[Oe List ...] The seeds we have scattered........

[Jean Long]

Hi Nancy -  Do I have news for you!!!
Chikhale was one of the first four villages started with graduates from the
first Training School taught in Maliwada.  Monu Battacharia and I took the
team to Chikhale.  The dream of a residential school for tribal children was
a dream that came along after I had moved on.  Our main emphasis was to
somehow rid the main village well of the naru worm .

I visited Chikhale in January 2007 with Paula Philbrook and Nelson and
Elaine Stover -- and the local guardian - a  man who owned a large
construction company in the nearby town.  HIS dream has resulted in a
residential school that goes through 10th grade.  We had the privilege to
attend the school graduation which included the students who had been there
for the whole 10 years!!!!

Yes, the seeds we have scattered have been watered by others and are
blooming all over the world.  How blessed we were and are to have worked
with a group so effective and caring.

Your songaia community is another seed that you have been able to prune and
water.  If I ever get up your way I will for sure stop and visit.

You are loved,
Jean in Denver

2009/8/6 Nancy Lanphear <nancy at songaia.com>

> Great story, Jean!  Isn't life amazing when what we see miracles  happen
> from the seeds we sow?  A dream of ours along with the incredible energy and
> dreams of Laxmi Bhattacharia and others in India, to see the "famous"
> Training Center in Chikhale become a boarding school for tribal children.
> It was indeed a dream come true to visit in 1994 and see the smiling faces
> of 250 children, able to reeive a good education.  I have heard that the
> number of children has doubled - this was rather old information, but I hope
> it is true.
>
> Thanks for your story, Jean.  You are loved,
>
> Nancy
>
> 2009/8/1 Jean Long <jean.long512 at gmail.com>
>
>> Greetings Order colleagues:
>>
>> I have something quite awesome to share with you all.  In the context of
>> "the seeds we scattered in springtime with weeping and watered with dew and
>> with tears from on high...."
>>
>> I have been working in an innercity church whose outreach is the poor and
>> the homeless.  I have been referring people to the various resources that
>> are available to them, supported by various churches and agencies.
>>
>> Those of you who where in Denver in the early '70s, who did the local
>> church experiment with Warren Methodist Church, Montiview Epicsopal and
>> Montview Methodist Church should know that the Warren Village living
>> facilities (for women with children) is going strong - in fact, Mark Welch's
>> company that works with housing for the poor is involved in the renovation
>> of all the buildings (after their 40 years of care).
>>
>> The man who was director of Warren Village eventually left and started
>> the  Denver United Ministries - which provides a resource for the poor
>> called DENUM.  They offer food, bus tokens, GED training, clothes and many
>> other resources.
>>
>> Ken Whitney is helping to renovate the bottom story of Warren Methodist
>> (as his church, Asbury Methodist has sort of adopted that congregation.
>>
>> As a senior with limited income, I have applied for an apt. in the
>> highrise that the Episcopal church decided to build as a result of their
>> work with the local church galaxy.
>>
>> ...another may reap...  Words cannot express the thanks and the joy I am
>> experiencing as I have the privilege to interact with these trees - planted
>> with hope and with care by many of you.
>>
>> G&P
>> Jean Long in Denver
>>
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