Year of Beautification

 

From the depth of my heart
January 2023

My dear partner in the ministry,
I wish you a Happy New Year and hope you will have many blessings in 2023.

Year of Beautification
Prayer Tower Ministry
"As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you." (Isaiah 66:13)

• In the last year, a total of 15,83,900 people have visited the 100 Prayer Towers for personal prayer.
• 18,81,630 people are blessed by attending the Blessing Meetings conducted in the Prayer Towers.
•  19,77,986 blessed oil vials were distributed to the people who received them with faith.

Telephone Prayer Tower
"When I am in distress, I call to You, because You answer me." (Psalm 86:7)
The Jesus Calls Telephone Prayer Tower has been relentlessly providing prayer support to the people in desperate situations, round the clock.

• Last year through telephone, our prayer intercessors prayed for 43,34,540 people.

Apart from Chennai, we have also started this Telephone Prayer Towers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

National Prayer Tower
"Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him." (Psalm 106:23)

• 124 Prayer Intercessors have come voluntarily from various states to the National Prayer Tower to pray for the nation.

28 special events were conducted in the National Prayer Tower to pray for the lawmakers, representatives of the people, and bureaucrats.

Blessing Meetings
"A great crowd of people followed Him because they saw the signs He had performed by healing the sick." (John 6:2)
In 2022, we have conducted the New Year Blessing Meeting, Family Blessing meetings, Partners meetings, and Pastors’ Meetings at Chennai, Erode, Tirunelveli, Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Secunderabad (Telangana), Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Ahmadabad (Gujarat), Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Raipur (Chhattisgarh). Through these meetings, around 1,11,080 people have received God's word and were blessed.

Ambassador Ministry
"...let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." (James 5:14)
The Jesus Calls Ambassadors pay visits to our ministry partners' houses and pray for them every month. They also introduce the Jesus Calls ministry’s God-given missions to the people and encourage them to support the ministry as a partner.

• At present, 1,155 ambassadors are serving voluntarily.
• Our ambassadors have visited 34,436 families and prayed for them.

Television Ministry
"...many who heard the message believed" (Acts 4:4)
The 'Jesus Calls' ministry spreads the gospel to every nook and corner through television programmes. People are able to receive the word of God and pray along with us from their houses and experience the mighty touch of the Lord.

• We produce television programmes in 6 languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Sinhala).
• Our programmes in Tamil are being telecasted mainly through Family Channel 24x7.
• Through 11 television channels, our programmes reach thousands of households worldwide.

We minister in live programmes almost weekly where people can share their prayer needs through the telephone. 

Digital Media Ministry
“...the gospel must first be preached to all nations” (Mark 13:10)
We upload videos and posts on social media platforms to bring the gospel to everyone's Smartphone. We maintain separate accounts for languages to cater to people's needs effectively.

• Facebook: Posts viewed 38,77,443 times with 18,29,875 followers.
• Instagram: 600 posts and 500 IGTV content have been published with 2,32,000 followers
• Twitter: 7,40,500 impressions on the Twitter handle
• Website: Around 55,12,648 visitors.
• YouTube: Videos viewed 4,54,55,571 times with 10,86,105 subscribers for all accounts.

Magazine Ministry
"You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life" (John 5:39)
Jesus Calls magazine has been published in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Gurajati, and English.

• More than 200 thousand households receive our magazine every month, and 800 thousand people have been blessed through print and digital magazines.
• Last year the Hindi edition of the book “A family life united with Christ” authored by my mother, Sis. Stella Dhinakaran was published.
• 28 other books were reprinted
• I am writing my autobiography titled ‘I am never alone’. This new book will be published this year.

Esther Prayer Group Ministry
"...where many people had gathered and were praying" (Acts 12:12)
In 2022, 85 Esther Prayer Groups, 56 Young Women Esther Prayer Groups, 26 Junior Esther Prayer Groups, and 21 Couple Esther Prayer Groups were newly started. 165 groups that were not functioning have been revived.

• Now 1,300 Esther Prayer Groups in all 4 types actively pray every month.

Esther Prayer Groups conferences were conducted in Chennai, Madurai, and Puducherry. Hundreds of Esther Prayer Group members attended these conferences and were blessed.

Correspondence Ministry
"Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy" (Psalm 143:1)
People send their prayer requests by letter, email, Prayer Towers, and social media platforms to our ministry. We pray for every prayer request and send them God-given replies with relevant promises from the scripture.

• In 2022, we have replied to 6,91,715 prayer requests by letters in Tamil, Telugu, English, Malayalam, Hindi, and Kannada languages.
• We received 3,18,879 prayer requests last year through email and have sent prayerful replies to them.

UTurn Ministry
"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth" (Ecclesiastes 12:1)
Last year God enabled us to conduct many UTurn programmes like Worship Night, UTurn Club event, and Youth Blessing meetings at Chennai, Coimbatore, Ahmadabad, Hyderabad, and Ranchi cities.

• Through all these meetings, more than 13,900 youth were blessed.

Almost every week, we are telecasting the UTurn live programme on Television. Thousands of youngsters have shared their prayer needs in these live programmes and have received blessings from the Lord.

Dynamic Kids Camp
"Teach them to your children and to their children after them" (Deuteronomy 4:9)
Dynamic Kids Camp was conducted in all the Prayer Towers in April and May to nurture the budding generation with knowledge about God. We prayerfully prepared our syllabus to teach the kids last year.

Trumpet Prayer Group
"Blow the trumpet in Zion" (Joel 2:1)
8,000 Prayer Intercessors are voluntarily praying every day through the Trumpet Prayer Group. Since March 2020, these prayer intercessors have been praying for the ministry, nation, and the world. Last year, apart from every day's noon prayer, 12 monthly chain prayers were conducted.

Prayer Academy and Training
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15)
Partner Training Programme is being conducted in every Prayer Tower to equip all the paying partners as praying partners. To raise trainers to train the partners in every Prayer Tower, the Prayer Academy conducts a Training of Trainers programme. Training of Trainers programme has been conducted in person and online.

• Last year 254 partners were trained as Prayer Academy Trainers to conduct Partners Training Programmes in Prayer Towers.

Helping God's Servants
As commanded by the Lord, we are helping God’s servants who are in need and are supporting them to build churches. Last year, God enabled us to support hundreds of pastors and missionaries.