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We are
non-profit organization catering to the
needs of at-risk youth (7yrs thru 17yrs).
Our program offers a variety of services to
help address the needs of these children.
Such as, anger management, help with
education (address behavior issues, academic
performance, transportation), food, shelter,
clothing, guidance while in the home, and
many other services. The children within our
care reside at the home 24 hours a day for
usually 6 to 12 months. Sometimes longer! Our
kids have criminal records and has a
commitment to the State. We have 2
locations! We provide staff around the
clock. We need your assistance. Please
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FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIES
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Four Corners Ministries
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Missionary Denise Reid
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In North India and Myanmar, some families
have been helped by a number of projects which have been completed and you are
needed to secure funding for future quality of life projects.
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Children Waving Hello
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GOOD SAMARITAN
CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL AND
WELFARE MINISTRIES |
Pastor P. I. J.
Sudhakar
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Greetings to you
in the Matchless Name of our Lord and Redeemer
Jesus
Christ, who is Coming very soon to take us
to be with Him forever. I personally thank you
for writing to me and for being interested to
know more about my ministry here. I am sure that
it is not by chance that we have known each
other but to fulfill a purpose that has been
pre-planned by God before the foundations of the
world. In fact, we are greatly indebted to God
for His unfailing faithfulness to us. Amen. |
I. Introduction:
“Good Samaritan Christian Evangelical Welfare
Ministries” is a Registered Religious, Social,
Non-Profit and Charitable Organization that has
great desire to touch and benefit the lives of
thousands of people in India, primarily in the
state of Andhra Pradesh. The organization came
into existence in the year 2005, Dec. 19, when
the Lord placed a great amount of Love and
Passion in the heart of Pastor PIJ Sudhakar for
the souls, perishing without the knowledge of
One True God Jesus Christ and for the people of
underprivileged and neglected society. The
organization has been functioning with great
commitment and real dedication to make a
remarkable difference in Indian Society by
bringing radical change in Spiritual, Physical
and Social life of people through preaching the
Gospel of Jesus Christ and through serving and
helping the people of underprivileged society,
specially the tribal people.
The organization
is registered by the Government of Andhra
Pradesh, India. Pastor P.I.J Sudhakar was moved
with compassion when he came to know that there
were 400,000 villages in India where no one had
ever gone to preach the Good News of Jesus
Christ. This news filled his heart with great
passion for lost and perishing souls. His heart
also has love and care for the orphan and
destitute kids. We strongly believe that God is
going to use us in the years to come to
accomplish great and mighty things for the
expansion of His kingdom in this nation that is
full of idols and blind beliefs and for the
eradication of Satanic Activities. Amen.
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II. Vision & Goals: |
A. Our
Vision:
The Vision of
Good Samaritan is two fold:
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Preaching
Christ where He is unknown, first in the
state of Andhra Pradesh, then the whole
India. In the state of Andhra Pradesh there
are many more villages that have not heard
the Name of Christ. According to Government
Statistics, there are only 1.6% of
Christians in the state, which clearly
expresses the need for more effective
evangelism. Some Christian organizations
claim that the state has 16% of Christians.
Even if this is the case, still there are
many people and villages to be reached. Good
Samaritan Ministries want to accomplish this
by training and sending missionaries out.
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Helping and
Serving the Underprivileged Society is the
other part of Good Samaritan Ministries
Vision. We want to show the love of Christ
to people in practical way by caring for the
street kids, helping victims of natural
disasters, miserable lepers, Aids patients
and Abandoned aged people etc…
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B. Our Goals: |
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To take the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to 100 New Villages
every year and more villages in the future
if the Lord provides more Missionaries.
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To Establish
a Bible College to train up 50 young men and
women every year so that they can enter the
ministry and win new villages and people for
Christ.
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To Reach 1000
children every year through Sunday Schools
and Children Bible Clubs and Youth through
Youth Conferences.
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To hold
Open-air Gospel Crusades to Preach the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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To Construct
12 Churches every year in the villages,
which we have won for Christ.
