| Our Ministries Since from the beginning, we are depending on lord Jesus help and guidance in very aspect of work that planned and being implemented by us. We are totally depending with faith on our lord Jesus. So far the Lord enabled us to plant 8 small Churches and appointed 8 co-workers about 478 believers are gathering together to warship the Lord on every Sunday in 8 hill centers. This is the fruit of our cry is the wildness in evangelizing the SORA tribal communities. As of right now, we are working in border of Orissa and Andhra states in south India. This area most neglected and hilly areas these SORA tribal people has different traditional habits of Marriage, Festival, Births and deaths etc., the marriage are mostly they pray to trees, axes and stones as goddesses, while they start the cultivation they pray goddess. During the celebration of festivals enjoys with dances of THIMSA with drums, and drinking liquor. Both male and females are respects each other’s in family maters. Mainly the people are illiterates. So these tribes are do not come out freely to participated in social activities meetings etc., Due to residing in interior villages most of the people those who do not know about the Gospel of Christ as until this day. It is so much pain to me that there are numerous valuable souls in on the way near to hell without knowing our heavenly father love. We are serving these tribal people for Him without any help either from within or abroad. We reach these people, knocking door to door, conduct individual, family prayers and preach them Glorious Gospel, and attract their hearts with our sweet and melodious songs praising the Lord. We conduct village open air meetings also. As up to now thousands of people were saved accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and saviour and are added to the Kingdom of Lord. We are reaching these unreached and lost souls with word of God and even we are facing many problems due to lack of traveling assistance and lack of financial support to meet the needs of our family members and we are also facing may problems from Indian Hindu societies with political powers trying to change these areas as Hindu religious areas and these already working powerfully. We are working hardly for God even with often hunger along with my family. We are continuing boldly in the service of Lord Jesus Christ with out looking back even if it is harden. Each and every program of HOLY CROSS Ministries showing the love of Jesus to the multitudes, as its remains committed to serve the people of God - Luck 4:18:19. In order to expand its mission, the team at HOLY CROSS Ministries praying to the lord of Harvest for more laborers - Matt. 9:38. HOLY CROSS CHILDREN HOME As we are serving the lord w find the people from Tribal communities
these People are really innocent and they believe the Forest is their
mother God, they worship Trees, Stones and goddess and their ancestors.
Women are the main force in the tribal community as in the other communities.
They collect firewood; fetch drinking water from a distance place besides
working in the field. In the Tribal community, the women and men will
consume Alcohol. The tribal children was mostly neglected because The
tribal children are the children of landless laboures and single parents
those who are economically backward and disadvantaged families and they
have other means of earning to maintain their family except by their
daily labour in daily wages process. And these people facing many problems
when there is no work then no food for them. In this difficulty circumstances,
the above children family had lending some money and food grains etc.,
from landlords of the concerned villages in order to feed their starved
family members. And therefore, in term above family has enabled to repay
that money due to their long standing indebtness and poverty. And then
the money lended landowners has demanding the above family to either
repay the loan immediately or send their children to look after his
live stock. Due to the heavy pressing demand on that family from land
owner. The helpless poor family had proceed their children to money
lended land owner’s farm for grazing his livestock as and when the child
enters into this landlords farm them begins exploitation on him. These
child victims of usually treated as share and getting a nominal food
those landlords as their remuneration and those are generally in age
group of 5 to 15 years of old age. These children shall spend their
leisure time by smoking, playing cards pressing to work as domestic
worker then the grazing the animals of the concerned landlords. Sometimes,
these girls were sexually abused by their masters. But even after 60
years of Indian Independence to our country. No protection for the children,
they sleep on the road sides they die on the road side no one care of
them. I have a burden to help and to care these Children to lead them
to the throne of Grace as per James. 1:27.
LOVING SHEPHERD EVANGELICAL TEAM To carry the Gospel into the midst of the sora tribal community, we formed a team with 10 members called LOVING SHEPHERD EVANGELICAL TEAM. We are showing the Gospel in an interesting and understandable way, that is Gospel in the form of skits team will play these Gospel skits before the sharing Gospel sermons in their villages. We specifically concentrated on these interior tribal pockets with Gospel. However, now we are in the progress of winning much more souls for our Lord. Our team has more enthusiasm in reaching these primitive tribal groups those who never heard about the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our team visiting 2 to 3 villages every day and meeting these people at their door step and proclaiming the message of love and scarification of our Lord Jesus Christ to this ignored target people.
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