"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15)

NEWSLETTER September/October VOLUME FIFTEEN
INDEPENDENT CHURCH IN INDIA PO BOX 238 FREDERICKSBURG, PA 17026
website: www.indchurch.org email:info@indchurch.org

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Reaching the Lost In India

... by Kristi Hackman

THE FIRST DAY - The morning of July 29th began my first and very long and tiring day of ministry. The first place we visited was the small town of Vadipatti where the Independent Church in India is building an orphanage. The orphanage will house 24 children, 12 boys and 12 girls. There is a kitchen, a dining area, a bath and laundry area, and a room for the headmaster. The orphanage also has some surrounding land where there will be room for some playground equipment. My heart was stirred and my eyes filled with tears as I realized that within just a few months that building would be full of orphan children. Pastor Britto, Pastor Richard and I went inside the building to pray. While we were praying I had a vision of many joyful and happy children running through the building, at peace for the first time in their lives.

I also had a vision of a great light, like a sunbeam, emerging from that same building as though the joy of the children would reach out into the town like rays from the sun. After this, we were on our way for ministry. We stopped outside a public primary school just coming out. As soon as the children saw our van and the white lady that stepped out, they came running over by the dozens. Most of the children eat only one meal a day, given to them by their school.

US Missionary Kristi Hackman standing
next to the orphanage building.

Many of the children have no clothes due to poverty.

The meal consists of old and sometimes dirty rice mixed with a thin soup. After we handed out the tracts we shared the gospel message with the kids. I told them how much their creator God loved them so much that he sent his only son to die for them. We presented the gospel message clearly so they could understand the whole gospel.Then we prayed for them. Some children came to ask for specific prayer and we laid hands on them to pray. Pastor Britto told the children to be sure to read the tract carefully and that they should look for the van the following week when the Independent Church in India ministry team would follow up with the children. We then went to two other schools and repeated the same process.

By the time we were finished at the schools I was completely exhausted. The heat was extreme and I had been crying a lot, just from seeing the poverty of the children and their faces of desperation.

Kristi handing out tracts to the
children at a public school.