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To establish
homes for the Orphan and Destitute Children,
to give them love, care, good shelter, food
and education and make them better Citizens
for God and Country.
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To establish
homes for the people who are rejected by the
society because of Leprosy and HIV Aids.
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To establish
homes for the aged people who have no one to
care for them or are abandoned by every one
and who have no shelter and proper food.
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To educate the uneducated and illiterate
people through night schools and other
literacy programs.
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To dig bore wells to provide clean and safe
drinking water to Tribal people.
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III. Achievements: |
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We have, so far, taken the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to 125 Villages that did not have a
single Christian in them. We have
constructed churches in some of these
villages.
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We have Trained and Prepared 37 missionaries
who are now working in different parts of
Andhra Pradesh state, leading hundreds of
lost souls to the saving knowledge of Jesus
Christ.
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We have reached 3200 children with the Good
News of Jesus Christ through Sunday Schools,
Child Evangelism and Vacation Bible Schools.
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We have been taking care of 150 street kids
in three different homes. On 1st
Nov. 2006, we opened our third home for 50
more orphan and destitute kids. All of them
are leading better lives, knowing Christ as
their Love and Master.
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More than 700 Young men and women have been
led to Christ through Youth Conferences and
some of them are set free from Bad Habits.
Some of them have entered Gospel Ministry.
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We have educated nearly 200 uneducated
people who are now well able to read, write
and better communicate.
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IV. Our Ministries: |
A. Gospel Activities: |
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Reaching
the un-reached through Missionaries:
India
is a vast
nation with more than 600,000 villages in
it. While more than 500,000 villages have no
Churches in them, people in more than
300,000 villages have never heard the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. It may sound
unbelievable,
yet it is true to its core. The Nation India
needs to be reached. There are thousands of
people in India, perishing without the
Saving Knowledge of One True God Jesus
Christ for want of preaching the Good News
of Jesus Christ. Those villages need to be
reached. Those people in the village need to
hear about God's Love and the sacrificial
death of Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross for
them. God loves them and we strongly feel
that He wants us to reach them for Him. Good
Samaritan Ministries is reaching these
villages by training and sending
missionaries in to villages where there is
no Gospel. Now, there are 37 Missionaries
who are working in Different villages of
Andhra Pradesh. So far, we have reached 320
villages that had no Christian Witness. This
year, 37 more villages are being brought to
the Saving Knowledge of Jesus Christ. Praise
the Lord. Good Samaritan Missionaries are,
undoubtedly, are achieving remarkable
results because of the scheme, which the
organization implemented, known as "Each
Year Catch A Village". The
missionaries are
encouraged to choose 10 or 15 villages and
reach them village after village in a span
of 7 years. So, all these 37 missionaries
are doing a wonderful job in reaching the
villages they have chosen according to a
plan. Praise the Lord for the Lord is using
them for the expansion of His Kingdom. Amen.
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Church Planting:
We want to construct a Church in Each
village where we have taken the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. Good Samaritan Ministries’
Prime Goal is to prepare a people in every
village who will then reach the rest of the
village by the Christian Community in the
village. After the missionary moves to
another new village, we want to construct a
church building in the village where the
people of the village can gather together to
praise the worship the Lord. It has been our
desire to construct at least 12 churches in
a year in 12 different villages that have
got the good number of Christians in them.
So far, we have been able to built only 11
churches in all the past years.
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Gospel Crusades:
Good Samaritan Ministries takes the Gospel
of Jesus Christ to the un-reached towns and
villages by holding Gospel Crusades, which
are generally attended by hundreds and
thousands of people. God the Holy Spirit
mightily moves in these Gospel Crusades,
convicting people of their sins and coming
judgment. The Lord is using Pastor Sudhakar
Mightily to preach the Word with Power and
Authority. So far, more than 22,000 people
have accepted Lord Jesus as their personal
Savior and the Lord through these Gospel
Crusades.
