Pastors Training Bombay

Pastors Training North India

Leaders Training Colombo

Pastors Training Nepal

Churchasia Inc

P.O. Box 82080,

Baton Rouge, LA 70884

rick@rickzachary.com

94 Churches Planted in 2007

With the help of Bethany World Prayer Center and the Global 12 Project we were able to launch 94 village churches in 2007. Sixty-three of those congregations are in India, twenty-four in Nepal and seven are in Sri Lanka.

Our model churches are developing rapidly and beginning to serve as centers of training and oversight for the village churches. Victor Nazareth in Delhi now has 21 churches under his supervision and over 900 people. Dishan DeSilva in Colombo oversees 18 churches with over 2,000 people. K.B. Basel in Nepal oversees 70 churches with over 5,000 people. Our church in Islamabad continues to excel with over 800 in Sunday service. We expect to start multiple services there within the next three months.

Over 3,000 Churches Planted in 7 Years

In 2000, when Bev and I launched out in faith to plant churches in South Asia, I began working with New Life church in Bombay, India, helping them expand their ministry. I've spoken to their leaders frequently and ministered in many of their congregations, but our most significant contribution was the introduction of the principle of twelve to their leadership team.

I clearly remember the first time I spoke to Pastor Joseph's men and described the powerful strategy of reaching multitudes through discipleship. They already had a successful work and they were skeptical about re-organizing their ministry. Two years later, Pastor Colin Dye from Kensington Temple in London sponsored a very effective conference for Pastor Joseph's church in Bombay, where he presented the framework for the principle of twelve. Since that time we have helped New Life to build a six-story training center in Bombay and the growth of their work has been dramatic.

Since we began working with New Life Church we have helped them to plant 249 churches. During that same time, New Life planted 3,135 churches with indigenous funds for a total of 3,384 new congregations in seven years. Over 38,747 new members were added to their congregations in the past seven years!

-Rick