Medical Care is Scarce in Rural India
The need for medical care in the areas Kerusomen serves is huge. A 2023 study found that while over 70% of India’s people live in rural or semi-rural areas, 80% of the country’s doctors practice in the cities. Medical camps help bridge this gap offering professional care and basic medications free of charge.
Diseases that can be cured inexpensively, like diarrhea, are causing needless deaths. 125,000 Indian kids die every year from diarrhea.
Leela, one of our KGM widows, suffered from skin infections for eight years. The culprit was fungus that grew in the dark room where she dried her laundry; it contaminated her intimate apparel. Village “healers” could not find the cause but through her illness, her KGM family not only helped her find a solution that ended the infections, they introduced Leela to Jesus, the true Healer.
Just $500 equips KGM India to fund one medical camp mission, including a treatment tent, doctors, nurses, an ambulance, and basic medicines for common ailments.
These camps will not only give access to health treatment for villagers who have none, they also allow our missionaries to pray and share the Gospel with those who would never listen under normal circumstances.
At a recent camp in Punjab, 420 people received prayer and wanted to learn more about Jesus. KGM missionaries distributed 120 New Testaments and 300 Bible tracts. Twelve people signed up for regular prayer visits and some are now attending KGM churches. 
A gift of any amount will help us multiply this compassionate outreach effort to all seven India states where Kerusomen has churches. Funding an entire three day camp with physicians, basic medicines, tents, and ambulances is $500.
OTHER WAYS TO SERVE THE LEAST OF THESE
Train and Equip a Bible Story Tellers
to Reach Oral Cultures in India
The hardest places to reach people with the Gospel are often that way for a reason. There are geographic challenges, restrictive countries, alternate world views, as well as complex language and dialect differences to overcome in these tough to reach places
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The Forgotten Seventy Percent
One of the biggest obstacles rarely discussed - or even considered - is learning differences. That's a big problem because 70% of the world's unreached people are non-reading learners from oral cultures. Yet even today, 90% of Christian evangelists still use literate learning methods (books, internet apps, and written study guides) to try to reach them - with meager success.
We fail to reach them not because they reject the Gospel message, but because God wired them to learn about Him in a different way.
How Oral Cultures Learn
Oral cultures learn through storytelling, drama, dance, music, song and even poetry.So, Kerusomen India equips its native missionary-pastors to communicate the Gospel effectively through:
- Bible storytelling and dialogue training using word-for-word accuracy to preserve the Word of God.
- Musical adaptations to scripture in song, dance, and drama;
- Providing a story cloth tool, featuring 42 chronological Bible stories revealing the gospel of Jesus Christ, called the Bible Story Scarf that helps believers share their faith.
KGM instructors use a widely accepted, proven training program, that has been in practice for 25 years. It provides native grassroots workers with a systematic strategy to reach oral learners and the illiterate.Equip and train one storyteller for just $15.
Reach the Next Generation for Jesus
KGM Vacation Bible School turned-out 6,000 children in 2024. 73% of these children were from non-Christian home. That victory and the resultant growing Sunday School classes are motivating KGM India to seize the opportunity to reach more non-Christian children and families who live near KGM churches.
Plans are in motion to open after-school Children’s Clubs at some of our 120 church facilities. Initially the clubs will be open one day each week, using stories from the Bible to teach English communication skills and offering recreational activities including sports and games.
Initially, the clubs will be open one day each week, teaching English communication skills and offering recreational activities including sports and games. The Bible Story Scarf tool is used for lessons so the children are exposed to the Gospel as they learn and discuss the Bible stories in English.
KGM instructors use a widely accepted, proven training program, that has been in practice for 25 years. It provides native grassroots workers with a systematic strategy to reach oral learners and the illiterate. Parents are eager for their children to learn better English skills and love knowing kids have a safe place to stay until they're home from work.The cost to equip one Club is just $120.
