Regeneration

THEY MOVE FORWARD..................

The young men who were trained in boat building by a team from the US  had the opportunity to listen to the Word of God and they were also given Bibles to read regularly. They are actually now ready to find jobs for their living.

God enabled us to bring 16 women from two villages - Oyalikuppam and Venprusham to be trained in our sewing school at HBI campus. They stayed with us in the campus for four weeks. Along with training them in various sewing skills, they were also taught to do minor repairs in the sewing machines. They were also taken to an export company to observe how various jobs are carried on and how they can even be part of taking job orders.

The exciting part of the sewing training was the devotion time that was conducted every morning before they started their training. It was a wonderful time to share with them the Word of God. We distributed Bibles to them and they are trying to memorize Books of the Bible, Psalm 91, Psalm 23 and many other promises/verses. When these women went to their homes during weekends and shared with the other women how they benefited from the devotion time, the other women in the villages wanted to come to HBI just to share the joy that was experienced by the trainees. Praise God!

LIFTING HIS NAME ON HIGH!

We hope that in God’s own time, we will have a church in each of these villages that we are working in. We have plans to enlist about 70 additional pastors to use this opportunity to minister to the people affected by the Tsunami. Slowly we hope that God will open doors for us to bring His Light into their darkened lives.

Since we began reaching out to the people, we are greatly encouraged by the response of the fisher folk in Ven Purusham, Kokalamedu and Oyyalikuppam who have shown their eagerness in participating in our worship services and have come forward to donate a place for putting up sheds for worship. They have given as a place to erect a 20 x 40 thatched shed so that we can conduct prayer meetings every evening in their village. Praise the Lord!  We have our field coordinator staying near the village, who will be taking tutorial classes for the children especially teaching them English between 4.30 to 5.30 p.m. and will conduct worship service between 6.00 to 7.00 p.m. every evening. We thank God for this great opportunity!