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RSSGospel For Asia's Village Missionaries Supported By Latest Technology
April 16, 2004
Their mission is to spread the Gospel in Asia by going into the remote villages of thatch-roofed huts and the leper colonies in crowded inner cities. Gospel for Asia's office in Carrollton, TX, must support this ministry in the most efficient way possible. So, when several of Gospel for Asia's leaders saw a larger ministry using an automated remittance processing system, they wanted something similar.
But Gospel for Asia didn't want all the equipment and costs that the larger operation has.
"As a ministry, we wanted to do the most with the least," says Dave Chupp, director of IT. He strives to be a good steward of the resources given him. "My role is to find areas where we can gain time and make people's time more effective in what they are doing. Our staff people raise their own support funds, so if we can have technology streamline our work, then that is all the better. We can reach more people with the Gospel if we have more supporters without having to add a lot more staff."
Gospel for Asia supports over 13,000 missionaries in seven Asian countries. Forty Bible schools train native missionaries for three years, and then send them out as evangelists to villages. Another 100 home Bible schools teach students. The non-profit group also spreads the Good News by printing Bibles and literature in native tongues and in sending radio broadcasts throughout Asia.
