HRSIblog

2011-12-09T11:29:00.000-08:00

Church flees village
in Tribal area

This pastor, with red Bible, and the congregation have fled their church (shown in the background) and their homes because of persecution. This pastor's 14 year old daughter was raped by a tribal man in the village and he demanded the girl become his wife. Of course this request was refused and hence...the persecution. He rallied the whole village against the Christians. (See previous post)

These and other cruelties have been imposed on Christian converts in this part of India.
But God is faithful. There are now 3700 Christians in this larger tribal area.
Pastor and Tara Daniel (right, shown in our home this December) have seen great success since starting the work in 1992.

Prayer Need:
PRAY...for these persecuted Christians as they are starting all over again in another village!
PRAY...that each one will be strong in faith and undeterred in their Christian life!
PRAY...for the ten new pastor trainees who begin training in January and for finances for them!

2011-10-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Urgent Prayer need for church in Tribal area of India

Pastor Daniel and Tara Vattiprolu (r) lead 25 churches among tribal peoplein central India. This letter was received on Oct 28th. The tribal people are illiterate and are into witchcraft. The lower picture is a tribal man who is made literate and the trained in the scriptures and sent to evangelize a tribal village.

Greetings in the most precious name of our Lord and SaviorJesus Christ.

Here one of our pastors W. Pethuru had faced a terriblesituation at Durda Padu Village.

He started a branch church at Durdapadu and moved therealong with his family. A man belongs to the same village trapped the daughterof Pethuru. She is 14 years old and the man took her to his home and rapedher.

He is an unbeliever. Pastor Pethuru brought his daughter homeand he was asking about the situation. Then the man came to Pastor Pethurualong with his parents and village elders to ask to marry girl. PastorPethuru got angry with them and refused to give his daughter to be marrybecause he is unbeliever. Then the whole villagers attacked Pastor Pethuru andhis wife and beat them very badly and they dragged the girl along with them.The girl escaped and came back to her parents. The next day we sent one ofour pastors Peter and he brought Pastor Pethuru and his wife and his daughterto us.

Then the villagers isolated all of our believers and came to believer's housesand threw out the water vessels from their houses. Believers sufferedwithout drinking water for 2 days along with their children. Then all of uswent to their village to solve the problem. The believers want to leave thevillage because of the villagers torturing.

Yours in Christ,

Tara Vattiprolu

P. S. Nearly 20 families are there to be provided shelter. Nowthey are homeless and helpless.

Critical Need: Kindlypray for wisdom, and for them to get shelter in a safe place.

2011-10-21T13:27:00.000-07:00

LIBERIA…In the villages of West Africa

Profile of Brother Kim Smith

We have added Wordsower / Liberia to those who we desire to strengthen and support. Kim Smith is a man of God who has paid a high price to serve the poor in Liberia. He has chosen to live with those he serves in very humble quarters and circumstances.

Picture is of Kim Smith sharing God’s Word in humble circumstances

Brother Jason Nightingale visited Liberia last month and shared with us a report on this field:

Liberia: 3,500,000 people, 90 % unemployment, people live on .50 cents a day

Ministry: They have planted 115 churches 12 men serve as church planters/evangelist

Pray as Homeless Rescue Services increases our commitment toward the ministry of church planting to this part of Africa.

Kim Smith and team have planted 115 churches, and distributed 25,000 New Testaments in Liberia. He lives as a labor of love among the poor he serves.

2011-09-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

Solo Gratia Ministry
Leader: Nonilo Sanchez
Country: Philippines
Island: Mindinao

Focus:
...train pastors
...seminary and mobile training
...started 30 new churches
...65,000 children taught in public school.
...300 attend annual pastors conference.

Prepared pastors ready for service.
Current need: 1) There is a need for $8,000 US to complete seminary building. 2) Nonilo's wife Fely needs heart surgery.

