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Dear Friends, .................. ......................... ................................... ... . .........          April 21, 2018

Our good friends from Redding are visiting us this week.  This wonderful couple has been instrumental in supporting us for so many years and we are thrilled to be able to host them and share our ministry with them.

 

                                     Chuck and Judy are great friends and supporters!

We have a lot of activities planned with them.  We are dedicating 4 wells, dedicating a new church, meeting with about 100 of our widows, visiting villages, taking the children to KFC and playing games, and much more! We are having great fun!!!

 

                        At Easter we had fun decorating eggs and making baskets!

We started our month with great Easter celebrations with the kids!  It was a wonderful opportunity to share the gospel message with them, some of whom have never heard this good news until they came to the Kids Home this year.  We also enjoyed some great Easter projects and even gave them egg salad sandwiches the day after Easter!  They really like this tradition where they get to enjoy a meal of something very different than they are used to!! 

 

A trip to KFC and playing games once a year is a huge highlight for the kids!
You can’t imagine their excitement!

We are seeing tangible results.  Many people are coming to Christ and putting their trust in Him.  It is such a privilege to work hand in hand with our 75 pastors, as well as our Indian partners, Jessy and Sunita, along with other Christian friends to share the Good News that Jesus lives!  And He offers hope, peace, joy, and salvation if we only turn to Him.

 

Thank you for helping us reach out to the lost and needy with
the love that only Jesus can provide.

After a morning of paragliding, these pastors helped us as
we spent the rest of the day dedicating wells.

 

With your help, we brought a well to this needy village where
4 people had died from drinking polluted water!


There are so many hurting people.  This man is passed out in his drunkenness.  What looks like milk is really homemade alcohol.  His wife waits for him to wake up.

The children at the Kids Home are coming to the end of the school year and are busy with exams.  Please pray for them, as most of them will go back to their villages for the short break before school starts in June.  Pray that  they will have a chance to shine the light of Jesus among their families and friends.  

This little girl comes from a family of Hindus who do not know the Lord. 
We took the opportunity to share with them.

We are excited to share that the aditional staff bathrooms we mentioned last month are complete and the safety wall, as well as the new widows’ home, are progressing very well, thanks to very gracious support from several of you! We need to build some staff housing and have prepared plans, at a cost of roughly $15,000.  If anyone would like to help us with that, please let us know.  

  

Steve snaps a "selfie" with one of the boys of the new wall
being put up around the Kids Home property. 

Next month, we will start adding an additional 20 children to the Kids Home.  If you would like to sponsor a child, contact us soon. It’s because of the faithful support of all the sponsors that these kids are so well taken care of! 

  

The children are very serious about praying, especially praying for their sponsors.

 We are very busy preparing our video to share with you all this summer.  We look forward to seeing you and sharing more stories with you! Let us know if you would like us to share at your church or group!  We ask you to pray for us, please!  May God richly bless you!!

                 

........... .. ........................................... Thanking God for you,

Steve and Brenda

 

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