Pastor Anton has been laboring in the mountainous region of the Batlagundu region, planting churches among the many isolated Hindu villages dotting the jungled hills and valleys there.

Body of Christ Ministries chose that region for a recent one-week evangelism effort.  Our team of eight disciples, led by Brother Shajin, journeyed there for a week of ministry.  They focused on introducing the Gospel into a few dozen villages where it had never been heard.  It is estimated that there are about 500,000 villages remaining throughout India where the name of Jesus is unknown.

Because of the ruggedness of the geography there, BCM decided to employ a Trax vehicle to negotiate the marginal roads in the highlands.  After church we prayed together for an hour.  Then we departed, arriving late Sunday night in Batlagundu.  Our team rose to pray each morning at 5:30, getting an early start in order to reach the village farmers.  We reached five villages in the first day.  We conducted open air meetings, using two Gospel skits, music (with a new thabala instrument), testimonies and prayers for deliverance.  Large crowds came to hear the messages and music.

People from various castes emerged, and some conveyed their needs to us with tears.  Some received powerful deliverance right there on the spot and glorified our almighty Jesus.  We ended the day by showing a Gospel film “Karman” in one village to about 200 people, and then prayed for many of them.

On Tuesday we reached seven more villages, including camps of refugees who long ago had fled the protracted civil war in the nearby nation of Sri Lanka.  In Uchapatti, one man who heard the preaching came to us in tears over the sorrows of his family.  He besought us to bring prayers to his house.  His whole family responded wonderfully to the Gospel, and the Lord Jesus gave them deliverance from their afflictions.  Altogether in that village about fifty, young and old, received the Gospel and prayed to the True and Living God.  Many were healed after prayer.  That evening we showed another film, “Prodigal Son”, in a refugee camp.  Some Hindus stood against our work there, but still about 100 there watched the Gospel film and received the Truth, turning their hearts to Jesus.