2011-09-20T17:09:00.000-07:00

LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA...report by J.Nightingale.
( We are helping to support 3 childrens homes in this country.)
Liberia is one of the poorest nations in the world and the average person lives on fifty cents a day. If you are forty years old you are considered old. (Which stands to reason, as the average life span of a man is thirty-eight!) There are thousands of orphans, thousands of widows, thousand of blind, deaf and crippled children. There are no schools or social services for these children. There are few jobs and just a little hope. There is still some instability on the border with Ivory Coast. The nation's resources are being sold and exploited by bigger countries and the money is not now, nor will it in the future, get to the people. At least they are not shooting at the moment. That is a start.
Rev Emmanuel Jones and his wife Ramona oversee these homes and their Champions Home of Hope Orphan home and school. What a blessing they are.

2011-06-18T08:19:00.000-07:00

From: Joy Reyes Reach Youth Ministries, Manila, Philippines

To: Malcolm Lee

Again, I thank the LORD for HIS faithfulness. HIS provisions come at the time that we really need it most. Thank you for you are being used as HIS channel of blessings to the ministry. The School Year 2011-2012 just opened this week and we are really campaigning for school supplies for about 1,300 children. We have provided for about 844 already including our Mindanao & Visayas areas. We also have facilitated 58 scholars from elementary, high school and college. Last year, we have eight graduates also from these areas also. GOD is good and HE really loves the poor.

Please continue to pray for us especially for one of our full-time staff, who is now suffering from complications from his diabetes. He has been battling this for the last year and a half. Lately he is in and out of the hospital, his hemoglobin is very low and he needed blood transfusion and then he reacted to it. Also pray for financial support because we never thought that it is this expensive.

We have opened a new area here called the Pasig Line. We need more volunteers because this place has a lot of squatters. Have us in your prayers.

GOD bless you always.

Joy

2011-05-17T11:29:00.000-07:00

Bangalore City Mission, India by Jonathan Raj

Our social workers go out each day counseling the people to send their kids to school. The people think the kids are better off working, learning the trade, and earning for the family. These kids are very much a part of the family’s income. They learn the job of stone cutting or else how can they survive? We struggle to make them realize the importance of education in their lives.

Poverty and destitution, sad to say, is linked to a whole array of related issues. We conduct medical camps (R.)in collaboration with hospitals. Issues like domestic violence, alcohol abuse, health issues are a common place here.

Comments by Malcolm Lee

Children start work in the quarries in India from 6 years old for pennies a day. We want the children rescued from this life. Combining the Gospel with schooling is a sure way of emancipating them from the cast system. Short life spans comes with this dusty grueling work. We have supported this ministry for about 15 years. We have watched this school expand and enlarge from 150 children to 500. The cast system limits the quarry children to the old lifestyle, but the Gospel and education have changed all of that. Their orphanage provides for abandoned children as well.

2011-03-15T16:20:00.000-07:00

Women preparing to serve meals to the poor

Day after day the ministry prepares meals to share with children. When an education is provided there is also a need to provide a meal.

In Bangalore, India...in Salem, India...in the Philippines, children are the victims of poverty.

Homeless Rescue Services helps with resources so that this activity can continue.

Education and presenting the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ provides a way that the poor can prepare for a better life. Illiteracy is a dead end street for so many. Better still faith in the Lord Jesus provides forgiveness and a structure for growth in faith and the family of believers provide for protection and nurture.

2010-11-30T12:24:00.000-08:00

Malcolm and Jo Lee were able to connect with 185 pastors and workers from India, Papua New Guinea, Africa, and Europe at a world conference on missions. The couple with Jo are Larry and Bonnie George who provide a Mission in New Guinea. They have 250 people who are served. The unemployment situation is so bad that over 60% are unemployed. Job preparation is a key component to getting these folk on the right track. Mr. George left a banking position to serve. They also provide an HIV/AIDS nursery for babies who come into the world with this ailment.
Homeless Rescue Services provides for 22 other service locations around the world with services to orphans, widows, refugees, among city slums in the third world.

2010-10-09T19:36:00.000-07:00

Pastor Samuel goes to the slums to tell people about the Gospel. This brother not only has a
church of 220 people but also has school with 85 inner-city children. It is exciting to see the effectiveness of a national pastor in his own culture, with his own language and equipped with a knowledge of the Word and of course a personal relationship with the Lord.
A Bible school equips pastors and Bible teachers with a knowledge of the Word and challenges each with planting churches. Three churches have been started. They also have computer classes and literacy programs and job-skills programs for adults. The Lee's hosted him in September and become thoroughly aware of the scope of this ministry.

