God has been opening doors for Alpha courses in multinational companies across the nation. Alpha in the work place has picked up a lot of pace from last year.
In November, Alpha in the Workplace was presented to the prayer group at Infosys, Bangalore. Infosys is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. More than 20 corporate workers attended the Alpha introduction. They were encouraged to hear Alpha in the Workplace being run in different corporate settings like Larsen and Toubro, IIM, BPO and Engineering College.
In Mumbai, Pastor Stanley Mehta gave us the opportunity to share about Alpha in the Workplace to more than 150 leaders.Pastor Stanley is heading Gateway Ministries International (GMI). Presently GMI has 45 satellite churches in the city suburbs of Mumbai. Today from this one church there are many church plants numbering more than 70 with many different language groups. A satellite church of GMI in Airoli-Mumbai under the leadership of Captain Darryl Collins,DGM Jet Airways has taken up the God at Work course as a pilot project.
Young professionals look forward to have tools to reach out to their colleagues in their workplaces. We have taken God at Work course in Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU). A group of 15 to 20 students from various fields of Engineering, Mining, Electronics and PhD students join the weekly God at Work course. A few believers in the final year of their study have been trained on running the course.
We also got the opportunity to speak to a group of 22 students including 8 international students at Indian Institute of Technology, Kolkata. Rupa, my wife, spoke on the topic “Ambition and Life Choices”* from the book God at Work by Ken Costa, Chairman of Alpha International.
The recent Regional conference of Alpha in the Workplace in Kota-Kinabalu, Malaysia is another indicator on how the Lord is leading Alpha Workplace in the global arena.