programme in Missionaries Upholders Trust (MUT)
and also held marriage enrichment seminars. Around
1400 people all over India wrote the Bible contest,
called as the 'Victory Contest', from the book of
Joshua.
In the Church Planting area, the missionaries
toiled hard to gather the harvest in the fields.
During this period,
437 Villages were visited;
233 Congregations were formed;
1840 Souls were added to His Kingdom &
10 Church buildings were built.
We are happy to inform that we have started to
work in Punjab. Andaman was visited after a gap of 12
years and the work is revived. Two of our missionaries
visited Gulf nations and strengthened the partners
there. In Odisha, we have divided the ministerial areas
into different zones and have strengthened the local
team.
God performed extraordinary miracles through
our missionaries and believers. There were reports of
healing from Cancer, Paralysis, T.B and various other
illnesses. Praise God!
Two new books, “Know To Say No” and “
White as Snow”, were released during this period in
English and Tamil. A record number of 16 books were
reprinted during this period.There was an increase of
6.3 % in literature sales during this period.
Mission runs various hostels and day care centres
to cater to the needs of the poor. The Gingeru Project in
Andhra has taken off well. The Feed Odisha project
continues to minister to the poor people in Odisha.
'The Training Department' of the Mission held
various training programmes to edify and equip the
staff. Altogether 155 staff were equipped through our
programmes and 47 staff through partnership
programmes.
'The BYM Media Department' which was
formed during the last period, did its job with much
sincerity. It has started a separate 'Youtube' channel
called as the 'BYM Media Wing' and is uploading our
Revival Messages. The special documentary of Odisha
and Maharashtra ministries were released during the
last Blesso.They are also airing our Revival messages
in Sathyam TV every Wednesday morning at 5:30 AM.
In order to reach out to the online community,
'The BYM Online Desk' came into being during this
period. The desk has started to build an email database
of our partners and have started sending Blessing EMagazine in English. It has also started to send the
online newsletter called as the, 'Showers.' All the
partners of BYM will start to receive this newsletter
shortly.
In keeping with the present pressing scenario,
we have given a marginal increase of 20% (on an
average) of basic allowance, and corresponding
increase in service allowance for the missionaries. We
also plan to increase yet another 10% in the days to
come subject to the availability of funds. We could also
introduce a new software in our Headquarters at Vellore
called as the, 'File Monitoring System' which enables
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