sowing and sewing

Hello from Beatty, Mike and Jackie. Today we started our day with an appropriate scripture about Jesus sending his disciples out into the world. Matthew Ch.28.v16. and a beautiful omelette.

Pastor Raj came to collect us and with there being more women than men we had a chance to stop at a lovely Indian Craft shop. Two hours later !!! the men were wilting and it wasn’t the heat!

from there we went to the slum area of chennai where pastor raj supports the women with their sewing classes. he provides them with a very small room with 6 sewing machines and one fan. we were in the room for 15 minutes and you could have fried an egg it was so hot. Pastor raj supplies the material and training, the ladies then make the garments then try and sell them on at the market. for a whole days work they can earn themselves the equivelant of two pounds a day which will manage to feed them for a day. we went  to the christ the rock partner church where we met some of the congregation and got to see where pastor raj lives. after receiving their hospitality we’re returning tonight to have an activity night and eightsome reels in a sauna experience. If we are still alive later we will let you know how it went.