Hope and Help International- Ministry Report

BLESSINGS AMID BURDENS

Everyone loves blessings but human nature tends to shun burdens. However, it is often out of
burdensome situations that the greatest blessings arise. This is the case with our partners in
India.

Kukil is one of Hope and Help’s Timothy Leadership Institute students from the state of Assam. Sadly just two weeks after he had finished the second year of his TLI studies in May, 2008 his
precious wife died of breast cancer, leaving him with two young children to raise and his wife’s ailing mother to take care of. In spite of the challenges he his facing right now, he is still faithful
in God’s service.

Kukil just returned from visiting an isolated village for the first time. During his seven day stay he was able to share the Gospel with many people and four of them trusted Christ as Savior. Praise the Lord! Since the village is so isolated and poor, Kukil did not have good food or water
and he became very ill as he traveled back home. When he finally arrived home he found out that both of his children had contracted viral fever. Please be in prayer for this father and minister of the Gospel.

Since Kukil is too sick to return right now, our partner Avinash has spent the last week in this village doing follow-up work. In a report sent to us just today, this is what he says:

“The village has a major problem of alcoholism. All of the men work in farming in which they get only about $1 a day. Children and the women have a problem of malnutrition. We have a great great opportunity to serve them. Because they lack money they push their children in a very young age to work; they have no future. The government has help for them but on the way to those who need it, it is taken by the people in authority. We can be the hands and feet of our LORD to them in the mission of God. When we were there our eyes were opened and we wished we could have some more equipment to help them to know our Lord. I have now a laptop computer in which I showed them The Jesus Film and Passion of the Christ but very few of them could see the screen. I wish I had a projector; you know a big crowed turned out to see the films. All of them are hindus, but soon many of them will follow our LORD!”

Please pray for this village and for Avinash and Kukil as they continue to minister. The village
is open to the message of the Gospel. What a great encouragement to Kukul to have a hand in
taking the Good News to this unevangelized village during a year that has been such a challenge
and filled with sadness.