We sent this in-depth report on the past, present, and future of GSUMC in India to the church family last week. You can read the direct link, complete with pictures, here.Enjoy:So what in the world were Chris Thayer, James-Michael Smith and Talbot Davis doing in India...

Hi everyone! This is James-Michael Smith, one of the members of GSUMC's India team.Talbot is out this afternoon filming some sermons that our ministry partner here will be featuring on his national television program...which means that Talbot's to over a billion...

Today a young church worker from the Kandhamal District of Odisha -- an area characterized by thatch roof housing, wild tigers, and tribal villages -- asked me:"Pastor, are you on Facebook? I'd like to friend you."

During my 2011 visit here to India, I recorded four sermons to be broadcast on an Indian religious television station.This past Friday night, one of them aired nationally. A group of about 200 of us watched it together on a large outdoor screen at the Orissa Follow Up...

Today we gave out 20 new bicycles to some of our Indian pastor friends.Courtesy of the people of Good Shepherd, the new two-wheelers will be used by Indian preachers as they travel from village to village planting churches and discipling believers.One of the pastors I...

. . . of your Good Shepherd team in India today.James-Michael Smith and Chris Thayer had their opening teaching sessions today.After I gave the opening talk in which I spoke about Sunday sermons not as disconnected pieces but as parts of an integrated whole -- in...

I told you on Monday that our ministry time in India focuses on the northeastern state of Orissa.And then our plane landed here later that day and I found out the name of the state had been changed in recent months.What was Orissa is now Odisha.The two words sound...