Southern Asia Today   (FOCUS ON INDIA) Nonviolent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU brought independence in 1947. However, since then, despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India today faces pressing problems such as the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife. Christians number only 2.3% of the population.   Profile   Jim and Bonnie Roane 724 Blue Bonnet Drive Allen, Texas 75002 4435 972 359 0075 214 280 0775   Dr. Jim Roane has spent a lifetime in humanitarian and relief work. Early in his career he served as a medical social worker for the California Welfare Department, then as the administrator of a large private hospital in Southern California. His colorful career has taken him to all parts of the world—as the Managing Director of the Lillian Trasher Memorial Orphanage in Egypt, to the Director of Central Services to the United Mission to Nepal, Executive Director of the Northwest Teen Challenge Drug Rehabilitation Program for the northwestern sector of the United States, as well as professorial and chairmanship positions on the university level at North Central University (MN), and Trinity College (ND). Most recently he and his wife, Bonnie-who is a registered nurse-helped coordinate a major NGO cooperative effort for tsunami relief in Sri Lanka, and continue in that role as advisors and consultants in humanitarian and relief work. Dr. and Mrs. Roane feel that each human being placed on this earth by our Heavenly Father is a person of worth and dignity, and has the inalienable right to the pursuit of truth, happiness, and religious and political freedom. Presently, Jim also serves as the Director of www.Network211eMinistry.com, an internet ministry with a goal of reaching 10 million souls in the next decade through the internet. Please make this a sincere matter of prayer. If you wish to know more, you may do so by logging onto Network211.com   Resume'

Western India   Dr. Thomas Marcus Devasahayam Baroda Bible Club Assemblies Of GodTF1, Arpita Complex, Priyalaxmi Mill Road Baroda, Gujarat 390003 Phone (India) 91-265-554-0651 www.barodabibleclub.org Dear Friends of Missions: We are thankful to be the first Assemblies of God Pastor and his family to live and work in Gujarat. Truly, we can say with Paul that: It has always been our ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that we would not be building on someone else's foundation. [Roms. 15:20] We are located Badodara in the Central part of Gujarat where we have established a mother church out of which we help direct a team of about 80 nationals workers who minister throughout Gujarat, and on the borders of the states of Rajesthan and Madra Pradesh. Our vision is to develop a team of fully trained workers to establish churches in all of our major cities, and village areas. To accomplish that we are presently expanding our work to include a ministry site complex that will serve as a church and conference center, as well as a Bible school and distant education internet and seminar facility. We are indeed thankful that God has called missionaries Dr. and Mrs. Jim Roane of the Assemblies of God, Springfield, Missouri, to work along side of us in this ministry. Please take time to look over our project proposal, and pray with us that we will be able to raise the necessary budget to meet this urgent need. In His Missionary Service, Marcus Devasahayam Marcus Devasahayam For more information on how you may contribute contact Dr. Jim Roane at: jimroane@pactec.net Dr. Devasahayam is a pastor in the city of Baroda, India. His vision is to train Christian workers. At present, these evangelists are trained in practical Christian living through 1-2 day ministry training seminars. He is also reaching to thousands of people through the Internet and his web site.   eMinistry Center (East & West India)

North East India   Reverend (Dr.) Thupu-o Nyekha General Superintendent Assemblies of God of East India H.S. Area, P. O. Box 127 Kohima 797 001 Nagaland, India   +91 (0370) 270-6757 +91 (0370) 2280-035 +91 (0370) 229-1023 +91 (943) 601-6536   ymission@sancharnet.in Dear Friends of India, Back when Americans were still riding in buggies a handful of faithful servants of God visit the North East Territories of the British Empire here in North East India. What they found amazed them—yes, there were headhunters, and what some referred to as savages; but that was not what amazed them. What amazed them was the fact that these people were hungry for God, and ready to throw off their old ways. That hunger is still present, even today. Yet, we struggle daily, just to protect our people from the hoards of anti-Christian forces attacking us physically, and spiritually. Hundreds of our people have suffered martyrdom—not just in the past, but as recent as yesterday’s newspaper. We are not afraid, however. We know beyond a shadow of doubt that the Gates of Hell will not prevail. God will triumph. We are on the winning side! Today, North East India has over 450 pastors, and some 350 churches and about 100 preaching points. This, however, is only a drop in the bucket when we see the task that lies before us. We refuse to allow the mission of the Church to standstill just because times are difficult. We are, therefore, launching a new drive to spread the Good News throughout all of the North East and into surrounding countries like Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and, yes, even China. To accomplish this great task, we have asked Dr. and Mrs. Jim Roane—the first Assemblies of God missionaries to ever reside in North East India—to help us develop a ministry complex that includes a church and conference center that will house a Bible school (including the first school of music in the Assemblies of God of India) and distant education internet and seminar center. We are more than willing to pull our load financially, but we must face the hard facts of life that what we have is not enough. We are, therefore, asking you to pray and consider helping us financially to extend the Kingdom of God in this forgotten part of Southern Asia. May God, the Father of us all, richly bless you,   Thupu-o Nyekha Reverend (Dr.) Thupu-o Nyekha The Assemblies o God of East India P. S. There are a couple of pressing issues that I would like to present for your prayerful consideration in regards to this project: 1. We are desperately in need of Rs. 1,000, 000 ($22,563.18) to Rs. 1,500,000 ($33,844.77) for the 3rd level which has already began. This work should be finished before the rainy season so that landslides will be avoided. (Summer monsoon) June, 2006. 2. For 2007 we will need about Rs. 2,000, 000 ($45,126.35) for the Building (4th & 5th floors) to be ready for the dedication during the General Conference of AGEI which will be held in the month of November 2007. (Designate for Project # 6899) eMinistry Center (East & West India)