Prayer Update

Dear Praying friends,

I want to thank all of you who have been praying for our Boys Camp. Praise God we had a very good Camp, approximately 240 attended. Nearly all our men staff from CMCT with the leaders were at Camp, and as I watched them I was very proud to see them all dong an excellent job in leadership. They all pulled their weight and they got really involved in all the lives of all the boys. Some who have never really taken an interest before, participated to the maximum this time. The Lord blessed the messages of Anburaj and Mr Dhas and there were many who came to the Lord. I always find it very moving seeing hard boys weeping their way to the Lord.

When we had our testimony meeting, which went on to approximately 12.30 a.m., 110 boys gave their testimony. This is not easy for boys. The Lord has been speaking to many of the teenage boys and 34 have signed up to attend a Cadet leaders Bible Study twice a month on a Saturday. They have given their names and addresses. As a result of the Girls Camp, 75 have given their names to attend the Girls Cadet Bible Study. We are having it in the afternoons of two Saturdays each month, the boys from 2.30 to 3.30 p.m. and the girls from 4.00 p.m. to 5 p.m. I will be taking the studies for the girls, and I am going to do a series on “Life with a Purpose”.

Philip, most likely, will take the boys and use the same subject. I used to have this in the early days of the ministry and found it very profitable.

At present the VBS is going on at Chinnakuppam, the Tsunami village and 110 children are attending. On the last day of the Camp it was 43 degrees and suddenly in the afternoon we had a heavy shower of rain which lasted for one hour, with loud peals of thunder and heavy flashes of lightening, which brought the temperature down a wee bit.

We have just received the 10th standard government results and we praise God that our Bethany Higher Secondary School got 81% passes. We had a group of naughty boys and none of them have passed. Five girls failed. We encouraged them to resit again in July. In our CMCT Orphanage, all passed except G Suganya, B Prasikala and Barisha. The first two girls went home and have not returned. Barisha returned yesterday and because this is the third time she has sat and still not passed, since she has a very low IQ, we have put her permanently in the Handicraft Centre. So, please pray that she will be able to learn something useful. The other girls have all returned and we are putting them into the different courses they will take in the 11th and 12th standards. We are also admitting the 12th standard girls who have passed, into professional courses and it is costing us a lot of money.

We have been busy paying school fees last month for so many children and it has worked out to a really large sum of money. The school expenses now are very high and I am very worried as I send this email. There is still so many children’s school fees to be paid and young people whom we sponsor come to us requesting us to help them and we must. ( for higher studies) cost is much.

We are very busy and the Tearcraft order is not ready as yet and we have asked for an extension of two weeks time. We have many needs and we need much prayer, and I want to thank those of you who keep in touch. You will never know what it means to hear from you and to be encouraged.

With my warmest greetings,

Sincerely, in His Service,

Colleen M Redit