“God continues to network us into various parts of our nation. We believe by the year 2020, we will be strategically distributed to reach every people group of our nation,” as stated in the President and Director’s 2007 Annual Report.

Dr. N. Paul V. Gupta’s initial vision and passion began in 1952. His strategy was to reach the unevangelized by equipping one Indian to reach another Indian for Christ, so he established Hindustan Bible Institute in Chennai, India. Today, his son, Dr. Paul (Bobby) Gupta, carries this zeal and strategy forward with amazing results.

Just in the last 12 months, 396 churches were planted where no church previously existed. Services may have up to 35,000 people, who worship for three to four hours in the sweltering heat. In 1985, India had about 114,000 churches. Currently over 500,000 worshipping communities gather in homes, worship centers, preaching points, new church plants, and church buildings. Pray for HBI as they share the liberating Truth throughout India.
 

Martha Wade holds a Master's Degree in Intercultural Studies from Biola University and is a former Global Evangelism Mobilization Director of a Los Angeles area church. She is the founder of A Quarter Blue, an organization dedicated to curtailing child molestation. She has had the opportunity to speak in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Southeast Asia. She is married with two children.