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Joy Memorial Building is going up at Bhubaneswar, Odisha State. 3-Storey Building on 10′ Stilts (ground level). 12000 sq ft of usable space. 1st Floor is a new Church Auditorium; 2nd Floor is GNI Headquarter Office; 3rd Floor is Guest and Staff housing. Dedication is set for Jan 3, 2016. (Her birthday and our wedding…

I was recently at Deogarh Dream Centre… a huge new building, on a gorgeous property surrounded by mountains and a river, is coming up there… As you can see by the first picture of our kids – walking away with so many top prizes in their County Sports/Arts/Academics – they deserve the best and I…

Balasore Dream Centre… Sasmita, aged 13, walked up to read out her testimony. When she finished, there was not one dry eye among the group of USA guests who had come. Her Oriya language and composition left me stunned… This is her text literally translated: “At first I want to thank Jesus for his mercies.…

Visiting some of my acres of diamonds: At our Ashroi Leper Home… their parents battled the disease, but they were rejected. But now they are among the best in the community. At our Cuttack Dream Centre, Sukumari and her brother abandoned by their mother; violent alcoholic father who comes at them with a machette. She…

Just returned from Cuttack Dream Centre.. these kids have walked away with almost all the top prizes in their region/county in Sports, academics and arts. The prizes you see are the ones they have won this year. They are placing in the Nationals for under-16 category in several major sports events including Cricket and Soccer…

Happiness is taking 17 of our College kids from Gajapati Dream Centre to the “best restaurant” in their home town and discovering that they had NEVER EVER been inside a restaurant. Teaching them to use silverware, napkins and to eat at a somewhat fancy table with waiters… it was an amazing and gleeful discovery for…

Found just the right couple with all the right ingredients.. a new GNI dream center is opening in Bankura County in West Bengal. Another safe haven for hundreds of kids. The “Operations Bunker” at GNI is humming as we fight this war for the minds and souls of God’s kids. Drove into Kolkata today for…

Back at Bhubaneswar…. smooth as silk via NYC/Frankfurt/Delhi. Now to hit the road running with my acres of diamonds… just so much to get done over the next 2 months….construction, educational developments, government regulations, office staff, new kids, new dream centers, and the list goes on… O what a privilege…. His grace is more than…

Heading to the Big Apple (New York City) today to spend thanksgiving with Tess and the family there… then Saturday.. back to India… Happy Thanksgiving, ya’ll. Blessings.

Good News India Tihidi Project – I have had these kids for the past 12 years and now this whole group is in Engineering College – a new path, a new trail for our tribal girls to go into Engineering. Wow… I am so thankful and excited. It’s gonna cost me a bundle, but the…

Good News India Youth Camp – 1350 kids crowding into overcrowded trains that stop for minutes at stations and the exit area of the trains are jammed… now that is interesting How do you fit 1350 people into a dream center built for 200? More interesting. How do you provide water and toilets for all…

10 pm Indian standard time. 1300+ GNI kids are on trains and buses heading towards Baligeria for our first combined annual Youth Camp. It promises to be hot – in many ways. Philip Newbigging is our speaker. Preaching and singing competition; Seminars, full band and worship services, Choir, Worship dance, talent competitions and a huge…

8 New Zealand guests…8000 KM… 1850 kids…. 14 dream centers from Kalimpong to Gajapati…Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, tons of chicken curry/rice… ending up with McDonalds at Agra and Domonoes Pizza in New Delhi… they have caught the “incurable fever” of GNI KIDS. They are going to build a dream center. Last 4 nights.. we all…

Heading off to Phx airport…. short hop across the pond into the waiting arms of my 3000 kids… Back into the battle field for the souls of kids… Believing God to open Dream Centres 29 and 30 very, very soon. On the agenda is also a major Youth Camp with 1300+ kids and our first…

7 weeks… 28 dream centers… 2800+ kids…. multiplied thousands of miles of road travel in Bengal and Odisha…. Odissi classical dance training camp… Choir camp…. Staff meeting for 180+ adults and college kids… hosting a group from USA… 5 major graduation ceremonies… plans for a Youth Camp/Sports Day with 1000+ teens in Oct… plans for…

Two sisters… Jyoti and Sue… father died recently… mother wrote a note to her aged and destitute father-in-law and abandoned them. Unwanted. These are the prime targets of traffickers… huge money… But we just got them. Scared and tentative. O I hugged them tight… and told them that we will never let them go… I…

GNI kids have had a full Summer. Indian classical dance camp…. Choir camp…. Staff Conference with almost 180 staff and college students… 5 graduation ceremonies with almost 175 graduates from High School, Jr College and College (Bengal, Balasore, Ganjam, Koraput and Jharsuguda) with all the hoopla we could muster to give these kids memories they…

Dance Camp with 35 of our top dancers perfecting Indian classical dancing… followed by GNI Choir was 32 of our best singers plus a live band… 12 songs in English, Hebrew, Odiya and Hindi… followed by GNI Directors Conference plus our Choir.. about 160 people at Gopalpur on the Sea Beach… powerful and passionate preaching…

7 hours by train… 1 hour with 28 new kids… opened Balangir Dream Centre… beautiful kids so happy to be there and they have just arrived..I thought they would be a bit over whelmed… 7 hours back by the same train… TT surprised!! Late dinner with GNI staff, watching cricket and wolfing down chicken curry,…

May and June are going to be “eventful” months for Good News India.. A Staff Conference which will include our College kids and a 45 voice choir of “pure belters” from among our GNI teens, who have bellows for lungs and sing on pitch…. My joy to direct them! Rev. David Balasingh is our Conference…