Prayer for Chinnamayi

Chinnamayi (about 65 years old) is in literacy class in the photo. Telugu is a difficult language to learn for the elderly (perhaps like most languages), having many different letters in the alphabet and many other symbols to accompany the letters. But Chinnamayi has been faithful to learn, now starting to read the Bible and slowly progressing. Our full-time worker with the widows & elderly, Jhansi, is leading the classes. Chinnamayi came to the Lord around 1990, which infuriated some of her Hindu family. Her husband beat her many times because she was attending the services, one time breaking her leg, which never healed properly. Finally, he kicked her out of the home. Her father helped her to get into another home, which the Lord has used us to repair a couple of times. The son died young, having a heart or brain problem which caused a stroke. She took loans for his medical care, but still he died. The daughter is a believer, but is married to a Hindu, her family forbidding her to attend the services of any kind. With all her problems, mocking and criticism from her relatives, still she is a very faithful woman. I (Dan) saw her so many times at the church (I stayed upstairs), as she was either there to pray or serve by washing clothes or dishes (two pastors' families stay there, and other guests and pastors are often there as well). Please pray for this precious sister, also having health problems like diabetes and high blood pressure. 

Click Here to Make a Donation

 

Comforting, Helping and Teaching the Elderly

 Sister Jhansi (left) is a full-time worker/minister for our widows and elderly in an area of southeast India. Brother Wesley is also working full-time with the elderly. His home and some of the elderly who attend his church are in a town about 60 miles from much of Jhansi's area, but most of the villages he visits are closer to 90-100 miles from her location. RHM is assisting more than 90 widows, elderly and a few handicapped, scattered in at least 20 towns and villages in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh. Jhansi and Wesley both visit the elderly, pray for them, and often teach them the Word of GOD. Jhansi also is conducting literacy classes in 3 villages, 10 or more elderly faithfully coming. Here she is sharing with (from left) Meramma, Chandramma, Sugunamma and Ratna Kumari (3 widows and 1 married) in the village of Alluru. Thank You Lord for Your compassion upon the poor widows and elderly!

Click Here to Make a Donation

Happy 15th Birthday Nageena!

Nageena (tall girl in the middle) turned 15 the day before Christmas. Her family asked if we could do the birthday celebration the next day, so we celebrated on Christmas Day. Nafiya (left, 13) and Asiya (14) are her cousins, all from Muslim families. We thank GOD that He has brought salvation to Nageena's mother, and the other 2 girls are coming many times to the prayers being conducted. We have asked you to pray for Nafiya and Asiya previously, both of them having serious health issues and the Lord helped them. We believe their mothers would also come to the church, but they have much fear and intimidation from the Muslim elders in their community and from their own husbands. Please pray for Nageena, now in 11th grade, and for the salvation of all these families.

Click Here to Make a Donation

 

Quick Update on Bhavana and Her Boys

You might remember that Bhavana's husband (all 3 of the boys' father) was killed in an auto rickshaw accident in mid-November. Thanks to gracious donors we have some funds to help her and the boys, hopefully for the remainder of this year. Because of the Lord's provision through your gifts she is okay with their physical needs, but her main problem now is loans that are still outstanding, totally over $4,000 (probably more because of interest, her husband not paying these loans properly). Bhavana is only 25 years old, meaning she was apparently 14 or 15 when she got married, having her 1st son when she was 16. She had her 3rd son at 19 years old. The boys' names from left: Vikram (5), Indra (9), Karthim (8). Bhavana comes from a Hindu family, but started going to church with her husband's parents and gave her heart to the Lord. Please pray for Bhavana and the boys.

Click Here to Make a Donation

 

Blessing the Widows at Christmas

Brother Wesley's son, Sunny, is with some of the widows & elderly in the village of Jampalavaripalem (we call it Jampala ST, the people part of a caste called "scheduled tribes"). Sister Mary on the left is one of 2 women who gave their lives years ago to work with these tribal people. They have a small church there in that village, having this home just outside that village. From left are Mahalakshmamma, Rajamma, Ruthamma and Kotamma, all widows except for Ruthamma, who was abandoned by her husband years ago. We praise the Lord for healing Sunny, who was critically ill from an emergency appendicitis in October. It was a slow recovery process, but his Dad says he is finally back to normal again. Thank You Lord! Sunny is a very nice young man, doing a computer job from home, and sometimes helping in ministry. 

Click Here to Make a Donation

 

Happy 16th Birthday Veni!

Veni is with her good friend Shine on her 16th birthday just a couple of days before Christmas. Both girls look just like their mothers, and both girls seems to be seeking the Lord. They attend most all of our meetings that they are able to attend. Veni is studying in the 10th grade, which is equivalent in importance to a senior in high school here in the US. Because the dropout rate is so high in India (and illiteracy much higher than it should be), it's routine policy to pass every student to the next grade level, regardless of their grades. But if they don't pass the 10th grade final exams, they cannot proceed any further with their education. Veni is studying well. Her mother and sister have both come to the Lord recently (previously Hindus). Pray for her Daddy, who still needs salvation.

Click Here to Make a Donation