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The Last, the Least, and the Lost

Journal

January 1, 2010.
THE LAST, THE LEAST AND THE LOST

Dear friends and supporters of New India,

We have arrived at the dawn of a New Year!  We give praise to God for His steadfast love and faithfulness.  I remind myself of Daniel in the Old Testament, who served God’s purposes in his generation and whose wisdom was ten times better than those of the heathen counselors.  Godly wisdom and personal integrity catapulted Daniel to be among the King’s trusted.
As we stand on the threshold of a New Year, I pray that God will give the Church men and women like Daniel and Esther whose influence spans the nations and who are willing to lay down their lives for the King of Kings.

About two weeks ago, about a thousand gathered in North India for the annual Christmas program.  This event however was different.  Local speakers were about to receive written Scriptures in their own language for the very first time.  Known as Angika and spoken by about 30 million, God’s Message came to them only this Christmas – some 2000 years since the event in Israel’s Bethlehem.  Remarkable isn’t it?

Local Angika scholar Pradwuman Singh was among the team of Bible consultants and linguists who checked the final script of Luke 15 – the story of the Father’s eternal love for the prodigal son.  As local friends and villagers received in their hands God’s Love Story through this two page tract – now in their own readable language, I wept tears of joy.  It was all worth it.  Eternity will be different for these Angika speakers as they comprehend in their hearts, for the first time, the love of the Heavenly Father towards them, now expressed in their own heart language.

Language plays an important role in the identity of any given people or people group.  It influences the arts, the preaching and evangelism, the media, education, dynamics of social order and eventually every sphere of society.  Two committed Church planters have taken up this language Angika and Maithili to launch Church planting movements among the unreached and the unengaged people groups (UUPG’s) in the north.  They are seeing resounding success as the elements of the Gospel are shared in the language of the heart rather than in the language of wider communication.  At one location for example, some 1200 people were discipled last month!

So where are these the Last, the Least and the Lost? 
Are they far away in some distant land?  Or may be beyond our horizon of sight?  Take a look again as you enter 2010.  They could be around you, behind you, in front of you – pausing to see whether you’ll stop and stoop; or skip and fly by.

Vikash is a young ten year old lad, whose parents are from a small hamlet in the north who I met a month ago.  With the less than a dollar income per day his dad makes, this family of five eek out their daily living.  Their hopes that Vikash would work and help them have been buried two years ago.  A strange disease kala-azar has left his boy emaciated, bi-lateral polio has left him on his cot for life; and unsanitary conditions have eaten into his skin.  Seated in the back seat of our car, he vomited repeatedly over the two hour drive to the clinic which would become his home for the next couple of months.  Today he is different.  He has a smile.  The love of the father has reached into his tender heart.  Today he is Cared for, Comforted and Counted in God’s Kingdom.

Shall we be the change for the Last, the Least and the Lost?  To Care for, to Comfort and to make sure they are Counted in God’s Kingdom.  God bless and thank you for your partnership as we enter a Year full of possibilities and opportunities for the Kingdom!

Yours in Christ’s service,
 
Dr. Alexander Philip,
Director

Submitted By Alex Philip on Jan. 07 , 2010

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