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An excerpt from The Road To Reality by K. P. Yohannan: Jesus said in Mark 16:15 that we are to go to the “whole world” with the Gospel. It would appear some people think this means just to people of...
View ArticleNo Ice Cream Cone For Jagruti
Can you imagine being six years old and never having tasted an ice cream cone? Never once having drops of chocolate dribble down your chin and splatter onto your shirt, causing your mom’s eyes to...
View ArticleA Friday Poem
I am nobody, Worthless my life is. To Untouchables I was born, A Dalit child my fate sealed. I was born in slums. Rights? We have none. To upper-caste our lives we owe. Slaves to serve all their...
View ArticleGot Troubles?
In my younger and single days, my alarm rang at 2:55 AM. I jumped out of bed, went to the bathroom, and put on sweat pants and a sweatshirt. I next bowed my knees and prayed till 6 AM at which time I...
View ArticleBuddy, Can You Spare A Dime?
One day the Lord got my attention while I was standing at a busy street corner in India waiting for the light to turn green. There were little children everywhere, a common sight at many busy corners...
View ArticleDon Bosco...WOW
Reblogged from Markpedder's Weblog: Ok, so I thought I had seen poverty, knew what it was, what it looked like, what it smelt like, I mean I really thought I had been there. Which, considering where...
View ArticleGot Room For One More in Your Heart?
My prayer is that every abandoned and unwanted child in India can hold up a picture of a family who has decided they have room in their hearts for one more child. This is not a little prayer, but a...
View ArticleHope for Those Born into Brothels
My good friend Derrick Coy in his recent post, Journey with us through the slums and brothels of India, wrote about the above 2004 documentary film, Born into Brothels. Check out his post for more...
View ArticleRacism: Who’s in the Right? And Who’s in the Wrong? (Part 4)
70% of African-Americans live in America’s inner cities or the inner-ring suburbs. Most of the following facts refer to that 70% of African-Americans. These facts are not written to throw stones...
View ArticlePictures Tell Stories Better Than Any Writer Could Ever Do
(Click on the photo) By clicking on the above photo, a window will open, revealing a monthly archive of photos. Choose any month. The pictures reveal life in India for millions of people, most of whom...
View ArticleA Mother Shares Why She Sponsors Children
In the above video of 2 minutes and 49 seconds, a mother explains why she sponsors children in Gospel For Asia’s Bridge of Hope ministry.
View ArticleWhat Would You Do If You Saw This Scene?
(Click to enlarge) The young girl is a member of the 300 million people-group in India known as the “Untouchables” or Dalits. This people-group is considered subhuman, impure from birth, and worthy...
View ArticleLarry the Lizard Slayer
wildherps.com I had no intention of causing the little lizard problems, but it’s hard to convince him now because he’s dead. It all began with me looking out the window and seeing a six-inch fence...
View ArticleRacism: Who’s in the Right? And Who’s in the Wrong? (Part 8)
God provides occasions for His prophets to speak, but few have ever had a door of opportunity opened like Martin Luther King, Jr. did on August 28, 1963. It was the March on Washington for Jobs and...
View ArticleDesperately Searching for Survival
“You’ve got to do something!” the parents of the village begged. They lived in deep poverty, rejected by society and ignored by the government. Their only source of water was a hole in the ground a...
View ArticlePastor Rad
I was praying about some problems here in America three days ago. As I prayed, I was overwhelmed by the size of the problems and the difficulties in changing our attitudes. The problems loomed larger...
View Article“It’s About The Economics, Stupid!”
Yes, we should give to the poor out of our love and compassion, following Jesus’ example. But also, there is a economics reason for giving to the poor. If you help the poor, you are lending to the...
View ArticleWhat Can One Child Do?
Here’s the story of one family that was changed because of their son’s involvement in a Gospel For Asia’s Bridge of Hope center. The boy’s father, Rajiv, relates what happened: After attending the...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Kids, I’m Easy Pickings
It had been a long financial wilderness for my painting company with no letup in sight. Yes, I had plenty of ladders, brushes, rollers, truck, supplies, and a sprayer, but there was no money for...
View ArticleI Want This Girl On My Prayer Team. What About You?
Obviously, the photographer helped set up the above photo and probably said something like, “Put your hands together and pray.” The two Dalit children on the left side of the photo obeyed the...
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