This is 9 year old Deborah reading the Bible. Brother Marthababu and his wife Pavani visit Deborah, her brother, mother and grandmother once a week. Deborah and Vijay (6) both had chicken pox recently, but are now back in their government (public) school. The grandmother (in her 70's) doesn't work, except around the house and caring for the children, while the mother often goes with other villagers to other village areas for agricultural work. I had the joy of doing a video call with Deborah, her brother and grandmother last week, and asked Deborah to read some Scriptures we were teaching on. She got off to a slow start, but then did great. Telugu is a challenging language to learn how to read, symbols being above and below many or most letters, which determines the pronunciation. I'm always amazed how they learn to read very quickly, just as we do English. Please pray for Deborah and her poor village family.
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