First, they would have to level the land and build a water system. Only a few months after being given the property, the director of Gilead Ministries, Alex Paul, was working at an orphanage in Bangalore when he met Sue Albin, Southeast Asia director of The Lord Will Provide Ministries of Temple.
A year later, Ms. Albin visited the Maram tribe of northeast India and saw the land that had been donated for the orphanage. Ms. Albin e-mailed supporters, and the money came in for the bulldozers. Recently, more donations have been sent to Pastor Paul for the much-needed water system.
The head man also controls a waterfall and stream uphill from the orphanage plot. He gave permission to run a line from an upstream pool to the land below. First, a brick cistern had to be built to hold the water, then pipes had to be run six-tenths of a mile.
Now work can begin on a house. A three-room mud and bamboo house will be built first so that the children and the workers can live on the land while they build other needed structures.
About $900 is needed for the first building and that includes a tin roof. The old orphanage, about five miles away, is crumbling and leaking.
Ms. Albin said, “The room I lived in while staying with them last year is not even habitable now due to the many leaks.”
To finish the first phase of construction will cost another $3,200. “When this is done, they can build a new brick structure. The new national highway passes right by and this home will serve as a witness of God's love for the children and widows of the Maram tribe,” Ms. Albin said.
To help with this project, send a brief note and a check to The Lord Will Provide Ministries, P.O. Box 1926, Temple, Texas 76503.
