IN Network schools provide a Christian education and a warm, caring environment for hundreds of slum children.
Bangladesh (MNN) ― The interim government of Bangladesh recently announced that it will hold elections for four city corporations and nine municipalities in August. It promised to relax the restrictions imposed under the state of emergency in the regions of the elections.
The country's political parties, the Awami League and the Bangladesh National Party, oppose the move to hold local elections before the national elections scheduled for December. The leaders of the parties have been in detention.
As IN Network has an extensive ministry in Bangladesh, it hopes the elections will be free and fair and the government will have a positive role in the current food crisis. The local authority of the Bagerhat area has given IN Network full support to help its people, who are still suffering since the Sidr cyclone struck their area last November.
IN Network runs three educational facilities in Bangladesh which provide meals, medical care, clothing, and a Christian education for their students. Bethany Children's Village and Savar Children's Village also provide housing for over 450 residential students. Dhaka Slum Children's Ministry and other schools provide education for children in four different slums.
Twenty boys at Bethany Children's Home recently professed faith in Christ, as well as a young Buddhist girl of Savar Village. All of these young believers are now attending pre-baptism classes.
The ministry is also in the process of planting a new church, Bethel Church IN Savar, at Savar Children's Village. IN Network plans to plant two more churches in Bethany and Naogoan villages in 2008 and 2009. Full-time evangelists working in the area play a role in these efforts.
IN also runs a Bible college, two kindergartens, vocational training for women, and a mother and childcare clinic in Bangladesh, which is one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world. Islam is the state religion, and Islamic extremists are growing strong. Pray that the Gospel will shine brightly in this country suffering from political and economic crisis.
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