Schools
Melody School
Melody School is in a Muslim village which has accepted the school being run by Christians. We are the only school in the area and they have always acknowledged Christian schools to be better than the government run schools. They will send their children to have a better education.
We now have a crude building for the children to be out of the weather and our next focus will be to have a proper school building where they can meet. Right now they sit on plastic to cover the dirt floor. We have 225 children in that school as of January 2012.
Ray of Light School
The school began humbly with only 20 children but has grown to 400 as of January 2012. Property was bought and now there are two buildings on that property that keep the children in school all school year instead of having to close because of the monsoons or the cold in the winter. It does get cold in the north and this winter has been very cold. We dug a well which the village uses, and have bathrooms for the children. There was not a bathroom in the whole village until they had one. The property is right in the middle of rice fields which is very colorful when the rice has been planted and near the main road (one lane).
In our archives you can see our humble beginning with a thatch roof open shed where water buffalo stay at night and by day it was our school.
We have added several more classes and now have up to 10th standard.We have dreams to one day soon provide the village in that area with electricity and then put some computers in the school so the children can learn and move out of their present situation into a future that will allow them to prosper. The village men are farmers and nothing wrong with that, but this gives them a chance for something different.
A picture of the completed two buildings is here for you to see. Come spring they will landscape the entire school grounds. Last year we added some outside games, etc. and hired some more teachers since our enrollment grew.
We have a sponsorship program in which you can support one child for $20 a month. Choose either a boy or girl and what age you would like, and send your information to larrydollie@yahoo.com. We will then send you a packet of information for your child with a picture. It is hard to accurately get birthdates in that they do not keep record of births but the Administrator tries to get it right. You are welcome to write your child and if you want to go to India with us sometime, come and visit with them and their families We have one lady this trip that is going to choose her child to sponsor when we go out to the village.
A church meets in the school building on Sundays of around 150 people. They were all Hindus but accepted Christ as their Savior. The pastor of the church has devotions with the children every morning encouraging them to know Jesus as their Savior. Each Christmas they put on a program portraying the Nativity Scene and their parents come to see that and to hear them sing several Christmas songs in English/Hindi. We always feed everyone present which always get a good crowd!
We are praying that there is a mighty move of the Holy Spirit amongst that village and many will accept Him into their hearts and lives.
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SCHOOL BUILDING UPDATES
As I said, the buildings are finished of Ray of Light School but we need to finish paying the contractor around $18,000. It has been awesome to watch the Lord supply ALL the needs for the completion of the buildings and we know that He will finish what He has started for His Glory!
Our AGWM (Assemblies of God World Mission) account is #2184315 or
make check payable to Lighthouse Ministries, P.O. Box 754,
Bardstown, KY 40004
