Ecc 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Cast your bread upon the waters
Ecc 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
It’s time to go back to a season when my wife and I worked in India. Our profile indicates that we were missionaries in India since 1994. Actually it goes back even further seeing that my wife worked in the state of Tamil Nadu before we were married. What was the work and ministry that the Lord entrusted to us? From the years 1994-2002 we served as overseers of two Bible schools and two orphanages. The men’s school and boys’ orphanage were on one compound while the women’s school and girls orphanage was 15 kilometres away. The Bible school(s) was a two year residence school consisting of pastors and Bible women from various districts in Orissa and Bihar states. There were a total of 43 boys and girls under our care ranging in age from 4-9 coming from the poorest and most backward tribal districts. Each of them were given a quality English standard education. In addition they had to continue speaking English in order to communicate with us foreigners. This bode well for them as years past by seeing that there English became a highly sought after commodity.
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