What We're Up To
This has been a month like no other in Worldlink's history. And we need your prayer partnership perhaps like no other time in our history.
In the past month we have an experienced of the murder of one of our indigenous missionary partners and the abduction of one of our indigenous missionary friends, the remarkable provision of God for some programs and a budget shortfall in others. We are reminded of the need for God's protection and provision on every part of Worldlink's ministry.
Worldlink Partner Murdered on Mission
On June 8, 2016, Vijay Babu died for the second time.
In the darkness of a moonlit mountainous dirt road in Central India, Vijay was ambushed, macheted to death and his body thrown over a cliff and into a rocky ravine.
This eruption of intense hatred came as Vijay was returning alone from a time of sharing the intense love of Christ with remote villagers. He, his wife Vijaya and a few Christians had traveled miles to visit the village on market day. They knew this was a strategic time when the crowds would swell from the region’s smaller huts and hamlets. Everyone from miles around would be there in the market that day. As the apostle Paul had often done in first century Asia and Europe (see Acts 17:17), the small mission team shared the Good News of Jesus with the crowds in the marketplace. The motivation was the same as Paul’s, too. "He was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols (Acts 17:16).
Indeed, that town and the surrounding Koya tribal area was also filled with idols.
