RE:YSR is deeply involved in Evangelical COnversion activities
by Sai Puducode on May 08, 2007 01:19 AM Permalink
aranatha Volunteers International (MVI) is approaching its 750th church to be constructed in India since beginning work in the country in 1998. Based on the maximum capacity of each church design, the effort has yielded approximately 250,000 additional seats for the Adventist Church membership in India.
In 1998 the Southern Asia Division had a reported 225,000 members. Today, Ron Watts, president of the Southern Asia Division, estimates that the numbers reach 825,000.
"We have 3,000 congregations that are meeting without a house of worship, meeting under the trees or meeting in the street," says Watts. "And they feel disgraced by this; they feel they're living in dishonor. . . . When we visit villages, they don't ask for the other things. The one thing they ask for is 'Please help us to have a place where we can worship God.' " --Maranatha Matters/AR
RE:YSR is deeply involved in Evangelical COnversion activities
by Sai Puducode on May 08, 2007 01:46 AM Permalink
You are right. If Hindus will finally wake up from their slumber & realize that they are cornered in their own country they will beg VHP/RSS/BJP to protect them.
RE:YSR is deeply involved in Evangelical COnversion activities
by ravi shanker on May 10, 2007 12:07 PM Permalink
plz may known who is Samuel?, even i am from andhrapradesh but YSR full name is not Samuel is full name is Dr. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy
RE:YSR is deeply involved in Evangelical COnversion activities
by Sai Puducode on May 08, 2007 01:27 AM Permalink
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/lewis/lewun01.htm
We know that from the Bible ignorant people were convinced that God was sitting in the clouds and for that reason they lifted their hands and raised their voices in appeals for help. Astronomy pointed a telescope to the spot where God was supposed to be and found no such character there. If upon the invention of the telescope God moved to a different abode, he left no trace of his former occupancy. Astronomers, using the most powerful telescopes, telescopes that can scan the universe for millions of miles, testify they can find no trace of such a being, and that God must be some crafty creature to have made his getaway under the circumstances. For there are stars within the domain of man's exploration whose light-rays require thousands of years to reach us, and if God is beyond the region of these stars he is certainly useless to us, because in less time than would be required for him to come to our assistance the human race might be no more.
But God for the moment is not our subject; neither is prayer, nor the Science of Astronomy. We are concerned for the moment with the fact only that the Science of Astronomy, which should find some benefit in the Bible, since it is supposed to deal with the region of space in which Astronomy is interested, rejects that book completely, by saying: the Bible may be perfectly satisfactory as a moral guide, but it contains nothing of value to Astronomy.
RE:YSR is deeply involved in Evangelical COnversion activities
by Minu Mukherjee on May 08, 2007 01:34 AM Permalink
Saiji: wait for just 2 years. Just watch the fall of YSR.
Andhra Janta pulled down mightly Indira. YSR is too small a fly.
He is most divisive, anti-national, corrupt CM India ever has had.
Courts will allow cases against him slowly but surely.
