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India: slum schools bring hope to New Delhi

India: slum schools bring hope to New Delhi
India's capital New Delhi has over 1,000 slums, in which mostly itinerant workers have their home. Some 6 million people live there - but the children are often simply abandoned when their parents go looking for work. The German missions agency Inter Mission started and supports 130 slum schools for children from non-Christian families. In the Alaknanda slum, they started a school in the toilet complex: 15 teachers teach 650 children. The Bible teaching and teachers' personal care for the children has opened many for the Gospel.

India: how God came to the Mundas

India: how God came to the Mundas
Birender Ram Bali, from the Munda, previously unreached people group in the northern Indian state Jharkand, witnessed his wife's 18-year fight against cancer. Her condition deteriorated steadily, and the entire village expected her death soon. In August 2002, Bali visited a nearby town on business. In the marketplace, he heard a man proclaiming something which he had never before heard: "Every one of you can ask Jesus to help you with your problems and sicknesses. He will answer your prayers because he is the true and living God." Those words echoed in Bali's head as he travelled back to his village. He asked himself who this Jesus could be. Knowing that his wife could die any moment, he decided to call on Jesus that night. He said "Jesus, I don't know who you are, but the man in the marketplace said that anyone can call on you, and you would help. Please heal my wife." That became his daily prayer. Over a period of three months, his wife's condition improved. Everyone in the village was astonished, and asked how she had been healed. Bali told them "I heard a man in the marketplace say that we can ask Jesus to solve our problems and heal our sicknesses. I started calling on Jesus that night. I called on him every day and night until I saw that my wife was healed."