unreached peoples must not only hear the gospel but also respond if the kingdom of God is to be established in every nation, tribe, people and tongue (Revelation 7:9-10). The strategy we are using has been developed to reach multiple UPGs without ongoing dependence on our personnel to reach the multitudes. Thus, it is based on training national believers who are already working among Unengaged UPGs by equipping them to effectively multiply “fishers of men” among their unreached peoples. The emphasis, therefore, is not on recruiting 500 IMB personnel but lies within training others to be trainers of trainers based on II Timothy 2:2. We are constantly asking ourselves what is it going to take to see God’s vision fulfilled in South Asia. The answer we have found rests in acting as facilitators and mentors to help others become disciple makers not convert makers. One recognizes that if the job is to be accomplished, we must multiply ourselves in others (primarily national lay people); otherwise we will wear ourselves out without getting the job done (Exodus 18:18). Our strategy is based on hitting as many Unengaged UPGs as possible at one time by strategically setting up training zones in key areas and bringing lay people in for training. As we carefully select these zones we try to ensure the zones are able to multiply themselves out through church planting movement principles. In this way, the whole area will be saturated by the “knowledge of God” as these disciple makers multiple disciples in others. 71201-240-027-2007
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A Multiple UPG CPM Initiative
 On December 26, 2004 a tsunami struck Asia killing 250,000 people. The catastrophic event though opened doors for the gospel in strongholds such as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives and Thailand. The greater disaster in India was the 240,000 people dying every week never having heard the hope of salvation we have in Jesus Christ. In January 2005 upon entering into India a comprehensive church planting movement strategy was developed called Tree of Life designed to "make disciples" moving Christians progressively forward from being believers to faithful witnesses to disciples to disciple-makers to church planters to church planting facilitators to apostles- cross cultural church planting facilitators. During a two and a half year period this training program had tremendous results with 12,119 new believers, 3,671 baptisms, 1376 house fellowships started and 97 people groups engaged. Our national partners then requested for the program to be expanded across India and eventually into Pakistan and Bangladesh as well. After the closure of the tsunami work at the end of 2007, the strategy coordinator for this program was assigned to the East Division where the program in 5 months resulted in 6,768 new believers, 2,262 baptized and 835 house fellowships being started. Invitations now exist to open work in Nepal and Bhutan which would have Tree of Life impacting 5 countries in the upcoming year (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan). This program has 10 levels of training developed to develop "master trainers" from nationals trained using reproducible oral methods such as stories, word pictures, and scripture memorization. The program also has a strong accountability structure which counts only what can be measured by its reporting forms which are tied to specific addresses and person(s) which can be easily verified. This program does not pay salaries but does pay for training expenses. From each monthly statewide training, district trainers are trained who upon returning home contact trainings with their national leaders in each of their districts. For example, in a training session in the capital of Orissa we train 64 district level trainers for one day who then return 2 by 2 to their 32 districts and conduct trainings at their district levels. The total cost of training at the district level is about 700 to 800 Rupees ( 20 US) per month. This gives us maximum coverage of people being discipled at minimum costs. Would you like to be a part of seeing thousands trained to multiply disciples throughout the nations, tribes, people and tongues so Jesus can return as King of Kings and Lord of lords (Matthew 24:14, Matthew 28:19-20, Revelation 7:9-10, Revelation 19:16) then please join us by supporting the Tree of Life program in South Asia? 71201-240-104-2006
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Bible and EV Material
 Funds to be used for purchasing Bibles, Gospel VCD, gospel DVD and to print gospel tracts. 74402-240-169-2008
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Bibles
 In a city of lostness, people desire to know the truth, but they don't know how to get Bibles. Some cannot afford them. These funds will help provide access to all who want a Bible so that no one is without excuse! 74402-463-162-2008
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Bibles & Scripture Portions for South Asia's Unreached
 South Asia is home to more than 1.4 billion lost souls, most of whom have never heard the promise of John 3:16. Your giving will provide the Bible and Scripture portions in both written and oral form to this region's lost millions. 71201-469-013-2007
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Bibles for PSW
 Bibles for the peoples of the Persian Speaking World are in high demand. We have committed with our partners to supply large quantites of scripture in various forms to the emerging churches in the PSW. Years of development and prayer have seen a diverse and capable distribution network arise that has demonstrated its ability to place scripture where it is wanted and needed. People and churches giving to the fullest extent God impresses upon them will be required for us to meet the overwhelming demand for God's word in this incredibly closed area of the world. Therefore, partial gifts are not only welcome but expected. Gifts as small as 5 will place a Bible in the hands of a Persian believer. Gifts of the entire project will change a nation. 72401-469-036-2004
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Church-Planting Movement Training Workshops
 South Asia is home to more unreached people groups than all the rest of the world combined! Yet through church-planting movements, we are seeing entire people groups ushered into God’s kingdom with multiplying new communities of faith. Church-planting movement training is needed all over South Asia if we are to multiply harvesters in this region of the world. At present, we do not have the funds needed to provide all of the training that is being requested. 71201-240-012-2007
