Dear Praying Friends,
I want to thank those of you who send an email to me. It is always nice to hear from the Lord’s people.
I just want to let you know as some of you have sent emails to me about the elections, that we are full of praise to the Lord for all that He has done. The Lord has answered prayer tremendously. So many Christians have been praying and we give all the glory to the Lord. The Lord has answered prayer in regard to our State and the Central government. There are two States though, that still need prayer. It means that we are going to have a stable government for the next five years. Prayer is needed now as government meetings are in progress. We praise God the Lord’s work will continue un-hindered.
Boys’ Camp starts tomorrow and we ask you to pray much for the speakers, Mr Dhas and Mr Anburaj, that they will be given a real anointing as they give the messages. Pray for the boys who attend, that they will be responsive and that many of them will accept the Lord into their lives.
The Handicraft Centre is working over time trying to complete the Tearcraft order and they need much prayer.
We have 34 children in the Orphanage; they have no home to go to. I sent them to the Museum and Art Gallery this afternoon.
Philip Seth had a fall yesterday and has hurt his ankle on his left foot very badly and he is seeing the surgeon tomorrow morning. We need him as a leader in the Camp.
Just a couple of days ago, we had one hour of very heavy rain with thunder and lightening, which has cooled the temperature a wee bit, but the humidity level has risen. The weather forecast says that these very hot days will prevail till the end of this month. Pray for our children and staff to be kept well.
With warmest greetings,
Colleen
Monday, May 18, 2009
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
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
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