Dearest Friends and Family! March 24, 2008

Greetings in Jesus’ matchless name from India! The past 2 months have been a flurry of activity…hard to believe it’s March already, and Easter is past. We are so grateful for all that the Lord accomplished throughout our ministry, and although we can’t share every detail in 2 pages, I’ll try to give you tidbits of some of the ‘events’ so you can PRAISE GOD with us. J We will also be sending out the web address soon for you to browse our photos so you can feel like you were here with us!

Here’s a list of what we did…above and beyond the daily ins and outs of the ministry:

* held a 4 day children’s camp with 800+ people in attendance (children, teachers, staff) -felt like feeding the 5000!
* hosted 5 teams from the US, total 24 people, in a 3 week span-thank you all for your love for the Indian people, and for sacrificing time, energy, your health, and your comforts (like cold weather!) to serve so graciously!
* did around 10 days of medical camps/outreach in many poor villages, distributing free meds and teaching basic hygiene and health care. Thank you Robert, Glenda, Fred and Cheryl!!
* baptized over 150 people, some in mid-calf deep water (yes, emersion!) J
* Our 4th new class/batch of 22 Nursing Students received ‘caps’ and lit candles, and recited the Florence Nightingale Pledge
* the US Teams traveled to 5 locations and held Pastor’s Conferences, night crusades, and preached the gospel in the villages! A fruitful time!
* held a one day Youth ‘retreat’, where majority committed their lives to reach India for Jesus!
*took 3 trips to the beach to show the Americans the Bay of Bengal J
*took a lot of trips to the Vizag ‘shopping mall’ for Indian clothes and souvenirs!

Then on March 1st, 520 children in our Bethany Public School here at our headquarters put on a spectacular performance for over 500 parents and friends at our ‘school concert’. With incredible cultural dances, songs, dramas (with the clear gospel message), we saw this as a great opportunity share Christ and to advertise our school to the local community, and we immediately saw the fruit as a new child enrolled on Monday morning!

We praise God for faithful long term friends like David and Margaret-Elaine Jinno (20 years now since Yesupadam met them!), who spend a month here each year. David is the President of Love-n-Care Ministries USA and wrote the book Jesus’ Foot, and he taught 3-5 hours per day in our DTC class to Telugu and Hindi students (with translation of course)! Margaret-Elaine is an incredible seamstress, and spent long hours sewing many of the costumes for the Cinderella play, as well as mending clothing for our Children’s Home. Thank you both!! We appreciate your sacrifice very much.

PRAYER REQUESTS:

GERMAN VISA-We had to reapply for Yesupadam’s visa in order to return to Germany, and the process is again 6-12 weeks…please pray for favor with man!
GERMANY-We praise God for what He is doing there, but as God moves, the enemy ‘roars like a prowling lion’. Please pray for God to continue to pour out His Spirit, and to guide, protect and strengthen His people and the leaders for the battle they are in!
GERMAN GUESTS-We have 2 guests over the next 2 months-please pray God accomplishes all he desires for their time here, and enables them to adjust physically to the heat of weather and food!

***THE LATEST ON GERMANY-Due to Yesupadam not having his visa for Germany yet, he will go to the US from April 10-29th to speak in churches and attend a conference. In the meantime, I, Monika, and Bethany and Benjamin will go to Germany ahead of him on April 13th to prepare things. Yesupadam will meet us there once he has his visa! So, we are excited that God is taking us back soon, and covet your ongoing prayers for our time there and God’s purposes to be fulfilled!

MINISTRY IN INDIA-Please keep these in prayer, for God’s continued blessings, expansion, and provision…children homes, schools, Jr. College, old age home, hospital, computer center, printing press, sewing center, nursing school, disabled students and training center, Bible Schools, church planting and evangelism, recording studio.

TRIBAL CAMP APRIL 1ST TO 9TH -one of the most important things we do…evangelizing the tribal area village by village for the purpose of planting churches! Last year we completed the 11 districts that make up the Tribal mountain area!! This year we are going to 2 new areas, SriKakulam District (not Yesupadam’s village for those of you who know it) and Vijayanagaram District (both 2 hours north of us). We will also do evangelism in the Hindi speaking state of Chatisgarh with our Hindi DTC students and staff. Over 200 pastors, students, staff, and church members will go out for this huge venture.
They need: wisdom in planning over these next 3 weeks, protection and safety, discernment and prudence, divine appointments and prepared hearts of all they come in contact with, discernment where to plant future churches, and God’s BLESSINGS!

PLEASE CONSIDER…
‘YESUPADAM, The Foot of Jesus’ by Terri Whitaker is a wonderful book detailing what Love-n-Care Ministries is all about! Please check out www.believebooks.com to purchase a copy--from each book sold, a donation will be given to LnC India! Also check out their many other books written on the lives of modern day Christians!!

We praise God for all of you, our friends around the world, who love us and stand with us in reaching India with the gospel of Jesus Christ! Please continue to pray for wisdom and grace for the leadership, God’s abundant provision for the daily needs of the ministry, and also please consider how you can help support the work of Love-n-Care Ministries International.

With love and much gratefulness,
Yesupadam, Monika, Bethany and Benjamin

P.S. Cut and paste the following into your browser to see Monika's latest photos on Picasa

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lovncare/LoveNCareMinistriesDec07Jan08

GERMANY WIRING/TRANSFER DETAILS:

Donations towards our time in Germany can be made to your nearest branch of L-n-C, with a note ‘for Germany’ and they will redirect it to us there, or you can directly wire it to the bank account details below.
All monies will go to the work in Germany…
Account Holder: Yesupadam and Monika Paidipamula
Account #: 2493823
Bank Code: 29070024
BIC: DEUTDEDB295
IBAN: DE52290700240249382300

Donations to Love-n-Care Ministries India can be made by check (cheque) or money order in the following ways

For tax deductible receipts in USA:

For tax deductible receipts in Canada:

Love-n-Care Ministries Canada
376 Notre Dame Ave
Winnipeg,, Manitoba; R3B 1P8
204-943-9298
email: lovencare@mts.net --- web site: www.lovencare.ca

If a tax deductible receipt is not necessary: