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What We Believe

The convictions that shape our practice, the faith that grounds them, and the objectives set out when Great Commission Ministries was registered in 1994.

Our Convictions

How we understand the work

Five commitments, tested over three decades of practice, that guide how care is actually carried out in the field.

01

We do not stop at eighteen.

GCM walks with each child until they are fully settled in life — through college, into employment, and in several cases through their weddings.

02

Dignity before charity.

Children receive identity, names, birthdays, and belonging — not merely food and shelter.

03

Whole-person care.

Spiritual formation, education, healthcare, counselling, and vocational skill are treated as one continuous work.

04

Local, rooted, accountable.

GCM is Indian-founded, Indian-led, and answerable to Indian regulators, local authorities, and its international partners.

05

Regardless of caste, creed, or background.

Written into the founding society constitution: service to all, irrespective of religion, caste, creed, language or region.

Statement of Faith

What we hold to be true

The theological convictions of Great Commission Ministries, held in common with the wider evangelical church.

  1. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of God — the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed.

  2. We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ — His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, bodily resurrection, ascension to the right hand of the Father, and personal return in power and glory.

  4. We believe that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and that salvation is the gift of God, brought by grace and received through personal faith in Jesus Christ.

  5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

  6. We believe the Church is the body and bride of Christ — a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons — and in the establishment and continuance of local churches for worship, edification and fellowship.

  7. We believe it is the obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the truths of Holy Scripture, and to proclaim the Gospel to all mankind.

  8. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost.

Founding Society Objectives

As registered in our constitution

Abridged from the objectives clause of the founding society constitution, registered in 1994.

  1. To establish a home providing care and medical aid to the poor and needy, irrespective of caste and creed, with special provision for the aged.
  2. To provide training and discipline that shapes character.
  3. To develop a sense of universal brotherhood for peace and harmony in society.
  4. To create awareness programmes on AIDS, cancer, leprosy and other serious disease — prevention and cure.
  5. To educate on environmental protection, ecological balance and tree plantation.
  6. To hold lectures, seminars, symposiums and exhibitions on population, illiteracy, health education and civil rights.
  7. To establish educational institutions.
  8. To help the aged, disabled, and specially those from SC/ST and weaker sections, acting as liaison with Government.
  9. To provide orientation, motivation, technical and inservice training for rural folk in agriculture, allied sciences and handicraft.
  10. To share the love of God shown at the cross, in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Great Commission Ministries (formerly The Great Mission Ministries) is a Christian charity · Independent registered NGO (Society), registered office at 104, Prudent Pranava Apartments, Brindavan Colony, Opp. A.S. Rao Nagar, Hyderabad – 500062, Telangana, India. The full constitution is available on request.

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Who Leads This Work

Leadership & Governance

The founders, office-bearers and project managers of the registered society.

Name Role
Rev. M.N. Ashirvadam Founder & Secretary (life member) · Project Manager for HADA reporting
Mrs. Miriam Mylaram Co-founder
Sam Mylaram Project Manager — donor relations, compliance, communications
A. Krishna Moses President
G. Sudarshan Vice President
M. Anandam Treasurer
G. Srinivas Naik Joint Secretary

Held to Account

Accountability & Oversight

Conviction without accountability is not enough. Here is how Great Commission Ministries is checked, reported on, and held to standard.

  1. Formal 4-monthly written project reports to international partners.
  2. Annual activity reports covering all project areas.
  3. Full financial breakdowns available on request.
  4. Physical inspection by the Ministry of Home Affairs permitted at any time.
  5. Regular Child Welfare Department inspection and compliance with directives.
  6. Juvenile Justice Act 2016 compliance in accommodation arrangements.
  7. Individual documented case histories for every child in care.

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