How REAP Supports the Work of God in India

At REAP India, our mission is simple: to see the Gospel take root, multiply, and transform lives across India. Every effort, every prayer, and every gift helps advance that work. 

Planting and Training for Lasting Impact

We believe the local church is God’s plan for reaching communities. That’s why church planting is at the heart of what we do. Through training and mentoring, we equip local believers to step into their calling as disciple-makers and leaders. These men and their families are planting churches that are not only gathering for worship but are also becoming centers of hope, healing, and community renewal.

As of April 2025, we’ve shifted to a three-tier deployment strategy, classifying all Christian workers into one of three categories based on supervision reports and quarterly reviews:

• Category 1: Movement Leaders
  Evangelists and itinerant workers are sent out for a 1-year term.
  They spread Gospel seeds wide and far, often in unreached areas.

• Category 2: Static Leaders
  Disciple-makers and local pastors are sent out for a 2-year term.
  These leaders begin cultivating consistent discipleship.

• Category 3: IRCP Church Planters
  Workers who demonstrate both fruit and faithfulness are given a 3-year term to plant a model church. These are our long-term, community-anchored planters.

This model allows us to graduate workers into roles that best match their calling and gifting:

• After 1 year: Evangelists

• After 2 years: Disciple-making pastors

• After 3 years: Fully trained Church Planters

Alongside church planting, our training initiatives ensure that leaders are grounded in Scripture, equipped to teach others, and prepared to stand firm in their faith, even in difficult circumstances. We also provide work and income sourcing through our GOATway project for church planters. This ensures the church planters’ success by creating sustainable revenue streams for those in rural areas.

Springbuds: Nurturing the Next Generation

Through our Springbuds program, we come alongside children who are often overlooked or vulnerable. The Springbuds home is able to step in and take them in for a season while the parents get back on their feet.

There are two homes in our Springbuds program — one for elementary school aged children, starting at 4 years old, and another home that houses middle and high school aged kids. Your giving allows us to continue to build better homes for them to live in, food to eat, and a quality education.

How We Raise Support

None of this would be possible without a faithful network of partners. There are several ways this happens:

• Ongoing Partners – Many stand with us through monthly giving, providing a steady foundation for ministry.

• Special Gifts – At times, God moves in unexpected ways—through legacy gifts, churches or organizations making one-time contributions, or other significant donations. These moments remind us of His perfect provision.

• Events – Gathering together not only raises needed funds but also spreads the vision of REAP. One of the greatest joys of our events is seeing friends and family introduced to REAP for the first time and joining in the mission. We currently host events in Austin, Texas and Knoxville, TN.

Save the Date for Our Beacon for India Event

We are thrilled to announce our 2nd Annual Beacon for India event!

October 26, 2025
4:00 – 8:00 pm
Lighthouse Knoxville

This evening will be a time to celebrate what God is doing, hear powerful stories, and join hands in supporting the mission in India. We hope you’ll mark your calendars and invite others who may not yet know about REAP. Expanding our circle of partners is one of the greatest blessings of these gatherings.

Join Us in the Work

The Gospel is advancing in India, and together, we get to be part of it. Whether through prayer, giving, or inviting others into the mission, your partnership makes a lasting difference.

As we look ahead to this year’s Beacon for India, we invite you to pray with us:

• For more partners to come alongside this work.

• For continued strength and wisdom for our church planters and leaders.

• For lives and communities to be transformed by the love of Christ.

Thank you for standing with REAP. Together, we are shining the light of Christ in India. If you are interested in hosting an event to raise awareness and partnership in your area we’d love to talk with you.

Equipping Church Planters Across South Asia Through OurOnline Learning Platform

At REAP India, we believe church planting is most effective when indigenous leaders are equipped to disciple others and multiply. Our Online Learning Platform (OLP) initiative is helping us do just that as part of our Academy for Church Planting & Leadership.

This platform is more than just a website. It’s a powerful tool that allows us to train and equip local leaders in ways we never could before.

What Is the OLP?

Think of the OLP as a central hub filled with resources for our certified trainers, trainees, and church planters. Through it, we’re making academic and practical training materials available in the heart languages of our students across South Asia.

These resources, ranging from videos and lessons to discussion guides, aren’t just meant to be consumed. They’re designed to help each leader we train become a trainer themselves, multiplying the Gospel’s reach far beyond what our staff alone could accomplish.

Why Is This So Important?

