Punjab India
After Six Years Of Ministry in Punjab India I know Who I am partnered with and you can be sure your donation is going to make an impact!
I have been working with Pastors in Punjab India since April of 2019. When we began Pastor S had 60 Pastors in his network, a Bible School and a small Orphanage. He reached out to me after watching God miraculously deliver me from death four times. I had been in a catastrophic Car Accident in 2017 and broken 38 bones, had 17 surgeries over five days and died four times. I have been sharing my testimony and leading people to salvation and healing and deliverance.
Over the past six years we have ministered to thousands of Lower caste, provided food and put in fresh water Bore Wells. We have established five sewing schools for widows and six literacy schools. In addition to that we have now planted and over see 2200 churches and 2000 Pastors.
Even with this success we are still subject to the issues that the Caste system brings. The Hindu and Sikh religions believe in reincarnation. They believe that a person born into the Lower caste is being punished for an offense they committed in their previous life. It is against their religion then to assist the Lower Caste. They will let them work in the field only when there is no other alternative and they will refuse them food and water. The Lower Caste are given day labor and the women work as maids or servants in the wealthy homes. Because they are looked at as less than human, the wealthy men, do not value their lives. Whether they are Sikh, which is the majority in Punjab, Hindu or even Christian the Caste system forbids them to assist the lower caste and they would suffer severe persecution if they break that code.
Now we face the greatest crisis of our six years working in Punjab. Devastating floods have destroyed 300 of the communities where we have planted churches. These communities represent lower caste India Christians as well as Hindu and Sikh. The upper Caste will not provide any assistance and neither will the government. Sickness and disease run rampant in these flooded communities after an event like this because there is not access to food, water or sanitation. We have access to food and water and can tractor these supplies in but we need your donations to make these purchases on the ground.