CNH District Supports LHM in India

Second only to China in number, India is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Covering 3.3 million square miles, India is roughly one-third the size of the United States. Religion in India is very diverse and practiced freely in public. Hinduism is the predominant religion in India, practiced by 80 percent of the populace. Muslims comprise about 10 percent, Christians about 3 percent, with Sikhs and others the remainder. At least 90 percent of the Christian population emerges from the lower castes, very few are from the hard to reach upper castes. India has now surpassed China as the nation with the fastest growing Christian population.  Since 1951, Lutheran Hour Ministries has taken on the challenge of spreading the Good News to thousands of Indian people who have never had the opportunity to learn about Jesus Christ, and CNH District Lutheran Hour Ministries has adopted the office in India for special support.

In 2007, our district undertook a fund raising effort to provide "Bibles for India".  Our goal was to raise funds for the printing of 5000 Bibles in the local languages so the Christian Media Centre, as our office in India is known, could provide free Bibles to those who requested them.  For more background on this project as well as information on the results, click here.  This project has now been completed.  If you wish to support continuing efforts by our district in India, please consider donating to the current project shown below.

In June of 2008, our district will be sending a "Global Work and Witness" team of 15 people to our office in India to help with some much needed renovation and other projects.  For more on this ministry effort, click here.  We are currently raising funds to cover the expenses of this trip and needed supplies, and the thermometer shows the progress towards God's goal as of May 28th.

Our India 2008 team has developed their own website about this project where you can find out more about the team members, what they are planning on doing both before, during and after the trip, and additional information about Lutheran Hour Ministries - India.  Their site also details what the financial goals are to cover this trip and an expected trip in 2009.  To visit the site, click here.

Additionally, in July of 2008 we will be bringing the director of our office in India and his wife to California to visit as many congregations as possible with first hand information about their ministry efforts.  They will then be meeting with LHM staff and other international directors in St. Louis before attending the International Lutheran Laymen's League Convention in late July in Lexington, Kentucky.  We are in need of additional support for this project in such ways as providing funding, housing, and local transportation.

If you wish to financially support either or both of these current projects, you may mail your donation to CNH District Lutheran Laymen's League.  Please click here for a printable donation form to use for submitting your contribution.  You may also donate online using the PayPal button below.    If you wish to designate the distribution of your PayPal donation ("Global Work and Witness Trip" or "Director's Visit"), please enter that information in the notes section of the PayPal forms.  Your donations are tax deductable and you will receive a receipt for your donation.

Another way to support these projects is buying some of our special products that were designed for this project.  Josh Weygandt, one of our participants in the upcoming trip, designed the trip logo which is on them.  The supplier is donating 15% of sales to our project.  To view and purchase these items, please click on the logo.  There are clothing items for men, women and children, as well as a variety of gift items.

For more information on how you can take part in and support these current projects, please contact Chuck Weygandt at (805)610-4540.