A huge praise report!!! We have received and started construction on the Gach property for Sari Bari!!!!!!!! And we have also found a new building for our KG location and will be able to move out the first of July. Praise God for these answered prayers and great provision!
Pray for the construction of our new [...]
From The Sunday Times
May 17, 2009
A Life in the Day: Mariam Laskar, s*x worker
Mariam Laskar, 42, a s*x worker, the poorest r*d-light district
I wake up around 5am so I can use the latrine early, while it’s still quiet.
I share it with nine other households. Each has one room about 8ft square. Although this is a [...]
it’s 108 today. fans blowing hot air but this body of mine just can’t cool down. everything’s moving just a little slower as the summer creeps in upon us. i’ve moved my bed to the floor in hopes of discovering the sweet spot under the fan…some nights you just have to accept something closer to [...]
Check out this album to see the “before” shots of the new Sari Bari location in one of Kolkata’s largest red-light districts.
We just finalized the five-year rental contract for this space for our second location. This space will be able to provide for at least 40 women to work for Sari Bari and a small [...]
After 9 months of waiting and praying, we signed the rental contract for the new Sari Bari location today! We now have a location for Sari Bari right in the red light district. This is a huge, huge answer to prayer. I just want to scream FREEDOM! FREEDOM! and dance a little jig. i hope [...]
Entitlement is in our blood. We feel entitled to choose, to speak, to know, to listen when need be. This city has continually reminded me that these most basic forms of freedom are hardly possessed by everyone. This very day I was entitled to my opinion in regards to a woman that I had met [...]
Pray for Sarah as she continues to dream for Sari Bari and develop the staff and women. Pray for peace and wisdom as she leads and serves the field.
Pray for Kiran’s body. She continues to have pain in her legs which makes it difficult for her to climb stairs and walk at times. Also pray [...]
From Sarah.
My heart breaks with every loss, every stumble, every pain that my dear friends suffer on their road to freedom. It is such a long, long road to walk. I have said before that just like the Israelites, many may not see the promised land of holistic freedom. But still I live and work [...]
Last week I came upon a large billboard advertising vacant flats in a new housing complex called Eden Gardens. Anywhere else, I wouldn’t have given the compound’s name a second glance, but this city has a way of conjuring up thoughts of the many faces it shows you from day to day. One’s eyes can [...]
By Joel Klepac of WMF Romania.
I have never met Tuna but he is a friend of many Word Made Flesh staff who live in or have visited Kolkata. He loves to draw friends on napkins as they eat together. Here are some of the drawings he had done of Chris Heuertz over the years. As [...]
