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Prashob Thomas had a choice: leave his native India to make money in the Gulf states, or stay and serve the Lord making only a sixth of the salary he could find somewhere else.
He chose to use his skills to print Bibles and tracts with Gospel for Asia, and now starts each work day in prayer with the other press workers.
"It's more important to do something with our lives that will impact other people, more than just making money and living for this world," Prashob says.
"My passion is to see people with a burden and vision involved in literature ministry throughout India," shared Joseph Varghese, GFA's literature ministry coordinator in India. "That's the only way we can save our country."
Prashob is one of these people. He doesn't consider his role a job, but a ministry.
"I was working in a secular press, where I got a good salary and benefits, but the materials I was printing were not doing anything good for the people," Prashob said.
"Here," he continued, "I know that whatever we are doing is going to help people know the Lord. That's the reason it's really worth working here."
At church one Sunday, Prashob heard the testimony of a man who came to Christ when he read some GFA tracts after leaving prison.
"I thought, 'maybe it was the literature I printed that changed his life,' " Prashob remembers. "That really motivated me to keep doing what I am doing."
Each step of the printing process is done with care—"as unto the Lord."
"From my childhood, I helped with literature evangelism through my church," Prashob shared. "I'm very ambitious on tract distribution and literature ministry. Now I realize that through my life, I can impact many lives through literature."
In 2005, Gospel for Asia's four presses printed 24 million pieces of literature in many indigenous Asian languages.
date posted 10/27/06
