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  BRIEF INTERVIEW OF K.P. YOHANNAN
  by George Verwer
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Summary: This sermon reflects on the impact of missions and ministry
work, highlighting the journey of faith, the importance of discipline,
and the need for prayer and support in spreading the message of Christ
to communities worldwide. It emphasizes the significance of cultural
diversity, discipleship, and the call to reach out to those who have not
yet heard the Gospel, with a focus on India and the challenges faced in
sharing the Christmas story. The speaker expresses gratitude for the
influence of mentors and leaders in their spiritual development and the
inspiration drawn from their example.

Duration: 4:03 Topics: "Missions and Ministry", "Cultural Diversity in Discipleship"
Scripture References: Matthew 28:19, Colossians 3:23, Philippians 4:6, Proverbs 27:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 2 Timothy 2:15, Romans 10:14, Ephesians 6:18, Acts 1:8

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This sermon reflects on the impact of missions and ministry work,
highlighting the journey of faith, the importance of discipline, and the
need for prayer and support in spreading the message of Christ to
communities worldwide. It emphasizes the significance of cultural
diversity, discipleship, and the call to reach out to those who have not
yet heard the Gospel, with a focus on India and the challenges faced in
sharing the Christmas story. The speaker expresses gratitude for the
influence of mentors and leaders in their spiritual development and the
inspiration drawn from their example.

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What a privilege to have KP come in all the way from India for our 60th
wedding anniversary. Thank you so much KP for being here. You and I have
been linked for now almost half a century and this is the 50th
anniversary of the ship ministry and you were on the ship.

I was with you in Indonesia and I just wondered looking back the
training you had on the ship, I know you were on OM India as well, was
that of any help in this huge ministry that God was going to lead you
into? Maybe you know one or two stories or anything. Well, George, the
months I spent on Logos, the OM ship, I would say one of the most
amazing thing was people from all over the world in one place and the
complexity of living with all these different cultures and people and
then the biblical teaching or discipleship and following the Lord and I
would say this is the first time I was exposed to there's a world out
there that is bigger and more needy than my little world and then the
leaders that did the teaching and the counseling and all that became
very huge and one of the most significant thing, the area of discipline,
you know you, I mean for Indians you say 10 o'clock that means 1 o'clock
but this was one of those times you realize you you stay with this
discipline, some prayer and devotion, I would say the ship had a very
significant part to play in my development in those early days. We want
to pray for you, India is very much in our heart, people rioting in the
streets especially women, it's a different day and your work, I heard
there's some 15,000 congregations, I know some of them in other nations
and we just really want you to know how much we celebrate what God has
done for you, you and your team and hope we can be more faithful in
praying but how can we specifically pray for you and the ministry, I
think you're flying back to India even tonight but how can we pray for
you and the work? George, my request is that we pray that somehow we'll
be able to get to some 500,000 religious communities that still wait to
hear the first Christmas story and we continue George the journey that
you started when I was barely 17 when I committed my life to serve the
Lord and for me, believe it or not, coming to meet you I'm not only
respect you but I'm scared of you but the thing that I'm able to stand
just a few minutes with you it's one of the greatest honor in my life
and I thank God for you and Rina and what you have done and by the way
I'm just one of the tens of thousands of people who can say the same
thing and I want to thank God for you and pray that we will stay
faithful in this journey to the end and I think every time I say what
I'm supposed to do I think what George will do.

Mercy. That has become a major significance and thank you for your
praise and you have created tens of thousands of children and they are
following in different steps. Thank you and we hope you'll read KP's new
book is coming out soon he's a great pusher of my book Messyology.

I'm sure if you email us we'll be happy to even send it as a gift. I've
just reread Revolution of Missions which initially the first edition I
wasn't super happy about but now with my Messyological eyes I've read
right through that book and I celebrate what God has done through that
book Revolution of Missions. Four million copies.

God bless you we hope we hear from you.

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