The Cornerstone

June has been a busy time for Pastor Samuel Abraham. The last weeks of May were filled with a Sunday school teachers’ and vacation bible school leaders’ training for over 70 villages. Various church leaders and pastors all gathered together to be commissioned to reach out to over 2,500 children this summer. Shortly after returning home, Pastor Abraham turned his attention over to his own church’s vacation bible school [VBS].

While the program has been a great outreach to the children of his community, nothing could prepare him for what God was about to do. To his surprise, this year’s VBS brought in over 270 local children! The team of 22 teachers, volunteers, and young missionaries had their hands full with this great harvest God had blessed them with. This remarkable yield has been a testimony of what God had started over many years ago with a small act of faith in Pastor Abraham’s life when he first laid that cornerstone to the Amazing Grace orphanage.

Over 50 miles away, in a small village of S. NaraPuram, where just five months previously, Pastor Joshi laid a cornerstone in the soil, the walls of the church have just been finished being erected. Pastor Joshi was a former Bible student of Pastor Abraham and he has been pastoring in this quiet, remote village over the last several years. At the moment, Pastor Joshi and his congregation are able to meet in the safety of the church walls but he is praying for God to provide the funds to buy the iron sheets and metal frame to complete the roof over the church to keep the members dry during the rainy season. Just as with Pastor Abraham’s church, we also pray that Pastor Joshi’s church will continue to grow and produce more fruit as they reach out to their community
of unbelievers.