Gateway Outreach, Sri Lanka & India

God got a hold of founder Aaron Burke early! By the time Aaron was 13 years old, he had already been on his first mission trip.  God began to birth dreams in his heart of nations he could reach for the Kingdom.  Aaron made a commitment to overseas ministry, joining the work of Asiana Education Development to organize children and youth programs at their various school locations. On furlough during Christmas of 2005, he began to work on ways to funnel resources and supplies to the burdened churches and pastors in South Asia.  In 2006, Aaron returned to Sri Lanka with a bigger vision under the auspices of Gateway Outreach (GO), and has established the first pastors network in the country.  Expanding the horizons of the Gospel going forth across the nations, in the summer of 2006, Gateway began work in India with Christian Outreach Ministry to support local pastors and missionaries and eventually sponsoring and participating in training seminars in several states in India.

Currently they are initiating programs for pastors and children in war torn and tsunami devastated areas of Sri Lanka, as well as remote village areas in India where the Name of Jesus has never been heard!  Seeing the vision, they empower churches with the resources needed to better reach their cultures and bring light and life!

Anamadura Children’s Home

In March, while visiting the church at Anamadura, Aaron saw young orphan boys sleeping on the floor of the pastor’s home.  Abandoned by their community and left at the “doorstep” of the church, the pastor and his wife took in these homeless children and were doing their best to provide for them.

Through prayer and the tireless efforts of the staff of GO, start-up funding was given through Sunshine After Rain Ministries to break ground on a new home for these orphans.  Free architectural services have been commissioned and the project is well underway, eventually housing up to 40 children. 

Sunshine After Rain Ministries partners with Gateway Outreach to bring the Good News to rural communities in South Asia through pastor training, orphanage outreach and village ministry evangelism. In November of 2006, over 5,000 people were seen, many hearing the Gospel for the first time.

There is a familiar Jewish saying “if you save the life of one person, it is as if you have saved the world entire.”  In Sri Lanka and India, children are being ministered to, children are being saved one life at a time, and along with Gateway Outreach, we believe entire nations will be changed for eternity.