Sanjay & Pinky Anchan

Project Name: Touching Lives
Project # 166

My name is Sanjay Anchan and my wife’s name is Ramaniyata Anchan (we call her Pinky Anchan) and we have 3 kids Inara Anchan (17 Yrs), Giana Anchan (15 yrs) and Isaiah Anchan (7 yrs). We are from India, a city called Mumbai (Bombay) and the city is called a city where dreams come true but right now we serve the Lord through MGF in Las Vegas.
I (Sanjay) come from a Hindu background and God called us as a family in the year 1990 to His marvelous light and saved us. It's been an amazing journey knowing Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour all these years.
God called me into full time missions in the year 1999 and joined a Church to serve and did my training with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) called DTS (Discipleship Training School) in the year 2000 Jan and continued to serve God through YWAM until 2023 (India and here in Vegas). All these years God has been faithful in using us (me and my wife) through YWAM. Honestly, looking back we are thankful to God for all that He has done in us and through us.
We did a few trainings through YWAM Like DTS, Church Planting Movement and Leadership development courses. Ministries that we did through YWAM was that we did many Discipleship training schools then later in 2006 started House Church Planting groups in Mumbai city with more than 200 member with multiple house churches, conducted different seminar and conferences, became the director for YWAM mumbai city (7 yrs) along with that I was also the President for an Christian Organization (12 yrs) and an Associate Pastor for History Maker Intl Church (11 yrs) and also the member of the Board of Director for YWAM West India region and in the year 2019 I was appointed as the Convenor/Director for YWAM West region (Maharashtra & Goa States)(2 yrs). This was our journey with YWAM from 2000 to 2021 in a nutshell.
God has placed in my heart for a change of location from Mumbai and that’s where I had a heart for Las Vegas and applied to join the YWAM Vegas base and moved to Las Vegas in the year 2021 Oct and that itself is a huge miracle and a testimony of God's move and His doing.
It was an amazing time serving God through YWAM Vegas. It was also a huge culture shock for us as a family and mainly to see the huge need here in Vegas and in America. The ministries we had and did was DTS (Discipleship Training School), Mission Adventure (we host different teams from other YWAM centers and churches and we give them a complete mission exposure in Vegas), Foster Connect ( we take care of Fosters family and provide all that is need as a family so that they are help in many ways to see the kids and couples grow healthy), Human Trafficking Awareness, Evangelism and many more.
And now God has led us as a family to move to MGF as an organization because we feel God wants to do many things in the Church and through the Church to touch lives and to come back to our first love that is Jesus. So now through MGF - 1) We will be working through a Church called Seek Jesus First Ministries as an Associate Pastor. Through this Church we will have missions training in the Church and Leadership training for the members, we will be having evangelism and homeless Ministry, Mobile shower for the homeless and once a month we will be organizing a program for different churches to gather together for worship and Word and it is called Godthering. 2) With the Refugees- God has intentionally given a small apartment where the refugees are and we have people from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Africa, Syria and all of them are Muslims. In all these months of our stay here my wife has a deep friendship with the ladies here and they come home to share and my wife prays for them and again many stories of God’s work here but it is joy. 3) Because of our friendship and connection with different churches here, we plan to have different training for those churches to equip their members to get closer to God and make Jesus known to others. So that they would be passionate for God and missions and know how to impact lives for Christ.
This city is called a sin city but we declare it as Grace City/ Saint city and we want to see revival in this city so that when people from all around the world come to Vegas for tourism then they would meet Jesus here and take Jesus to their hometown. This is our faith and heart for this city.

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