My special greetings to you.

Dear Friends,

My special greetings to you.

Thank you for praying for me and the ministry of CMCT. We have been very busy ever since I contacted you last. There are many challenges in the ministry and some times we are under a lot of pressure. We need much prayer. I am deeply concerned about many issues and can only bring them to the Lord in prayer. We are having a special staff prayer meeting. The Lord who is above all can show us the answers. There are several prayer requests which I want to share with you for urgent prayer.

1. Praise God our Bridge Gospel Church is going very well. We have now been registered as a Church with the Government. Every Sunday there is an increase in numbers. It is such a joy to sit around the Lord’s table with HIV affected people, lepers, poor people, middle class and well educated people including all our children and adults. There is such a wonderful sense of the Lord’s presence. We are having good Bible teaching and beautiful time of worship. The youth have started visiting the hospitals on Sunday evenings. Pray for this church please.

2. Some of our staff are very ill. Shanta is in our hospital. She has been out of the office for more than 2 weeks. Dr. Hannah is very ill. She was admitted into our hospital with 107°temperature. She was delirious. There are other staff who are having viral fever. We are also having in our hospital a full time worker J.Vijaya Ram and his wife Beena Ram from Bihar. We were able to do a HYTERTCETOMY Operation for Beena Ram. Please pray for them. They will soon return to Bihar. Vimala is having a problem with her diabetes and she is on a change of medication and not well.

3. Esmee Benjamin – a lady whom we have been helping for many years is in our hospital. She has been diagnosed with cancer. She had a HYTERTCETOMY Operation yesterday and because of complications we had to move her to another hospital. The operation is over and at present she is in the Intensive Care Unit.

4. We have just admitted into our Orphanage a girl of 4 years of age called S.Keerthi. Last Saturday night she was sleeping in her small house with her father and brother. Suddenly the land lord’s son broke into the house about 3 in the morning and the father woke up to find him lying with his daughter molesting her. The father was so shocked and so upset. The situation is such that the mother and father are terrified to keep this little girl with them. The father – Mr.M.Sankaran is HIV also the mother. Sankaran is working in our HIV Self Help Project. He is very talented and is training the HIV affected people to do beautiful handicrafts. This child is not HIV affected. Many of us wept when we heard what happened to this child. We are just getting admission in school for her.

5. Uma Maheswari, a 10th standard girl in the Orphanage who has been with us for many years ran away from school yesterday with her uncle. Her uncle has been to school many times and was jealous because she was being educated and enticed her away with him. Finally at 11 p.m. last night we got news that she has reached her home which is very far away. We have found out that she has been taking her clothes out over several days. She has ruined her life. The school refuses to allow her to continue to study as it is a police case.

6. Sadly what we expected has happened. Martina Louis whom we educated and trained as a nurse, on the 10th of this month came to Chennai from Narsapur having completed her Nurses Training and went straight to her house. She comes from a very wicked family. She told us that she would never do this, but she has done this and her mother came and told us that she will not come here to do her bond period.

7. We request you to pray for the financial needs of the ministry and for God’s provision for each days needs. The tsunami ministry is continuing and we owe a lot of money to the builder. We are very grateful to many people who are trying to raise funds for this project. The cost of everything is going up so much and so we quickly long to see this project finished. The Lord will do it.

8. Pray for godly drivers for CMCT. We have 2 drivers who fight, actually hitting each other. It has happened twice now.

I can mention many other needs, but the above is enough. I praise God He knows all our needs and has told us not to get discouraged but to keep trusting Him with all our hearts. We continue to do this knowing that He holds every minute of the future in His hands.

Warmest greetings and we look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely in His service

Colleen