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2015 May 21

Feeding the children in Malawi

By |May 21st, 2015|Malawi, Africa|Comments Off on Feeding the children in Malawi

TWAM Centre has implemented the Healthy Start Feeding Program in Chipanda Village where our project is located in Malawi. Food is scarce in these small villages and it’s not uncommon for children to eat nothing for one or two days at a time. I have walked through the villages and [...]

2015 May 20

LOT Home Untouched by Earthquake

By |May 20th, 2015|India|Comments Off on LOT Home Untouched by Earthquake

May 3, 2015 Jonathan, the administrator of the LOT Home in Relli, India which is nestled in the Himalayan Mountains just east of Nepal reports: We experienced an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. It was really frightening and a scary time for all of us. We were indoors [...]

2015 May 20

Work Begins at St. Devi’s

By |May 20th, 2015|Nepal|Comments Off on Work Begins at St. Devi’s

May 20, 2015 Praise God that we have collected enough money to begin repairs, starting with the most pressing matters and as more money is collected, we will complete the work. The Nepali government has ordered a country wide mandatory school closing for 15 days so every school can be [...]

2015 Apr 28

Nepal Earthquake Update: Donations needed for repairs!

By |April 28th, 2015|Nepal|Comments Off on Nepal Earthquake Update: Donations needed for repairs!

Due to the recent earthquake in Nepal, our home there is in need of repair. If you feel led to donate toward our home in Nepal, please use the PayPal button below and specify "Nepal Earthquake Repair" where it says "Add special instructions to the seller" during checkout. Thank you! [...]

2015 Feb 2

Changes in Nepal

By |February 2nd, 2015|Nepal|Comments Off on Changes in Nepal

January 29, 2015 Every time I travel to Nepal, I see changes.  This is a country on the move; a country trying to break into the 21st century and many of the citizens are working for improvement.  My last visit was 10 months ago.  In that short period of time the main roads around the city, from the airport, and into the main business districts, have been widened.  The potholes have been filled and the rubbish hauled away. Nepal has been notorious for it’s piles of trash and waste filling the streets and storm drains, and now, trash is the exception rather than the rule! I haven’t seen any cows since my return.  That may sound like a peculiar statement but in the Hindu religion cows are sacred.  The roads in Nepal have always had an abundance of roaming or sleeping cows – animals with no fear of cars or awareness that moving vehicles had to dodge them at every turn.  I don’t know where the cows are kept these days, but they no longer have the right‐of‐way on the city streets! Besides trash and cows, there is another thing that is blatantly missing – street children and beggars.  Both of these disadvantaged people groups have previously held center stage in the city and outlying areas around Kathmandu.  They were impossible to miss.  Small groups of dirty, homeless children would be clustered on street corners, outside of hotels and restaurants, and knocking on taxi windows with the more assertive ones asking for a handout.  Tattered beggars, mostly people with physical deformities, were prevalent around town as well.  Today there isn’t a one to be found.  I’ve been told the government has herded them away somewhere so they won’t be seen.  Tourists and nationals alike felt uncomfortable being exposed to such ‘undesirables’.  A first time tourist could visit Kathmandu and not see or comprehend the real poverty, the real story of this country.   Progress is good, but I hope that as Christians we aren’t covering our eyes or hiding from the needs of others. “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30, 31

2015 Jan 28

Shristri’s Funeral

By |January 28th, 2015|Nepal|Comments Off on Shristri’s Funeral

  January 26, 2015 Pashupatinath is Nepal’s most sacred Hindu site.  Its temple to Lord Shiva, dating back to 400AD, is regarded as the most sacred in the world. Pashupatinath rests on the bank of the Bagmati River, which is considered holy by Hindus and Buddhists. Today, on this spot, was a small knot of people, giving respect by attending a funeral for a young girl named Shristri. In Nepal, all people are cremated; no cemeteries dot the countryside.  According to Hindu tradition, the dead must be dipped 3 times in the Bagmati River prior to cremation.  The body is placed on a concrete pillar where wood is stacked in neat formation, alternating direction with each layer to allow for air circulation. Marigold flowers and petals are scattered liberally on the final layer of wood before the chief mourner lights the funeral pyre. Hours later, the ashes are swept into the river and the chief mourner takes a holy‐river‐bath for spiritual purity. Shristri had a traditional Hindu funeral because she was from a Hindu nation but we praise the Lord that she had learned the truth about God, salvation and death.  May she be raised up from this earth when Jesus comes to gather His own!!

2015 Jan 26

Remembering Shristri – RIP

By |January 26th, 2015|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Remembering Shristri – RIP

January 26, 2015 A very dark cloud hangs over St. Devi’s Academy. Shristri Magar, one of our own precious, young people, die today. Shristri, a pretty young woman of only 15, was an honor student, a kind person, and was loved by her schoolmates & teachers. Her untimely, tragic death has left us bereft and stunned. Tears are running freely on the campus of St. Devi’s. Teachers, students and friends are mourning the devastating loss. “To Yu, OLord, Ilift upmy soul. Omy God, inyou Itrust.” Psalms 25:1

2014 Sep 22

Let God’s Children Grow

By |September 22nd, 2014|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Let God’s Children Grow

The azure sky and the balmy air enveloped me yesterday as I harvested vegetables from my garden.  My son and daughter were helping too along with my 3 and 5 year old granddaughters.  The girls were darting here and there between huge potato plants, thick rows of beans and towering [...]

2014 Jun 26

Leprosy in Nepal

By |June 26th, 2014|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Leprosy in Nepal

Who resides within the safe compounds of St. Devi’s Academy and the LOT Home in India? Leprosy is rarely thought about in the Western World. Yet in many countries with high levels of poverty leprosy is still an active disease. Leprosy has generated fear in societies for thousands of years [...]

2014 Jun 21

Child Prostitution – It’s a Reality

By |June 21st, 2014|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Child Prostitution – It’s a Reality

Who resides within the safe compounds of St. Devi’s Academy and the LOT Home in India? Within our walls we have little girls who would have been sold into prostitution.  They are children from families so very poor, with circumstances so dire, that parents or relatives either sold their girls [...]

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