Christian Missions Charitable Trust Ministries

In the early 1990s, after CMCT ministry had been functioning for several years as a registered society, we saw the Lord leading and giving us fresh visions for opening up new ministries for the upliftment of the poor. As we visited and worked in many slum areas we saw all around us many broken lives. Many times our hearts were broken as we saw children who should have been having education, idling in dirty mud streets, hair matted, no proper food and no opportunity for education.

  

When we did surveys in families, the cry of the parents was that they could not afford to send their children to school. Our hearts were broken as we saw the need. We prayed and asked God how we could help. Without education there is no hope of a good future. Increasingly we became aware that to lift a child out of poverty, and ultimately a family, education was the only answer. As we prayed, the Lord gave us a vision to start a school for these impoverished children. We had no room, so we built a make-shift hall with bricks and a thatched roof. As we made the school known, so many children started coming and after some time, we were cramming more than 200 children in different classes, all into this one hall, measuring approximately 25X40 ft.

We assessed our values for the lives of these children. We employed government-trained teachers, who taught them in all subjects. We saw children coming to school in filthy rags full of holes, dirty, hair matted, bulging stomachs because of worms and malnutrition – we look solely to the Lord to provide for our needs.

With our limited resources, we started to make uniforms for the children. We also bought text-books and exercise books. We then found to our amazement that as soon as we provided a uniform to these children, the parents suddenly developed a dignified attitude and started sending their children neat and clean to the school. This change came about just because of a little investment in a life, thus changing a life from sadness into hope.

This school was started some years ago after seeing so many children in the slums who never had an opportunity to go to school because they did not have anyone to help them to be educated. This school, which is now, a Government recognized school having classes from Lower Kindergarten to Std 8. At present approximately 550 children attend daily and there are 15 trained teachers. Because of the poverty of these children, we seek to give them a mid-day meal, provide their school uniforms, textbooks and exercise books and also medical help. We are seeing tremendous changes taking place in the lives of every one of these children who are educated in our school. We receive no Government finance but look to God to provide and to people to sponsor a child.