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 The foundation of Body of Christ Ministries (BCM) began in December of 1979, with the obscure arrival of Moses Paulose and his young family on the island of Rameswaram, on the Tamil coast of South India. They had no friends there, and no funds or support from home. His wife, Sarojam was eight months pregnant with their third child. They had abandoned their home in Kerela, sold their possessions, and used all their money to stage Gospel crusades, saving just enough for train tickets to Rameswaram. They did not yet know the Tamil language.

What they did possess were the unshakeable call and promises of God, by sure and proven prophesy, and a dauntless determination to be faithful, even unto death. The island to which they were sent is one of Hinduism's main centers of pilgrimage and temple ritual, and it is very hostile to the Gospel. No church had ever been planted there, and another evangelist who had stopped there a few months earlier had been beheaded by the Hindu priests.

MapArrow.jpgIt was over a year before their first convert and a fledgling church began to emerge. From the beginning, and to the present, the ministry has been propelled -- and the Gospel confirmed -- through countless miracles and works of the Holy Spirit, and that despite numerous assaults and attempts on their lives.

Today, BCM has over sixty thriving village churches on Rameswaram, and hundreds more throughout the mainland. The vision given to Moses Paulose from the beginning was not only to bring the Light of Jesus into that dark place, but also to train many disciples there, to be sent into all of India, where about 500,000 villages still remain untouched by the Gospel.

I (Stan Avery) first met Moses Paulose during a journey through India in 1984. I had met many disciples in Northern India who regarded Rameswaram as THE place to be trained for village church-planting....if you could endure the rigors and sufferings that were renowned as the hallmark of Brother Paulose' life and ministry. Later in that journey, I was blessed to attend in Kerala, South India, the largest conference of Evangelical leaders in India's history. Moses Paulose was the keynote speaker there. On the last evening, he challenged those 3,000 Gospel ministers to forsake the comfort and security of their urban settings, and to suffer the loss of everything for the sake of carrying the Truth of Jesus to the countless remote and forgotten villages still without hope. I watched in wonder as so many of those seasoned pastors wept openly in anguish, shaken by his challenge to them.

Since that time, over 5,000 workers have journeyed to Rameswaram, to be discipled and trained through BCM. These pastors can now be found throughout the Indian subcontinent, through various ministries, planting churches and bringing many into God's Kingdom. This is the main mission of Body of Christ Ministries.
 
At present, the staff at BCM is over 115 people. More are being added, as our needs continue to require more helpers.

 
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