This address isn't new. orepelaindia.com was created in 2002, in Calcutta, to raise up intercessors for India. Twenty-four years later, it returns with the same purpose — and with a concrete project to train the pastors who lead Indian churches.
orepelaindia.com is not a new site. It was born in the middle of the mission field, as a project to raise up intercessors for India — and what you're reading now is its relaunch.
orepelaindia.com goes live, hand-built on a borrowed laptop in the middle of missionary work in Calcutta. It was the first website Pr. Paulo Henrique had ever built — he learned just enough by studying for a week.
More than 140 individuals, churches, and mission organizations begin receiving the Pray for India Prayer Bulletin by email, written from the field. The site passes 35,000 visits, accessed from Brazil, the United States, Japan, Portugal, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and Germany.
Before leaving the country, the work is structured together with the Indian workers so it can continue without depending on a foreigner. At his departure there were 6 villages and more than 250 people; three months later, followed from Brazil, there were 7 villages and more than 300.
The same address returns with the same purpose it had in 2002 — to inform about India and mobilize prayer — now joined by a concrete project: translating the theology course into Bengali, Odia, and Hindi.
Founder of the Translation Project
He served in India between 2001 and 2005 and, during that time, founded a local mission in partnership with Indian pastors. When he left the country, he handed the local pastors and leaders a basic training manual in English, to help the work continue and grow stronger. That material was a 60-page manual divided into 15 chapters covering the main biblical doctrines, written so that the discipler himself could pass the teaching on simply. In 2004 it became a 20-week in-person course, with a certificate at the end.
Over the years, the mission grew and gave rise to a denomination that today brings together hundreds of pastors and leaders across several Indian states. With that growth, the need to offer broader, more solid, and more systematic biblical and ministerial training became evident.
In November 2024, during a new visit to India, that conviction was settled: these men needed to be offered, free of charge, deeply biblical and practical training suited to the needs of local ministry. Out of that need came the course now being translated into Hindi, Bengali, and Odia. That course is far deeper, more complete, and more comprehensive than that first material from 2003 — but it keeps the same hallmark: simple, clear, and objective language.
For security reasons, we omit names, places, and other sensitive details, given the current context of persecution against Christians in India.
The training began with a single Indian worker. Twenty-five years later, these are the mission's numbers in India:
national missionaries serving in the field
leaders involved in the work
villages reached
house churches established
The mission came first; the denomination was born out of it. Both share the same goal — reaching India with the gospel of Christ — but their work and ministries are distinct. Alongside the figures above, which are the mission's, stand the hundreds of independent pastors and churches that have come to walk with us, reaching thousands of people with the gospel. The course now in translation serves both fronts: the mission's workers, and the denomination's pastors and churches.
Just as the 16th-century reformers longed for the simplest peasant to know the Scriptures more deeply than the clergy of their day, our goal in India is equally clear: to train native Indian pastors with a solid, deep, and safe biblical and theological foundation.
It's not just about delivering content — it's about raising the standard of biblical teaching on the front lines of the mission field.
India faces growing religious persecution. That's why this site follows strict rules before publishing any content:
No identifiable name, photo, or video of workers or pastors in India — never a specific city or village, only broad regions.
Every message on the prayer wall goes through human review before it's published — nothing goes live automatically.
All funds received are applied in full to the maintenance, continuity, and expansion of this project.
