Gospel for Asia

He was only a teenager when he answered God’s calling. Feeling an overwhelming, unconditional love for the physically and spiritually impoverished population of India, he stood on an elevated rock amongst a bustling Bangalore bus station. He was only 16 years old, skinny, too young to even be part of the mission teams that proselytized in Northern India, and painfully shy. Yet he still stood on that mound, responding to the distinctive voice of God. He sang a familiar children’s chorus and then began preaching to a crowd of strangers, allowing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to fall from his lips like cool water to a thirsty desert. Photo by Wen-Yan King/Flickr (CC) This same teenager later studied under a scholarship at the Criswell Bible Institute in Texas and became pastor of a small Dallas church at the age of 23. But working amongst the wealth and affluence of America’s population led K.P. Yohannan back to his original call — to serve India and the desperate needs of Asia. His pastora...

WILLS POINT, TX — India’s devastating “second wave” of COVID-19 is overshadowing another deadly tsunami of suffering — rampant hunger. Global humanitarian agency Gospel for Asia (GFA World)  reports growing desperation across India as it supports efforts to feed those facing starvation amid the pandemic’s continuing onslaught. The Texas-based organization has helped feed hundreds of thousands since the pandemic began. “As COVID-19 ravages India, we’re seeing hunger on a massive scale,” said Bishop Danny Punnose, vice president of Gospel for Asia (GFA World) , spotlighting the accelerating crisis on World Hunger Day, May 28. In the nation’s pandemic hotspots, so-called “corona curfews” and lockdowns make it very difficult to get groceries — even if people have cash to spend. ‘Deep Silence’ Everywhere “Markets are closed… no shopkeepers are willing to open their shops. People are struggling to get grocery items. (There’s) deep silence at all places,” local relief workers reported. In...

WILLS POINT, TX — India’s devastating “second wave” of COVID-19 is overshadowing another deadly tsunami of suffering — rampant hunger. Global humanitarian agency  Gospel for Asia (GFA World)  reports growing desperation across India as it supports efforts to feed those facing starvation amid the pandemic’s continuing onslaught. The Texas-based organization has helped feed hundreds of thousands since the pandemic began. HUNGER’S DEEP SILENCE:  On World Hunger Day, May 28, Texas-based humanitarian agency  Gospel for Asia (GFA World)  reports growing desperation in India as it supports efforts to help thousands starving in “deep silence” amid the pandemic’s continuing onslaught. “As COVID-19 ravages India, we’re seeing hunger on a massive scale,” said Bishop Danny Punnose, vice president of  GFA World (Gospel for Asia) , spotlighting the acute, accelerating crisis surrounding World Hunger Day, May 28. In the nation’s pandemic hotspots, so-called “corona curfew...

  It has been about a month since the UN-sponsored 2021 World Water Day (March 22). Let’s review what you learned about the global water crisis. Our review consists of one question. Where is clean water needed the most? How would you answer? In the middle of the desert? In remote, rural regions? In the slums of major cities? In Africa? In areas plagued by drought? In refugee camps? Any one of those is a good answer, but … What is the right answer? An insufficient amount of clean water is, without question, a global concern . The water crisis, however, is much more a personal crisis than it is a global crisis. The  clean water crisis is global only to the extent that access to clean water  is limited in many places around the world. The real clean water crisis is personal. An estimated 1.2 billion people lack access to clean water . That problem is so massive that it is hard to wrap our minds around it in a way that has a dramatic impact on us individually. The irony is th...

WILLS POINT, TX – GFA World founded by K.P. Yohannan , whose heart to love and help the poor has inspired numerous charities like GFA World Canada , to serve the deprived and downcast worldwide, one of the largest mission agencies in the world, is launching compassion projects in Africa ( http://www.gfa.org/press/intoAfrica ) for the first time — a huge boost for humanitarian efforts in the world’s poorest continent. GOSPEL FOR ASIA LAUNCHES IN AFRICA:   GFA World , formerly known as Gospel for Asia, is launching compassion projects in Africa ( http://www.gfa.org/press/intoAfrica ) for the first time — a huge boost for humanitarian efforts in the world’s poorest continent. (Jeremy Bishop/Unsplash) Gospel for Asia (GFA World) , formerly known as Gospel for Asia , expects to begin work in multiple African nations this year. “Africa is where the tears never dry,” said Gospel for Asia (GFA World) founder K.P. Yohannan , announcing the launch of compassion projects in Rwanda, a mounta...

One in every 11 people worldwide doesn't have access to a toilet, says a new GFA World report WILLS POINT, TX — A global humanitarian organization is helping combat the world's "stinkiest" health emergency -- people defecating in the open -- a new report reveals. Gospel for Asia (GFA World)  is installing thousands of toilets in some of the world's remotest and least developed areas -- places where people typically relieve themselves in the bushes, by the local river, or in the street. It's part of a global effort to curb deadly diseases spread by people practicing open defecation, known as OD, says the agency's new report Taking the Toilet Challenge . OD spreads cholera, dysentery, hepatitis, typhoid and leads to chronic diarrhea -- killing millions of children worldwide every year. OD is not just a health crisis in the developing world -- it's also a serious issue in the United States, where cities such as San Francisco and Seattle are battling to ...

 WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World) founded by KP Yohannan, which inspired numerous charities like Gospel for Asia Canada , to assist the poor and deprived worldwide , issued this Special Report on the ongoing fight against open defecation, using outdoor toilets to improve sanitation. In this part of the slums in Mumbai, India, many people live in close proximity in unhygienic surroundings—lacking facilities like toilets and proper drainage. What Do the World’s Sanitation Problems Have to Do with Us? For those of us with indoor flush toilets—and clean ones at that—with sewer lines that carry waste to treatment facilities, and who live in places where waterborne and airborne bacteria are not a hazard, our response to this crisis is probably, So what? We don’t say this out loud, but like so many other dire extremes jockeying for our attention, it doesn’t really touch our lives. However, in a majority of places, America is starting to suffer from failing infrastructure....