SOM India
India is the least reached nation for the Gospel in the world. It is currently in the top ten nations of persecution against its small minority of Christians. In 2011, SOM-USA assisted the first church planting school within the SOM International network. In 2012, the SOM-India Director established SOM-India with a heart to serve persecuted Christians and advance the Gospel.
Ladies’ sewing discipleship schools were also established, training widows in the skill of sewing and biblical discipleship.
As of 2023, there are twenty-seven church planting schools and twenty-seven sewing discipleship schools operating twice a year, commissioning these leaders to reach the remotest areas of India.
Meet the Director of SOM – India
- This pastor was healed of terminal liver disease. Two days later, he and his family gave their lives to faith in Christ.
- He preached the Gospel to others for three months before receiving his first Bible.
- At age 16, he left home by faith to preach the Gospel full time. He only had the clothes on his back, a tattered Bible, and the equivalent of $3.00 USD.
- He walked over 40,000 miles, witnessing Christ to thousands in unreached villages from 1992 to 2001.
- The SOM–India Director is fluent in seven languages.
- He currently oversees an exploding network of over 40,000 house churches.
- He has a team of leaders multiplying leaders alongside him to help spread the Gospel throughout India.
Latest News from SOM India
India Testimony – Transformed Village
India Testimony - Transformed Village My name is Jamal and I was healed from a lung disease and gave my life to Jesus. Since the day I was saved, I began actively witnessing the power of the gospel to hundreds of people. I would share the gospel at home, on the streets, in the marketplaces and wherever I was led to share. As I served the Lord, the passion for the lost continued to increase and the burden was heavy on my heart. The only thing I knew to do was fast and pray regularly when I felt such deep brokenness in my heart. One day, I had
Dabak’s Testimony
My name is Dabak and I grew up in a strong Hindu home. My life was transformed five years ago. I am now involved in full time ministry. In India, there is a village totally dominated with a belief system where people think they can experience potential and strength in them if they do a lot of chanting, meditation and mind tricks. The major chanting system is influenced from Buddhism and Hinduism. People are practicing both. They practice various chanting’s for various things, such as family life, children, peace, rearing animals, protection from evil and cursing their enemies whom they do not like.
Sindhu’s Testimony
My name is Sindhu and I am 18 years old. I was born to strong Hindu parents in North India. Growing up, we decorated my family’s home as a temple and all sorts of religious articles were placed in our home. Each day, we would worship a different deity and strongly believed it was very important to please various deities. When things did not go right, we blamed it on our failures in pleasing the deities and we tried to please the gods in better ways. We committed all of our wealth and belongings to please the deities. Quite often,
