Pray for Our Tailoring Shop's Success

These women (except the woman on the far right) are all working in our tailoring shop called 'Tabitha Ladies Tailoring'. The sister on the right is currently teaching the shop employees a new skill called "maggom" work and tailoring, which helps the women add various designs to the material. 

We believe the Lord put this tailoring shop upon our hearts, and are trusting in the Lord's favor upon it. The sister on the left, Bujji, is managing the shop, and all the other 6 women were trained in 2020-21 to do tailoring. All of these women (4 of them single mothers) are in need, and the shop has been a great blessing for them. RHM has committed to carry the financial load of the shop for the first 6 months it is operating (it started in February of this year), hoping in the Lord that it will be able to stand on its own by the end of that 6 months, which concludes at the end of July. 

So far it is doing well, but not getting the needed business in order for it to keep going. Pray with us, that the Lord will show Himself strong in behalf of these precious young women.

Pray for This Sister (a widow)

Pray for Koteswari from VV Palem. She is about 37 and has an 18 year old daughter. Her husband died of AIDS (final stage of HIV), and Koteswari also has HIV, but is doing okay physically at this time. She and the girl live with her parents, and she sells limes in the market (a low income job). She will likely be single the rest of her life because of the HIV. Even if the Lord did a healing miracle, it would be another miracle for a 37 year old widow to get remarried in the India culture. Just this month RHM started helping her daughter with her college education. Please pray for Koteswari and her girl. 

Karlapalem meeting

Sunday school meeting: 

Click onto the above link to see the nice Sunday school meeting in the village of Karlapalem. Here, children singing nice Telugu song.

Hope in the Midst of Despair

Two photos, one showing the previous condition of this family's "house" in early May, and the 2nd showing the progress of construction at the end of May.

The parents, both still living, had already made poor decisions, leaving their family of 5 (sometimes the grandparents also staying with them) without a proper home. We struggled about how much the Lord would want us to help them, and since Covid began the father has now developed diabetes and other health problems. For the sake of the 3 children (aged 22, 18 and 16, whom the Lord has us assisting with education), we decided to invest about $1,400 to make some improvements in their living conditions. That's not enough to finish the walls, but at least it will provide some safety from the rats and snakes. They are still in the process of adding more bricks to the walls, so we're hopeful more than half the walls will be completed. Pray for this family, especially for the children (Divya, Sandhya, Abraham).

 

The Gospel Team

These 4 girls make up the "Gospel team". When recently in India, many times these girls would join us as we would go to visit people's homes or attend prayers in various places. From left to right: Nageena (12), Nafiya (8), Sameera (11), Poojitha (8). The first 3 girls are from Muslim backgrounds, Poojitha a tribal girl (one of 11 children). All 4 girls have unique family dynamics, most of their relatives without Christ. They loved to come with us whenever we were able to take them. May the Lord raise them up to touch many lives!

Wonderful Children's Meeting!

Sister Mary teaching the children in our monthly gathering of those whom the Lord has us assisting in various ways. More than 60 children attended this meeting under the trees (the adults and older youth inside the church), teaching them new songs and sharing little teachings to impart truth to their hearts. Mary has given her life to do ministry, and the Lord has opened new doors for her within the last several months. She regularly is with the children in Sunday School ministry, and giving tutoring to many children in her neighborhood. As He has opened these doors, we have seen a great change in her countenance.

Nandayapalem children meeting

Nandayapalem children meeting:

Click onto the above link to see the children from Nandaya palem are doing nice Telugu action song during children meeting in the same village. This song says that our eyes, ears, nose and mouth are all for Jesus.