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Left: : Bethany Chrildren's Home students in front of Headquarters building ---------- Bethany Christian School students in front of the English Medium School bldg.
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BETHANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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As soon as the Childrens' Home ministry began, it was immediately necessary to start Christian schools in order to educate the children and train them in the principles of the word of God. At first the school was housed in rented quarters. This became a problem when the landlord continuously raised the rent. God heard the prayers and groanings at His throne by many, and provided funds to purchase land and construct a building - one story at a time. Today, the campus consists of the main headquarters complex (above, left) with administrative offices, boys dormitory, girls dormitory, dining hall, foreign visitors quarters, DTC classrooms, and the church, and Junior College, with classrooms for Telugu medium school students. Very nearby are the printing press, English medium school, temporary hospital, dental clinic, physical therapy building, and housing for the disabled students. The students come from many backgrounds; some are orphans, or the children of a single parent without resources because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Some are the children of Love-N-Care Pastors whose congregations are too poor to be able to support a pastor and his family. A few tuition students come from the community because their parents want their children to have the excellent education and character building that Love-N-Care provides.
Each year in PNP Colony, where the school is located, many area wells go dry. The first year the Childrens' Home was in operation, its well dried up, and anti-Christian neighbors refused to give them any water, so the Home had to buy it. In 1995, the Ministry drilled a deep well that produced a gusher when it was first tapped. When the dry season came, and neighbors wells dried up, Love-N-Care volunteered to supply them freely, and to witness to the love of Christ.
DAY-CARE
CENTERS 
A new and very effective ministry that has developed over the past two years is the Day Care Center. Love-N-Care Ministries has inaugurated this special program which involves providing families in villages with education for their children, and one meal (lunch) each day. The children live at home. The ministry also holds medical clinics in these villages. For many children in these places, this was the first time they ever brushed their teeth, or learned about personal hygiene. It also provides the opportunity to preach the gospel to the parents and villagers, and to start a local church. In one village, one family that was against the ministry - because it was Christian - hired a witch doctor to call evil spirits to do damage to the ministry. In the middle of the night while they were holding their ceremonies, the evil spirits began to threaten the family - who all ran out into the street screaming in fear for their lives. This woke up all the villagers, who came to the pastor and some brothers about the matter. The pastor and brothers said they weren't afraid of evil spirits, and told the villagers they would go cast them out. But the villagers didn't want the believers to be harmed, so they persuaded them not to go. The family was afraid to go back to their house, so they stayed in the church/school.
They spoke to the witch doctor, asking him to get rid of the spirits. The witch doctor told them he had to wait five days, or he would be killed himself. Five days later, the witch doctor came to drive out the evil spirits. The ceremony was recorded on video tape. The inside of the house where the first ceremony had taken place was a shambles. But the witch doctor was able to clear the evil spirits out. Afterwards, the family was still afraid to go back into the house, so the brothers went through it and prayed for cleansing.
Later, many of the villagers came to the pastor. They had been awakened in the night by dreams of a man dressed in white robes who told them they needed to be baptized. Now they had come in response to the dreams. All of them had the same dream - though they were from different households.
In another instance, a woman from the village had had two pregnancies that ended tragically. Within a couple of days after each delivery, the babies had died. When she got pregnant for the third time, she was afraid, and came to the pastor, who prayed for her. She asked him to pray for her every day, and he went faithfully every day to pray. Finally, her due date came, and she delivered. This time the child lived, and the family are now believers.
Pastor
John David is the principal overseer of all Love-N-Care childrens' ministries.
He has a heart for children, and passionately believes that giving them
the foundations of godliness and faith, along with an intimate relationship
with Jesus Christ is the most crucial of all ministries, as the children
we prepare today, will be the leaders of India and the world of tomorrow.
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