With a very specific call Rev. D. Augustine Jebakumar came to Bihar in the year Oct 1972, which was then known as the "Graveyard of Missionaries". The Lord started moving in a marvelous way in different places of Bihar, connecting people from South India also. During 1979 a registered society was formed to concentrate on North India with a special emphasis in Bihar, which in turn brought 315 stations with 516 Worshipping centers today in Bihar, Jharkand, Utter Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. This flame has crossed borders and by God grace work started in Nepal and some closed courtiers also.
The activities of the society are primarily church planting evangelism. Later educational services, medical services and social services were added in order to cater to the needs of people.
Working in 27 Districts of Bihar alone, we have established about 9 English Medium Schools, 108 Hindi Medium Schools (Day Care Centers), 30 Homes for Orphan Children and Physically handicapped children, which made an impact in the whole State.
We have workers from North India (mainly people who were transformed by the love of the Lord who were trained through our Discipleship Training Centers and Workers Training Centers along with South Indians ( 1/3 of the total force) and right now we have over 2005 people who get support on various levels.
The recently developed ministries are the NET (Neighbors Evangelistic Team), especially to reach the Neighbours, PEACE - Pincode Evangelism And Church Establishment that is to place one worker in one PIN code ( ZIP Code) and Children Ministry to reach the children and IMPACT - I Must Plant A Church Today. We are in regular contact with 30,000 children and these children are locals and are transformed through the service of GEMS.
South Indian Churches and Prayer Groups mainly support the workers, whereas our friends from overseas and other agencies support our social work, major buildings and donate vehicles.
Bihar after the bifurcation (from Nov 2000) has around 82 million people and only 40,000 people are Christians including Roman Catholic, even today. Out of which around 20000+ people are active believers. So, GEMS would like to multiply the harvest force by giving leadership training to Women and Men, so that the trained people may go and train others as the field is vast and getting ready for Harvest.