Saji’s Blog

Imagine growing up with a father and mother who loved Jesus and had a powerful ministry, but suddenly it all came all crumpling through death and unrepentant sin. This is what happened to these sisters, Salvina and Martina.

They were born to a Roman Catholic father and a Hindu mother in Delhi.  When their parents became came to Christ, their father had a powerful ministry.  After a while, their mother became very ill and he left the ministry to care for her.  Three times she died in the hospital, but the daughters would pray over her and she came back to life.

During one of those times, she prophesied over her daughters saying they were going to be used by God and should go for Biblical studies. They came to MITS.  But something heartbreaking happened to their father.  During his wife’s illness he became involved with a married woman, and after the mother’s death, this woman moved in with him.  She did not divorce her husband.  She tells the girls that it is God’s will for her have two husbands and uses Old Testament Scripture and current Indian culture to support this idea.

Salvina and Martina have been strong women for God and have spoken Biblical truth to their family but because of their father’s relationship, he no longer supports them.  They are basically orphans now trying to do what is right without any support.  They pray for their father but feel betrayed by the trust he has broken.  At age 23 and 21, these sisters have experienced already an amazing journey. We are blessed to have them at MITS.

Please pray for their studies and that their father will repent and return to God.

Let me introduce to you Pratima, 22 years old, from Maharashtra.  She has been a student at MITS for three years and is currently holding the post of Warden for the 53 female students on campus.  She is an amazing young woman.

When Pratima was one year old and her brother was two years, they were both smitten with a strange fever. Her parents took them to many doctors and hospitals, but they were not able to be cured.  One day a pastor in the area came to visit the family, invited them to his church, and prayed for Pratima and her brother.  The family went to that church and the children were miraculously healed.

Pratima believes that God healed her for a purpose and that purpose was to serve Him.  She was very involved in the church growing up.  After a few years a new pastor was appointed for the church.  He and his wife saw great leadership gifts in Pratima.  They were graduates of MITS and encouraged Pratima to apply for Bible training there.  Pratima completed her Bachelor of Theology degree with such good marks and understanding that she qualified, upon graduation, to start year 2 of the M. Div. program right away, completely skipping year 1.

Pratima is a mentor and counselor to the girls on the MITS Campus as she oversees their safety and activities.   She is seeking the Lord’s will for a life-partner with whom she can do ministry after she completes her M. Div.

Please pray for her studies and for God’s provision of a godly husband.

On February 14th evening, I met a 24-year-old boy named Shridhar who is very passionate for ministry.

He comes from a poor family.  He lives with his mother who is not a believer.  He father, who lives in a separate house, has regular contact with and is a believer in Christ.

4 years back Shridhar was addicted to drugs and alcohol. He was also very active politically.  He was struggling to get started in life, so his father got him an opportunity with his friend who owned a business.  His father’s pastor would often come to the business and share the Gospel with Shridhar.  Due to his lifestyle, he would smoke even when around the pastor and often strongly argued with him.

During one discussion, the pastor asked Sridhar to explain about the gods of Hinduism.  He said if he could make a convincing argument for Hinduism, that he would convert from Christianity.

Sridhar started by saying they have 33 crores (330 million) of gods.  He was stopped in his tracks when the pastor made one simple statement, “How can you possibly please that many gods?”  The pastor’s question made him think and he was up the whole night think about it.  Though he was shaken to the core, he still couldn’t accept Christ.

He continued in his sinful ways and continued arguing with the pastor.  One day the pastor gave him a video to watch which starts with a Sanskrit slogan ‘asthoma satgamaya…’.  This is the first line of a commonly recited prayer/mantra and translates to “lead me from illusion to reality”.  This immediately got his attention since this is exactly what he was searching for.  After watching the video, he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ.

Now he is actively sharing Jesus Christ while he works as a Zomato delivery boy (a food delivery business like DoorDash, Uber Eats, or GrubHub).  He is also taking responsibility to take care of his past financial debts.

Pastor Amzi
MI Youth for Truth National Coordinator

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