It’s amazing what God can do through a life to touch a whole community. This is the follow-up on what He is doing among the Untouchables in Mori, India. (You should read the 1st & 2nd articles first.)

At the memorial service for Subbamma, Solomon Darwin sensed that God wanted him to continue the work that his Grandmother had started. Although he now lives and works as a University Professor in the United States, Solomon built a school to replace Subbamma’s mud hut school. He then obtained the funding to build a state of the art modern hospital.

Subbamma’s Mud Hut School

Subbamma’s School Today

Project India Medical Center

They rejoice to see people from high castes starting to come to this new hospital. They are coming because it is much better than the public ones. It is completely staffed by Christians and Christ is the center of the Hospital and the school.

Solomon told us that Untouchables have darker colored skin and it’s considered unlucky to even see one. Persecution still exists today. They are denied an education and even medical help. I love that our God chose a broken woman to be the catalyst of healing between castes.

I asked Solomon what needs they had. He told me that they welcome Doctors & medical staff who would like to volunteer for short-term missions. He said they are quite close to the peaceful banks of river Godavari and the Bay of Bengal.
There is housing for visiting Doctors, dentists, technician, nurses or administrators.

He also said they are looking for funding for the hospital until it is self-supporting
in the next year or so.

I watched a delightful DVD about their school and was impressed with how well behaved the children are. There are over 200 students in the school. One of the students wants to be a missionary in the Middle East.

If God is putting it on your heart to help this wonderful ministry their contact information is at their website – hope-for-people.org. On their website you can pay for a surgery, sponsor a child in their school for $28 a month, or even pay for an Indian Doctor at $45 a month. Thanks for considering helping this wonderful work.

Subbamma had always been a woman who prayed. After nearly 40 years of praying to Hindu gods, she found the Living God. The first article titled ‘The Untouchables, part 1’ talks about her miraculous healing and conversion to Christ. This one will cover a bit of her life as a Christian.

Her husband also believed in this God who healed his wife. Because untouchables cannot get real jobs in India, he moved to Thailand and opened a restaurant there. The restaurant did very well, until they had to close it and flee because of fighting in that region.

They returned to India, but their home community wasn’t happy that they embraced this different religion, Christianity. Their home was burned down, more than once.

With no income and no possibility of decent work, Subbamma cried out to God to show her His Glory. God gifted her with the vision and talent of making beautiful things in lace.

She found Mr. Whitehouse, the British Missionary, and showed him her work. She inquired if perhaps he could see if people in Britain might want to order the work of her hands. As an untouchable, no one in India would purchase from her.

Mr. Whitehouse took the samples to England and returned with THOUSANDS of orders! Isn’t that like our Lord! He blesses us beyond what we can ask or think.

She couldn’t fill the orders alone, and ended up hiring the entire community. Subbamma then taught herself to read, bought a little hut, and opened the very first mud-floor school for Untouchables. This is the same woman that was going to commit suicide at age 39. God had other plans and she lived to be 98. She impacted a whole community for good, and for God.

Subbamma

Today Subbamma is with the Lord, but her works live on. In the next article, I’ll be sharing with you about what God is doing in this community today. If you want to take a peek, check out hope-for-people.org.

I just met Solomon Darwin and his wife Amy. What they shared with us was so amazing, I wanted to tell you about it too. You see, Solomon’s Grandmother was born into the Untouchable Caste in India. The Untouchables are considered the ‘scum of the earth’ in India.They are denied an education and the opportunity for regular jobs.

One of 10 children, Subbamma was given away as a ‘child bride’ at the tender age of six. Nearing age 40, and barren, her husband’s parents kicked her out of the house.

Solomon’s grandmother was a very religious Hindu and everyday worshipped one of the 330 Million gods of Hinduism, especially the fertility gods. None helped her.

With no place to go, she went back to her parent’s home. Her father told her that she was a curse and not welcome there. Despondent, rejected, grief-ridden, she literally crawled on the sand on her way to the river to commit suicide. God had other plans for her life and had a British missionary, named Mr. Whitehouse stop her. He told her he could help.

He prayed for her in Jesus’ Name. As he prayed, she felt God’s healing. He helped her to locate her husband. Subbamma told her husband that Jesus was God and that He healed her. She said, “I’m not barren anymore!”

Jesus did heal her. Within a month she was pregnant with Solomon’s father!

The story doesn’t end here. In a couple weeks I’ll add part 2. OK, for those that want to ‘read ahead,’ her story and resulting ministries are at hope-for-people.org/say-yes-to-hope.htm

Jean with Solomon & Amy Darwin