With a population of over one billion people, India is the second most populated nation on earth. Some projections indicate that India’s population will surpass China’s by the year 2025. In this vibrant, bustling country, with an emerging middle class of over 400 million people, the Lord has established and nurtured Christ Evangelical Lutheran Ministries, the WELS mission. This young church is flourishing in a country in which fewer than three percent of the people know Christ as Savior.

Since 2003 the membership of CELM has grown from 3,677 to 7,457 souls.  National pastors, now numbering 14, are taking an increasing role in supervising congregations, spearheading evangelism and stewardship efforts and preparing men for ministry. In addition, the spiritual and physical needs of three hundred children are more than amply met through the orphanages that WELS has established in cooperation with the national church. We thank and praise the Lord for his manifold blessings!

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