GOD IS BRINGING HOPE TO INDIA - This is Subbamma’s Story!

They Called Her an “Untouchable”

Subbamma was one of the lowest of the low. Her very shadow was considered “unclean” by high caste Hindus. Married as a “child bride,” she proved barren, and was judged “cursed” by her husband’s family. After 35 years of ill treatment, she determined to kill herself and to end it all.

As she neared the river to throw herself in, she met a British missionary, Mr. Whitehouse. This divine encounter resulted in her inviting Jesus to be her Lord and Savior. God piled grace upon grace as she rejoined her husband, quickly became pregnant, and was reconciled with his family.

In a short time, Subbamma journeyed from despair to hope. This new Christian tackled the injustice around her as she began to witness for Christ through her words and work. Denied the right to earn a living, she taught herself and the women of the village to make lace and export it to support themselves. She gathered the unwanted illegitimate children whose untouchable mothers were forced to bear them by high caste landlords. And having taught herself to read and write, she gathered these children and taught and fed them in a one-room dirt-floored hut. Because the untouchables were denied medical care, she trained herself to be a midwife and taught other women about safe childbearing. Through her living faith, her village began to be transformed by Christ. When she died, prior to her 99th birthday, her grandson, Solomon, brought her body from the U.S. to Mori, India for burial. The whole village joined in the eternal homegoing celebrati on of this remarkable woman, this “Untouchable,” whose God has brought hope to so many!

Subbamma’s Faith still brings Hope!

I lived in India with my grandmother until I was a young teenager. I shared in village life. My first school was her dirt-floored hut. When my family came to America my grandmother continued to support her projects in India through her modest income. She prayed earnestly for India and nurtured me with her vision. As I walked in the funeral procession toward her final resting place in Mori, we passed the little one-room school she had started. It was then I felt God say, “You are to continue Subbamma’s work.”

We call Subbamma’s ministry: PROJECT INDIA

In the years that have followed Subbamma’s passing, God has enabled us to build …