Life Changing Words Ministry

Reaching India For Christ

Background

Founded in 1991, by William (Bill) W. and Georgene Hawkins, after a two-week ministry visit in India, Life Changing Words Ministry would become the focus and means for a change in their lives. Their hearts were touched for the need to encourage and help native pastors strengthen their ministry skills, and for the need in practical social work. LCWM was established as a 501(c)(3) organization in 1995.

Pre-LCWM Ministry and Life Experience

Bill was an evangelist, traveling from the east coast to the west coast in the States while working with the Southern Baptist organization, starting and pastoring mission churches in the Pacific NW.

Georgene has experience in: starting a church library; creating a volunteer-based cable television program for OSU Extension Service through the Master Gardeners Program; various positions held in the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs; has a Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certificate; and has earned a Bachelor's Degree in Theology from Moriah Institute of Christian Studies of Fayetteville, NC. She is a licensed Customhouse Broker, and works short term jobs as a full charge bookkeeper when in Oregon.

The Hawkins are active in their home church, Living Hope Fellowship, and are participants in India Full Gospel Church and India Christian Fellowship, also in their home area. They have traveled to and ministered in Legnica, Poland; Jujuy, Argentina; Chekov, USSR; Puebla, Mexico; Kathmandu, Nepal; and more than ten times to India ministering in a majority of its states.

Six married children and twelve grandchildren fill up the Hawkins' spare time. Oregon has been their home since 1971.

Accomplishments

1. Teaching English, evangelistic preaching, and kingdom living at Grace Bible College, Gurgaon, Haryana; Hebron Christian Academy, Nilambur, Kerala; Servanthood Bible College, Dimapur, Nagaland, and IPC Kottayam Theological Seminary, Kottayam, Kerala, as guest teachers.
2. Networking with a native ministry, Imanuel Prayer House, West Mulund, LCWM raised funds to build a slum school in the village of Ghatkopar, Mumbai (Bombay area). The school opened June 1st, 2004, with the first 50 children. Imanuel Prayer House is overseeing and supporting the school for three years until the government picks up the teacher salaries and children's' snacks for this social work.
3. The current project adopted is to network with a native ministry, Youth Harvest Ministry, in Dimapur, Nagaland, to procure the property, currently with a two-story building, for an addiction recovery center. This social work will be a precedent in this NE India area. Young people have had few avenues available to them for any hope of a future. Drugs and alcohol have been an easy escape and many lose their lives to this hopeless trap. An addiction recovery center would offer help to the hurting people who seek to get out of the death trap of drugs and alcohol. The seven surrounding states to Nagaland and the four countries nearby would be benefited having this center available. Fundraising for this project is underway.
4. Assisting in meeting practical social needs by:
   1. giving medical attention (to burn victim); hand-carrying medical equipment (Neurocare 1000 unit) to St. Stephen's Hospital in Delhi; taught English pronunciation review for the first year nursing students;
   2. providing vitamin supplements (for sickly family members of networking ministries and recovering addicts from street drugs);
   3. giving contributions and donations of items needed for an orphanage (Bethesda Children's Home in Gurgaon);
   4. visited men's prison,
5. Assisting in meeting ministry needs by:
   1. shipping hundreds of pounds of library books to bible colleges; and Sunday school and vacation bible school materials to networking churches;
   2. paid for the translation and publishing of LCWM textbook, Kingdom Living, into Hindi and Chi (Burmese-Myanmar) languages;
   3. held chapel for hospital staff; personal hospital visits for prayer by invitation; visited shut-ins
6. Over the years LCWM has established personal working relationships by living directly with the natives in their houses, and by networking with native social and ministry workers to bring a unity of purpose in dealing with social issues in the areas of education for children who are poor, or living in areas where good education is not available; giving women caught in prostitution an option for vocational training, and pinpointing medical clinic needs in tribal areas.
7. In various international places, personal counseling, speaking engagements, conference and seminar speaking, have also been the Hawkins activities.

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