Dear friends,
Greetings and blessings from Tenali.
Things here in the slums, are gaining momentum
looking at what we can do as a Ministry, but also
the need for help is increasing rapidly.
Category: India
Trinity Vocational Training Center
Dear friends,
As some of you may have seen on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/IndiaZCCT),
we on Saturday, October 16, were blessed by the
fact that we could open our new training center in
the slums of Tenali.
Here, we are able to teach
young single mothers and teen girls the trade of
sewing, so they after their three month course,
with our help, will be able to find a job at a clothing
factory, a repair shop or even start up a small
business for themselves.
By this, these girls will be able to generate an income
for themselves and their child, and thus are liberated
out of a life of dependence, poverty and abuse.
For us as a team this is the beginning of an existing
vision to bring education to and in the slums.
As soon as we financially can, we would like to start
reading and writing classes for children in the elementary
school age. The illiteracy rate here is overwhelming
among the people. The majority of the children here
have no opportunity to go to school, due to being to
poor, being Dalit, being orphaned without any caregivers
and have to beg and scavenge for a living.
Being able to read and write will give them an absolute
advantage.
Education is the beginning of change.
How you can help:
* You can help us by becoming a prayer warrior for
our Ministry here in the slums of Tenali.
* You can help us by liking our Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/IndiaZCCT) and by
sharing this Ministry with your friends and church
community.
*You can help us by sponsoring one or more vocational
training students for 15 Euros/US$17,50 per month.
This will help us towards the renting and material costs
for their education.
*You can help us by sponsoring one of the 5 extra sewing
machines we could use for 95 Euros/US$110 each since the
new location space wise gives us the possibility to enroll
more students.
“And by knowledge shall its chambers (of every area)
be filled with all precious and pleasant riches”
Proverbs 24:4 Amp.
Be blessed,
Rev. Dr. Jan
www.zcct.org
An Amazing Update For the Tenali Slums
Dear friends,
It is time to give you an update on
what the Lord allows us to do here in Tenali.
Something really awesome is happening in our
Ministry here in the Tenali slums. The Lord is
opening doors that, until now, have been closed.
We draw the positive attention of government officials and managers of the bank we work with here.
From both the government and the bank, officials
came and helped us share the food with those in
need.
For us as leaders, Ps. A. and myself, but
certainly also for our team of volunteers,
the children and the other people in the
slums, it means that they and their deprived
situations have been seen and recognized.
The number of children and teens that need
our help is increasing and we at date reach
out to about 500 of them with our food program.
But also the old, the sick and the disabled are
calling on us for help and the overall situation
here is serious and, looking at numbers, sometimes
overwhelming. Lockdowns and restrictive
measures made the situation of these extremely
poor people here even worse than it was.
It really is a miracle looking at living circumstances
here in the slums and the number of people we contact,
none of our staff and volunteers is sick with covid and
also here in ‘our’ slums, the children and others are healthy.
With the team of volunteers, huge amounts of food are prepared and cooked very early in the morning, transported to the slums and distributed, but the need is great and asks for us to do more.
We would like to ask you to team up with us as a prayer warrior
for this part of our Ministry, and if in any way possible to become
a financial partner so we may enlarge the place of our tent of presence here.
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your
habitations be stretched out; spare not; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes”
Isaiah 54:2 Amp.
Be blessed,
Rev. Dr. Jan
If led to support us any donation towards our ABN AMRO
bank account or via the PayPal button on our website is more
than welcome and will make the difference in the life of a child.
*None of our staff or volunteers receive any salary or allowance
from donations for this project so your donation will go to the
work for the full 100%*
India – Challenges
Dear friends,
When you are a young teenaged girl that is
challenged in her development, life is very, very hard here on the streets of the Tenali slums.
Especially when you have no one to take
care of you and you have to fend for yourself.
You are even more of an outcast than the others in the slums and subject to all sort of verbal, mental, physical and even sexual abuse.
By our presence here, we do not only see to
the fact that there is food, but certainly also
offer some ways of protection.
As the father of special need kids myself it
absolutely is my heart’s desire to bring, these, children into a safe and loving shelter home with qualified staff where they get all the spiritual and medical care they need.
Please join me in prayer and fasting for this,
so the Lord may open His Store House with
all the financial provision needed for making this a reality.
These girls are completely defenseless and
absolutely need our help.
Be blessed,
Rev. Dr. Jan
www.zcct.org
https://www.facebook.com/IndiaZCCT
If interested in helping us to establish this special shelter home please contact me by email at:
reverend.smit@gmail.com
If led to support our overall Ministry here in Tenali, India, any one time or regular donation towards
our ABN AMRO bank account or via the PayPal button on our website is more than welcome.
Matthew 18:6:
“But whoever causes one of these little oneswho believe in and acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin (that is, who entices him/her or hinders him/her in right conduct or thought), it would be better (more expedient and profitable or advantageous) for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading “India Tenali Slum Project Update: The Food Project”
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.