Photos by category: Churches
Tuesday, May 14
Youth are the building blocks of our nation
Did you know that 40 percent of India's more than 1 billion people are under the age of 18? Disease, hunger and loneliness stalk the teenagers of these countries, and GFA-supported missionaries know that they need the message of Jesus' love just as much as their parents. God is raising up the youth of Asia to be strong pillars for His Church.
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Prayer is our foundation
On the first Friday of each month Gospel for Asia staff gather for an extended time of prayer, going late into the night. This time of prayer is essential and we're grateful to pray for you during this time and during other prayer meetings we have throughout the week. We invite you and your family to send us your own prayer requests so that we as GFA staff can pray for you and your needs.
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The Power of Prayer
Faithful women like these gather within the walls of their church to fast and pray at least once a week. They sing songs of worship and read the Word of God. Thousands of ladies across Asia attend the Women's Fellowship in GFA-supported churches to seek the Lord and grow in their personal and corporate walks with Jesus.
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A Special Place of Worship
This beautiful congregation in Nepal are now able to worship God together in their own special place of worship—this church building. Gathering together for weekly morning service may be the only time these believers are able to meet together to encourage one another.
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Finding What Floodwaters Can't Steal
This was a time of joy! These men and women were gathered to dedicate this newly-built home to the Lord. It was built for a person who had lost their home due to flooding.
Reena also lost her home during a flood that happened in her village. Though she lost her husband and her home that same day, she now has a reason to smile.
Reena also lost her home during a flood that happened in her village. Though she lost her husband and her home that same day, she now has a reason to smile.
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What this congregation's church service is like
These believers were so full of joy during their time of singing and praising God the morning this photo was taken. There was plenty of time during the service for believers to pray and to share testimonies of what God has been doing in their lives! That morning, the pastor shared a powerful message in his series about the Church.
See how church buildings are helping congregations like this one to grow in Christ and serve communities around them.
See how church buildings are helping congregations like this one to grow in Christ and serve communities around them.
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Jesus' Love vs. Animal Sacrifice
It was a Sunday morning in August when Teesha and her husband headed out on a bicycle. They wheeled through a village that had a church building, and as they rode by, Teesha glanced inside. What she saw caught her eye. Believers clapped their hands and worshiped the Lord with joy. It was here that Teesha’s tiresome journey came to an end.
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Let's build a church building!
It's a slow process. Some congregations pray for years and years before they're able to build their own church building. There are many obstacles along the way, such as finding the land or lacking the funds. Learn more about church buildings and how you can help provide for congregations in need.
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Pray for Church Buildings
One of the greatest needs that believers on the field have right now is for new church buildings to be built. Will you join us in asking the Lord to provide for church buildings in Asia?
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Raised from the Rubble
This is Pastor Pranish. The church building of the congregation he pastors was destroyed by the Nepal earthquake in 2015. The Lord carried him and the other believers through this time, and provided in an amazing way for a new building. Watch the video to see the full story.
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A joyful worship service in Asia
A church building provides a shelter and a place for believers to gather together to worship the living God. Watch a video about one congregation in Nepal and the impact a church building had on their congregation.
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The Purpose of a Church Building
Believers gather in buildings of all kinds. As a church grows, a church building provides a place where they meet together, hear the word of God, fellowship with one another, pray and bring glory to God their Father. Learn more about the impact a church building can make in Asia.
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A church building in the distance...
The priest was Teesha’s only other option. Doctors and medicine couldn’t bring relief from her severe pain; maybe her gods could heal her. Sacrificing a white hen and dove would appease her deities, the priest assured her.
On her way to buy animal sacrifices, Teesha saw a church building like this one in the distance. She was intrigued by the worship service and she stepped inside. What happened next changed her life…
On her way to buy animal sacrifices, Teesha saw a church building like this one in the distance. She was intrigued by the worship service and she stepped inside. What happened next changed her life…
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Eight Years of Praying for a Church Building
After eight years of prayer, this church in Nepal built a place of worship in their community. But three years later, the church building was destroyed during the devastating earthquakes in 2015. Watch God’s faithfulness to provide for the needs of His Church—and see how he used a couple in Canada to do just that.
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A Passion for His People
The Lord chooses to work through ordinary people who are available to Him. Kantilal is a man like that. Kantilal has a passion for the people he serves and the men he leads. Read more of his story here.
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A place to worship in the mountains
A peaceful moment in an Asian village high in the mountains. Church Buildings like this one provide shelter from the elements, allowing believers to gather in a warm place to worship the Lord together. Watch a video about the impact a church building had on one congregation in Nepal.
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Worship and Community
Believers gather from miles around to worship the Lord and be fellowship with one another. A church building can be a safe haven for people to come seek to know Jesus more.
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A Beacon of Hope
The Cross is a symbol of redeeming love for all to see, showing the both the justice and mercy of God. Church Buildings are places of worship for believers, and can be a place for hurting people to come and find love.
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Total surrender
Young men and women worship God with total surrender and give up their future in order to follow Christ. Please pray for young people in Asia who are giving their lives to follow God's call to Bible college.
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A consistent place to gather
Without a proper place to worship, believers don't have a consistent place where they can gather to love on Christ and love one another. Pray more church buildings will be built.
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Worshipping God together
This beautiful congregation is able to worship God together in this church building. These people will forever be grateful the work God has done in their lives through such a gift.
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Encouraging new believers
God is using leaders of Women's Fellowships to disciple new believers and to encourage women who struggle with unloving home environments and health issues.
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Discovering the depth of His love
By God's grace, many communities in Asia are discovering the depth of the love of Christ, and lives are being transformed!
