Blue Mountain Community Church supports two different mission outreaches in India. We are committed to sending a team of encouragers from Blue Mountain Community Church to our missionaries in India every 2-3 years.

Kristina Groves - Bangalore, India

The very first missionary our church supported was an Englishman who spent his life as a missionary in India. He lost his first wife during the "quiet revolution" in which Britain gave rulership of India back to the nationals, and he remarried a native Indian woman.

We affectionately called him “Brother Groves.” He happened to be in the states just when Blue Mountain Community Church began as a church, and he came and spoke to us for several weeks. He set our hearts on fire with a love for the Gospel, for missions, and for the Indian people. Brother Groves passed on in 1997, but his wife, Kristina Groves, carries on the ministry. She speaks to the Hindu people about their need for salvation through Jesus Christ.

Go Ye Missions - Nagercoil, India              Click Here to view the Go Ye Missions website

Pastor Rick met the founders of Go Ye Missions through a miraculous set of circumstances. The founders of Go Ye Missions are two brothers, P.Kulandaivelu (we call him Velu) and Elangovan (we call him Elan).

During their teen-age years, the father of these two brothers was murdered by jealous relatives. As a result, they felt their Hindu gods had left them down. One day, they picked up a gospel tract off the street. They read, and they believed that Jesus was the real God. They gave their hearts to him.

From that humble beginning, these brothers have completed college and Bible School training, and they have committed themselves to reaching India for Jesus Christ .

They began “Go Ye Mission” at the same time Blue Mountain Community Church was begining in 1981. Pastor Rick feels a special and unique kinship with this mission. He believes that God meant Blue Mountain Community Church and Go Ye Mission to be yoked together to minister in Jesus’ Name in India.

Go Ye Mission's vision is to reach the millions of people that live in the villages of India which are ignored by many missions. There are virtually millions of Indians who have never even heard of Jesus Christ. These people are their focus.

Their strategy is three fold:

• First, they publish a free Christian magazine, and they send out over 30,000 copies every month. To do this they maintain a staff of approximately thirteen people working full-time.
• Second, they oversee about fifty missionaries who circulate throughout the villages, speaking, passing out tracts, and starting churches.
• Third, the brothers go out to the villages and conduct week-long crusades with the goal of establishing a church.

In addition to their evangelistic work, the mission operates an orphanage for girls who are abandoned. These girls are thrown away because in the Hindu system the practice of paying dowry for young women to be married makes them a financial burden.

Even though this practice is technically illegal, the custom is so deeply entrenched in many Indian villages that it is still common practice. This is a serious problem in the villages where Go Ye Missions ministers. At the orphanage, GoYe Missions supports fifty children and two to four full-time adult workers. Blue Mountain Community Church is the sole supporter of the orphanage at this time, and we are the main supporter of Go Ye Missions supplying the mission with $400 /month.