Update Nov 2011

Dear friends,

It is great to be home! We arrived safe and sound back in India on the 5^th 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 all
the 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,

Summer in Canada is just beginning while summer in India has come to an end.
Summer means a break from school for the children at the home and a begging of our daily vacation bible school for the churches. This is an opportunity to reach out to the children and parents in the community. The DVBS ran for one week and was well attended. We pray that God will water all the seeds that were planted in many children's lives.

As we wind down from this busy time we wanted to update you on what has been going on with our family. The new addition to the children’s home is finished at last. It is a great blessing to see this done. Now we have started on phase two of the renovations. Some much needed remodelling on the existing home.

On Palm Sunday we celebrated with a parade or as they say in India a “processional”. We walk through the village singing songs and caring palm branches.

In May myself and with Hannah and Asha headed home for Canada. Prasad will be staying behind for a few months to care for the children’s home and churches and will be joining us later in the summer.
We will be looking for opportunities to iterate and would like to visit as many of our church families as possible. If you would like to have us speak please contact us at our hotmail address. We will be in the Mari times until Sep 12th and in Ontario from September 13th until Nov 3. We look forward to hearing form you.

Prasad and Dawn

Update Dec-Feb 2011

Update Dec - Feb
After only a few short weeks winter has finished and spring is now here. Day time temps are in the low thirties and we know that summer is just around the corner.
In Dec we celebrated Christmas with family and friends. The month flew by with many Christmas programs and the children’s party.
This month we held our second Indian Field Retreat. This is a time for all of the PAOC missionaries to come together for a time of fellowship and to bond as a team. Our special speaker this year was Rev David Hazzard Assistant Superintendent for Fellowship Ministries and Rev Crag Burton District Superintendent for Eastern Ontario. We had a great time with the team and are already looking forward to next year.

We are excited to tell you about our latest church plant. Often we face trials and challenges when we start a new church this time was no different. We were asked to come and start a church in this are after the original church building had been torn down.

On February 6th we held our fist service next to the rubble of the old building. Please pray for this small church congregation. We want to thank Lori Gibbons the District Superintendent for Western ON for sharing a very special word that morning.

The finishing touches are being put on the new addition at the children’s home and should be finished next month! It is a blessing to see the home almost finished and knowing that soon we be able to help many more boys and girls. Thanks to Pastor Zia Morardi KRT Brampton for funding the full project.
Looking ahead we will be heading home to Canada in the month of May. We are still settling on a date so please keep this in your prayers. Looking foward to seeing you soon!

Prasad, Dawn, Hannah and Asha