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With new state-of-the-art facilities, Joyce Meyer Ministries' Asia office is poised and ready to help more people than ever before.
by Chad Trafton
Standing tall, in the very heart of India, is a symbol of hope.
Sprawling over six acres of land and containing more than 70,000 square feet of working space, Joyce Meyer Ministries’ new Asia headquarters in Hyderabad has become the hub for our ever-increasing outreaches throughout the region.
This past January, Dave and Joyce Meyer traveled to India to officially cut the ribbon and pray over the facilities. Two hundred ministry partners also joined them for the dedication and a tour of the new building.
“Lord, we dedicate this building to Your work and to Your glory,” Joyce prayed. “We pray that the kingdom of God will increase in an amazing way as a result of the outreaches that go out from here to India and Asia. In Jesus’ name, we give You this for Your glory!”
These new facilities allow our ministry staff in India to finally work together under one roof. Until this year, more than 200 employees were spread out in five different rented facilities.
“It’s a monument to God’s glory,” said one partner who was on hand for the event. “When people walk by, they’re going to notice. Just seeing what God is doing here in Hyderabad is amazing. I think the building is just absolutely beautiful.”
“It’s important to know that our money is going into fertile ground,” said another partner. “And when I get here and I see the work that’s been done, and I see a building like this, I know that great things are going to get accomplished for God.”
The new building boasts many state-of-the-art technologies and will enable us to reach people in a greater and more efficient way than ever before. Some of our most effective outreach has come through our ministry via TV and radio.
Scott Norling is the director of Joyce Meyer Ministries’ Asia office. Along with his wife and five children, he has dedicated his life to reaching this part of the world with the Gospel. After living in India for twenty-two years, he says the opportunities we have today are far greater than ever before.
“God has taken us on an incredible journey,” Scott says. “We really never thought we’d be able to get on the TV networks in this nation. But here we are today, broadcasting in sixteen languages, reaching literally 98 percent of the households in India.”
Although the population of India is extremely poor, there are 600 million people who have access to television…and nearly all of them can receive our Enjoying Everyday Life broadcast.
“With the new headquarters, we’re going to be able to do things throughout Asia that we’ve never had the capability of doing before,” he adds. “We have two major production facilities that will allow us to not only do a better job producing our Enjoying Everyday Life telecasts, but it will enable us to start producing other relevant Christian programming for children, for youth and for young adults. The young people here in Asia desperately need to hear the Gospel presented in their own language and in their own cultural way.”
For Joyce Meyer Ministries, this means using seasoned interpreters and professionally dubbing our telecasts into numerous dialects. But it will all be worth it. Recent reports indicate that 90 percent of people’s spiritual or moral learning takes place through exposure to teachings in their local vernacular.
“It’s so important for our friends and partners to realize that we’re able to do this in their native languages,” Scott says. “That’s significant because even if they know English, the preferred language of getting a moral or a religious education is their own vernacular. This beautiful facility will help us to do just that. It will give us the opportunity to accomplish things we could have never done before.”
And this is saying a lot, given the massive outreaches that we have conducted throughout Asia in recent years. With the support of our friends and partners, Joyce Meyer Ministries is meeting both the spiritual and physical needs of millions.
We fully fund and operate more than forty orphanages, helping young boys and girls experience the love of Jesus firsthand. We have changed thousands of people’s lives in more than 185 villages by building churches and installing freshwater wells.
And when the tsunami hit India and Sri Lanka at the end of 2004, we were able to make an immediate impact, supplying vital resources and even rebuilding entire villages. Scott Norling insists that having a ministry office in India is a major key to our effectiveness.
“Our presence makes all the difference in the world,” he says. “That’s the reason we were able to adequately meet their needs after the tsunami. We were able to actually be here with the people. It wasn’t just what we gave in terms of the food or the beautiful homes that are now built. Physically being here with them is a huge part of ministering to their needs.”
Most recently, our presence has made it possible for us to open a new hospital in Chandrakal, a remote village in India. This hospital serves the Chandrakal residents and nearly 100,000 people from the surrounding fifteen area villages.
Here, we offer free health care for more than 3,000 patients a month, providing inpatient and outpatient surgical and emergency needs on a daily basis. Besides modern equipment and medicine, this hospital also utilizes a brand-new ambulance—something many in this region have never even seen before. In addition, we are currently building a children's AIDS hospice and orphanage nearby.
And that’s not all. Perhaps one of our greatest outreaches to date is our ability to feed thousands of needy children all across Asia. For only $5 a month, we can feed, educate and share the Gospel with a child six days a week.
“Many times the enemy tries to make people believe their contribution is too small to accomplish anything—but that’s not true,” says David L. Meyer, Dave and Joyce’s eldest son and CEO of World Missions for Joyce Meyer Ministries.
“We strongly encourage people to partner with us, even if they feel like they don’t have a lot to give. Because when they do, they are changing the life of a child forever.”
Friends and partners, as we celebrate the opening of our beautiful new headquarters in Asia, we want you to know that you are responsible for building so much more than just walls of brick and mortar. You are building lives.
From the new tsunami village in Sri Lanka…to the children in the slums of Singareni…to the grateful residents of Chandrakal and its surrounding areas...your assistance is making all the difference in their lives right now and for eternity.
Thank you so much for your love, prayers and support that are not only bringing glory to God…but bringing His timeless message of hope to millions all across Asia. 
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