A month of faithfulness and favour.

Two of the sponsor kids who live in the Hostel

This past month had been one with its own challenges and good experiences as well. God has been so faithful and true to His word and each day I am growing to depend on Him more and more. This month has been focused on getting the kids ready for Christmas and also visiting all our sponsor kids that our church is helping. It was so good meeting the kids as they are living in hard situations we had the opportunity to meet them and minister to them. They all live far from Ranchi city so Kiran and I travel to meet them and get reports from them .

Sunday school craft time

learning the Christmas story

The furthest place we travelled to was a place called Gumla . It is about about 3 hours journey out of Ranchi. In this place one of the sponsor kid named Lovely Kumari lives and the road to their village is hard to travel in. She is ten years old and she is unable to walk well as she has problem in her foot.she has a problem in her back as well where it needs to be operated but the family has no money to pay for it. This was the most sad condition I have seen as she is young and does not want to go to school as the kids make fun of her difference. Presently the mom wants to put her in a Hostel boarding as she is unable to take care of her during the day as she works during that time to bring food to the house. Her job is working in the fields each day.The money the church is supporting her with she uses for her basic needs for the child.

Lovely Kumari

The other thing that made my heart sad was to find out that the medicines that the child was taking was useless as the village doctor had given her random medicine and made good money out of it . So we told her to go to a good doctor and give the right medicine to her that will actually be effective.The church has given the child a wheelchair to use so it would be easy for her mom. The Lord spoke to my heart while being there that He loves this child so much and He has his hand on her. She is a shy one. The pastor of that village has been threatened many times by other religious leaders and beaten up as well but even then in this hard place he trusts the Lord. Got to see his new church he is building there. He was happy to meet us as we had come to minister there. His family stands up for God there. I was so encouraged looking at their simple life and humility. He is also building a small school so that through that the gospel can be reached to them. It is in process now. Direct gospel is hard as opposition is strong there.It is always an opportunity to meet our fellow brothers and sisters living out the call in hard places and I know the Lord surely sees and rewards such people. It's not at all easy.

ministry in the slum with Vilma

I have been enjoying the slum ministry and this month they will be doing a program for Christmas that Vilma and I are getting them ready for.She has been a great help and a blessing to me in the ministry. The kids love us and every day we are growing in a closer bond with them. They are an awesome bunch and I love working with them. They bring so much joy. The Sunday school has been going on very well . This month I had the opportunity to share through the word to the youths and they loved it . I was so blessed that the Lord is using me in many ways . The main thing God is asking me to do is be a good example to the youths here.

Sharing Gods word in youth meeting

Every day it is through Gods strength I am able to serve the people here in Ranchi. I love what is do and I pray I would never grow weary of doing good and living for the Almighty God we serve.
I also want to say that God has answered one of my prayer requests and that is , He gave me a house to live in. I am so grateful to God for it. I have been searching and praying for three months for it. So altogether I can say it has been a great month of living each day depending on Him and believing that He can do the impossible. That is what He is teaching me to always believe that He can do anything and He is always on time.

Some of my prayer points would be:

* Pray that even as the kids prepare for their program that they are going to do that they would know the true meaning of Christmas season.

* That God would give me  his heart for the people as I minister to them.

* To just thank God for his provisions and grace in my life everyday.