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CFCT - Kakinada Leprosy Care

Humanitarian,
Evangelism / Church Planting

Partnership Overview

Emmanuel and Jessie Kumar live in the coastal city of Kakinada. Among other strategic ministries, they lead a church ministry into a leper village in the town. There were so many lepers on the streets begging that the local authorities allowed them to build a village near to the crematorium.  

Making hard work of it

The aim of this partnership is to extend the current leper care work to help care for lepers and their families who currently survive by begging. They need food and medical attention. There are nearly 300 people ostracised from the community with little food, little health care, no education and very poor homes. It will be a big help to these people if they can be given two meals a week and help to change their bandages.

Bright Hope World partners with a church that will share the gospel with them in various ways as well. Our involvement will also encourage the local churches to take part in caring for this community in many practical ways.

History Of Partnership

Pastor Emmanuel Kumar located BHW through the website and began communication with us in 2005. He was seeking help with practical projects to help the very poor in his town of Kakinada. He met with Owen Jennings in mid 2005 by travelling all day and night on a train such was his enthusiasm. He pastors his own church and works in close collaboration with 40 other pastors many of whom have a church or an outreach programme.

One of the churches had begun a ministry to about 300 lepers who were living together in a community. Many of these people spent their days begging on the streets to make enough to eat. Their families and children lived in the village too and were shunned by others in the community. Many of the lepers received no medical attention and their wounds were not attended to so they were sick, suffering and hungry.

In late 2005 BHW began assisting the local church to pay for two meals a week for the lepers and for basic medical materials. Two local people attend to the wounds of those needing care at least once a week.

Beneficiaries

The 300 people living in this community.

What We Like About The Partnership

Emmanuel and Jessie Kumar are tireless leaders of the churches that are involved with these people. A real strength of this partnership is that the church is involved in the outreach.

Relationship To Other Partnerships

This is related to IND01a, c and d. These are three other projects within the partnership headed by Emmanuel Kumar.

Key People

Emmanuel and Jessie and their two boys

Leadership Profile

Emmanuel and Jessie Kumar lead this ministry. They were business people until they became Christians. They then felt called to serve God full time in the city of Kakinada. They commenced by church planting. Since that time they have encouraged the establishment of many churches, have established a Bible School, set up a sewing ministry, this leper feeding programme and another few programmes to feed lepers in another community.

They have a family and many young people living in the home with them.

Vision And Annual Strategy

The vision is to feed these people, care for them and to share the love and message of the Gospel with them.

The strategy is to send a team from the church with some wound dressers each week to feed and dress the wounds of the lepers. Once a month there is a special "banquet" meal, nicer than the standard one.

Annual Budget

The annual budget is $US9,385.  This partnership is currently financially supported by Bright Hope Australia.