Mid-Year Report

Mid-year Report An update on the status and progress of The Tide© ministry.

INDIA – The Good News Hour studio in India is being kept very busy recording and producing ongoing programming in nine different heart languages.  Seven of these languages are spoken by people groups who are found primarily within India.  The other two languages are Nepali, which is beamed into Nepal, and Dzongkha which is the primary language spoken in Bhutan.  The Dzongkha program just began airing at the beginning of June and already the enemy has attempted to disrupt this new outreach.  TWR has informed us that due to some technical malfunctions on their end two of The Tide Dzongkha language programs did not get aired in June.  Please pray with us that this does not happen again and that listeners will be able to develop regular routines and know that they can depend on hearing God’s Word regularly.
Our partners in India are faithfully increasing discipleship activities, and the number of people being impacted by Seekers Conferences, literature distribution and correspondence courses continues to grow.  Consequently, the space we are renting to house our discipleship center is becoming very crowded as more room is required to store literature and correspondence materials.  A potential solution to this problem is to add a second floor to the building, but the landlord is not in a financial position to do that for us, and The Tide currently does not have reserves to proceed with construction under an amended rental agreement.  Pray for wisdom and discernment for our board of directors as they seek to resolve this issue.

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