20 More Graduate from the Teresa Sewing Center!
YOUR PRAYERS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
We started the very first day of May with the graduation of a group of ladies at My Father’s House.
For those of you not yet familiar with MFH, it is an orphanage for the children of martyrs. It also serves the surrounding community of 30 or more villages. This region is considered the poorest of the poor in Pakistan.
At the orphanage, we operate the Teresa Sewing Center. This TSC is dedicated to local illiterate village women.
In Pakistan, poorer families do not send their daughters to school, instead, they invest in their sons, who care for them later in life. As a result, girls grow up without any education, leaving them with no opportunity for employment.
Today, at the graduation, we had two 15-year-old girls and a 16-year-old among twenty women, over half of whom already have jobs! 20 more ladies will be starting new classes on May 5th.
Former slave women have already begun classes at other Teresa Sewing Centers.
The Teresa Sewing Centers have now graduated 637 ladies!
- We are hosting a pastors’ conference in Pakistan, providing four motorcycles,
- continuing youth crusades,
- and celebrating as Usma (a former slave woman) gets her new legs fitted.
- We are also setting a single family free from a brickmaker prison, where the father had his hand cut off while defending his wife.
NOTE: THIS FAMILY WAS SUDDENLY MOVED FROM KILN 8 JUST DAYS BEFORE THIS PRISON WAS SHUT DOWN. WE HAVE NOW FOUND THEM.
In India:
- We were able to bless all three of our schools serving the Bondo Tribe in Odisha,
- and our native leaders will conduct several Vacation Bible Schools—please pray for them.
Your steadfast love means everything in advancing these Great Commission projects. Without God, we can do nothing; without your help, things would come to a grinding halt.
You are more meaningful and influential than you realize. We love and appreciate you so very much!
John & Teresa
