Samaritan's Projects

Samaritan's Projects is an exciting venture for Radstock Ministries. Working alongside Alok Srivastava and Tell Asia Ministries' church-planting network in Uttar Pradesh, Radstock connections will strengthen existing churches and forge relationships for new church plants, micro-enterprise development and vital water provision.

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Samaritan's Projects is currently expanding to include training centres for new church leaders, micro-enterprise development and Samaritan's Wells.  Initiatives include:

  • Seeking financial support for pastors and church planters to become self sufficient
  • Providing bibles for believers
  • Establishing a sewing training centre to assist women in setting up small businesses to help support their families
  • Bible training to equip church planters and pastors to further the kingdom of God
  • Boring water wells to make much needed water supply available to people of all castes

Check back for regular updates on the ministry.

 

Samaritan's Wells

In many parts of India, water is a precious resource, not readily available to the poorer parts of society. Although India's constitution outlaws caste-base discrimination, the practice persists in rural areas, and often the lower castes (the Dalits) cannot use the water supplies - situated in areas they are prevented from entering. Additionally, new believers in Christ are similarly discriminated against. The vision of the project is to bore new wells in conjunction with existing local churches or new church plants. The wells will be available to all sectors of the local community, providing much-needed water, raising the profile of the church in the community and drawing people into the life of the church.

Radstock's Samaritan's Well aims to:

• support and strengthen new and existing churches in Uttar Pradesh

• provide much-needed water supplies

• connect churches worldwide with the church-planting movement in Uttar Pradesh for ongoing relationships of prayer, support and gospel partnership

To date, three wells have already been provided in Khushambhi, Bhandi and Asoha, supporting the new village churches and others in their villages and providing water to Christians who had been denied access to the village supply. These churches who have been helped are delighted that people from so far away have helped to support them, as they seek to make Christ known in their communities. Financing has also now been sent for an additional five wells.

Your church can get connected for mission in India by sponsoring a well for just £400/$600.

Contact Keith Mersh () to find out how!