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Marwari Pakistan Update
Last month, I shared a report on the school we’re building in the Cholistan desert of southeast Pakistan. I’m happy to report that you gave $6,000 toward that project last month. We needed $2,000 to finish the wall around the property, so that’s done. Thank you! We’ll apply the $4,000 balance to the next phase of the project, which I’ll be sharing about next month.
Rohi APP
Marathi / Urdu / Sinhala / Hindi
The multilingual leadership app we’ve built is fully developed from a technical standpoint, but content production is a work in progress. I think it’ll be close to the end of this year before we have sufficient content in Urdu, Sinhala, and Hindi. But the Marathi content production is catching traction.
My key Marathi leaders, Joseph and Yogesh, are doing a fantastic job with the Marathi channel on Rohi. They just completed the Evangelism Explosion course, which they recorded, produced, and distributed from their Aurangabad studio. They have three courses running representing seven and one-half hours of teaching . . . all in the Marathi language, taught, produced, and distributed by Marathi-speaking leaders!
We now have 70+ Marathi users and are growing our user base. This 70-user mark is an important milestone in our journey to reaching the Marathi-speaking world. We’re coordinating our efforts with a large Indian ministry network of 40,000 leaders, and others are taking an interest.
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:1-2
Jesus Called His first disciples in Luke chapter five
He Chose His Twelve in Luke chapter six
He Sent His Twelve in Luke chapter nine
He Released the seventy in Luke chapter ten
The release of the seventy is a declaration of the teaching and preaching ministry. Jesus’s ministry to the multitudes entered multiplication after He sent out the Twelve and the seventy. These were noteworthy moments and the beginning of multiplication.
Joseph, Yogesh and the Marathi team are entering into multiplication. They have reached an important goal in the process to reach the Marathi nation. I could not be more grateful to the Lord and to them for their labor, sacrifice, and vision.
All my language leaders will benefit from what these men have done. They are showing us the way to multiplication, and we will journey with them. We have reached the beginning of a movement. Thousands of Marathi-speaking leaders will be united, inspired, and equipped. The time of multiplication has begun!
These are thrilling days for this project. We will begin Hindi production this summer, and now that we have built the production infrastructure, our language projects should start to accelerate.
I’m so grateful for the Lord’s faithfulness.
