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Crossing Rivers & Scaling Mountains (Report of the happenings in Blessing Youth Mission during the period from April 2018 to March 2019) Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who has warned us to be 'Watchful' in these last days. Compared to the previous year's report we could see an exponential growth in most of the areas of the ministry, expect a few. Each day as we read the newspaper reports, it is obvious that the Lord's Coming is at hand. There is an increase in violence and gender crimes and political landscapes are changing very fast. We are at a crucial stage in the history of Indian Missions. There was a time when we were dependent on the foreign missionaries but after 1950s God started to raise many indigenous Mission movements just like ours to be a blessing for our Nation. But the next era will be the 'Native-Workers Era'. It is our duty to open our eyes to the immense possibilities of raising, training and appointing them as future local church leaders. Staff are an indispensible asset to any organization. As with any organization, staff-care is a challenging work. But by His grace we had taken several steps to improve staff care and redress grievances then and there. One such initiative was the Inner Healing Meet which was organized for the senior missionaries at Chennai from 7th to 9th December. 1) Revival Ministry We also had a Mentorship Review Meet through which we could review the Staff Individual Mentorship Programme (SIMP) at large. www.bymonline.org | October 2019 | Page 12