Our family arrived here in India over a week ago to reach out to the unreached and needy of South India. Our very deepest thanks go to all of you who, knowing our burden to return to India, have been praying for our family and have helped us get here again! Our work began immediately …
Update from the Smith’s in India reaching Leprosy Colonies Read More »
ICII helps to provide medicines and bandages to leprosy colony residents for their sore and hurting wounds. This year, ICII wants to provide the residents who have cataracts or have bad eyesight to visit the eye doctor to either receive cataract surgery or new glasses. See the images below that depict how ICII and you …
Promised Land Children Reach Out to Those with Leprosy Helen Mary and her sister came from a very poor leprosy colony and were both in danger of being sold into prostitution. ICII missionaries learned about their situation and rescued them from a life that would have completely ruined their childhood and lives forever. After first …
Unreached Paliyar Tribes In India Accept Christ! Through the love and support of Independent Church in India (ICII) supporters, we were able to provide one of ICII’s missionary teams with a Gospel/medical van to reach distant and unreached tribal areas. On our trip to India during the month of March, Kathy and I spent a …
Bringing Relief to Leprosy Victims Last fall, extremely heavy downpours in Tamil Nadu, India produced the highest rainfall in a hundred years and some of the worst flooding ever. Many areas of the state’s capital city, Chennai, were underwater for weeks, and large regions of the state were seriously affected. Floods killed hundreds, and …
Finding Lost Souls Newsletter March/April – 2016 Read More »
Pastor Britto and missionary Lowell Smith were deeply impressed by the time they spent with a man named Abraham who lives at the colony. The day we visited him at New Life Colony, he was singing: ‘I will see my Redeemer one day, he will wipe away all of my tears. All of my sorrows …
Palaniyammal has had leprosy for 15 long years. She has two sons; her husband is dead. But her sons chased her out of their house because she contracted leprosy. Now she lives alone in a tiny hut in another village where low-caste people live. Only once a day she will normally have a meal – …
I am from a non-Christian family. I had 4 brothers and 3 sisters. I got married at age 17. After I got leprosy I had no kids, so my husband married my younger sister. She has one daughter. My husband never took care of me. We were eating old and sour rationed rice as our …
My name is Pappathi, I was born in a very remote village. We had four children in our family, 2 brothers and 2 sisters. I am the youngest in the family. We are Dalits in the village, we work for the village because we are untouchable. We go to the village, clean the streets and …
Dear Friends, How can we express our thanks to you? We don’t have enough time to count all the things that you are doing for us. Whenever we see the ICII team we see Jesus, and feel that it is Jesus who is visiting us and we feel so much joy and happiness. When we …
A Letter From the Women at the New Life Leprosy Colony Read More »
