The temporary home for the Centre is a makeshift room on the roof! Before the end of the year, it is hoped that the Centre will inhabit the entire second floor - some 2,000 square feet of space.
The Bread of Life Study Centre is the brainchld of Shyam Salam (in both pictures above). Samuel Salam (left) has a full time job taking care of the office work.
Its aim is to present the story of The Gospels to not-believers, giving them the information and opportunity to choose. To that end, 10,000 copies of The Book of Life have been printed in English. half of those have already been distributed. Each booklet contains survey questions which are returned to the Centre for correcting. A second level of more indepth studies is then sent to the participants. Then, in the second week of January approximately 50 of the graduates will be invited to a 5-day camp in Guwahati.
Translation has been completed and printing is in progress for 10,000 copies of the same in the Assamese language spoken by more than half of the 43 millions people of NE India. Other languages - Bengali and Manipuri - are a part of future plans.
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Looks like you've been spammed! Time to turn on "word verification"... you can do that in the SETTINGS:COMMENTS section when you sign in - maybe you've already checked that out. Good to hear about Shyam's big project - exciting stuff.
Tim
Bob gave an excellent report on the work in Guwahati at his 7:30AM breakfast for Heartwarmer team members and supporters at Lectureship this past weekend at Western.
Shyam is an amazing man. I will have to meet him someday.
Laura
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