India Team USA

Dear Praying Friends,

Warmest Greetings to all of you. Thank you once again for your prayers and encouragement.

We have a few urgent prayer requests, for which we will appreciate your joining with us in prayer.

1. It is very hot in Chennai and all our staff are finding it very difficult going out in the heat. Is also difficult for the children at school, especially as they are doing exams at present.
2. Pray urgently for Sanjay, a small boy of five years who has just had a cancer tumour removed from his shoulder, and an artificial bone inserted. He is now having radiotherapy. It is so sad but we believe that God will do a miracle. Praise God his mother is a believer and with much prayer, we want this child to live a normal life. The doctors were undecided for a long time as to what to do for him. Vairavel came to see us on the Open Day on Wednesday. He is having advanced cancer of the rectum and our Cancer doctor Dr. Soundaravalli who saw him yesterday has put him immediately on radiotherapy treatment. This is costly and he cannot afford the treatment because he is from a very poor family. We will be paying for the treatment.
3. By the time you receive this we would have had a School Board meeting. We have serious disciplinary problems with the boys in the 9th, 10th and 11th standards, and are constrained to take strict disciplinary action against them. We will be issuing Transfer Certificates to quite a few boys as we no longer want them in our school as they have created a lot of tension by their unruly behaviour. Some of the 10th standard boys, after completing their 10th standard government exam in an outside school, stood on chairs and got hold of a fan and bent the fan blades towards the floor This is such a bad testimony and we had to reply to the school authorities. Sadly all these boys are in our Sponsorship program for many years.
4. We would value special prayer for our International Board meeting to be held on the 15th, 16th and 17th. Pray for traveling mercies for all traveling into India and for our visit to Chinnakuppam on Wednesday.
5. We praise God that by Wednesday the roofs will be on all the Tsunami houses. Mr Bhaskar has promised to have this completed for us before the Board members visit Chinnakuppam. We urgently require funds for the Tsunami project. Please pray much for this.
6. Pray for us as we are conducting VBS leadership training. We, as a staff, praise God for His faithfulness day by day.We have been studying in the Chapel about excellence in leadership. In leadership the Lord requires that this should be our standard in every area of our life.

I look forward to hearing from you. Many think we are too busy to read emails but I want to tell you that we also need encouragement and it is always such a blessing when people keep in touch.

With warmest greetings.

In His glad service, Colleen