"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15)

Packing tomatoes to be given out to the poor and needy

A man at a neglected leprosy colony. This man has to sleep on the floor on a mat in a very hot room filled with other lepers

An ICII missionary is giving out bags of tomatoes

Through ICII's Good Samaritan fund, this family and two other families received a new hut

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A man with leprosy at a colony in Barugur. This man has lost his fingers.

One night, around midnight, in a village called Muthanam-patti near the city of Dindigul, three families were rudely awakened by fire. They quickly grabbed their sleepy small children and ran outside as fast as they could as their hut and everything they owned in this world was burned up. These families didn't have much, but what they did own was crucial to survival. All their clothing, cooking supplies, everything was destroyed by the fire. Now these three families who were called "dalits" or "untouchables" didn't have much hope about what would happened next. They would have to sleep on the streets and beg from their poor neighbors.

The next day, by divine appointment, ICII's Gospel team went to Muthanampatti to have their weekly Bible study. The families quickly informed the Gospel team what had happened to their homes. That day the Gospel team comforted the families and prayed for the Lord to provide all their needs. Through ICII's "Good Samaritan fund" and some missionaries who were staying nearby, the Lord has provided the needs to rebuild these three huts. After the huts were built, the families were sharing with great joy, "We believe that Jesus is the loving God who cares for us. We didn't know what we were going to do because we had nothing. But now God has blessed us with the new huts. We give thanks to God who loves us. Also we give thanks to those who helped us". Want to help families like this in similar situations? One hundred percent of your gifts towards ICII's Good Samaritan Fund will help to provide for families and individuals who are in urgent and desperate need.

At ICII's Home of Compassion Orphanage, the children are also partaking of the harvest. Most of all, thanks be to God that ICII's precious Leprosy Friends, once hungry, homeless, outcast, even treated as slaves, are now enjoying nourishing meals with fresh fruits and vegetables from the fields of their own home.

"And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them." - Ezekiel 34:27.

The Lord has provided another new vehicle through an ICII supporter for an upcoming and very important project. ICII is planning to reach leprosy colonies all over Tamil Nadu, India with the good news of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.This vehicle will take at least four native missionaries, a gift for each leprosy victim, medicines for neglected sores, and film equipment to show one of ICII's Gospel movies to the colonies.

The goal is to preach the Gospel to those who are known as untouchables. They are the poorest of the poor, the most desperate, the most forsaken, the most hurting people - those with the most dreaded disease in India - leprosy. The last two months two of ICII's missionaries have been traveling and getting permission and information from leprosy colonies in Tamil Nadu to come to preach the Gospel and give a gift (a blanket), apply medicine to the neglected wounds, and pray and minister to these forgotten people with leprosy. Even though man may have forgotten them, God has not, and He wants them to hear his Gospel and give them the gift of salvation. ICII is praying that through this new project thousands of leprosy victims will receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and receive His precious gift of everlasting life.