India Team USA

Dear Praying Friends,

Warmest Greetings to you in His Precious Name.

I am sorry I have not been in touch with you for nearly six weeks. I had a short holiday and have been travelling for the ministry. There is always so much to do in sharing about what the Lord is doing here in CMCT and I thank the Lord for His mercy and strength and for all the help that I received from fellow believers who were so kind. I am also full of praise to the Lord for those who have been working so hard in the UK to raise funds for the Tsunami project. I have never seen such sacrifice and hard work by so many people because of their concern for the Tsunami project. Only God can reward them for me. Many times it brought tears to my eyes to see how hard the people were working and to see the way the Lord has opened doors for them to help to raise funds.

I want to challenge all of you in other countries about the need for you also to take the initiative and if you would like to have any ideas, please ask and I will guide you to the people in the UK who can help you and give you ideas. At present we have a team of 18 here with us from Scotland, working very hard at Chinnakuppam. They are building with 7,000 bricks a day. Their aim is to complete 40,000 bricks during these 10 days. Unfortunately the temperature is still very high and it is not easy for them at all, and I would ask for special prayer for the Scottish team. They will be with us till the 21st of October. The Chinnakuppam village people are very happy to see their houses being built. When these 40 houses they are working on are completed, we will still have another 60 houses to raise funds for, to complete building them. UK will have raised at least 80,000 till date, and if everybody did likewise, we can finish the project by next March. Even children were standing outside Tesco’s helping people to carry their grocery shopping. They had a box for people to drop their contributions towards the Tsunami fund, and they raised an enormous amount this way.

I have just arrived back near mid-night on the 13th (yesterday). Sadly I came back to face unexpected problems. Three of our girls in the Orphanage ran away yesterday. My daughter, Marjorie Hannah, was the one who helped them to do so and also joined with them. It is only God’s mercy that the Police caught them and two of our staff had to pick them up from the Vyasarpadi Police station and bring them back to CMCT.

My daughter, Marjorie Hannah has been giving me a lot of problems for a long time but I have not shared this with any body. However, we as a family have been very sad for a very long time. Only the Lord knows how we tolerated her cheekiness, rude behaviour, her disrespect for all her seniors and her hatred towards the smaller children in my family. She was also cheeky in the School and lately refused to study and complete her 12th standard.

This morning Marjorie tried to physically hurt me, behaving in a very unruly way. Because the School refused to take her back and we need peace in our home, and also she is such a bad example to the smaller children, I have sent her out of the family today. We cannot keep her in the building because she is capable of going to any extent, which will tarnish the image of the ministry and also give us a bad name.

Fortunately, a national worker in the South of India has agreed to keep her, so she is on her way, being taken by two of our staff. I would ask for urgent prayer for her, that one day she will realize how much love she has received. This means she has discontinued her 12th standard, and she seems to be very happy about her decision.

Can you imagine bringing up a daughter for 20 years and having her write a letter saying she was leaving the family and she did not want our help any more? We have this letter in our file. I guess we are living in days when many Christian families are facing the same problem, and over the past weeks we have had five girls leave while I have been away, all because they decided they did not want to study any more.

We have decided to conduct a Parent’s meeting and interview every child individually and then the parents. Those who do not want to study any more, I am going to ask them to leave because we cannot invest God’s money on girls who do not appreciate the help they are being given and also hurt us so much. A few of us are very discouraged and would value special prayer that the evil one will be bound. Otherwise everything else is going on well in the ministry. I am very proud of many of our staff who are very capable and who are working very hard.

Please pray and encourage us in some way.

Sincerely, in His Joyful Service,

Colleen M Redit