Gospel For Asia
| Founder | |
|---|---|
| K. P. Yohannan | |
| Religions | |
| Christianity | |
| Scriptures | |
| The Bible | |
| Website | |
| http://www.gfa.org/ |
Gospel for Asia (GFA) is a Christian missionary NGO founded by K. P. Yohannan in 1978, which focuses on evangelizing in India and Asian countries through the use of national missionaries. The organization, once based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Carrollton, Texas is now located in Wills Point, TX. Its primary aim is to support indigenous missions to "serve the 'least of these' in Asia".
GFA is present in numerous countries, including India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Laos and Thailand.
Scholar Michael Bergunder considers it to have been "One of the most influential new foundations in the second half of the twentieth century".
In 1981, current president K. P. Yohannan formed a branch of GFA in his native Kerala, with an Indian headquarters being set up in Tiruvalla in 1983. GFA directly administers bible colleges, whose graduates receive financial support to found new congregations. Increasing donations made GFA "one of the most financially powerful mission undertakings in India in the 1980s." GFA directly supports more than 50 Bible colleges in various countries.
In 1993, GFA began founding its own network of churches in Asia, which is the Believers Church which uses a Episcopal Polity form of governance.
The mission statement for GFA is to be devout followers of Christ and to fulfill the Great Commission among the unreached in Asia through training, sending out and assisting qualified laborers in partnership with the Body of Christ. The goal of GFA focuses on the formation of missionaries native to the nation the missionary is serving, with special emphasis on Asia. It embraces the claim that God himself builds his church in Asia. The organization has defined its primary mission field as being those people that live in the 10/40 Window, a rectangular region extending from west Africa to east Asia and between 10 and 40 degrees north longitude. By concentrating on this region GFA ministers to a dense population of largely poor communities that have had limited or no exposure to the Christian faith.
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