Ongoing Projects:

B. Esudas' mission has a number of goals in sight.  With the first priority being the spreading of the gospel, there are other long term goals that are aimed at making the congregations of the church of Christ in Esudas area more self sufficient.  At the present time, all three congregations of the church of Christ where Esudas preaches combined cannot support him. 

Esudas' work is almost wholly funded from sources outside the three congregations where he serves.  The contributions of all three churches on October 7th was less than 3 dollars with a total attendance of 85 souls.  These Christians are poverty stricken and utterly incapable of sustaining the needs of Esudas in his work. 

The most immediate need is the care and support of Esudas' orphaned children.  In addition to his own three children, he and his family have taken in an additional 9 orphans they are caring for in their own home.  

Another long term project is to finish the construction of the worship facilities in Makkenavaripalem and Ramanjaneyapuram.  Construction for these facilities were started but never completed due to a lack of funds.  The details and cost of these projects are included in the sections for each individual congregation.

The Livings Stone Preachers Training School was operating in Makkenavaripalem.  Student preachers were taught the basics of the Church doctrine, over view of the Bible, preaching techniques and sermon preparation.  The preachers school was closed due to a lack of funding in December of 2004.  There were 29 student preachers who were attending the school in November before it was closed.  New preachers are needed to spread the gospel throughout India.  The harvest is plenty but the laborers are few.   One of the long term goals is to re-open the preacher training school to train men to carry the gospel to the populace. 

It is Esudas' vision to some day open a Christian school where the children can be educated and raised to be strong Christians capable of being doctors and officers among his caste.  If the people can get a proper education, they have a hope of overcoming their poverty and then helping the churches in this area to become self sufficient.  The key to assuring the future of the Lord's church in this area of India is education for the young.  It is the only way these people will ever be able to get out from under the need for outside support. 

Without the contributions of others, these congregations of the Lord's church would be without literate preachers who can bring them the truth of God's word.  There is a real opportunity here to help the light of God's truth shine in this part of the world.