LightForce International has formed a partnership with a young lady called Sunitha in Andhra Pradesh. Sunitha is caring for 60 children rescued from the granite/slate quarries where they were made to work each day carrying stones & rubble from the digging face. In addition she is caring for 15 widows & a further 15 girls who are former street girls. Her work is an enormous testimony to determination, prayer and faith as she feeds this group daily without any regular support from anywhere. They have no housing but are welcomed by the community of a rural village and spend every night sleeping on the floor of the church. The children of school age are now able to get an education for the first time.

Sunitha is also active in moving to villages and sharing her faith with women and has believers in 41 42 villages that were formerly full of idolatry and where the Christian gospel had never been heard. On many occasions Sunitha was driven away by village leaders who would stone her but she was persistent and kept going back. Finally the love of God prevailed.

In partnership with LightForce, Sunitha has secured an acre of land upon which to build the Home of Faith. She has been praying for this to become a reality since 2005. We want to work with her to develop an integrated village providing accommodation for orphans, widows & former street girls, clinic, vocational training & church as well as growing fruit, vegetables & foods.

The community needs a minimum 30kg of rice each day to ensure at least one good meal for all. We can purchase 3kg of rice for £1. We need £10/day, £300/month.

We are looking for partners to help in the development of Home of Faith. If you are interested, please see our Contact page.

2012 Update from Sunitha:

God had blessed us to have a completed a home and a borewell in the year 2011. Through all of you only it was possible. I am so thankful to each and every one who had prayed for us and helped us financially.

The Children are so happy and they are enjoying their new home and playing and shouting. While seeing them my heart shouts and praises God for his amazing help through LightForce International.

As we had a blessed home in the village. The surrounding fields and paddy fields have many snakes which come in the dark at night. We are planning to have an electricity connection from the village. So keep in prayers for us to have light in the Children home.

On the day of January First, I had an opportunity to preach the word of God among the tribal village. I started with only 20 people but as I began preaching people started to come one by one. I had continued to preach and finally When I had completed the sermon I had seen 900+ who had attended the worship service. God had touched every one on that day and nearly 360 people had given their life to Christ on the first day of January 2012.

I went to the same village yesterday and preached the word of god and again 300 people gave their life to Christ. It was a miracle that an Idol priest in the temple also accepted Christ as his personal savior. I am so happy that God is using me in a mighty way to change the entire village.

In the coming week, I will be visiting the same village and going to name it LIGHT MANNA as God has opened the hearts of the people in a mighty way. I am so happy now as the entire village is turned to Christ and they are now feeling the presence of Love through Christ and all of them are so happy too in the village!

Please keep praying for us and for the kids and especially in having electricity for the Children home. Thank you each and every one who are a part of our works in India.”

Sunitha Johnson

You can purchase supplies or support the work of Sunitha at the LightForce Shop.