These Crusades are mainly conducted in the
towns. Usually the Gospel crusades in each
town last from 3 days to 5 days. One month
before the Crusades, the Good Samaritan
Crusades team goes to the particular town
and works for these crusades by going to
every house and street in the town, telling
people about these crusades and inviting
them to attend the same. This team makes all
the arrangements such as Publicity, Making
tents, Stage and seating arrangements,
transportation etc... They work voluntarily
and take care of the people who have newly
come to the Lord, counsel them and prepare
them for water baptism.
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Youth
Meetings:
Youth has been one of the main
concentrations of Good Samaritan Ministries.
In fact, this organization, in the first
place, came in to existence with a Vision to
reach the lost youth for Christ. It is our
pleasure to inform you that, by God's
abundant Grace, we have
been blessings to
many many young people by leading them to
Christ the only Savior of the World.
Primarily, we reach the youth by Conducting
Youth Retreats and Youth Conferences which
are really very very effective in the lives
of young people to get to know that Lord and
to have strong fellowship with Him. There
are hundreds of young people here who can
testify of the Great and mighty a thing God
has done in their life though our Youth
Retreats and Youth Conferences. To Him be
alone all the praise!
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Child Evangelism:
Good Samaritan Ministries believes that the
Children are very important in the Kingdom
of the Lord. Jesus Himself gave much
importance to Children and He rebuked His
disciples when they tried to hinder them
from coming to Him. Children have always
been one of the main concentrations of our
organization. We try to reach them through
Child Evangelism, Sunday Schools, Vacation
Bible School, Children's Bible Club etc...
We are very much pleased to tell you that we
have reached more than 2900 children with
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have trained
13 Sunday school teachers who try to reach
the children regularly according to a plan.
Our Sunday school teachers regularly go to
different Sunday Schools every Sunday and
teach the kids. We also show the kids puppet
shows, different skits, action songs and
etc... Our main aim in doing children's
ministry is to let the kids know that Jesus
is the Lord of the world while they are
still young. We want to plant the seed of
God's love in their little hearts. Thank
you.
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B. Services to Needy Societies:
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Children’s Homes:
Good Samaritan Ministries has very special
heart for the Street Kids and this made us
establish 3 homes for the children that have
lost their fathers and mother. We feel very
special love for them because we know that
God created them and that they are precious
to Him. We count them as God's own Children.
I am sure you are well aware of the
Tremendous Tsunami, occurred in December
2004. It is a well-known fact that it caused
a great deal of damage in costal states of
Andhra Pradesh like Tamilnadu, Kerala and
Andhra Pradesh.
Many fishermen and women who were in the sea
at that time never came back to the shore.
The very sad thing that happened then was
that many children became orphans. Most of
the kids lost their father while a good
number of children lost both the father and
mother. Some children even washed away into
the sea. Many Children became orphans.
Having no one to care for them, they began
to wander in the streets, half naked,
begging some money so that they could buy a
piece of bread to fill their stomachs. They
were abandoned and rejected. They took their
shelter in bus stations and railway
stations. Their lives became indescribably
miserable. At this juncture, Good Samaritan
Ministries felt compassion on them and
established the first home in June 2005 when
we began to care for 50 kids who were in
most need of the care. Later we established
two more homes for them. Together, there are
150 street kids in these three homes,
leading better lives. They are very much
loved and cared for. Now, they no longer
remember their bitter experiences.
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Night Schools for Tribal Illiterate people: The trial people are one of the main concentrations of Good
Samaritan ministries. It has special heart for
them because they are very backward and have not
seen many good things in life. Most of the
people are born in ignorance, live in ignorance
and die in ignorance. They know very little
about the civilization. Moreover, they are the
people with blind and irrational beliefs. They
worship the idols made of wood, stone and clay.
They practice things like witch craft, infant
sacrifice etc… We know education plays a major
role in eradication of ignorance. So, we are
trying to educate them through this Night
School. The reason why we choose night schools
is because all these people go to work during
day. We could achieve amazing results in this.
We have established 3 night schools in 3
different areas. They are doing very well. More
and more people are showing their interest in
learning education. We are pleased to inform you
that many people who were once illiterate are
now able to read, write and effectively
communicate.