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Cool Mountain Radio
 Funding is needed for a daily evangelistic Christian radio broadcast in a upg dialect. This upg lives primarily in autonomous districts in a hard to reach section of the country. A radio broadcast in this dialect would be easily understood by speakers of 4 of the 5 major sects of this people group, with the potential to reach more than 2.5 million people in their heart language -- the vast majority of whom cannot be considered literate in any other language and have only slight oral comprehension of national language. The program will be Biblically based, with an interactive story telling format that concludes with a session of questions and answers. UPG testimonies and praise music will be played, and church will be modeled on the air. This is a wonderful opportunity to fund a strategic program with the possiblility to directly impact more than 2.5 million of people who have had no previous exposure to the Gospel of Christ. 74402-243-102-2006
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Development of External Support Structure for National Church Planters
 Development of External Support Structure for National Church Planters. 72401-240-058-2007
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Engagement of 20 Unreached People Groups
 Funding is needed to begin work among 20 new unreached people groups and cities in South Asia, representing more than 200 million lost people. Your giving can help field personnel implement a church-planting movement among these peoples & begin a new harvest for the kingdom. 71201-260-018-2007
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Engaging Non-Literate Peoples with the Good News
 Millions of people in South Asia cannot read, but stories of the Bible can be shared with them through storying and culturally appropriate music. Your giving can help get these stories and the music recorded onto cassettes, CD's, DVD's and small, inexpensive digital players. Also, your giving can share the Gospel even further through radio broadcasts. 71201-240-017-2007
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ERT (CARS) Second Edition
 Since 2003, over 50,000 copies of the Eastern Russian Scriptures (also known as CARS) have been distributed throughout the former Soviet Union. At the end of 2008 the second edition will be completed with an anticipated printing of 100,000 copies. This proposal is for the funding of 18000 books, intended for two Central Asian countries. 72401-469-018-2008
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Jesus Film for South Asia's unreached millions
 South Asia is home to more than 1.4 billion lost souls, one out of every four non-Christians on earth lives in South Asia. One of the most powerful tools of the past century for evangelizing and winning the lost is the JESUS Film. This highly effective video enables the lost to hear, in their own language, the life and teachings of Jesus Christ for themselves. The production, purchase and distribution of the Jesus Film is a vital part of South Asia’s strategy for fulfilling the Great Commission. Your donation will make this possible. 71201-243-014-2007
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Mother Tongue Translators for an Unreached Minority Group in China
 Funds are needed to help two local Christian believers in an unreached minority group that have already shown great aptitude in translating Bible stories. This funding will enable them to dedicate themselves full-time to translating discipleship materials and radio broadcasts into this dialect. These two believers will create Chronological Bible storying materials and radio broadcasts to enable the more than 1 million people in this minority group to be able to hear the gospel in their heart language for the first time. Ninety percent of this minority group live in rural areas and they are responsive to the Gospel, but most of them are illiterate, so these kinds of media in their heart language are desperately needed as quickly as possible. 74402-463-067-2008
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Radio Broadcasting Initiative for a Remote Buddhist UPG
 This LMC request is for the development and implementation of a remote Buddist Unreached People Group (UPG) radio broadcast. This broadcast will have strong evangelistic content, introducing the audience to the Bible and sharing Gospel. The 8 goals of this project are: to provide illiterates and partial illiterates the opportunity to hear the Gospel, to provide those in hard to reach and restricted access areas the opportunity to hear the Gospel, to provide those that do not have copies of the Bible or evangelistic material an opportunity to hear the Gospel, to provide spiritual growth, to provide clear and definitive obedience based applications for the audience, to see this UPG accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, to have an adequate follow-up system whereby those who make decisions can be contacted and trained, and to see new Believers applying their faith, by sharing the truth of Jesus Christ with others, leading to the establishment of locally led reproducing Churches. The presentation will be Bible stories and evangelistic messages with clear applications, and training dynamics, such as T4T and Acts 29, that can be applied and implemented by the listener. Estimated Cost for production and broadcast per year: 15,000 Estimated Cost for a 5 years: 75,000 74402-243-030-2006
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Training Trainers
 The funding would be used to assist in training of Christian Leaders and Trainers moving toward a CPM in this limited access country. It would be used for such things as providing materials, transportation for trainers, scholarships for students,lodging, meals and transportation for participants, etc. They will be trained to catapult House Church Networks into much more rapid multiplication, moving toward the evangelization of all of this great nation. 74402-379-891-2003
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Turkish Gospel Literature Production and Distribution
 This is a five year project. Approximately 20,000 per year is needed to provide the Turk Cluster with an adequate amount of Gospel literature for distribution. This project funds Gospel literature for the 75 million plus Turkish speaking peoples across Turkey and Europe. Gifts of any amount will make a tremendous contribution to this project. 72401-463-007-2009
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