Where the Gospel Is Multiplying
Indigenous leaders are planting churches that plant churches across South Asia. For their safety, identities are never shown — only the regions where the work is alive.
E4S India Christian Missions
Ron Tallcott
E4S Missions Advisor
WHO ARE WE
E4S is a ministry of The Crossing in Quincy, IL (EIN: 37-0991931), created to raise funds to resource church planting organizations in SE Asia, primarily India. This is done through multiplication of disciples and churches.
WHERE WE DO WHAT WE DO
Our work is primarily focused in India, with some other work taking place in other areas of SE Asia. We have 26 leaders actively replicating new leaders in 19 states in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. These efforts tale place in large-crowded cities and small tribal villages, anywhere and wherever they feel the call “to go” and share the Gospel.
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
Our name says it all. India is a country with 1.5 billion people. That is 5 times the population of the United States in a country one-third the size of the US. Of these millions of people, 97% of them do not call Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior. That mean 9 out 10 people you walk past on the street, or drive by in the traffic, will spend eternity separated from God. To make matter even more challenging, there is major persecution that takes place against believers, and those who are called to preach the Gospel. Our goal is to chang all of that…to reach all of India with the Good News of Jesus Christ dying on a cross so that they can choose to spend eternity with Him.
HOW WE DO WHAT WE DO
We raise funds any way we can. Through individuals, churches, foundations and social media. We then pass that money through to the ministries that we feel can use the money effectively and bear fruit. What does fruit look like? The main metrics we measure with our ministry partners are 1) Gospel Shares, 2) Confessions of Faith, 3) People Trained, 4) Baptisms and 5) Churches Planted.
The 26 leaders in each area have similar methods of training. This is referred to as “equipping the saints” to carry out the work of the church. These are mostly done in larger groups over a period of about one year, and then, qualified, they go and plant a church in their home. These church have about 12-30 people in them and will normally produce 5-10 more baptisms, and many time spin off more churches.