India Mission Work
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May 22, 2017
Dear Friends,
I hope this finds you well and enjoying the spring. Thank you so much for your prayers and support for my service in India. I have just come back from my first year and a half in India and am preparing to return in a few days to continue serving, but I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on what I have been doing over the last 18 months.
During the first four months of my time in India, my focus was primarily on teaching a thirteen-year-old girl at the children’s home. This girl, who had grown up in the red-light district, had been removed from school and was spending her days helping around the children’s home. Over the course of the four months that I worked with her, I saw significant improvements in both her studies and her behavior, by the grace of God. By the end of my time at the children’s home, she had become a focused and determined 15-year-old, with the hope restored to her eyes.
During the next three months, I led tutoring classes for all of the girls while they were out of school. This was an opportunity to spend more focused time with each of the girls, to help them with their academics but more importantly to invest in them each as individuals and help them feel loved and valued. The girls loved these classes (though they didn’t always love the math tests…).
After school resumed in June, I started leading small group Bible studies for all of the girls, ages 2 to 20. This turned out to be a big hit for the girls and a great way to engage with them, and I could see and feel God working in their lives through these daily Bible studies and prayers.
In March, I was asked to leave the children’s home, and after a tearful goodbye I went to live with an Indian family that welcomed me into their home and hearts. I will be going back to live with this family when I return to India, while I pray for new opportunities to serve God.
Dhanyavad (“thank you”) for your prayers and support! I would welcome continued prayers for doors to open as I serve God and the people who God directs me to.
With gratitude,
Rebecca R. Walker
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. ~ James 1: 27
Dear Friends,
I hope this finds you well and enjoying the spring. Thank you so much for your prayers and support for my service in India. I have just come back from my first year and a half in India and am preparing to return in a few days to continue serving, but I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on what I have been doing over the last 18 months.
During the first four months of my time in India, my focus was primarily on teaching a thirteen-year-old girl at the children’s home. This girl, who had grown up in the red-light district, had been removed from school and was spending her days helping around the children’s home. Over the course of the four months that I worked with her, I saw significant improvements in both her studies and her behavior, by the grace of God. By the end of my time at the children’s home, she had become a focused and determined 15-year-old, with the hope restored to her eyes.
During the next three months, I led tutoring classes for all of the girls while they were out of school. This was an opportunity to spend more focused time with each of the girls, to help them with their academics but more importantly to invest in them each as individuals and help them feel loved and valued. The girls loved these classes (though they didn’t always love the math tests…).
After school resumed in June, I started leading small group Bible studies for all of the girls, ages 2 to 20. This turned out to be a big hit for the girls and a great way to engage with them, and I could see and feel God working in their lives through these daily Bible studies and prayers.
In March, I was asked to leave the children’s home, and after a tearful goodbye I went to live with an Indian family that welcomed me into their home and hearts. I will be going back to live with this family when I return to India, while I pray for new opportunities to serve God.
Dhanyavad (“thank you”) for your prayers and support! I would welcome continued prayers for doors to open as I serve God and the people who God directs me to.
With gratitude,
Rebecca R. Walker
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. ~ James 1: 27
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