India Update from JP Dao

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Jesus Well

Jesus Well from Calvary Leatherhead on Vimeo.

Taking a look at one of the Jesus wells that provides a basic staple of physical life to people in the name of Jesus: Water!

Learning to Read

Learning to Read from Calvary Leatherhead on Vimeo.
Learning to read for the first time, these women who are prodominately Hindus are being shown the love of Jesus as they learn how to read.

Bible College in Mumbai

Mumbai Bible College from Calvary Leatherhead on Vimeo.
Three months ago, this Bible college was attacked by a local village. They were attacked because the men were being trained to be sent out as missionaries for Jesus. Here I am at the Bible college where all of these 'to-be' missionaries will be persecuted violently for their faith at some point and time and yet they still go eagerly!

Bringing Hope to the Slums

Bridge of Hope in the slums from Calvary Leatherhead on Vimeo.
Amongst hopelessness in the slums where a family may make about £400 per annum, sit schools such as this one offering the hope Jesus gives to children by both showing and speaking the Gospel.

Overlooking the slum in Mumbai

Mumbai Slum from Calvary Leatherhead on Vimeo.
This is one of the slums we visited. If you saw the film "Slum Dog", this is where the beginning was filmed. I was personally humbled seeing the Bridge of Hope school here. Seeing young children that love Jesus and are content with what little they have brought my eyes to tears.

Mumbai Slums

Yesterday morning we arrived here in Mumbai.  We drove from the airport back to the hotel.  I knew we were going to be in India, so I thought to myself, "Yeah, I'm going to be slumming it."  Entering into the hotel it was about what I expected (what we back home would call a slum).  We dropped off our luggage (in the hopes that it would still be there when we returned), then we went to get some lunch at an Indian restaurant (surprise! the curry puts what we have back in England to shame).  We then arrived in the slum.

I was greatly humbled!  The conditions in the slums are inhuman.  A family will live in a tiny room with a hole in the wall for a window. There is no toilet, only public toilets down the road.  Some of the slum rooms have a water pipe, but when the rainy season comes (which just ended), the sewage overflows and then contaminates the drinking water.

After returning from the slum to our hotel, it seemed like the Taj Mahal!!! What luxury we live in back home.  We westerners are exceedingly rich and a short visit to a slum like this will reveal that reality.