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NEWSLETTER Special Edition February 2007- VOLUME 27
 INDEPENDENT CHURCH IN INDIA PO BOX 238 FREDERICKSBURG, PA 17026
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Muthu: From Outcast To Accepted

Last year the founder of ICII Pastor Britto was in the US speaking in churches, sharing about the need to build these homes for lepers. Our Nov/Dec Finding Lost Souls newsletter contained a touching story of Pastor Britto returning home from America. After Pastor Britto reached India and was traveling home from the airport, tired from the journey, he saw, a very elderly homeless man with leprosy.

Pastor Britto shared, "After being in America, a land filled with abundance, for four months, when I saw this man on my way home I was totally heartbroken to see his suffering". When Pastor Britto and his brother Pastor Richard stopped and began conversing with the man, they learned that his name was Paul (nickname is Muthu) and he had suffered with leprosy for forty long years.

Forty years ago, Muthu's family and his whole village had chased him out of their area because of his disease. Muthu now lived alone in an old, abandoned and damaged hut that stood dangerously close to the road. Muthu was a very lonely man, and he was so happy that the two brothers had stopped to talk with him. Muthu's only way to live was to go begging, and he could only eat if someone's rice was left over from the day before and was beginning to go bad and turning sour. Someone would give Muthu this for food as though they were giving it to a dog. That was Muthu's only way to stay alive.

Pastor Britto praying for Muthu outside the old, leaky, abandoned hut he had been staying in.