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Assignment: India

November 4-19, 2010

New Delhi * Hyderabad * Varanasi

India - a beautiful land, a land that is the fifth largest country by land mass, and the second largest country in the world by population. This fall the Prisoners For Christ team will be departing Seattle, Washington for a trip over the pole to Amsterdam, Holland, and then to New Delhi, India. The team will have up to five days of ministry, including volunteer training, prison-wide crusades, and, time permitting, a visit to the Children's Orphanage. Our native pastors, missionaries, and volunteers will be with us the whole time, interpreting for us, and helping lead the effort both in the conferences and in the prisons. Our local leaders there include Rev. Joshua Gowda and Rev. Simon Haqq, two absolutely outstanding men of God.

The team will then split up, with one team, led by PFC President Greg Von Tobel, leading a team southeast to Varanasi, where PFC has never been before, to establish a new outreach and train new volunteers through conferences, fellowship, and prison crusades. The other team will be led by yours truly and will travel south to Hyderabad. There our team will meet with our beloved Dr. Prem Raj Varma, an outstanding prison evangelist and minister to the poor with whom PFC has been associated with for many years. Dr. Prem Raj works tirelessly inside the prisons in and around the metropolitan city of Hyderabad. His son Enoch serves as driver, friend, and co-host when were are there and our reunion is always filled with great joy.

Our missionaries would like it if we could come every six months, with the primary reason being to encourage them. Due to limitations we can only go once a year, and sometimes we skip a year to attend to other areas of ministry needing attention. Beloved, if you even have an inkling that the Lord may be drawing you to an international mission, please let me know so I can provide you with information. The will of the Lord be done, amen! The fields are white unto harvest!

A campaign like this bears much fruit. PFC has many purposes in campaigns such as a this. We encourage our native prison workers, we bring the gospel to the prisoners, men and women, and we see people converted, we edify our hosts in the presence of the prison superintendents, and the local volunteers, which enhances the leadership effectiveness of our full-time ministry hosts. We bring resources, we visit orphanages to the delight of the children (children who then pray for us daily year-round!). Yes beloved, much good work goes on when we are on such a campaign.

As you partner with us you share in the blessing, the reward, and can take comfort in knowing that what you did made a difference. We have prayer support the entire time we're on the road, and we sense it as we overcome obstacles, remain safe and healthy, and walk through open doors that the enemy would just as soon shut in our faces. As you support us financially you are trading value that you have earned for value that affects lives a half a world away, value that has eternal impact. Even now as I write this my eyes well up with tears at the past campaigns I have been on, where family and friends have invested into the ministry, and the results were that I left the shores fully funded and full of faith and confidence as I set my face toward the land of India, a land of much spiritual idolatry and bondage, a land of darkness, yet a land that is enjoying the light of the gospel in the remote prisons and jails of that land.

This is my fifth international campaign, and third to India. I will be shadowing a leader-in-training, raising up new leadership to allow Prisoners For Christ to sustain the gains made over these last years, and to allow new ground to be won for Christ behind bars in India and beyond. This trip represents the nurturing of a new relationship (New Delhi), the continued strengthening of an established relationship (Hyderabad), and the pioneering of a new relationship (Varanasi). This is the triple purpose, the triple vision, and the triple blessing of the India 2010 campaign. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12. Our theme for this campaign is from 1 Corinthians 3:6, I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Planting takes place in Varanasi (new ministry site), watering takes place in New Delhi (infant ministry site), and the increase is seen in Hyderabad (fruitful, established ministry site). Our vision is greater, and we believe this pleases the Lord Jesus Christ. We go in his grace, right into the teeth of the enemy, but our God is able and we fully intend on seeing God move in a mighty and miraculous way as we team with our local volunteers to continue the ministry to the least of the least, the forgotten, the outcast, and the hopeless, to tell them they are not forgotten, they are remembered, and they are loved, and there is hope in Christ. We go to offer the inmates a trade - their worst and their sin for God's love and God's grace.

Campaign expenses, including air and ground transportation, conference expenses (we arrange for pastors from a long distance to come, and we provide for their travel and lodging), meals (we really skimp here), and providing a blessing to the orphanage (we don't skimp here at all). Last year we saw how the children of condemned prisoners whom Dr. Prem Raj cares for, were sleeping on a hard marble floor as they had no beds. Our last year's ministry team, along with other faithful brethren stateside, financed a large set of bunk beds for the boys and the girls, and no one is sleeping on the floor now.

Campaign costs for me as a leader are finalized at $5,550. We trust the Lord for the full provision. Would you support my trip by prayer and giving? I would be grateful, as I always am. Each trip I've taken includes a written list of my donors, and on those trips their names go with me everywhere, and when I pull that list out I pray for each person and their family by name. I know God Almighty hears those prayers, they come through loud and clear. Over there I'm not distracted by the press of the days obligations like I am in America. Over there we're in a constant attitude of prayer and my donors benefit from that!

All giving is through Prisoners For Christ and is tax deductible. Here's a link for the donor site. Just use the pull down menu and find my name, Bob Jordan Missions. I'll be notified of your kindness and my burden will be made lighter as a result. God bless you greatly!! By the way, when I go I leave all donations there in India. If I surpass my goal, that just means more goes into the orphanages and the work in prisons.

And now may the peace of God that passes all understanding rest with you both now and forevermore. World without end, amen!

Bob Jordan

2010 Donors: Jim and Melody Chalmers, Steve and Pam Sires, Rev. Rollie and Dottie Capes, Mike Otto, Steve Clines, John Forchione, Chaplain Dick and Judy Roethlisberger, Dallas Brodehl, Marjorie Smith and Owen Smith, Bob and Duanne Owen, Rev. Dr. Jeff and Debbie Elliott, Ernest and Evelyn Duston, Tom Lathrop, Jeff and Louise Winter, Dave and Luesa Jordan, Patti Gibbons, Tim and Beverly Luxon, Steve and Carol Roe, Randy Richards, Dale and Pat Whitlock, Rev. Bob and Ruth McKigney, Craig and Bobbie Eakright, Dr. Dave and Jen Hutchins, Damon and Debbie Stoddard, Tim Coleman, Ray and Chang Wing, Dr. Bob and Kathryn Segress, The Law Offices of Tacey-Goss (Shawn Tacey, Esq. and Chip Goss, Esq.), Charles Rupnick, Esq. and Linda Rupnick, Marsha Widell, Randy and Karla Dyer, Dee Smith, Mark and Barbie McGriff, Nick and Gena Horiatis, Gary and Susie Scott, Eric Hoort, Esq., Michael and Joy Koontz, Dave Jezak, Bradley Van Peursem, Dr. Perry J. Jones, III, Bruce and Cathy Niemi, Windy Singleton, Dr. Clif and Renee Furukawa, Raymond and Paulette Bosch, Rick Baker, Kerry Skaugset, Carol Adelson, Dave and Christina Holmes, Alan Barrentine

We did it!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!! $5,670 total!!