India, Asia
IND03a - Bright Hope English School: Partnership Reports
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Report Date: March 3, 2018
Report from BHW India Partnership Facilitator
In January 2018 Bright Hope World ran a summit in Bangalore for all our Indian and Nepalese partners. This was an amazing time which almost every one of our partners attended. In total we had about 40 people from India and Nepal and another nine from New Zealand, England and the USA.
We prayed this would be a time where our partners met one another (many for the first time), learned from each other, were encouraged in the Lord, and went home inspired to keep serving the Lord in their communities. The Lord answered our prayer.
It was so encouraging, and inspiring, to listen to every partner share their ministry’s story. From those who have been serving in ministry for 30+ years, to those who have just started in the past 18 months, every story impacted this gathering of believers.
Running the conference in Bangalore meant I couldn’t visit each of the partners in their own environment and so I am only able to provide a brief update from each of the partnerships.
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Bright Hope English School
Premila’s nephew, Reuben Sarki, and another key staff member, Remon Majhi, joined us in Bangalore at the Bright Hope Summit. Like each of the partners Reuben spoke and shared about the current state of Bright Hope English School (BHES). It was a great encouragement to see this young man faithfully leading the school while his aunty is still in the USA (Premila has been there with her family over the past few years as she tries to obtain residency).
There are currently around 120 students in the school, 30 in the hostel (pictured below), and 10 teachers. (Photo on right below isa photo from the Christmas programme held last December).
Personal Stories
Interestingly, one of our other partners, Pradeep and Merilo Kumar run a small children’s home about 1.5 hours drive from BHES. One of the young girls that they have taken in turned out to be educated at BHES. Pradeep said that she is extremely well educated and was ahead of everyone else in her class. This highlighted the excellent education that the BHES teachers are providing to these very poor girls.
Prayer and Praise Points
Please pray for the:
• children’s spiritual growth
• upcoming school construction
• new students and teachers
• challenge to evangelise immediate family members of the students
