Sharon Gardens Mission - (Day 2)

Wow, just WOW! We toured the Sharon Gardens Mission campus today. I feel like this is everything we should be doing for our world. They start by meeting the local people's physical needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. Then they meet their occupational needs to bring them out of extreme poverty. All the while doing this in the name of Christ.

Sharon Gardens Mission:
They provide a full PK-12 education for the surrounding village.

They provide career training such as sewing, construction, and other career skills to help the people of the village earn a livable wage. It's still hard for me to imagine that a livable wage is about $3 per day.


They were the top cancer center in the area but now since the local hospitals are equipped for it, they saw the need for hospice care and are redesigning their medical center for the terminally ill.


They have a college that provides skills that are in high demand in the country. All of their students will have a job waiting for them after graduation.


After lunch, we visited the India Gospel League headquarters. I feel so blessed to see the people that are making things there. When you make a donation to IGL, the money seems to stretch by God-sized proportions.

They have a full service print shop which allows them to produce the materials for all of their outreaches and provide services for some of the local businesses. It's amazing what they can produce based on the age of the technology they are using. I think I even saw a pin printer in one of the offices!

For Sunday, please pray for safe travels as we head back to Bangalore and then fly to Pune for the pastors conference over the next several days.