Gospel for Asia
In every aspect of their ministry, the aim of Gospel for Asia is
to reach the lost of Asia with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This
is accomplished primarily through planting churches among the unreached
– those who have never heard the Gospel, and by the training
and sending of native missionaries. Gospel for Asia’s goal
is to send 100,000 native missionaries to reach the 2.7 billion
who do not know the love of God
Gospel for Asia has 133 bible schools where nearly 7,000 students
are preparing to become church planters. At present, more than 21,000
churches and mission stations have been planted by native missionaries
where no church existed before.
Along with ministering to the lost spiritually, Gospel for Asia’s
Compassionate Services offers physical relief to the suffering of
Asia. In the wake of the Tsunami Disaster, GFA members immediately
began ministering to the desperate in India and Sri Lanka with food,
clothing and medical supplies. The local government of Sri Lanka
asked GFA to take on responsibility for 10,000 displaced children
as a result of this tragedy. Gospel for Asia responded by setting
up transition homes, temporary housing and shelters, and mobile
medical clinics. Through partnership with Hungry Children Project,
GFA’s relief efforts were aided with three shipments of food,
medicines and medical supplies, read
more…
To find out more about Gospel for Asia and their emergency relief
efforts, visit www.gfa.org
Sri Lanka
Capital: Colombo
Population: 20, 220,240
Religion: Buddhist 67.1%, Muslim 7.6%, Hindu 7.1%, Christian
6.2%, unspecified 10%
Language: Sinhala (official and national language) 74%,
Tamil (national language) 18% and other 8% (English is commonly
used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the
population
Birth Rate: 15.51 births/1,000 population (2006est)
Death Rate: 6.52 deaths/1,000 population (2006est)
Infant Mortality Rate: 13.97deaths/1,000 live births
People living with HIV/AIDS: 3,500 (2003est)
450,000 persons displaced resulting from 2004 tsunami (2005)
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