Church planting is the heart beat of SISWA. At present, we are encouraging our missionaries in the villages to plant new churches by providing them monthly financial assistance.

When a missionary is sent to a new village for planting a church. He needs to be supported every month even after he establishes a church. Some of our missionaries work in villages without electricity, transport or good drinking water. Most of our missionaries dwell in small rented houses or huts. These faithful missionaries face numerous problems, where there are seldom Christian families to support them or to encourage them.

The basic living cost for a missionary family per month is Rs. 2500/- (50 Dollars). In addition, SISWA provides the missionaries with bicycles, public address systems, Bibles and Gospel literature enabling them to do effective evangelism and plant churches.

Church Building

An important aspect of Church planting is to help the missionaries and the villagers to worship the Lord with freedom. The believers in the Indian village churches are mainly poor downtrodden people, who work as laborers and farmers.

They cannot financially support the church construction work. They gather in the houses rented by missionaries or under big trees or in some cases, under a thatched roof to worship the Lord. Financial assistance is required for erecting simple prayer halls for the purpose of Sunday worship, weekly meetings and Sunday school. A simple construction would be about 60 ft., long and 20 ft., wide. This construction is estimated to cost about $7000/- to $10000/-.

As part of our church planting efforts when ever possible, we extend give to Pastors to build worship places for the believers. At present, our support goes to churches in the states of Andhrapradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bangal, Maharastira, Andaman Islands and in the Nepal-India border.