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A symbol to the community
More than just a place for the congregation to meet, a church building is a symbol to the community that Christ is worthy of worship!
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Taking the whole family to church
Though believers in Asia may have to travel a far distance to get to church, the journey is worth it. There, they can learn from God's Word together and enjoy priceless fellowship with other believers!
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Sounds of praise
Sounds of praise fill the air when believers gather to worship the Lord together. The building where they gather, the church building, is a place of worship and discipleship, as well as a place of prayer throughout the week.
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Continued blessings
For many congregations in Asia, church buildings provide continued blessings!
Read how prayer brought a church building for one congregation in Asia
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Together in one place
Blessed with the shelter of a physical church building, these believers are able to praise God together in one place.
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A place a church can call home
Having a permanent structure where believers can meet together is such a blessing and important for the growth of the church, but not every congregation in South Asia has this luxury.
Read about a congregation that waited 10 years for a church building
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Providing the opportunity
Often located near the local church or a believer's home, Jesus Wells give believers the opportunity to build relationships with those drawing water.
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Worshipping freely
Praise to Jesus from sincere believers fills this church building. Here, they are free to worship the Lord in any weather, and can come and pray any day of the week.
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Churches help believers as they share about Jesus
“Sharing with others about Christ has become very exciting for me and even the believers, because now we do not feel shy to invite people to come and attend our church, and we are bold because of the church building.” —Pastor Madhab
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Enabling them to grow
Church buildings enable congregations to grow in Asia. With a building, believers no longer need to meet outside where it’s hot or inside small houses where only a few can fit.
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A place to meet and grow
Church buildings give believers a place to meet and grow as they share God's love every day of the week, and they help facilitate discipleship activities for the believers.
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Under construction
Soon, this church building will not only provide a comfortable gathering place for believers, but it will also broadcast to the surrounding communities that Jesus is faithful, good, powerful and worthy of honor.
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Pray for more church buildings
Scores of congregations in South Asia face various struggles because of meeting in a rented room, shed or under a tree. They often pray for many years to receive permanent church buildings.
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Hands lifted in worship
In a church building of their own, believers are free to worship the Lord in any weather, and are sheltered from anti-Christian forces.
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Even the church was destroyed
In some villages in Nepal, like this village, every structure was destroyed or is uninhabitable due to the earthquakes, and the local congregation of believers has been left without a permanent place to worship.
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Overflowing their walls
Blessed by a growing number of believers, this congregation, like many others in Asia, has a problem, though not a bad one: they are overflowing their current church building!
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Faithfully gathering
Even though they have to gather in a temporary structure, this congregation faithfully gathers every week to worship the Lord.
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Open for all
“This church building is a house of prayer and a place of worship for everyone,” the pastor said.
Read about how a church building softened Mano's heart toward Christ
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Praising God together
Blessed with the shelter of a physical church building, these believers are able to praise God together in one place.
There is a great need for more church buildings—learn how you can pray
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A rock of stability
A church building is a tremendous blessing for believers, providing a place where they can worship God freely, with no fear of persecution or variations in weather.
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This is their church
Many of these believers travel for hours to meet for church in a cramped house, making it is difficult for everyone to meet in one place.
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Church of mud
Finding dependable meeting places for growing congregations is often problematic. Temporary structures made of straw or mud are vulnerable to bad weather and anti-Christian vandals, while landlords often face pressure from society when renting rooms to believers.
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City on a hill
“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." Matthew 5:14
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Out of a life of despair
The lives of hundreds of thousands of Asian women are being transformed by GFA’s dedicated women missionaries, but millions more still wait.
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Holy Ground
"Then He said, 'Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.'" - Exodus 5:3
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Gathering for church
Imagine being packed like sardines in a small hut every Sunday with no air conditioning. For Pastor Sampat's fellowship, "More than 330 believers crammed into one home to worship the Lord. The space limitations made it difficult for them to gather."
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Bringing hope to a land shrouded in darkness
Founded in 1979, Gospel for Asia exists to bring hope to men, women and children who have never known hope. And congregations like yours are helping achieve that goal.
Get your church body involved in reaching Asia with God's light
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Pray for Church Buildings
Churches in Asia are being used daily to shelter believers and welcome the lost, though this is often met with much persecution.
Let's lift up our brothers and sisters and pray for their protection and for more churches
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A place to call home
Many Asian believers are only now discovering the joy of having a church building where they can regularly meet and worship, yet hundreds more are still praying for such a place of sanctuary.
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Ready for the field.
Ninety-eight percent of these graduates minister in places where the Good News has never been shared before. Frequently, Bible college graduates will establish a fellowship within their first year in the field.
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A Place to Worship
Church buildings in South Asia, like this one, are destroyed in the face of persecution, leaving believers with no place to gather for worship. Though the house of worship may be destroyed, believers continue to press on.
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Pray for those who are persecuted.
On November 3 (or any Sunday in November), join churches across the nation in lifting up the persecuted through unified prayer.
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Growing in Him
Every Sunday morning, they leave everything to gather together to worship and grow in Jesus. They are hungry to know Him.
See how you can provide shelter, security, permanence and credibility to a congregation.
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Keeping them out
In an effort to keep Christians out of their villages, anti-Christians have destroyed church buildings.
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Having fellowship as the body of Christ!
“Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:46-47
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Waiting to hear for the very first time!
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” – Romans 10:14
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Be one, as God is one
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1
Find out how can you help believers in Asia worship together.
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A beacon of hope
A church building represents more than a convenient place to meet, it is a rock of stability and a beacon of hope for the unreached.
A need for church buildings yet exists for many congregations— get involved today!
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