Brethren,
Please remember to pray for your Indian brethren in India. This ministry is dedicated to helping the orphans and the ministry of the Gospel in India. Serious persecution of Christians contunes to this day in India from the Hindus leaving many Christian families homeless, hungry, poorly clothed, and in many cases, have left children orphaned.
Dayspring Children's Home in Andhra Pradesh has been helping Christians from the Orissa State with food and clothing and has a standing request to receive some 40 orphans into their fold. Sadly, Dayspring is struggling to look after the 150 orphans they currently have, and because of a broken roof and lack of support, cannot take them at this time.
Brethren, now is the time to lift up our eyes and look upon the suffering of our brethren throughout the world and lend our help both in prayers and giving. There are several ways you and I can help these Christians and orphans:
1. Commit yourself and/or your small group or church to pray for them.
2. Keep informed about what is happening in India through this blogsite and others like it.
3. Make a committment to help one orphan at $25/month. This covers everything that child needs for food, clothing, shelter and education.
4. Make a one-time gift for the support of the children.
5. Go to India and encourage them in Christ Jesus.
6. Request a visit from me, or someone involved with mission work to India to speak to your group.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
The Loneliness of the Christian
Man - The Dwelling Place of God, Chapter 39: "The Saint Must Walk Alone" A.W. Tozer
The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.
The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.
He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."
The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone.
The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens.
He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."
Friday, June 25, 2010
Mission 2010
If the Lord wills, I make my plans to go to India (finally) in September of this year. Please pray God's will be done in this regard. I would spend 2 weeks there visiting with the orphans and widows, the gospel workers, and many young men. I would also have an opportunity to visit the Orissa State and visit with the Christians there who are suffering much under persecution.
I am at peace about going, and would like to take my wife with me, and we need wisdom in this as well. If you would like to help us go please contact me by phone or email. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I would like to go with a gift for the orphanage to supply their many needs, and also with gifts to help relieve the suffering of the Christians who have been persecuted.
Thank you for your prayers.
I am at peace about going, and would like to take my wife with me, and we need wisdom in this as well. If you would like to help us go please contact me by phone or email. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I would like to go with a gift for the orphanage to supply their many needs, and also with gifts to help relieve the suffering of the Christians who have been persecuted.
Thank you for your prayers.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Friends of India Visit Dayspring in 2010
Please take a moment to watch the video taken by Friends of India who are a Hong Kong support ministry for Dayspring Children's Home.
UPDATE!
Greetings. I lauched this blog several years back with the hope that it would serve as a portal to helping Dayspring Children's Home. Since that time our family has gone through many trials in America and as a result my updates to this site have stopped. But I am back!
The work at Dayspring Children's Home continues and I have remained in contact with Adam. I am back, once again, planning a trip this fall to visit the school as well as see the work of the Gospel that is taking place through the many Gospel workers there who carry the Gospel throughout the region.
I also expect to meet and witness, as well as video and photograph, the increase and intense persecution happening there at the hand of hindu priests. The Bible tells us to remember those who are chained as though we are chained with them. We must be partakers in our brothers sufferings where and when we can and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Please bookmark this site and check back often for updates. I will be posting shortly about a new wave of persecution that has broken out in the Orissa State that requires our immediate attention.
His servant,
Geoff F.
The work at Dayspring Children's Home continues and I have remained in contact with Adam. I am back, once again, planning a trip this fall to visit the school as well as see the work of the Gospel that is taking place through the many Gospel workers there who carry the Gospel throughout the region.
I also expect to meet and witness, as well as video and photograph, the increase and intense persecution happening there at the hand of hindu priests. The Bible tells us to remember those who are chained as though we are chained with them. We must be partakers in our brothers sufferings where and when we can and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Please bookmark this site and check back often for updates. I will be posting shortly about a new wave of persecution that has broken out in the Orissa State that requires our immediate attention.
His servant,
Geoff F.
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