2010-07-06T12:42:00.001-07:00

This picture is from Salem, India where the needs are overwhelming. People are being helped with literacy training, the two women are widows who have needs with everyday sustenance, and with daily issues with such simple things as food, medical care, and poverty. Lepers receive food, clothing, bandages, and Christian compassion.

A medical team serves a several locations to provide care for HIV/AIDS patients.

There is a continuing outreach to deliver girl babies from infant infanticide. The poverty is so great that parents cannot afford a dowry so the girls can marry.

Your prayers and financial help provide relief for so many with a huge variety of needs.

Thank you so much for all you do. Contact Homeless Rescue Services at 510-301-9418. Ask for Jo or Malcolm.

2010-07-01T11:18:00.000-07:00

Rev Ravender Reddy, from Karnatica, India is a pastor, has a Bible College, does evangelical outreaches to his region of India.
He has been faithful to his calling for many years. We have know and supported his ministry for 7 years.
Recently his team has been involved in outreaches to both adults and children.
They have new buildings for their college campus. Although this sounds expensive, they have made their own bricks and have used the students and volunteers to build the complex.

2010-05-17T12:55:00.000-07:00

The children from Bangalore City Mission are among 22 locations around the world that Homeless Rescue Services serve.
These are among 600 children who are provided free schooling from among the very poor quarry workers.

We are pleased with the opportunity for these children to be educated and by it be released from poverty.

2010-05-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

Bangalore City Mission Report
The slum conditions of the Quarry workers that Johathan Raj serves are some of the poorest in the world. However six hundred children are provided with education free of charge. Education is a primary tool to help each child be extricated from a life of poverty.

2009-12-04T14:02:00.000-08:00

2009-12-04T13:57:00.000-08:00

• HRSI helps support 11 orphanages in India, Cameroon and Liberia. There are a total of 750 children being helped and funding provided this year to start an orphanage in Haiti and to build another in Bangalore, India. .

• Homeless boys and girls are provided daily food, clothing, shelter, education and medical treatment on a continuing basis. Many children have been taken from off the streets and many girls rescued from infanticide and sexual exploitation.

• HRSI provides funding for 20 medical camps for the needy in India and the Philippines.

• Lepers, widows, and refugees receive compassion services and spiritual training on a continuing basis in Bombay, Salem, and Bangalore, India.

• HRSI helps support 350 American Indians in White Clay and Gordon, NB. This program includes Rehabilitation, lodging, meals, and vocational training.

• Education is provided for the youth in India, Africa and Haiti. Over 4,000 students are being educated in primary, secondary schools, Bible Institutes, and in job-skills training centers.

• 5,000 Street Kids receive various services in Manila and Papua, New Guinea, and in Tijuana, Mexico.

• Recovery and rehabilitation services are also provided to addicted people living in the Ukraine and in Papua, New Guinea.

http://www.homelessrescue.org http://hrsiblog.blogspot.com Phone 510-301-9418

2009-11-14T13:18:00.001-08:00

4500 CHILDREN RECEIVE MEALS EVERY WEEK IN MANILA

From Joy Reyes, Director of the work in Manila

“In spite of our economic problems, the ministry is growing. We now have 4,500 street children and almost 800 adults being taught and fed, 10 children in our Home, and we have just concluded our summer activities such as sports fest for about 190 participating street children, 126 street boys were circumcised, medical and dental needs were met in 7 areas. Over 1 thousand patients benefited from the medical clinic.
This week we will have our Vacation Bible School graduation for the 4,500 children and the adults too. Recently, we opened work in Davao, the result of our two (husband & wife) workers who migrated in that city“.
Children are also sponsored into school programs…from small children up to and including college”.

4 monsoons have hit the islands in the last month, causing flooding and displacement in a widespread area.

2009-11-14T12:56:00.000-08:00

Homeless Rescue Services partners with an outreach in Porte-au-Prince, Haiti.

