The Mustard Seed Project
No-strings-attached aid to poor people around the world from the fundies, via World Vision and other programs -- or are these programs a sneaky way to persuade Buddhists to convert to Christianity?
I have done a comprehensive study of their activities in the Divisional Secretariat areas of Kebitigollewa and Horowupotana. They are trying to make use of the innocent pre-school teachers for their surreptitious and manipulative Christian evangelical activity. World Vision has already conducted training courses for these preschool teachers where they have been told that World Vision respects all religions and as such would prefer for classes to commence with two minutes silence respecting all religions without giving pride of place to one religion only. This is a surreptitious method of not only preventing the teachers but also the children from respecting the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha. That World Vision is a Christian relief organization they have hidden from the innocent pre-school teachers....This is a hearts and minds operation to win the confidence of all the village communities and to bring them to a point that they would sincerely believe that World Vision could do no wrong. It is at this stage that the cross will be introduced. This is similar to their Mustard Seed project where the cross was introduced in the ninth year after much poverty alleviation work in villages of the Ratnapura district. The long-term intention is to convert the community as a whole so that any objection from the village temple could be overridden without opposition.
...We have therefore to organize ourselves to counter their moves. We do not have the financial resources available to World Vision but we are self-motivated and have the will power to fight their surreptitious methods. All we got to do is to educate firstly the preschool teachers and secondly the villager on what the ultimate aim of World Vision is. There is still a tremendous will among the people in Sinhalese Buddhist villages to protect and preserve their Sinhalese Buddhist way of life. We must exploit this spirit of the Sinhalese Buddhist villager to establish a strong defensive mechanism at village level against foreign funded manipulative Christian evangelical organizations.
...At the seminar for Buddhist Monks of Horowupotana and Kebitigollewa held after the preschool teacher seminar that very evening, they were informed of the type of evangelical activity that has commenced of late in their respective areas in the name of poverty alleviation and of the threat such activity would pose to Buddhism. We intend to mobilize the Buddhist Monks in the village temples to educate the Sinhalese Buddhist villagers on the true intentions of manipulative Christian evangelical organizations such as World Vision. Some of the poorer village temples need to be assisted as they lack the necessary resources to participate in our efforts.
In the famous legendary story David was able to beat Goliath. We can do the same.
Yours sincerely,
A. Amarasekera.
This was long-winded and hard to cut up, but the entire letter is at the link above. If you search "Mustard Seed Project" on Google, you should find more information.
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