My Interviews with Isaac Shaw

Isaac Shaw is a friend and a partner in ministry whom we have been supporting for the last eight years. I have enjoyed the incredible privilege and opportunity to visit north India and see the work which God is doing there to advance the Gospel. It is beyond remarkable. In the spirit of our partnership, I sat down with Isaac to record several conversations and then to make them available so folks here could begin to understand the hows and whys of this unique ministry. You will be challenged and encouraged as you listen in! For more info, visit delhibible.org or dbip.org.

1. Why North India?
2. What is Delhi Bible Institute?
3. How can churches partner with DBI?
4. What is the connection between DBI and The Gospel Coalition?
5. Hinduism 101 for Evangelicals

There Is No Force On the Planet Like It

There is no force on earth which has the power to shape men and women into the creatures God intended them to be like the force unleashed in prayer.

On this, our last day in Delhi, I was privileged to speak once again to the flock at Bible Bhavan. The church is nearing the end of their annual 40 days of prayer and fasting which begins on the first day of every new year. The text I spoke from this Sunday was Daniel 9:1-19. I was so blessed in my personal study of this passage to see just how the mighty force of prayer had shaped Daniel! Of prayer's power to mold us, E.M. Bounds wrote:

"Never did the cause of God need perfect illustrations of the possibilities of prayer more than in this age. No age, no person, will be examples of the gospel power except the ages or persons of deep and earnest prayer. A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. Prayerless hearts will never rise to these Alpine heights… It is prayer-force which makes saints. Holy characters are formed by the power of real praying. The more of true saints, the more of praying; the more of praying, the more of true saints."

Take a Glimpse Inside a DBI Sewing Centre

Ministry in Dehradun

The First Sewing Conference Begins in Lucknow

DBI's Lucknow Ashram (Oct 2010)

Please pray for our women today as they join the ministry team at Lucknow. They will be assisting Gloria Shaw in training Hindu women from the surrounding area in sewing skills. This simple skill goes a long way in helping the impoverished women and children of India with basic needs but also serves as an incredible bridge for the Gospel. Our ladies arrived last night in Lucknow with Gloria and a handful of other women and are preparing to depart for the ashram (teaching center). Meanwhile, I am here in Delhi preparing for my first class this afternoon with pastors-in-training. I will be teaching the book of 1 Peter (ring any bells, Gospel-Centered Bible Study students?). 

Our First Day in Delhi!

The ladies and I took to the Khan Market this morning to pick up a few clothing items. After lunch, the women's team headed back to the airport to fly to Lucknow with Gloria and other women's teams from the US, UK, and here in Delhi. I have been asked to stay behind here in Delhi in order to preach on Sunday and teach Mon and Tues.

God's Incredible Work to Raise Up Delhi Bible Institute

Check out more info on the amazing history if DBI: http://www.delhibible.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=61

William Carey, the Cobbler Who Gave India a Bible

by Thomas John Bach

Every pioneer missionary, in whatever phase of the work he has been active, has had some part in making possible a page or a chapter of profound interest in the history of the church of Christ and of missions. But to one man, William Carey, was given such a significant ministry that he has rightly been called "the father of modern missions."

William Carey was born near Northampton, England, on August 17, 1761. The words of the Lord to Saint Peter, "Thou art ... thou shalt be" (John 1:42), may very well be applied to Carey. Not many missionaries have started their careers with so few advantages, or culminated their work with so much success for the glory of God and the good of man, as did William Carey.

When he was fourteen years of age, he became an apprentice in a shoe shop. He was converted at the age of eighteen, and affiliated himself with the local Baptist Church. At the age of twenty-six, he was ordained. His income as a preacher was so limited that he gained his subsistence by working as a shoemaker. In his spare moments he studied languages, biographies, and conditions of the heathen world. He acquired a fair knowledge of French, Dutch, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
In front of him, on his work bench, hung a map of the world which he himself had made. In the year 1786 he pleaded with other ministers of his denomination to take up work among the heathen, but was greatly grieved when the chairman reproved him by saying, "Sit down, young man. When it pleases God to convert the heathen, He will do it without your help or mine!"

Read the rest of Carey's story: http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/bcarey18.html

Our Gracious Hosts!

Gloria and Isaac Shaw



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