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The
Vision of Dr G D James
Asia Evangelistic Fellowship
(AEF) founded in 1960 by Dr G D James, is an indigenous and
interdenominational faith mission dedicated to the task of
evangelism and pioneer missions.
The AEF mobilizes and
equips national evangelists and missionaries in Asian countries
to reach out to their own people groups.
AEF believes in co-operating
with churches and other missionary agencies in its task of
evangelizing Asia and continually identifies and develops
new ministries, particularly to unreached people groups.
The
Call
The vision of reaching
out to Asians came to Dr G. D. James in 1960 when he was recuperating
in a hospital bed. He had a burden that the Lord was
calling Asians to missionary service after serving as an itinerant
evangelist for 22 years in India , Malaysia (then known as
Malaya) and Singapore. The problem was that there was
then no interdenominational mission which accepted Asian missionaries
to be part of the Great Commission. Dr James writes
of that call "...one night, in a clear way, the Lord
brought before me a vision in which I saw millions of people
carelessly hastening to a lost eternity. The Lord seemed
to ask me in lucid language , who will go and share the gospel
with these millions? How many people can you individually
reach in your brief life span? Why don't you multiply
your ministry by taking in and training dedicated young people?"
This Dr James did, as he mobilized many young Christian
workers and trained them in evangelism and mission.
The mission which started
in Singapore soon spread to Malaysia, Indonesia and India.
AEF
International today
Today AEF International
is one of the largest indigenous missions in Asia and has
more than 200 national missionaries and associates serving
in nine fields. Countries in which AEF International
has an ongoing work includes Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Nepal, Myanmar, Philippines and India. AEF's ministry
thrust continues to be evangelism and missions.

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