Joining Hands Blog
The church has left the building
More than two months ago, the Indian government locked down the entire country at 8 p.m. with only four hours of lead time. Public transportation abruptly ceased. Millions of migrant workers, stranded hundreds of miles from home without their daily wages, instantly...
$25 feeds a family of four in the slums of India
THANK YOU to everyone who has already so generously donated food packs to those in dire need. You are making a difference! The food packs distribution has begun but the need is ongoing. On April 9, Hands of Freedom began collecting donations to create food packs for...
Millions in India can’t take measures to be safe
As with much of the world, India is in lock down. But that’s where the similarities end for millions of families living in India’s slums. As you take precautions to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, please take a moment to thank God for the blessings He has...
We dream of giving children hope and dignity through education
For centuries, it was illegal for India’s lowest class – the Untouchables – to get an education. Even today, few families living in the slums can afford for their children to attend India’s fee-based school system. Inside the classroom, Untouchable children are...
These are our dreams for 2020
Every mother dreams that her children’s lives will be better than her own. In the slums of India, mothers dream that their children will have enough to eat and clean drinking water. They dream of sending at least one child to school. They dream that their children...
2019 brought hope to children struggling in India’s slums
India’s slums don’t just exist on a movie soundstage. Every day, some 40 to 45 million children struggle to survive in filthy, disease-ridden conditions we would find deplorable. Trash floats in the same contaminated water used for bathing. Working toilets are rare....
Give to the Max Day is here! Let’s change lives.
Hands of Freedom is participating in Give to the Max Day today, a day that has become a national model for giving back. Your gift will help us guide families toward physical, social and spiritual transformation, and save at-risk children from child trafficking. Give...
Our women’s discipleship is growing
Hands of Freedom is hard at work building our women’s leadership teams. Our goal is to build God’s army of women, ready to drive the ministries in their communities. The empowering project requires a great deal of preparation including bible study. Please pray for...
Children experience life outside the slums for the first time ever
God’s goodness shone in the joyful faces of the children attending Hands of Freedom’s vacation bible schools. Our goal was to get 60 children. We wound up with 120! For many families, this was their first introduction to the gospel. For most, it was also their first...
A life-changing visit to the eye doctor
It was a distressing situation. The little girl from the slums was attending school – a privilege generally reserved for boys – but she was doing poorly. Would she be able to stay in school? No one knew her eyesight was bad. As with most families living in poverty,...