Blessed to see a good number of women and children listening to the Word of GOD. You might notice the lack of men in this photo, as most of the men in this tribal village called Jampalavaripalem (southern India) are drunkards and unresponsive to the Gospel at this time. But we have observed that another problem exists: our Lord JESUS said "the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few..." (Matthew 9:36-38). At the time He said these Words, He was looking at the people of Israel, a people who claimed to be GOD's people. Yet He said that they were like "sheep without a shepherd." THIS is another problem in so many of the villages of India, and likely a problem around the world: the lack of Godly men and women to reach out to the broken masses with His truth and in His love. One of the hard realities of why there are so many congregations which are 90% or more women and children, is because there is a severe shortage of ministers to reach out to the men with the love of the Father in their hearts. "Pray to the Lord of the harvest, that He will send out laborers into His harvest", and that the laborers will be obedient to His call.
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