– Received from Elijah Challenge Co-Worker in India
…March 2020
After the nationwide lockdown in India which shut down factories and public transportation, multitudes of day-to-day migrant laborers from the villages working in the cities were left stranded with no money, no food and no way to get home. Since buses and trains were no longer running, they had to walk home.
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.No transportation and no money, migrant workers & families take long road home
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The Elijah Challenge is now providing food for some of these laborers.
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“Thank you so much for your financial support to buy food for the migrant workers who lost their jobs in the cities and along with their families were forced to walk back home to their villages. Some workers could not come to get the food since being from other states they are quarantined at home. Instead their local wives came to receive the food. We had an opportunity to share the word of God as well as to minister healing to people among them who needed physical healing.
We distributed the food in a government school and government agriculture office.The government of India has been very strict during this coronavirus crisis, not even allowing two wheelers (like motorcycles) on the streets. But by the grace of God we received permission from the Police Superintendent to extend our help to the poor migrant workers.
We provided for them rice, dal, potatoes, onion, oil, sugar, salt, soap, and motor dal (a type of grain).
Thank you so much for your help for those families during this time of great need. Many government officials were very glad and appreciated our humanitarian service to these most needy people during the current crisis. Praise the Lord.”
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“Among the migrant workers three families summoned us to their home and asked us to pray for them. We ministered to a man had who pain in his waist for a long time and whose son had a fractured hand. The Lord touched both of them and they were miraculously healed. They are very interested in knowing more about the Lord Jesus, and asked us to visit them after the lockdown is over.”
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