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Medical Camps for Poor and Tribal People:
Unfortunately, medical treatment or medicine is not within
the reach of most of these tribal people
because they live very far from the towns so
to say they live in places like forests and
on hill tops. They do not even have proper
communication or transportation facilities.
It is no exaggeration to state that most of
the people have never seen hospitals in
their life. Usually, these people use some
traditional medicine, which, in most cases,
does no good to them. Many die at their
young age, while many other suffer from
chronic diseases. Therefore, Good Samaritan
helps these people by Conducting free
Medical Camps every month. We take good
doctors and medicine to check the people.
Hundreds of people have been benefited by
these camps.
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Pure and Clean Water Projects:
Another
area where Good Samaritan is touching the
lives of these pitiable people in the area
of drinking water. These people usually
drink the water from canals and streams that
flows from the tops of the mountains. This
water is polluted in so many ways by the
time it reaches these people. Most of these
people generally get sick because they drink
this unclean and polluted water. So, Good
Samaritan is helping these people get pure
and clean drinking water by digging bore
wells for them. We have been able to dig 27
bore wells in different villages where
people are now getting pure drinking water
and keeping themselves away from the
diseases caused due to drinking of unclean
water.
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Tailoring and Computer Training Centers for
Poor Widows and Youth:
Good Samaritan has been a real blessing to
poor widows and youth who are not able to
afford for self employment training and
other technical courses such as Computer
etc… In fact, most of the widows commit
suicide because their husbands are dead and
they have no source of income because they
were wholly dependent of their husbands for
their livelihood. Most of the youth are
discouraged thinking that they can achieve
nothing in life due to their poverty. Good
Samaritan is filling such lives with hope
and expectation by offering them free
Tailoring and Computer Training.
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Homes for the Abandoned Senior Citizens:
Good Samaritan loves Aged people and takes
great pleasure in caring for the people who
have none to care for them or who are
deserted by their own children or relatives.
Good Samaritan has established two homes for
such people, where 46 senior citizens are
provided food, shelter and care. All of them
are leading very happy lives because of what
Good Samaritan is doing unto them. They are
very much grateful to the organization for
the compassion shown to them.
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V. Current Project: |
Children’s Homes:
As stated
earlier, Good Samaritan cares for 152 orphan and
destitute children. Speaking from the beginning,
in June 2005 we inaugurated a home for 50 orphan
kids. We were able to take a good care of them,
giving them good food, education and shelter. As
we saw the more orphan children (because of the
Tsunami which claimed many lives), wandering the
streets without any hope and expectation in
their lives, half naked and begging whole day
for their bread, we inaugurated another home for
52 kids in July 2006 and later we inaugurated
one more home for 50 more kids in November 2006.
Thus, now we have 3 homes where 152 kids are
loved and cared for.
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What we
are doing for these kids:
At the
moment, we are able to sufficiently provide
for the 50 kids in the first home. They are
leading pretty good and enjoyable lives.
They are growing stronger and healthier.
They have gained back their confidence and
are doing excellent in their studies and in
every aspect of life. God has been blessing
them with his Heavenly blessings. Some of
the children are getting awards in their
studies and sports.
But for the 102
kids in 2nd and 3rd homes,
we are not able to do much. We know these kids
deserve a lot in their life because they have
suffered so much. We are able to give them milk
and bread in the morning and little bit of food
in the afternoon and evening. We are not able to
provide them with good clothing, shelter and
education etc… We want to give them delicious
and nutritious food. We took them in to homes
because of their wretched and miserable lives.
We still do not have proper homes for them. We
have not been able to provide them with good
clothing. Some of them are still putting on torn
clothes. Most of the children are just sleeping
on the floor with just a blanket spread on the
floor. We have not been able to provide them
with enough toilets too.
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What we need:
To provide each of this 102 kids with sufficient food and too
meet all their needs satisfactorily, we need 25
USD dollar each child per month.
We are looking for some kind and generous people
or some social organizations that have heart for
street kids so that they can support and sponsor
the kids. Just your 25 USD per month can make a
needy and orphan child smile here. We will be
very much grateful to you if you can have
compassion on these kids and arrange some help
for these lovely kids. Thank you.
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