Passage to India: Janie and Jay on the train

Global Action: Who are we?

Our Mission
To declare the kingdom of God in word and deed to people around the world.

Our Vision
To challenge, inspire, and equip believers to become risk-takers for God, who radically impact the world for Jesus Christ.

Global Action strives to fill the gaps throughout the world where there are desperate needs but no ministries meeting them. We do this with key national partnerships and worldwide networks.

What Sets Global Action Apart

We are very flexible, quickly responding to the needs of today's changing world.
We value and empower people, rather than building a bureaucracy.
We work through global partnerships to maximize the resources of others, rather than duplicate their efforts.
We are risk-takers -- passionate about seeing what God can do.

Global Action Ministry in Motipur, India

The stench from the street kids’ unwashed bodies was overpowering; lice filled their hair, and their stomachs protruded from malnutrition...

Only a year ago, ten-year-old Mukteshwari and her eight-year-old brother Mukesh were living in a garbage dump in Lucknow, India. Orphans whose mother had died from an incurable disease, and father had been killed by lightning, they were left to beg on the streets. These young children ate scraps of food they salvaged from restaurant garbage or brought with the few pennies they collected. Each evening they searched surrounding garbage dumps for a safe place to sleep.

Finally, a caring person found them and brought them to Global Action’s office in India Action Ministries. “Do you not have a place for orphans in Motipur? Please take care of these poor ones,” this person pleaded.

When Daniel Subhan, director of Global Action’s Hope Center in India, saw the children, he wanted to help. The stench from their unwashed bodies was overpowering; lice filled their hair, and their stomachs protruded from malnutrition. Not knowing how he would explain them to his wife, Daniel put them on his scooter and headed home.

After medical care, numerous baths, and new clothes, Mukteshwari and Mukesh were taken to the Hope Center to live. Today they are happy, healthy children. On my last visit to the Hope Center, they told me: “This is our home....we have foster parents who love us!” Together they sang in the children’s choir: “I love my Jesus, I love Him!” Their lives have been transformed!

Yet, many other children around Motipur in Northern India still need love and care! In the winter, it is so cold that the skimpily-clad children (and elderly) often freeze to death. Through the Hope Center, Global Action is doing everything possible to help children—especially orphans—have a better life.

One-hundred children attend the school at the center. Five Indian couples serve as foster parents, with each couple caring for seven orphans. Housing is provided so the children can grow up in a healthy, home environment. Nine more sets of parents, and additional housing, are still needed to care for waiting orphans who urgently need homes.

Who will help these desperate children? Imagine living in a village without electricity, telephones or medical facilities. You are surrounded by poverty, alcoholism, drugs, AIDS and unemployment. While numerous mosques call everyone to prayer five times a day, the closest church was 40 miles away before Global Action built one in the city.

The planned farm and vocational school will provide for children, and help adults in the village learn a trade. A clinic will be built for basic preventive and medical care. Through this holistic project, the villagers can see Christian love in action and hear the Gospel message of hope.

Children like Mukteshwari and Mukesh are depending on all of us. We can provide hope for them now—and eternity!
Please send a generous gift today so a child in India can leave behind the garbage dump’s filth, stench, and despair for a life of health, happiness, and eternal hope.

If you can help please call 888-725-3707.

Help us reach the children at the Motipur Hope Center—like Mukteshwari and Mukesh—by sending your gift today!

YES, I WANT TO HELP CHILDREN IN INDIA!

Thank you for your prayers and support of these children!

Janie and Jay are getting ready to settle in to their new home for several hours of rest and relaxation. Read Jay's account of this adventure below.

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Friday, December 14, 2007

Janie and Jay on the train

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