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BETHANY CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL
Early in the development of Love-N-Care Ministries, it became clear that the Lord was leading us into medical ministries, as a part of the overall spiritual plan of introducing lost people to the One and only hope for overcoming the power of sin and death: Jesus Christ. At first we invited visiting medical teams to set up clinics on the edge of the tribal region, and in makeshift quarters at LNC headquarters in Visakhapatnam. While we were in the process of constructing a building for staff housing, the Lord made it apparent that a medical facility was a more pressing issue, and that we should use it to set up a temporary hospital instead.
Almost immediately, organizations in America felt led to contribute all sorts of medical equipment and supplies, and others volunteered to ship these materials to us - confirming that God had spoken, and we were on the right track. Very quickly Bethany Christian Hospital was open and operating, with physicians, nurses, an operating theater and an eight-bed ward.
As we sought to walk in obedience to the Lord's initiative, we also felt that He was directing us to set up a plan so that nobody would be denied, even if they couldn't afford to pay. For others, based on ability to pay, a one-time payment of just ten rupees (twenty-five cents) could qualify for a year's medical treatment.
BETHANY CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC
In 2005, a dentist from South Korea, with a team of dental students arrived to inaugurate our dental facility. They immediately set to work with all the children, cleaning and giving fluoride treatmets. Many of the Love-N-Care staff also were given check ups and treatments, as were some of the local town officials.
BETHANY CHRISTIAN NURSING SCHOOL
Bethany Christian 100 Bed Hospital,
Site and plan of the new 100-Bed Hospital
Bethany Old Age Home (Visakhapatnam)
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God
has issued a call to many from the west to go to India to encourage
believers in their work of reaching India with the hope of Jesus Christ.
One of the first to go to Visakhapatnam to serve in this way was a pastor
from Maryland, the Rev. Lloyd Linton. Pastor Linton had a deep burden
for India, and for the work of Love-N-Care Ministries. He visited India
in 1990, and would have returned many times again had he not gone to
be with the Lord. His love for India, and burden for the lost, has been
picked up by many others.
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In 1995, the ministry was enabled to begin an Old Age Home to provide and care for the needs of elderly pastors and their wives who had served the Lord faithfully, but who now had no resources of their own on which to live.
Originally situated in Pithapuram, where a church and school were established, the Old Age Home, built in memory of Rev. Lloyd Linton, will eventually be moved to Visakhapatnam, where it will be part of the complex consisting of the new 100-Bed hospital, and mentally handicapped center, which will sit at the foot of the Bethany Prayer Mountain.
Bethany Mentally Handicapped Center
BETHANY PRAYER MOUNTAIN
By God's grace, we have been enabled to purchase a five acre plot of ground, which includes a small mountain, which will eventually accomodate a new, technologically modern, 100-bed hospital, along with a center for the mentally handicapped, an old age home, and on top of the mountain, a prayer hall and conference center.