In South Asia, many people learn best through oral and visual methods, and adults especially thrive when they can learn alongside others in discussion. But with the sheer size of the population we’re engaging, traditional classroom models just can’t keep up.

The OLP bridges that gap. By using video, audio, and interactive tools, we can:

• Equip church planters to disciple others in ways that match their learning styles.

• Offer structured, credible training—without relying solely on large institutions.

• Keep training “under the radar” of anti-Christian opposition by using secure, online channels rather than public broadcast media.

Most importantly, the OLP is not just about content—it’s about connection. Discipleship isn’t a classroom project or a degree program; it’s about relationships that encourage Christ-like living in real-life contexts. The OLP simply provides the tools leaders need to foster those relationships.

Where Are We Now?

Right now, we’re in the exciting development stage. Here’s what’s happening:

• Audio-visual lessons are being recorded in five languages by experienced mission practitioners and biblical scholars.

• Translations and study materials are in progress so every student can fully engage with the lessons.

• Qualified instructors are being recruited and trained to guide students, both online and in person.

We’re also setting up our first studio for video and audio production, and we’ve already raised $18,400 of the $32,400 needed to complete this stage. Just $14,000 more will get the studio ready to launch.

What’s Next?

Once the studio is complete, we’ll move on to cloud storage and web development so students can easily access the materials and instructors can provide live and recorded teaching.

In total, the cost to get the OLP fully operational is $82,500. Here’s where that funding goes:

• Faculty Development & Training – $4,750

• Content Development – $22,500

• Translation – $16,750

• Studio Setup – $16,000

• IT Equipment – $16,400

• Web & Data Management – $5,400

• Miscellaneous – $700

While that may sound like a big investment, the OLP will actually fund future church planting once it’s up and running. With just 110 students enrolled each year, paying $75 annually, we’ll recover the full cost in 10 years, and every dollar earned after that will go straight toward planting more churches across South Asia.

How You Can Help

The OLP is more than a project, it’s a way to see the Gospel multiply faster than ever, equipping local believers to make disciples and plant churches in places we could never reach alone.

Right now, the most urgent need is to finish funding the studio setup so we can launch the first wave of lessons and translations. Your support will help us close the $14,000 gap and take this critical step toward equipping hundreds of future leaders.

Together, we can make this vision a reality—training leaders, planting churches, and seeing lives transformed across South Asia.

Springbuds Facility Updates

Thanks to your generosity and continued prayers, we are excited to share encouraging progress on our Springbuds campus. Over the last several months, construction has been underway to create more stable, welcoming spaces for the children and staff who call this place home. These updates are more than just new walls or roofs, but building blocks for the future of discipleship and transforming young lives.

A VISION FOR HOLISTIC CARE

Our Springbuds program exists to provide a safe and nurturing home for children who have been neglected, abandoned, or temporarily without family care. We take in children as young as four years old, offering not just food, shelter, and education, but a place to grow in Christ. As this program has grown, so has the need for more permanent, functional spaces to support the children and our dedicated staff.

PROGRESS MADE POSSIBLE

This month, we’re thrilled to report two major construction milestones:

• The Springbuds School foundation work is nearly complete. This foundational step brings us closer to having a fully dedicated on-campus learning space. It’s a big leap toward providing quality education without children needing to travel long distances or attend inconsistent schools.

• The Staff Quarters are finished! These living quarters provide stable housing for our staff who serve around the clock. Their presence, care, and Christ-like love are essential to the discipleship and development of the children.

THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH US

These projects were made possible through your giving. Your partnership is not just funding buildings, but it’s creating places where broken stories can be healed, where faith can grow, and where futures are being reshaped by the Gospel.

We’ll continue to share more as construction progresses. Until then, please keep praying for:

• The continued safety and timely completion of the school building

• The children and staff who will use these new spaces daily

• That these homes and classrooms would be filled with God’s presence

Thank you again for your support as we build up the next generation of disciples.

A New Era of Church Planting at REAP

At REAP India, we’ve always believed the Gospel moves fastest through local believers. That’s why our mission has never been just about planting churches but about equipping the people who plant them.

This year, we’re entering a new season of strategy and clarity as we launch our Disciple Maker Mobilization Plan. This is a refined church planting model built to move faster, steward resources wisely, and raise up more indigenous leaders across South Asia.

Why the Change?

Finding highly skilled church planters in many rural and tribal regions is difficult and time-consuming. But we also know that God often calls the willing before He equips the ready.

