June 6, 2009
Today was the last day of the camp with the Asha Gram women.
I led the last devotional on faith- and today I talked about believing that God will deliver and heal us from everything we have been holding on to and have been hurt by. I passed out papers and we wrote down anything we need to be delivered from or surrender to God (got this idea from Max Lucado) and we just began to pray. God took over that session, many of us just surrendered everything to God... it was an amazing hour of breakthrough, worship and healing. We then ripped up the papers and threw them out, placing everything in God's hands.
After our sessions we went to the vocational buildings- where they had separate places for leathering, jewelry, and tailoring. The women could come here to learn these skills so that if and when they leave Asha Gram they would have skills they can fall back on and make a living out of. The buildings were relatively new and in excellent condition. The items that they made were SO BEAUTIFUL esp the jewelry.
They sell these items in the US--- you can also go to jewelsforgod.com
In the evening I went to the Art session which was held for the Boys of teen challenege. The boys showed me their artwork and there was this one kid who drew an amazing picture of a church. He told me that God had given him this dream over and over again about how He will one day own a Church like this and How God will use him to raise up a church.
There was a boy who shared his testimony with us. His family had rejected him and threw him out on the street at such a young age. He then turned to a drug dealer who showed him how to sell drugs. BTC had come across him and he came to live at Bombay Teen Challenge. He had cleaned up but later left to go back to his old life(he was very young, in his teens). BTC came after him again and he came back and totally dedicated his life to God and has not gone back to that life since and he said He never will.
There was a girl who shared her testimony and she talked about how her family sold her sister at a very young age. She used to get beat all the time by her family and sexually abused by her uncle for many years. She ran away from home to find her sister, and her sister took her to her place in the Red Light District- telling her that she had a husband and a good life. When she got to the red light she was shocked to see all that she was told was a lie. her sister did not have a husband only a pimp and she lived in a small room with barely any room to do anything. She would sleep under sister's bed and watch the Pimp beat up her sister all the time. BTC finally came to that brothel and they asked them both if they wanted to get away and her sister allowed her to leave to BTC.
She now loves God with all her heart and she is completely restored. She is praying that God will restore her relationship with her family and that they would come to know the Lord.
