The Arts: Music, Painting, and Dance

Lavanya is in the middle smiling at the camera!

School in India is very important.  They study: English, Telugu, Hindi, Social, Science, Math, and Computers.  Electives are not offered.  So, we decided to bring the electives, The Arts, to each of the homes in order to provide them with a more well-rounded education.

Prim Kumar is teaching the boys the basic musical scale.

Our first endeavor began just last week.  We are bringing music into the homes through worship.  We have a 4-person team of worship leaders from Hyderabad, who have been through worship school training, teaching our children about the heart of worship and training them to sing and play the keyboard.  Each home will be visited twice in the next 3 months for 3 hours of training each time!  So far, the children are loving it!

Rakesh won "Best Young Artist".

In February we will begin our next "arts" course, which will be an painting/drawing course.  We are praying that God will provide a Christian artist to come and train our children in the techniques and artistic expression of drawing and painting.  We have so many children already interested and even one who has already won an award in his city for "best young artist."  We want to encourage and provide an outlet for the creative side of learning to be experienced and for these children to develop their unique gifts.

John Paul with his paintbrush.

In June our last course will begin, dance.  We hope to be able to teach our children how to choreograph and move to the music they are listening to.  Each month when our 110 children gather together they like to do some kind of performance.  Also at Christmas, the children prepare a performance for their church congregation.  We want them to develop these skills and use this as an expression of their love for the Lord.

Here Santhi learns which fingers to use.

All of these experiences will cost money. We need funds to be able to put these dreams into reality.  We have stepped out in faith and started the music training without any support yet, but believing God will provide!  We need to pay for transportation to each of the homes, dinner for the team of teachers coming to teach, and to pay the teachers for their time with our children.

Narsimgolu children doing their performance

Each home visit costs $23. So every week we are spending $46 to bring the arts to the homes.  The worship course is 18 weeks long and we assume that the other courses will be the same length.  We take the worship team to a different home each Tuesday and Thursday evening after school.  The children are loving it and feel so blessed by this opportunity!  Please consider helping us bring The Arts to each of our homes.  

Samuel

1.  What do you remember from your life before coming to the CCH home?

My name is Samuel and I am studying 3^rd class.
Before I come to the CCH home I use to study in Government Hostel, but I never go to the school and I use to play in the streets.  I use to speak very bad at the other children.  They use to gave us insect food for us, after we are eating that food, we use to get stomach pain.  No one will care for me.  I always use to think about my life, why God gave me this problem.  I feel some time to run way from there.  I was full of confusion in my life.

2.  What is the best part about living in a CCH home?

I came to the CCH home through my church pastor.  When I joined in a CCH home I really feel so happy, you know why? When my father was died no one was to pay for me to study.   My mother always use to think about me.  When I see her I feel so sad, but my pastor helped me a lot.  I stopped my bad words and I started to speak about Jesus.  I am so happy now.  I so thankful providing me every thing and studying too.

3.  If you were going to describe God to your class, what three words would you use to describe God?

• Believe God, you may receive Jesus,
• God is great.  Pray to him.
• Love the Jesus then you may love the others

4.  In ten years, how old will you be? What do you want your life to be like to at that time?

After ten years I may get 21 years old, and I just want to see in my life is very beautiful.  I want to become a pastor that I may help, those who struggling like me.  I just want to comfort them.

These are the Marturu boys!  They love to draw and these are their water color paintings! 
They also love their picture to be taken!  The pastor and his wife have 2 sons of their own and they have taken in 10 boys to raise!  Please pray for the pastor's wife - 12 boys plus a husband to care for - she has her hands full!






 

Here is a picture of Samuel at the beach!  These boys live 2 hours from the beach and none of them had ever been to the beach before!  The pastor and his wife, too, had never been to the beach!  It was a great day for everyone!

These boys are studying hard.  Some of them really struggle with school because before moving into the CCH home their education had been interrupted.  They have learning gaps.  Please pray that we can help them with these gaps and that the Lord can give them supernatural wisdom in these areas.

Joythi

1.  What do you remember from your life before coming to the CCH home? 

My name is Joythi I am studying in pre-school.  Before I come to CCH home, I just use to enjoy with my friends and I never go school.   I never obey my elders and my grand mother use to say, "You are so small you have to go school and you have to obey your elders", but I never listen to her.

2.  What is the best part about living in a CCH home?

I come to CCH home through my church pastor.  Actually I don’t like to go school.  But when I see CCH home children I was very interested to go school and study well.  So, I decide that I will study until I get to be an engineer

3.  If you were going to describe God to your class, what three words would you use to describe God?

• God was died on the cross for my sin.
• Jesus loves me so much.
• I will walk in Jesus way.

4.  In ten years, how old will you be? What do you want your life to be like at that time?
In ten years, I have 17 years old.  I just want to see in my life will be so beautiful.  And that I able to help others, those are like me.  And I love Jesus very much because, even though I don’t have father, I can feel that heavenly father is mine.  

These home parents have two children of their own and they have taken in 10 girls to raise and love and support!  Please pray for them!

Joythi is the smallest one in her home.  In the last 6 months we have seen her experience the joy of the Lord like never before!  She is truly loved in her home and where there is true love there is freedom!  She always has a smile on her face now!  It is so great!

This picture is taken upstairs in the church during our Vacation Bible School this summer.  Joythi loves to sing and dance and so do her sisters!  Please be praying for Joythi!