We’re now focusing on deploying disciple makers first, trusting that through ongoing training, mentorship, and field supervision, we’ll identify the ones who will go on to become long-term church planters.

This approach allows us to:

• Move faster in spreading the Gospel

• Cast a wider net to find faithful men and women ready to be trained

• Equip believers at different stages of leadership, whether they’re evangelists, disciple-makers, or church planters

How It Works

As of April 2025, we’ve shifted to a three-tier deployment strategy, classifying all Christian workers into one of three categories based on supervision reports and quarterly reviews:

• Category 1: Movement Leaders
  Evangelists and itinerant workers are sent out for a 1-year term.
  They spread Gospel seeds wide and far, often in unreached areas.

• Category 2: Static Leaders
  Disciple-makers and local pastors are sent out for a 2-year term.
  These leaders begin cultivating consistent discipleship.

• Category 3: IRCP Church Planters
  Workers who demonstrate both fruit and faithfulness are given a 3-year term to plant a model church. These are our long-term, community-anchored planters.

This model allows us to graduate workers into roles that best match their calling and gifting:

• After 1 year: Evangelists

• After 2 years: Disciple-making pastors

• After 3 years: Fully trained Church Planters

What’s Ahead

Between April 2025 and March 2026, 30 Christian workers will be deployed under this model. Based on past experience, around 70% of them will go on to become church planters.

We’ve already begun:

• 18 disciple makers are preparing to launch in Sri Lanka by June.

• 12 each in Rajasthan and Nepal by September.

Our vision remains the same: plant discipleship-driven, community-impacting churches. But now, we’re doing it through a pipeline of disciple makers God is shaping in real time.

How You Can Be Involved

This model means your giving goes even farther, supporting not just one church plant, but a movement of leaders being raised up and sent.

Here’s how to partner with us:

• Pray for wisdom as we evaluate and equip each disciple maker

• Give to support the next wave of Gospel workers in Sri Lanka, Rajasthan, and Nepal

• Share this update with friends or churches who might want to invest in multiplying leaders

Together, we are advancing the Gospel, one disciple maker at a time.

The Unique Ways Easter is Celebrated in India

In much of India, Easter Sunday passes by without mention. Markets remain open, schools continue, and there are no public holidays or national fanfare. But tucked into churches and homes across the country, small communities gather to remember something that we know is life-changing — the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

These quiet, faithful celebrations may not be seen by many, but their impact is undeniable.

Bold, Faithful Celebration 

While Christians make up just 2–3% of India’s population, the body of Christ is active and growing. In regions like Kerala, Goa, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and parts of Tamil Nadu, Easter Sunday is filled with joyful praise, sunrise worship services, and celebratory meals.

Much like here in the U.S., Indian believers observe Holy Week with Palm Sunday, Good Friday gatherings, and special Easter services. But the context is often far more difficult. In many places, Christians celebrate quietly not because they are ashamed, but because they are surrounded by neighbors who may not understand, or may even oppose, their faith. And yet they worship boldly, knowing that Jesus is alive and that resurrection power is at work.

Food is a key part of Easter joy in India just like for so many of us here in the US, it just looks and tastes a little dofferent. In Kerala, families gather around tables filled with appam (fermented rice pancakes) and savory stew. Hot cross buns and Easter eggs — a legacy of British influence — are also popular in many regions. 

For many, Easter follows 40 days of Lent, where believers fast, reflect, and prepare their hearts for Resurrection Sunday. The season of sacrifice makes Easter morning a meaningful moment of deep joy after a time of spiritual preparation.

Celebrating Our Risen King

At REAP, we are privileged to partner with local believers and church planters who live out the truth of Easter not just on one Sunday, but every day. They carry the message of the risen Christ into villages, cities, and homes, even in places where His name is barely known.

This Easter, we invite you to pause and consider the beauty of Resurrection Sunday in India. Talk with your family about how Easter is celebrated around the world. Pray for boldness, joy, and protection for the believers in India who are celebrating whether in public or private, all with the faith that Christ is risen indeed.

Pray With Us

• Pray for Indian believers who celebrated Easter with courage and joy.

• Pray for the families of our church planters — that they would find strength in the hope of the resurrection.

• Pray for new believers, especially those coming out of Hindu or tribal traditions, to grow in their understanding of Easter.

• Pray that the Gospel message would spread in both bold and quiet ways — and that many more in India would come to know the risen Jesus.

From sunrise services in Kerala to quiet gatherings in rural villages, Easter in India may look different but the truth is the same. He is risen. He is risen indeed.