India
It is estimated that the population of India now stands at 1,180,000 and will surpass China's polulation by the year 2025. It is also estimated that only 2.6 percent of the people of India are Christians. The national church, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Ministries (CELM) serves more than 8,000
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Indonesia
Gereja Lutheran Indonesia, the Lutheran Church of Indonesia, is growing spiritually and numerically. In the midst of the persecution faced by Christians, the Lord is touching the hearts of many people in this country, which is almost 90 percent Muslim. In the past 10 years this church has increased from 300 souls to more than 1,500.
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Japan
The Lutheran Evangelical Confessional Church has about 400 members in 6 congregations. Those congregations are all in the Kanto Plain, near Tokyo. Those congregations are being served by three national pastors and one WELS missionary. Besides local outreach activities and friendship evangelism, thish church proclaims the name of Jesus through the Internet.
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Nepal
Until recently this country was the only officially Hindu country in the world. Outreach with the gospel is accomplished through training of workers, a Scripture learning program and humanitarian aid. The Lord has blessed these programs so that more than 100 individuals are being trained to proclaim the gospel. To date 12,000 persons have been enrolled in the Scripture learning program.
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Pakistan
Recent political turmoil is affecting our Bible correspondence program. Nevertheless, since its inception in February 2006 more than 25,000 people have been enrolled in the Bible correspondence program. The goal now is to reach an additional 10,000 students in the program.
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Taiwan
The Christian church body in Taiwan is called the Christian Lutheran Evangelical Church. There are four churches with a total membership of 150 souls. Through the powerful and active Word of God and through prayer they seek to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ and the peace, joy, love and eternal forgiveness that only Jesus offers.
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Thailand
In a country where more than ninety percent of the population holds to Buddhism, WELS is working with nationals to share the law and gospel message. The work is centered in the northern cities of ChiangMai and ChiangRai, but extends out to the west, northeast, and south.
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