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This was our frst visit to Victory So after completion of his Theological Children’s Home, Sasalu, South India. studies, he started the Lord’s Ministry It is such a humbling experience to be and started a ‘home’ for the welcomed by 53 smiling, happy unprivileged, in a small way, with children and the staff when we just two boys initially. Today Pastor arrived at the home especially when Mark runs four Rays of Peace you consider the horrid lives which Orphanages in North & South India, many had experienced before coming totally consisting of 150 children. to the home. This was the case for Pastor Mark’s future plan is to start Pastor Mark Jayakumar and here is many more homes for the orphan a short extract of how he started the babies & children all round India, Home. who have been rejected and abandoned by their parents and Pastor Mark Jayakumar’s life began society and model these children with misery; he was rejected and to become rulers and visionaries for abandoned by his parents when he the next generation of this world. was just 3 days old, left in a hospital in a rural part of India. He was adopted During our 2 weeks at the Home we and raised by Canadian Missionaries experienced Pastor Mark’s love and (World Missions to Children). At the age compassion for the children and may of ffteen, Mark’s adoptive parents told our help in some small measure, help him the true story of how he had come him under God’s guidance to provide to them. Heart broken, he thought this many more homes for these situation should not happen to anyone. abandoned children. At the young age of ffteen, he made up his mind to take up the challenge to Many thanks to all who prayed for us adopt and care for young ones so that and for your fnancial support. they would not be left out in this world, as orphans. After his schooling, he Albert Oliver studied for his B.Th. (Bachelor of Theology) in Haryana North India. Even during his studies he had a vision to start a home for the rejected and abandoned. This was continually in his mind. The sadness was deep in his heart. He had to prove to the world that the rejected and abandoned should not be left alone in this world to suffer.