Welcome to a fantastic Fall!
Right now our international ministry is growing very rapidly and we need all the help we can get. We receive continual reports of how people are getting healed and restored, and of entire communities being changed. Of Jews forced to flee Ukraine who are safe now. Of poor tribes in the Himalayas who now have clean water thanks to wells we have drilled. Thank you for everything we get to do together! And thank you for your generous gift this month.
· We are baptizing and planting new cell groups in the Arab world.
· We will conduct 2 gospel crusades in September/October. One in Africa and one in Asia.
· Some of the churches we have planted have grown so big that they need their own buildings, so we are helping them build in:
o the rainforest, Madagascar
o Nepal
o Zambia, the Copper District, on the border with Congo
· We continue drilling wells for the Ratcatcher Tribe. Every well leads to a newly-planted church.
· Human Trafficking, our efforts continue to increase. We are doing 3 main things!
o We have monitoring stations on the border between Nepal and India, where large border busses cross.
o We train the girls we have rescued to become seamstresses.
o We visit villages and inform them about Human Trafficking to prevent the sale of young girls.
· We are helping about 50 Ukrainian Jews home to Israel every month, and plan to send another large gift to our children’s village Neve Michael in Israel.
· We also continue to support our other children’s centers and provide for the salaries of pastors.
· We are working to plant churches in Nepal, northern India, and a new nation, Bhutan
Finally, I simply want to say thank you for all your support and help this month.
It is so incredibly valuable.
In the love of Christ,
Pastor Tommy Lilja
We do what we are – together we are fighting human trafficking!
Today we have an amazing team working on the border between Nepal and India. They are monitoring the busses headed to India, visiting villages with information, and influencing the authorities. Whatever they can do to rescue as many as possible. This year, 2024, we have already helped 60 girls, and right now 20 of them are getting training as seamstresses.
One of the girls was Punam, 15 years old, very poor, she came in contact with an unknown man who was on his way to smuggle her across the border into India. We found her at the last moment, at the bus station on the border to India.
Another one was Puja, 15 years old. She was married off at the age of 13. Her husband promised her family that Puja would have a better life. But then she was taken to India, tortured, rape, and sold as a prostitute. After 2 years she managed to escape, which is extremely rare. Once she crossed the border back into Nepal, someone told her about our ministry, and now she is in our care.
The cost for saving one girl is about 50 USD/GBP per month.