Orphan children are cared for in this poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The orphanage has grown from accommodating 40 to now serving over 100 children. Many of you helped provide for the new building to care for so many new children. They feed, clothe, and educate so many children. This is a demonstration of a true work of faith. Another building now accommodates these children. Many of you have been part of this miracle.

For more info contact www.homelessrescue.org
You may donate on Local Independent Charities website

2009-11-14T12:35:00.000-08:00

Report of Recovery Center in the Ukraine

Good Messinger Mission in Nicolaev, Ukraine has done a remarkable work. I traveled there in 1993 and came to love the ministry of the church and their varied ministries.

They have planted 53 churches since my trip and continue to do an aggressive work in this former communist country.

Pastor Slavik was sent to prison in Siberia for preaching in the former days of the Soviet Union. This is a picture of the men that are in their rehab center that was developed about a year ago.

Pastor Slavik said, “We now have 20 men in this program. We have seen many miracles as God has set men free to serve Jesus Christ.” His determination continues to motivate him to further good work.

2008-05-20T19:21:00.000-07:00

Exciting evangelism in the barios of northern Mexico

Matthew 18:14 Institute has a program that trains Christians in Tijuana and Northern Mexico to minister to children who live in the barios.

More than fifty adult students not only learn the Word of God, but strategies for evangelizing and making disciples of the children.

This is a hands-on ministry, where the intellectual and the practical meet.

Matthew 18:14 has been under the capable leadership of Becky Degodoy, a pastors wife who has a passion to teach and send workers into the the ministry.

Bario ministry...the team goes to poor.

This great work is very creative doing neighborhood block parties using clowns and providing meals along with music and drama presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the community.

One of the very creative ways of reaching the boys in the barios for Christ is their bicycle clubs. These are called "Memo" clubs that appeal this special interest group. Many bicycles are donated. Leader Becky Degodoy and helpers

The words "creative" and "Imaginitive" are very

appropriate. This work is done primarily with volunteers. The material needs are met with donations. Homeless Rescue Services have been part of the support team for at least 20 years. We would strongly encourage you to pray for this energetic team. We would also encourage gifts to support this great work.

For more info contact www.homelessrescue.org

You may donate on Local Independent Charities website

2008-05-18T20:01:00.000-07:00

HRSI -- An update from one of our ministries...

Talk about pastoral care…here in is.

Report from Jason Nightingale…
After weeks of traveling and speaking God's Word among His most gracious people, I have found a quiet place to sit and write you. A place far removed from the chaotic world scene, with its rising food prices and growing hunger. The world in which our little ministry is, by God's enabling, striving to come to the aid and comfort of widows, orphans, refugee and street children.

We happen to be serving in some of the neediest places in a very needy world ... Liberia, West Africa, with its ninety-five percent unemployment and thousands of displaced persons struggling to recover from over fifteen years of civil war and its attendant destruction. Ghana, West Africa, where we are travailing with the fifty thousand Liberian refugees being forced back to Liberia without the hope of a better life. We have ministered among these poor people for over six years and we will continue with them, Lord willing, as they return to their war torn land. Great changes are at hand for them and for the ways we minister to them. India, with a small crisis at hand, in the urgent need of a new place for our orphan home and spectacular growth in our village churches. Kenya, after riots and food shortages and rapidly rising prices for everything, Kimawachi and Paula Mwasamaili continue to serve the poor children (and adults) they have dedicated their lives to. And now Haiti, as we try to get a new orphan home (My Father's House Haiti) up and running in the midst of food riots and ongoing 'troubles'.

Please pray for our children (almost five hundred in our care) our widows, our refugee and street children; the 'least' in the world. The 'least' are in a precarious place. Most are living at a level of bare necessity. Some have been able to live on the dollar a day that they are able to make, others on two dollars a day. But now food prices are skyrocketing. In the places where a dollar a day could give you a small meal a day, it now takes a dollar and a half. It’s the same everywhere. Fifty to a hundred percent increases in the cost of basic foods.
In the US we spend an average of seven percent of our income for food, the lowest percent in the world. God has greatly blessed us.
Could you imagine being in a place where, no matter how hard you struggled and worked, you spent almost every penny you made just to stay alive. And now, suddenly in only a few months, it takes more to even eat. More that you don't have. The widows and the orphans and the street kids are at the bottom. They were begging and sharing the garbage with the pigs and the cows in the filthy streets and now there's less to share.
When Esther hesitated to intercede, on behalf of her people, Mordecai reminded her that she too was a Jew and unlikely to escape the coming slaughter. He then asked her to consider whether perhaps God had not put her in such a place of access, privilege and possible influence for just such a time and situation........'for such a time as this?'
I wonder if God has not put us in this land of abundance 'for such a time as this.'?

