Maranatha Children Homes - Beginning
I had a great desire to help the
orphan, poor, and needy children in India. But I did not have
the financial support. My self and my wife were praying to God
to help us. Then I have received a check for $ 3,000 from a
friend in Norway saying that a man walked into his office with
an envelope stuffed with 20,000 Norwegian Kroner and said that
God spoke to him to send that money to Brother Moses for the
Children Home in India. |
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I have taken 22 boys into my
house in my native village and started the Children Home in
1982. Not knowing where I'd get the money to raise those boys
for the rest of the year, I took them in. My widowed mother did
the cooking for two years as we couldn't afford hiring a cook.
The picture on the right is the
first Children Home in the native village of Pastor Choudary. |
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Girls at Maranatha Children Home, Vijayawada, India
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Faith in God for support!
We look unto God to
supply the needs in the ministry. Some times we do not have money that we cancel
non-vegetarian food and clothing to cut down on expenses. We have
learned to adjust with whatever we have - to feed, clothe, and educate the
children. We have nearly 270 boys and girls today in four Children Homes. Some kids are orphans with no parents, some without mothers and
some without fathers, and some with parents but very very poor or
disabled to feed the kids.
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About School
We hired teachers for school until April 2000. But we closed it since the kids do not get any exposure to the outside world as they live and go to school in the same building. They also play there as we do not have ground. We are sending them to another school where they get better education. We want to give them more than food and clothing by teaching them discipline, good values of life and education to make them better citizens and stand on their own feet.
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Children Home in Kannapuram village |
Children's interests
The boys love to play cricket, shuttle badminton
etc and girls like skipping with rope, throwing ring, and games like Carom Board, Checkers etc.
All of them love to ride bikes. The children love to go to
seashore (beach), parks, Historical places and big cities.
They get so excited when we
buy new clothes. We buy the material and hire a tailor to bring
his sewing machines and staff to make dresses in our premises.
It is cheaper this way than buying ready-made clothes. |
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The children are very happy in our
Homes. It takes a few months for us to see smile on the
faces of some kids after we take them into our Children
Home. The poverty has left its indelible mark on some
kids.
The children learn to sing, dance
and participate in extra curricular activities. Some do very
good in school that they make high ranks. Several of them have
been saved. They pray for their sponsors continuously. |
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Children Home at Zaheerabad |
I am very happy that I could play a little part to raise the orphan, poor, and needy children in India and help them come up in life.
We teach Bible-based values that will guide them in every aspect
of their lives. I can do this service
only because of generous people like you, who contribute to our Children Homes. I always teach them that they should
help their surviving family and help other kids when they are grown and settled in life and
career.
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