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Chapter Six Success Stories While searching
for ministries to support in the Ritu was 3-1/2
years old when she was brought to the orphanage. She was in trauma from the
tragic death of her alcoholic father. He
had abused her mother who, in desperation, poured kerosene on him while he was
passed out and set him on fire. At the Christian orphanage, Ritu had difficulty
sleeping at night due to the vivid memory of her father burning. With much
praying and fasting, Ritu was delivered from her trauma. Today, she is an
intelligent and spiritually sensitive girl who loves the Lord. Ritu has helped as a teaching assistant in a
Christian school and hopes to attend nurse’s training. Meena was four years old when she came to the orphanage. Her father, Ram Kumar, had been electrocuted and all four of his limbs were amputated. He came to Christ while recovering in the local Christian hospital. Meena thrived at the orphanage and graduated with high honors. She is currently taking local college classes and, like the other girls, would like to become a nurse. In another part
of When James, our host, learned the boy was leaving with a prison guard, he immediately went into action. He told us the boy would probably become a slave in a tea shop, a domestic servant, or possibly forced into the sex industry. James talked to the headmaster and insisted the boy be released to him. As we drove away with the boy in the van, we tried, unsuccessfully, to learn his name. James asked two of his adopted sons to get the boy some new clothes, check his head for lice, and let him shower. Later, James asked if they had learned the boy’s name. “It’s Uman,” they told us. We replied, “Uman doesn’t sound like what he was trying to tell us in the van.” “Uman is the new name we just gave him,” they said with pride. “His old name was bad. It meant ‘the king of demons.’ His new one means ‘to abound.’ ” Uman’s new name is symbolic of his new lease on life, a life in which he will be loved, fed and have the chance to learn about Jesus. What joy comes from seeing Pratima, Ritu, Meena, and Uman saved from a hopeless life and even death itself, through the faithful labor and giving of God's people. The Christian hospital, the orphanage and the school in these stories all have financial needs that, if met, would allow them to help even more people. This is true for most of the other 25,000 Christian service organizations in the world: more resources would mean more lives saved. If Pratima, Ritu, Meena and Uman can be saved, so can millions of others. Let’s get started.
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