Message from the Chairman

I have just returned from an inspiring visit to South India. I travelled with my mother and sister and a film crew who are hoping to make a documentary on the incredible ministries which The Rhema Partnership supports.

Your generous support is enabling the ministry, under the leadership of Bishop Samuel Gnanaprahasam, to grow and grow. The Rhema Partnership will send out over £35,000 to support Christian Ministry in South India this year.

Here is a summary of how your support has made a real difference over the past year:

30 learning disability children are educated in two schools and 15 learning disability children are given residential care in a hostel.

130 orphaned children are educated through school and higher education, as well as being given medical aid and living allowances.

15 Bible College students have graduated with a certificate or diploma in theology and have been commissioned into Christian Ministry. Over 40 students have graduated since the Rhema Revival Bible College was founded in 2000 and are all now serving in Christian Ministry.

Healthcare camps have been set up in poor rural villages, in which doctors and nurses are paid to give free check-ups and distribute medication.

35 women have been trained in sewing and tailoring at the Rhema Revival Tailoring School at Semi Valley, a poor tea estate where there is a lot of unemployment.

18 church plants have been established over the past 4 years in poor rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. These churches, their congregations and ministers are providing essential prayer and pastoral care, access to the Rhema Revival Ministrie's health and education programmes and extensive children's ministries.

9 full-time prayer ministers who provide a 24 hour ministry in Cumbum and make countless pastoral visits to the needy, regardless of religion or background.

The Board of The Rhema Partnership have three goals over the next two years:

To raise £10,000 to build an essential dining hall and boys hostel in the Rhema Garden. At the moment 67 people are resident in the garden and the buildings are not adequate.

To submit a proposal to large grant making organisations for a Primary Health Care Centre, based in the Rhema Garden. £20,000 would establish a primary health care centre that would serve many rural villages which have no health care provision.

Increase support by individual donors. The main basis of our support comes from generous individuals in the UK whose gifts support children, students and pastors in their work. We long for this basis of support to grow.

I hope I have given you a glimpse of how your gift is making such a difference to individual lives and also anoutline of the future vision of The Rhema Partnership. On behalf of the Board, I extend our thanks to you, and ask you for financial support for the coming year.

Richard Lloyd.

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