Liberian Widows, in Ghana

Perhaps God would remind us of how precarious our current situation is. We could be hit with any of a thousand possible weather or other type of catastrophes and be in the same situation as those who now grovel for our leavings. Even we could become the least. Won't you please seek God and see if He has not provided, in you, an answer for some who are now in need.
Not from your lacking but from your abundance...at such a time as this?

International Children's and widow's Ministry Report

This is a time of great change, fear, concern and

confusion. The Ghanain government was exposed, found out, in the area of misappropriating refugee funds. When the Liberian refugees protested, some were arrested, some were jailed, and some were deported back to Liberia. There were early morning raids, beatings, people running into and hiding in the bush, public pronouncements by the President of Ghana and the Interior Minister, threats, demonizing of the refugees, visits by Liberian authorities, more threats, International wrangling and, now, a general agreement that the Liberians must go home soon. A few will stay and pay for the resident permits that will allow them to be in Ghana and work. But Ghana has become a dangerous place for Liberians to be and most will leave as soon as they are able. The Liberian government and the UN have promised a ship in a month or so ... They will be returning to a nation that has ninety-five percent unemployment and which has no housing, running water or electricity. Most who are going back lost everything they had in the war (some have been refugees for almost twenty years!) and, in many cases, still fear for their lives. They will return to nothing, with nothing and with no money.

Ghana Church

While the Camp at Buduburam still has inhabitants we will continue to conduct
Church services. These children are victims of political displacement and war. Many have no contact with family. We would like to provide food and oil for the widows one more time. We have suspended our Bible School Program at Buduburam but will continue at Krisan Camp, as Krisan is not primarily a Liberian/Sierra Leonees camp. (There are up to ten nations represented at any one time, and we evangelize among many Muslim’s with freedom and fruitfulness) We will continue the Church at Krisan and the widow's ministry but these are considerably smaller undertakings at Krisan than at Buduburam. We will, of course continue to care for our orphans and they being older teen- agers, will return to Liberia.

We are attempting to finish a House for orphans at Buduburam Village, (outside the camp) where we have property, and have been offered a five thousand dollar matching grant. A man we know has offered five thousand dollars, if we raise another five thousand, to construct a house on the foundation that was laid on our property. He has done this before and we were able to finish the foundation and hang the gates on the property. With all the changes in Ghana the one constant is the needs of orphans. We have been caring for many orphans in the refugee camp. Most of these are now older teen-agers and will be returning to Liberia, but there are many young Ghanian orphan children who have great need and no one to meet those needs. We have the property and the staff (both Ghanian and Liberians with resident permits) and should finish this project to the glory of God.
Please seek the Lord as to how he might use you in this effort.

LIBERIA
Liberia continues to be a place of great need, with high unemployment (95 %!) and no services for the people. As in all the developing world food prices Ghanian Church
have skyrocketed. There are over ninety thousand disarmed fighters with no work and little hope. We are doing a little to help and hopes in Christ to do more.
The boys (young men) at My Father's House Liberia continue to advance in their education and physical development. We are seeking avenues of training for them in productive vocations.

Liberian Church

There are a number of teen-age girls, that we would like to care for, and the need grows as the little orphans grow up and can no longer stay in the orphan homes. We will be beginning an elementary school in a village area that will serve three villages, currently without a school of any kind. We have planted churches in each of these villages and their one request has been for a school for their children. The Government will not provide it. As the Lord allows, we will fund teachers, materials and food and the villagers will construct class rooms. What a wonderful opportunity to affect these villages for a lifetime.
Pastor Zoku has developed a sound and thriving work called the Children Rescue Center in alk about pastoral care…here in is.Ganta, Liberia. He provides housing, food, education and Christian instruction to over eighty orphan children. They have constructed structures for sleeping, eating and school. The following pictures are from that ministry. Brother Zoku and his helpers are doing a marvelous work in a very difficult place. And this in Jesus' Name.

