Update Nov 2011
Dear friends,
It is great to be home! We arrived safe and sound back in India on the 5th of Nov. We were greeted with the sounds and smells of India. It was 25C at 3AM quite a difference compared to Canada.
We want to start our new letter by thanking all of you that made our trip so special. Thanks to allthe pastors and churches that allowed us to share and to all of our friends and family for their hospitality and love.As many of you know Hannah stayed in Canada to continue her schooling. We thank you all for your prayer support. Although we miss Hannah a lot it is a great comfort to us that she is settling in well and has started a new job.
We want to bring you up to date on a couple of projects. First the Hope for the Children construction and updates are finished and it looks like a new place.
Thanks to Pastor Zis Moradi from KRT Brampton for funding this whole project. The kids now have a beautiful new facility.
I also want to introduce our latest project, “New Beginnings Learning Center”. Many of you know and support Women Helping Widows. WHW is a widow’s ministry that I started to help poor and abandoned widows in our churches. From this ministry came a dream to start a center where women can learn a trade. We are planning on opening a center and restarting our sewing ministry.
We will offer free sewing classes to women.
So many women in the villages are living in abusive situations because they can’t leave. They are poor with no skills or education they depend on their husbands for their financial support. Because many men are addicted to alcohol they spend their money at the local wine shop leaving the family with little or no money.New Beginnings will offer women an opportunity to break the cycle of abuse and poverty. It will give them a better life and improve the life of their children. It will also open the doors to us to share the Gospel and the love of Jesus.
If you would like to partner with us in helping these women please contact us at prasaddawn@hotmail.com.
Looking ahead to the next month we are getting ready to start the very busy Christmas season. With all of it's Christmas programs in all the churches we give leadership to, widows party and children's party. If you would like to send a gift towards the Christmas programs please send it to the PAOC national office. Please note Samsons Chennai Christmas and drop us a line to notify us of your gift.
Advanced Christmas wishes to you all,
Prasad, Dawn and Asha.
Dear Friends,
The months have flow by and we are now heading into the rainy season. Days of rain and mud puddles that resembles small lakes.
The past months have been full with teams and visitors
from home. After returning from our regional retreat in July we were visited by our second team this year. We welcomed
APC "
Agincourt Pentecostal Church" Scarborough. This was a special time for us because the team leader Pastor Laura
Bogner and her husband Andy have been friends of ours for many years.
The team focused on children’s ministry. During the day visiting schools
and in the evening holding children’s crusades. Hundreds of children were touched, loved and moved by the team’s ministry. Magic tricks, puppets and games were just a few of the items the team had brought along with them.
The team reached out to some of the poorest of the poor including a visit to a leper colony and a fabulous party at our children’s home. We want to thank the
APC team for all of their hard work. You did an awesome job!
In August work started again on our church plant. Thanks to the HEART project started by Murray Cornelius. Th
e walls were going up when work was shifted to a much needed home for the pastor of the church. Pastor David and his family were forced to move three times this year and could not find a home suitable for his family. Thanks to the HEART program Pastor David and his family will have a place to live.
Because of the construction of the home we still need $10,000 dollars to complete the project. Please pray that we will see the funds raised for the project. Our prayer is that we will be able to hold a service in the new church by Christmas.
In September we began preparation for our next team
KRT "Kennedy Road Tabernacle"Brampton.
KRT has been supporting our ministry since 2006 when a team came and began construction on “Hope for the Children”. They visited again in 2007 to build the compound wall
aro
und the home.
This time KRT came to begin construction on the home of an additional building to house the boys at the home. Not only did KRT help build the foundation but thanks to Pastor Jamie Stewart and Zia Moradi they also helped in a huge way to fund this project.
Over the past two week the team carried cement “Indian Style” on their head
s. Dug holes and moved mountains of mud. All the work paid off and at the end of the two weeks they had laid the foundation for the new building.
In the between the construction they took part in outreach, a children’s party at the home and a very exciting visit to a leper colony. We thank them for all their hard work and flexibility.
A look forward our next team arrives the end of this month our WM (Women’s Ministries) team will be focusing on women and children ministries.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers as our ministry continues to move forward.
Prasad and Dawn
Update April and May
Dear friends,
Spring has gone and we are now at the end of the summer season. Temperatures that were above 40C and humidity at 86% for many weeks have now cooled down to 35C. It has been a busy season for us.
In March we held Pastor Conferences with several hundred pastors attending. Many of the pastors traveled hundreds of KM to attend. Thank you to Pastor Marshall
Eizenga from Waterloo Ontario who spoke at the conferences. We hwldo two days seminor.The first day Pastor Marshall spoke on the subject The Holey Spirt. The second day he spoke on the subject Leadership. It was an eye opener and we got some very good feed back from the local pastors.
