This represents programs for India that Intercede International addresses.

Blessing Youth Mission is interdenominational, and considers itself a supplement to the local church and not a substitute. Its objectives are:

• Churches must be revived;

• Believers must grow;

• The Bible must be given its due place;

• The gifts and ministries of the Holy Spirit must be restored;

• Youth must be reached and challenged;

• Believers should unite, forgetting their differences;

• Every Christian must become a personal soul winner;

• People of God should be actively involved in neighbourhood evangelism;

• All churches and fellowships must be missionary-minded;

• The poor must be helped;

• India must be totally evangelized in this generation.

In 1957, God called Job Gnanaprakasam into a faith ministry to establish an independent and indigenous ministry, which is known in North America as India Christian Ministries. Though Job had to go through some severe trials and hardships, God proved faithful. Today, ICM has more than 290 missionaries, both men and women, scattered throughout the nine districts of the Tamil-speaking area of southern India. The work has spread to North India as well, and now includes a total of 338 churches, with more than 27,000 members. Many of the churches have been planted in areas where there has never been a witness to the gospel.

From a class of six students in 1969, Bharat Bible College, limited only by facilities and funding, has grown to an enrolment of at least 130 per year. Students come from various parts of India and several other countries. In the first 25 years of the college’s operation, about 500 graduates were sent out as missionaries to their own people.

Banjara Tribal Ministries works amongst the 32 million Banjaras living in India. The Banjara tribe are the original Gypsies, and are related to the Gypsies in Europe. They are an unreached people group that is spread over many states of India. A vast majority of them have never heard the Gospel even once in their own language.