Naduvil-Chengalai is rural country.  Naduvil is an inland village selected in 1995 by the Gospel workers in Malabar for new work.  Trinity Lutheran Church in Rochester, MN decided to sponsor and support this work through the MMS.  This generous support helped to produce a remarkable development.  A solid mission centre has emerged on a 1.25 acre property, including a small church with a workers' living quarters attached, and a service building that has space for a flourishing nursery school and a tailoring institute.  The work program is led by Rev. and Mrs. S. S. Oliver, the original evangelist at Naduvil.  With the small, but dedicated congregation, he is engaging in an intensive evangelism program.
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In 2001 the efforts at Naduvil spun off a sub-centre 15 kilometers away at Chengalai, where the MMS facilitated the purchase of a new one-acre property that will be the site for a small church and a cemetery.