Also during the same time we held a special woman’s meeting our special speaker Sandra McIntosh shared. Over two hundred ladies attended the meeting. Sandra edified and uplifted the ladies speaking to them about how beautiful they are in God's eyes. How special and precious they are to him. These ladies were touched and ministered to by Sandra and her word.
In May we held special revival meetings. The dates were the 18
th 19
th and 20
th of May. The day the meetings were to b
egin a tropical storm blew in and the weather forecast was rain, wind and thunderstorms for all three days. We asked people to pray that the weather will hold. The first night the weather was beautiful with just a sprinkle of rain from time to time. Our special speaker Brother Williams who spoke and sang the word of God. Brother
Williams spoke on the righteous path, the path of peace, the path of purity and the path to heaven. Over one thousand people attended the first night.
On day two the storm was full force our stage, banners and most of our lights were destroyed, blow away or damaged. By three o'clock in the afternoon the decision was made to cancel the meeting.
But by the third night the weather had miraculously cleared and we went ahead with the third day meeting. With over one thousand four hundred people attending brother Moses
Rajasekar spoke, sang and testified of God's goodness. Brother Moses is compltely blind and is dependent on dialsis and yet travels throught out India and the world singing and preaching.
We want to thank everyone that prayed for the meetings we saw many people come forward for healing and salvation. It was a true miracle that we were able to hold the two meetings!
Things have been quiet at the children’s home the past month. Many of the children go home for summer holidays. While the children were away God provided the funds so that we could have a play ground installed at the home.
Construction has
stopped at the church in
Avadi. We were able to finish the foundation and floor and start the construction on the walls. We can not continue this project with out your help. Please pray that we will be able to finish this project before the rainy season. If you are interested in more information about our church building project please have a look at our prior blog you can email us
prasaddawn@hotmail.com.
Looking to the coming month, in July we are expecting a team from Agincourt Pentecostal Church. We look forward to this team Lead by Pastor Laura Bogner focusing on children’s ministry.
This year we have at least two more teams coming our way. 2010 is becoming a very busy year for us.
Please continue to pray for our family our budget is still in deficit and we are believing that God will work a miracle in this area.
Blessings,
Prasad and Dawn
Dear Friends
I am writing this Blog to ask for your help with our latest project.
One of the churches we give leadership to is in a town North of Chennai called Avadi (some of you have visited this church). We were meeting in a large church building provided by a family member. It was a solid structure and quite adequate to hold the church of about 200 members.
In 2007 we were told to leave their church building. The congregation was given only one month to find a suitable building to meet in. Out of desperation the whole congregation went to the land lord’s house and begged him to reconsider. He would not and told them to leave immediately.
This left the church with no meeting place and Pastor David (our associate pastor)
and his family with no home. They had been living in a small apartment above the church.
We began looking for a piece of land to build a temporary building for them to meet in. The land prices in the area were very high and nothing seemed to be available. Just when we didn’t know where to turn God came through. A Muslim man offered us a piece of land for half price. It was right beside the old church building and in a good area. Right away we put the money together and bought the land. As we left for Canada in 2007 they were able to build a small hut where the people could meet for church.
At Christmas time they extended the building to hold the crowds of people. Still every Sunday people sit out side in the hot sun to hear the sermon.
As you can see the church is very small. The walls are made of coconut leaves covered on the inside with cloth. The roof is also made of coconut leaves that leak in the rainy season. Despite their church building Avadi is a healthy growing church. They are praying for a new church building one that is big enough for
the entire congregation.
On our visit to Canada in 2009 we began to raise funds for this project. So far we have raised $5000 of the $20,000 needed to complete the project. By faith we have started constructing the building. In March Prasad laid the first bricks to begin the project,
Here is where we need your help. First we are asking for everyone to pray for the church in Avadi. Pray for Pastor David his wife Gitsey and their two children. Pray for Pastor David and his family that they will continue to see the church grow as they reach their community for Christ.
Second we ask you to join us as we raise funds for a new church building. As I mentioned we have raised $5000 of the $20,000 needed to complete the project. Without help we will have to stop the construction. Please pray that God will provide the funds needed to finish the church.
If you would like to help with this project you can make check payable to the PAOC. Memo the Samson's Avadi Church Planting Project.
Thank you for your support. You are making a difference in India.
Blessings,
Prasad and Dawn
We want to bring you up to date on a couple of projects. First the Hope for the Children construction and updates are finished and it looks like a new place. 
