Category: India

Tenali Slum Project Update

Dear friends,
Greetings on behalf of all here in Tenali,
Andhra Pradesh, India.
God is good and worthy to be praised.
We are overjoyed and blessed by the fact
that we may cooperate with two fantastic
people here in Tenali. Ps. A. and his wife Ps V.
plus a fantastic team of volunteers.


Without these two wonderful and Godly
people and the team of volunteers, all with a
big heart for children in need, the food program
for the children in the slums would not be possible.
And neither would be the vocational training program
for teen girls, widows and installing clean water
pumps whenever we can.
In special now, when the situation caused by COVID
in India makes it even more difficult for the people
and specifically the children in the slums to survive,
our help is more important than ever.


The food program prevents that young children have
to beg and scavenge for food in dustbins or whatever they
find on the streets and it prevents young girls from being
exploited.
The vocational (sewing) training is aimed at teen girls,
young widows and mothers that are abandoned by their
husbands.
With this vocational training we offer them the opportunity
to learn and trade so they can foresee in the cost of living
for themselves and their children.


Installing clean water pumps means clean drinking and cooking
water, which has a great impact on overall health here.

But looking at the large and ever growing population that
have to live here, a lot is needed.

*We would like to feed more children
*We would like to give more women a change in the vocational training
*We would like to install more clean water pumps

Please pray with us that the Lord may open His Store House
and that He will provide us with the funding needed.
And if led to support our Ministry here, any donation towards
our ABN AMRO bank account or via the PayPal button on our
website is more than welcome.

May the Lord bless you all,
Rev. Dr. Jan

Huge Update – India

Dear friends,
It has been quite a while since we published a blog.
Several reasons were due to this:

Working here is
difficult and not without risk, sometimes making it
necessary to publish less.
Next to that, we have seen that blogs and publications
on Facebook among other activities did not bring the
results we hoped and prayed for.
All this did not mean that the work as a whole was halted
but it sure slowed it down.
For us, more reason to pray things over and to see how the Lord
was leading us in what we do and could do further.
The situation in the world at time is such that the need in
the two projects, Tenali and Bhimavaram, is undiminished.
This, for us, is reason to reach out to those in need even
harder and to share the things we have on our hearts and are
so seriously needed with you.

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Pray For A Breakthrough – India

Dear friends,

In my previous blog I mentioned Matthew 9:37 in which the Lord is saying that the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

There is an abundance in harvest waiting here. The so many children, teens and adults who need us and who we try to help.
And in our case we are blessed with a fantastic team of workers, volunteers that give all their time and energy and even looking at severe persecution put their lives on the line to help.

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Prayer Request For Tenali, India

 
“Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.”
Matthew 9:37
 
Dear friends,
 
As promised, time for a new blog.
On Facebook I already wrote that a lot is happening here in Tenali and
it is. We are on the crossroads of an enormous breakthrough in expanding
our Ministry here. The harvest here is absolutely plentiful!!!
 
We serve in this large slum with about 7000 people and in previous
blogs and on our Facebook page, I already told you about the poverty
and in fact inhuman circumstances under which people, men, women and children have to live.
A situation where young children and in special girls in general always suffer the most.
 

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India Tenali Slum Project Update: The Food Project

“Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor,
will also cry out and not be answered”
Proverbs 21:13

Being here in Tenali is an ongoing very humbling experience.
Seeing the need and the desolation of the people here, you
cannot do anything else than realize how blessed we are
and how much we consider as natural in the West.

And we really stand at awe, when we see how much of an impact
we are already starting to make in this huge slum, by placing
clean water pumps, feeding the so many children, and offering
young girls and single mothers the opportunity for a future by
learning to sew and having their own sewing machine, so they can
make a living.

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Pump It Up!

Dear friends,

Today was a day of great celebration again in the Tenali slum, we together with our brother Ps. Abraham may work in.
Can you imagine that you have no water in your house? No tap, that just with the twist of your hand spills out clean and cool drinking water for as long as you want?
No shower, no flushing toilet.

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