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2022-01-19T20:27:56+00:00
Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.
Francis Chan Says Life ‘Totally Shaped’ by Gospel for Asia Founder K.P. Yohannan
Last updated on: January 19, 2022 at 8:27 pm By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Former California megachurch pastor and bestselling author Francis Chan — who has moved to Asia to serve the poor — has revealed how his view of “true” faith was turned upside down by founder of Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) and mission pioneer Dr. K.P. Yohannan. Chan says his dramatic shift from well-known pastor in affluent Southern California to “anonymous” ministry in the slums of Hong Kong was inspired... Read more
2022-08-17T15:46:35+00:00
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Gospel for Asia Literacy Class Opens Business Opportunities for Woman
Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 3:46 pm By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing the struggles of women like Preshti who grew up illiterate, and the literacy classes by Gospel for Asia missionaries that opened business opportunities for women. Was this the bus Preshti needed? Or was it that one? Visiting her mother in another city always proved to be a challenge for the 45-year-old mother of four. She couldn’t read... Read more
2022-11-20T04:14:35+00:00
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Gospel for Asia Says 375 Million Children Worldwide in ‘Crushing Poverty’
Last updated on: November 20, 2022 at 4:14 am By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada, founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan) Special Report dicusses the staggering number of children living in crushing poverty globally — equal to the entire populations of the U.S. and Canada combined. Around 375 million children worldwide — including nearly one-in-six children in the U.S. — live in crushing poverty, says a new report recently released in tandem with the International Day for the Eradication of... Read more
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2022-01-20T18:30:45+00:00
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When Fathers Die and Hunger Hurts: How Gospel for Asia Helped A Young Boy After His Father’s Death
Last updated on: January 20, 2022 at 6:30 pm By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing Taizeen and his family, his paralyzed widowed mother, the poverty and hunger, and the Gospel for Asia Bridge of Hope staff that brought hope in the midst of their struggle. The small boy realized something was wrong—his father was very sick and wasn’t getting any better. Suddenly, he died. The boy’s widowed mother wept as loneliness and... Read more
GFA-Supported Children's Ministry
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KP Yohannan Revolution in World Missions
2022-01-20T18:48:49+00:00
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Gospel for Asia Helps 200,000 Families in Asia Defy COVID-19 Starvation
Last updated on: January 20, 2022 at 6:48 pm By KP Yohannan
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada, founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan) helps to distribute food kits to more than 200,000 utterly desperate families to defy COVID 19 starvation. With the number of COVID-19 cases in India surging past eight million and deaths climbing rapidly, ongoing hunger relief efforts continue to stave off starvation across pandemic-ravaged Asia. In some areas, hunger is forcing people to take the most extreme measures. One... Read more
Gospel for Asia's Bridge of Hope Program
2021-05-13T18:29:41+00:00
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Gospel for Asia Pastor’s Wife Discovers Love That Casts Out Fear
Last updated on: May 13, 2021 at 6:29 pm By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing Prina, the wife of a Gospel for Asia pastor, the struggles and poverty in the slum, her heart made willing by God to serve alongside her husband – in slum ministry and Gospel for Asia Bridge of Hope center. Fear crept into Prina’s heart as she took in her surroundings. Before her stood thousands of tiny shacks,... Read more
Gospel for Asia's Bridge of Hope Program
KP Yohannan Revolution in World Missions
2021-05-13T18:19:09+00:00
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Francis Chan, Hank Hanegraaff, K.P. Yohannan Challenge Western Church in Roundtable Conversation
Last updated on: May 13, 2021 at 6:19 pm By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada, founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan) releases new video featuring Francis Chan, Hank Hanegraaff, and K.P. Yohannan – three of America’s high-profile influential church leaders – urging Christians to shun divisiveness and work towards greater unity and humility in the church. Christians everywhere need to place less emphasis on “charismatic personalities” and “popularity contests” and focus more on humility and unity, agreed the three influential... Read more
2022-01-25T06:31:22+00:00
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Gospel for Asia Helps Release Thousands from COVID-19 ‘Jaws of Hunger’
Last updated on: January 25, 2022 at 6:31 am By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Texas-based Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada, founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan) and Body of Life are leading hunger relief efforts to help thousands of families in Texas struggling with COVID 19 hardships. Humanitarian agency Gospel for Asia (GFA World) — a faith-based organization headquartered in Wills Point, 50 miles east of Dallas –has rushed to help starving people on the other side of the world as the pandemic spreads.... Read more
Gospel for Asia's Bridge of Hope Program
2022-01-25T06:33:34+00:00
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Once Addicted, Now Transformed: How a Gospel for Asia Pastor Changed an Alcoholic’s Life
Last updated on: January 25, 2022 at 6:33 am By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing Vaj, a once hardened man by alcohol addiction, now transformed when a Gospel for Asia pastor shared with him the love of Christ. Vaj was a changed man. It was difficult not to notice it. His family members and friends marveled at his transformation. The once careless drunkard, who spent all of what little he earned on... Read more
Gospel for Asia Christmas Catalog
2021-04-08T05:42:23+00:00
Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.
God’s Peace Comforts a Widow’s Heart through Gospel for Asia Pastor
Last updated on: April 8, 2021 at 5:42 am By GFA Staff Writer
WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing Ruhae, the grief and hardships of an aging widow, the last living relative for her grandchildren, and the Gospel for Asia Pastor that brought God’s peace and comfort. Her son was murdered. Her daughter-in-law and husband both succumbed to illnesses. Ruhae was the last living relative for her grandchildren but at 77-years-old, she knew she wouldn’t live... Read more
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