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NEWSLETTER May/June2004 - VOLUME SIX
INDEPENDENT CHURCH IN INDIA PO BOX 238 FREDERICKSBURG, PA 17026
website: www.indchurch.org email:info@indchurch.org Phone (717) 865-7885

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Touching the Untouchable
Reaching Out to a Victim of Leprosy...

Since the beginning of the year, Independent Church In India has been reaching out to a new area north of the city of Vadipatti area with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. They have started a new church called "Bethel Prayer House ICII" and have been also starting many Bible study groups with some of the new believers that they have been reaching in the various remote villages. Many of the people that are accepting the Lord are too poor to pay the bus fare to come to the main church, so the Independent Church team has been returning to them to equip them in the word of God. Read one incredible testimony of how one remote village was touched by the love of Jesus Christ:

One evening, the Independent Church team was led to visit a remote village named Peryapalla-paddi. In this village were nine Hindu idol temples where the people worshipped various gods.

As the team walked in the part of the village near the temples, it was very spiritually oppressed and the people were living in extreme poverty.
One of the nine Hindu temples in Peryapallapaddi.

Many living in very small dirt floor huts and tents. The people all had emptiness and hopelessness in their eyes. United States missionary Kathy Smith handed a Gospel tract to one woman, but to her surprise, the woman could not take it because she had no fingers. Her name was Udaiyamal, and she had a very bad case of the dreaded disease of leprosy. Her fingers and toes were nearly gone and her deep sunken eyes not only gave her poor eyesight, but were spiritually empty and hopeless.
Udaiyamal had emptiness in her eyes.

Flies constantly buzzed around Udaiyamal's open sores on her feet. Leprosy affects the finger, toes, and eyes of its victims.

Flies were constantly buzzing around the open sores on her feet. Independent Church's Gospel team learned that no one was caring for this woman and the rice that she ate was what amount she made by going begging. The team then proceeded to share the Gospel to her and a group of the other village people who had gathered. Not a one person in the crowd responded to the Gospel because they said all the gods are the same and that their gods will not allow them to worship another god.

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