Warm Hearts

Kind hearted people from Bo’ness have been donating money so that Mount Zion Church in India could buy blankets for the people who live in the leprosy colony. There are a few leprosy colonies in Tamil Nadu but Mount Zion church has been working in this particular one, providing regular food and spiritual sustenance to the people that live there.

Brother Franklin first started to visit the leprosy colony in 1981 and has been a regular visitor, preaching the word of God and befriending these people.

The lepers are very poor people and are outcasts in Indian society because of the disease they have. Many have to beg on the streets of Chennai to survive. The lepers live with their families in this community. Leprosy isn’t a hereditary condition so family members are born without the disease.

We were fortunate enough to witness the blankets being handed out to this community. The blankets will keep these families warm throughout the Indian winter and extra money will be used to help mend some of the houses that leak.