An established partnership.
A wider Tamil reach.
Expanding a locally led media and publishing ministry through print, Bible teaching, and a new Tamil-language digital platform.
A partnership already underway
Reach Nepal’s Tamil ministry work did not begin with an app. For the past couple of years, we have been working alongside a locally led media ministry—supporting its programming and helping print a monthly ministry magazine.
Allen Shane has been leading the project. Pastor Charles Dhanasingh is now joining the ministry as a principal speaker and Bible teacher, expanding the team’s capacity to produce trusted, Bible-centered teaching for Tamil-speaking audiences.
This next phase builds on relationships, ministry experience, and an audience that already exists. The digital platform is a tool for strengthening that work, not a replacement for local leadership.
A language community with a far-reaching opportunity
More than 69 million people reported Tamil as their mother tongue in India’s 2011 census, with Tamil-speaking communities extending well beyond India.
Tamil Nadu’s 2011 census recorded 87.58% of residents as Hindu, 6.12% as Christian, and 5.86% as Muslim. These figures do not describe any individual community, but they help show the wider setting in which locally grounded Christian media and discipleship resources are being developed.
Within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Southeast India Union territory—Tamil Nadu and parts of Puducherry—reported 479 churches and 142,114 members as of June 30, 2025.
Gathering Tamil resources for the app
Reach Nepal will work with the local ministry team to identify, review, organize, and—where permission allows—bring together as many useful Tamil-language resources as possible for the new app.
That library can grow to include Bible studies, sermons, video and audio programs, children’s and family resources, discipleship materials, and an accessible archive of magazine content.
The technology can be shared, but the ministry must remain distinctly Tamil. Local leaders will guide the language, teaching, editorial review, identity, and priorities so the content is trustworthy and culturally appropriate.
Growing a ministry that people can hold and share
The monthly ministry magazine currently reaches approximately 2,000 families. Our next goal is to grow distribution to 5,000–10,000 families, placing practical, Bible-based reading in more homes each month.
Print remains important alongside digital media. A magazine can be read without a data connection, passed from one person to another, used in a home visit, and kept for future study.
We also plan to create special, high-quality magazine editions in English that can serve as carefully developed source material for translation and local adaptation. With qualified local review, these editions can be prepared in Nepali, Tamil, and additional languages without requiring every ministry to begin from a blank page.
Speaker and religion figures use India’s 2011 census, the latest completed national census currently available. Church figures use the 2026 Adventist Yearbook’s June 2025 statistics for the Southeast India Union territory.
Local leadership. Shared tools. Wider reach.
The long-term opportunity is to connect print, video, audio, Bible study, and online community in one coherent ministry. A shared technical foundation can make that possible while every language ministry retains its own name, voice, relationships, and editorial responsibility.
Together with our Tamil partners, we can strengthen a ministry that is already serving families and prepare it to reach many more people through both trusted printed resources and a growing digital library.