2006-12-03T22:11:00.000-08:00

Orphans
Hundreds of orphans are presently being cared for in Bangalore, in Andra Pradesh, Salem, India and in Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, and Capetown, South Africa.
These uncared for children are housed, provided meals, clothing, medical care, and are being educated. Christian compassion provides for all of these needs and lets them experience genuine love.
Many in Africa are victims of the loss of parents because of AIDS related death.

Street Children
Four thousand street children are provided meals each week in the slums of Manila, Philippines. There are medical
clinics to meet all kinds of unmet needs.
Parents of these children receive training and many programs are provided year around.
Volunteer doctors and nurses provide free services with the goal of breaking the grip of poverty and homelessness.

Widows
When a woman looses a husband in many cultures they are abandoned by family as well. Although this is a terrible injustice and cannot be comprehended by the western mind, it is common in many countries overseas. In Ghana, West Africa over 300 widows are receiving life-sustaining food with literally no one else to care for their needs.
In India scores of widows are cared for as well. The resources are all but non-existent in most of these countries.
With the provision of food, health care products, clothing, and shelter the India women above are spared terrible suffering.
Refugees
West Africa is a hot bed for war, rebellion and great political unrest. The Budaburam camp is home to over 40,000 refugees from the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
These live on 21 acres, with little water or sanitation facilities. Their refugee status does not permit them to work.
Most of us cannot imagine the deprivation they endure.
The team there is doing remarkable acts of compassion in an almost impossible situation.
We are now involved in building a compound that will serve the refugee population on the outskirts of Acra, Ghana.

Lepers
Here is another group of sufferers who are mostly ignored. Perhaps it is because of fear of infection or because the culture has simply abandoned this population.
Here is a picture of a lady who has lost her hands. Thank God there are caring Christians who have reached out and helped her.

Conclusion:
Your kind gifts to Homeless Rescue Services will greatly benefit so many hurting people in our troubled world.
Thank you for considering a gift to the troubled of our world.

2006-08-31T17:32:00.000-07:00

Bangalore, India work abong Slum children

We had small programme for the children. The Elim church is having regular Sunday school for the children. Every six month we are having a special programme for the children such as children’s retreat, bible Quiz, choreography, skit etc. Through these we are molding and preparing from various community children to come with one fellowship to know Jesus is the only one God. Many of them are accepting Jesus and they are attending our worship in our church. Through these children we are able to meet some of their parents and we are able to give them gospel.

Continued work among street children
STREET CHILDREN: As I mentioned in my previous news letter we are working among the street children Rag Pickers and also children abused by child labor, previously we went to their places to find them and give the gospel and the meal. But now, God has enabled us to start a small school among these children. Around thirty five children are coming everyday to learn about Jesus as well as the regular school subjects. Mrs. Glory sargunam ( Pastor. Timothy’s wife) and Mrs. Fathima Antony are taking care of these school. We are providing for their study materials as well as we are giving them lunch everyday. For the medical camp to teach them their personal Hygiene. Please pray for these special programme, so that this work will be elaborate through this Gods name will be glorified.

Widows are being helped
Widows programme: We are having a small group of senior widows, those who are neglected by their family members. Every week, we are having a special get together, also we are sharing them the love of God by the way of meeting their needs giving special meal, through that we are teaching literacy ( to read and write). So some of our church educated people are voluntarily giving their service to poor widows. Through this ministry two of them are able to read and write very well. Please I ask you to remember this ministry in your prayers.

Word from Salem India
We were able to arrange special meetings in churches, prisons, orphanages,hospitals,lepers colony and in villages. More than 1500 people being blessed and 250 acceptedJesus as their Lord and Saviour. At right leper colony

2006-08-09T20:29:00.000-07:00

Homeless Rescue Services, Inc. is a Christian service organization with services to the truly needy of our world. The following will give you some idea of the activities of some of the affiliates in the four corners of the earth.

INDIA

Bangalore
HRSI has six ministry affiliates in Bangalore. This is a city of some 15,000,000 people where it is estimated that 10 to 11 million live in the slums. The population is about 97% Hindu and 1.5% Christian and 1.5% Muslim.

Gospel Revival Outreach Ministries is a church with 25 satellite churches, a pastor training program, a Christian School K-12 with 900 students, and an orphanage with 62 children. They are currently building an orphanage building on 4 acres of land 20 miles from the city. HRSI is helping with the construction costs and ongoing costs with the orphans.All of this growth has occured with little western assistance. Dr. Victor Paul is both pastor, evangelist, educator, and church and mission planter. He is also the representative of City Mission World Association. (CMWA). He has planted 14 additional missions to the slums in cities in India.

Bangalore City Mission is a church, an orphanage of 17 children, and a Christian school with 200 children in attendence. They are a social service provider to the low-cast slums of the city. They educate children from a quarry town where the people have been relegated to work with no hope of ever inproving their lot. Most die of disease in the quarry environment where children work from a very young age. Sister Violet Raj and son Jonathan, are providing leadership for this ministry. They provide for the orphans in their personal home. They have recently build a 3 story building to use for services to the poor. Four other providers in this city are giving help to refugees, lepers, drug addicts, and other services to those who are poor and underprivileged.

Other India locations

Three other ministry locations in India are in Salem, Bombay, and to tribal peoples in Andra Pradesh.

AFRICA

Cry Cameroon Ministries Our key interest is with The Abundant Life Children’s Home which serves the needs of orphans. Many children are orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. The first priority in 2003 was to raise $15,000 to build a new orphanage. They are now occupying this facility. The former facility accommodated 30 orphans and had a grass thatched roof. Love and security are provided for these dear little ones. 66% of the children are at the orphanage because of HIV-AIDS. One hundred children will be served by the fall of 2006.

There is great emphasis with education. This includes 3 High Schools and 23 Elementary Schools. Many of the teachers work for low salaries, or are willing to forgo salaries because of their commitment to the children. Most of the children are poor and cannot afford tuition. A Bible Seminary is operated for the training national pastors. It is a small but effective ministry to 15 students. They operate on limited funds. Much more could be accomplished with gifts to underwrite tuition.

At a Blind and Deaf Center 50 children are served at this center. They are taught skills in farming, weaving, and sculpture. Many are not being served because of lack of facilities and staffing.

Church planting and nurturing of existing churches is a large endeavor of Cry Cameroon as well. Additional finances are a major need at this time.

Wordsower Ministries, Ghana, West Africa Thousands of boys and girls receive benefits of education at schools as well as at orphanages for poor and abandoned children. A present project is to develop a complex in Ghana to serve poor refugees who have no medical services available to them. There are over 43,000 refugees who live on a small 23 acre compound. We are pleased with the opportunity to partner Jason and Sharon Nightingale who are dedicated Christians and provide help to so many in Jesus Name.

Capetown City Mission, South Africa HRSI provides for services to HIV-AIDS babies who have no one to care for them. These services are unusually challenging due to fragile health of the little ones. Sick and crying babies who have been brought into the world suffer from the sin of adults. The love and compassion and mercy of Jesus is nowhere more clearly seen as in these workers who serve dying infants.

Reach Youth, Manilla These boys are part of a group of 3000 street children who are provided meals and much more each week. The children's mothers are taught hygiene, parenting, homemaking, and other coping skills. An orphanage and many Christian programs are part of ongoing services.

OTHER WORLD-WIDE LOCATIONS

We have locations in Pau Pau New Guina, Haiti, Guyana, South America, the Ukraine, and at two sites on American Indian Reservations.

Your financial and prayers are greatly desired and needed.
We encourage financial gifts at this time. So much can be done with so little overseas. A dollar can be stretched to do the work it would take ten do here in the states.

Homeless Rescue Services, Inc.923 View Drive Richmond, CA phone 301-9418 HRSI is a California non-profit corporation that provides tax-deductible receipts. We also receive gifts of securities, real estate, and automobiles.

Gifts may be made online via Local Indepentent Charities of America. Visit us on our Website at http://www.HomelessRescue.org