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Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children India | Mission Moment #5

Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children in India | Mission Moment #5

Here are a few more of the children’s stories as sent to me by Simon David, the director of the home in India.  Here is his contact information blessingchild2002@yahoo.com

(For some reason I am unable to rotate the photo – sorry about that.)  Maria’s mother is suffering from AIDS, when this girl was born, she wanted to kill her by grinding her in the mill. When she was taking her, one of the school teacher/pastor came to know about it and took the child from her. Pastor contacted us and requested us to take her. At present she has no one to call her, her own. Hence we took her and that is the reason she is with us.  When we took her for check up she came out Positive with AIDS.  As I informed that Maria’s mother is pregnant, I understand that she delivered another girl child and I am sure she should also be carrying AIDS.

Epsibha is the 4 child in her family. They can’t afford even 2 meals a day.  Mother wanted to get her aborted, hence she took many steps like tablets and so on. But to her surprise she was born that also a girl. Hence she was joined in our home.

This is Nagamani. Her father wanted to kill her as she was the 7th girl child. When she came to know about her father’s plan she told her mother and ran away from her house and with her mother’s help she came and joined our home.

 

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Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children | Mission Moment Part 3

Here is a letter from the American pastor whose church sends a team each year to the Home for Aids Affected Children.  He recounts how his church came to be in contact with Mr. Simon David, the Indian businessman who founded the Home for Aids Affected Children.

Here’s my story —

At Bear Valley Community Church we decided we needed to do something about the AIDS crisis in the world. So we asked around if anyone knew of any ministry that we could support anywhere in the world. As God would have it: here’s the crazy thing that happened. A guy in our church had just returned from India where he had been standing on a curb trying to get across a 10-lane street with traffic buzzing around. So an Indian man, S.V. David, took him by the hand and helped him skirt through 10 lanes of traffic without getting killed. My friend told me that the man, S.V. David had an AIDS home and orphanage for children whose parents died of AIDS leaving them orphans. That’s how we found out about El-Rohi.

 

So a few months later our team left for India to visit this home – El Rohi. Once in Hyderabad, India, we drove on a 4-lane road for about an hour, then we drove on a 2-lane road, then we drove on a 1-lane road, then we found ourselves driving down a dirt path. Who knew where this road would take us? We finally arrived at a gate, and we entered. The children were in the middle of a worship service when we arrived. They were singing, they were all dressed up in their native garb, the children were dancing to the energetic music, and there was preaching.

 

To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect when we arrived at the home. I assumed it would be a bunch of little poverty kids who were just trying to survive. Instead in the midst of the beautiful children, the heart-felt music, and the gorgeous scenery with palm trees, my first thought was this — “Is this what heaven is going to be like?” It’s hard for me to describe the sensation I had from the Lord and the feeling of God’s overwhelming presence there in this little tiny spot filled with these precious kids, but I saw the Lord there that day, and I’ve never been the same since.

Here is a photo of me a few years ago with a little girl, Leah, who was saved from a mother who said she didn’t need any more children and so was going to terminate the baby’s life when born. Leah is now in the 2nd grade and is number one in her class in school. She loves Jesus and is a trophy of God’s grace.

Pastor Lee Johnson, Ph.D.
Bear Valley Community Church
7900 Precinct Line Road
Colleyville, TX  76034
817-485-9910
lee@bearvalleychurch.com

 

“We give our lives helping people and families find their place in God’s story.”

 

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Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children in India | Mission Moment #1

MISSIONS INDIA

 

If you are considering missions India, you may be interested in the next few blogs.  Many years ago I was contacted by a ministry to children in India.  Over time we communicated until one day the gentleman running the ministry asked if he might translate the gospel book I had done, into Telegu (the language of his area.)  Of course I gave permission.   Later he me a copy of the gospel book he had produced as well as pictures of large groups of children with big smiles on their faces, holding their copy of the book.

In time this gentleman headed up a ministry to Aids Affected Children, and opened a home to support them as well as other orphans.  Over the years I have been sent heart touching stories about the children they care for.  It is my intention in the next several Monday Blogs to include some of their short stories.

I have found the gentleman always to be upright and honest.  There is a church in the United States that sends a team each January to minister at this place.  I will also include a testimonial letter from their pastor as well.

In this day and age, there are many voices calling out for our attention and support, but it is worth the effort to search out authentic mission ministry to children.  The Lord’s heart is longing to reach the hurting and unreached and we all know HE LOVES CHILDREN.

 

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