04/15/2025
Please be praying for our friends at Central India Christian Mission...
URGENT UPDATE: Escalating Persecution Against Our Mission Family
Dear Faithful Prayer Warriors and Beloved Supporters,
With a heart even heavier than before, I would like to provide you with an urgent update on the situation facing our mission family in India. The persecution we described in our previous message has intensified dramatically.
The government has now formally initiated court cases against ten of our local leaders. Most alarmingly, they have also filed charges against Dr. Mrs. Indu Lall and another female team member.
The danger has reached such an extreme level that many of our team members have been forced to flee the city to protect themselves and their families. Those who remain are operating under explicit threats to both their own lives and the lives of their children.
Under these critical circumstances, daily operations at our facilities have become extremely difficult and nearly impossible as our staff faces this intense campaign of intimidation and legal harassment.
Now more than ever, we ask for your faithful, fervent prayers for:
Divine protection for our team members and their children who are under direct threat
Legal intervention and justice regarding the baseless court cases filed against our leaders
Wisdom and discernment as our leadership team makes critical decisions about the future of our mission work
Safe refuge for those who have been forced to flee
Courage and endurance for those who remain
God's guidance on whether to temporarily suspend operations, relocate, or find another path forward
Despite this overwhelming darkness, we remain convinced that God has not abandoned His work in this region. We trust that even these terrible circumstances will ultimately serve His greater purpose, though we cannot see the way forward clearly at this moment. We consider all of you a part of the CICM family and cannot thank you enough for standing strong with us through this difficult time.
We are profoundly grateful for your continued partnership in prayer and support. Your faithful intercession is sustaining us through this valley of darkness.
With grateful hearts,
CICM Family
"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze." - Isaiah 43:2
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