December 2, 2014

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…

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November 30, 2014

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…

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November 26, 2014

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.

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November 23, 2014

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…

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October 4, 2014

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…

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September 26, 2014

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…

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September 14, 2014

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…

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August 18, 2014

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…

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July 10, 2014

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…

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July 7, 2014

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…

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June 25, 2014

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…

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June 7, 2014

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…

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May 28, 2014

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,…

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May 1, 2014

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…

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April 26, 2014

To my FB friends: Some people are stating that Good News India is No. 1, in the world, among ministries that run a residential (24/7) complete care for orphans/destitute children. (29 Centers with almost 2800 residential kids). Could this be true? Or are there other ministries that house more children in a 24/7 full care?…

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April 2, 2014

Heading to Phx airport.. back to India….obeying the call… linking resources with people who are hurting… to love the lost, the last and the least…. nothing like it.

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March 9, 2014

Another church caught the vision… Hi-way Pentecostal in Ontario, Canada. They built a Dream Centre that will house 200+ kids until Jesus comes. What a fantastic dedication day on March 9. We are almost at 3000 RESIDENTIAL kids who will have the chance to finish College under our care. Thank you Hiway for funding a…

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