Our computer room needs updating. We have six old computers and need to change them for laptops. Due to the many power cuts we haveduring school hours laptops are of more use to us than computers since they can be charged and then used at any time for lesson. We also needto add additional shelving and cupboards to the library to house thebooks and equipment safely.
Education opens doors for the future. The more doors open the more opportunities a child has.
Safe place in a storm.
We need to finish our chapel building on the campus as it will be a concrete roof and be a safe place for everyone during storms that come. During the last cyclone we were kept by the power of God andthankfully no roof was damaged but we did loose the whole school roof to a tornado one year and another year we lost the roof of one of the kidsrooms. We are currently working on replacing all the roofs so that every building is safe. We have tocover the accommodation blocks, school and dining hall with concrete roofs in the future. This is a long term project and we are looking to begin the work with the chapel building so we start with one building large enough to take everyone during a storm.
Expanding the Kingdom in untouched places.
We are currently working in remote rural areas that have never heard the message of Jesus Christ. We are surrounded by 300+ villages that never heard the name of Jesus Christ. As we make progress in preaching and raising up the believers we need to build church buildings. House here are small andmostly in villages much too small for holding church gatherings. As new believers come into the church they have to be taught and grow and develop as Christians. When people first hear the Gospel it is important that they have a neutral place to come and learn. The caste system is well embedded in society and especially in rural areas. This means thatsome people will have difficulty attendingmeetings in a house of another caste. Whilst the church itself seeks to free people from such abondage it isstill part of the processof salvation for people to grow an develop and leave behind such teachings. A church buildingmakes itsubstantially easier to reach people for the Gospel. We therefore have need to build churches in remote areas quite regularly. You can make a difference to the preaching of the Gospel in untouched areas of India by helping us with this project.
This is a mission into the forest. No roads, no electricity, no means of transport, shops or facilities of any sort. Many people live in small communities ofless than 50 people. They have no opportunity to hear the Gospel unless we go to them. Wemake regular mission trips into such areas to preach the Gospel. Building a church in these environments ischallenging but not beyond the bounds of possible to achieve.