Ministries and Partners

Din Bandhu "Friend Of The Poor"

Din Bandhu is a church, social benefactor and church planting ministry targeting poor and un-reached people groups in eastern Maharashtra, India. They focus on three different segments of society - the Tribals, the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) and the Scheduled Castes (SCs) - some of India's poorest and least reached people...     read more

New Life Fellowship Mumbai

New Life Fellowship is the largest church in central and south India. It is a fast growing cell-church with more than 300 house-churches in Mumbai and churches in many additional cities. Their vision is to see a house church planted in every village and every settlement, town and city in the state of Maharashtra, a church for...     read more

Dalit Freedom Network

The mission of the Dalit Freedom Network is to empower the Dalits in their quest for social freedom and human dignity by networking human, financial and informational resources. DFN's goals are to see a new generation of educated Dalits; to see freedom from caste slavery for every Dalit and Other Backward Caste person; to see...     read more

Rethinking Forum

The Rethinking Forum and its contextualized evangelistic ministry effectively reaches the Brahmin caste. The Forum is a small and diverse network of people who are deeply interested in the Hindu-Christian interface. It draws its name from the Rethinking Group in Indian church history. The Forum seeks to re-think Indian...     read more

Discipleship

Discipleship is our Divine Assignment - In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus charged His disciples to "go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you . . ." Although addressed to the Lord's closet followers,...     read more

Abhijit Parage Mumbai Partner

Abhijit began serving on Din Bandhu staff in 2005 as the administrative officer. He currently oversees communications and operations.     read more

Ashu Wakode Mumbai Partner

Ashu came to know the Lord at a young age and began serving in full time ministry with Din Bandhu immediately after Bible training. He served in the Yavatmal district from 1996 until 2000 when he went to pioneer and lead the ministry in the Wardha district. Ashu has seen God grow the ministry in Wardha from a single primary...     read more

Santosh And Smita Papade Mumbai Partner

Santosh and Smita recently joined Din Bandhu. Santosh serves as project coordinator for the Skills Training Center inYavatmal. Smita provides leadership for the Women's Ministry. They have a son, Joshua.     read more

Nitin And Ruth Sardar Mumbai Partner

Nitin was born into and brought up in a Christian family in Umbri village in Yavatmal district in eastern Maharashtra. He gave his life to the Lord at the age of 14, but it was not until the age of 26 that God put His call upon Nitin to get involved with Din Bandhu. Over the past 15 years Nitin has seen the Lord use Din...     read more

Suhas And Wendy Wakode Mumbai Partner

Suhas, like his brother Ashu, came to know the Lord at an early age and has been serving in full time Christian work since completing school. Suhas also served in the Yavatmal district for a few years before moving to Nagpur in 2000 to serve Din Bandhu in this ministry area. Suhas served under Justin Coalwell in Nagpur for...     read more