Renuka shared how the items she received from GFA Compassion Services gave her hope to carry on.

Imagine that your city is hit hard by torrential downpours and you suddenly have no way to provide for your family because your livelihood depends on the weather. True, your condition may be just temporary, but for you, every day counts. You have no savings, no resources stored up for “a rainy day”—certainly not for a pile of rainy days. You depend totally on each day’s work to put food on your family’s table.

Picture this scenario and you will perhaps understand a little of the desperate plight of flood survivors in South Asia.

Flooding hits India particularly hard during monsoon season—and it is usually those living in the slums who suffer the most. Millions of people live in makeshift shacks in the shantytowns of Mumbai, India. When the heavy rains hit, they are kept from their daily work. Even though their jobs are menial, their meager earnings are what they rely on for their family’s day-to-day survival.

Renuka choked back tears of joy as she expressed what the help provided by GFA Compassion Services meant to her family.

It is a scary and uncertain time for these people. But thanks to Gospel for Asia Compassion Services, this very precarious season proved to be an opportunity for one woman, Renuka, to see God work.

Renuka is a widow with two children. Her only source of income is to travel the streets of Mumbai selling small cooking pots. When the rains poured down in Mumbai for days without relenting, she could not go out and sell. Renuka ran out of money and wondered how she would feed her children.

But then she heard about GFA Compassion Services and their offer to help, and it gave her a glimmer of hope.

Renuka choked back tears of joy as she expressed what the help given by GFA Compassion Services meant to her family.

“I got rice, wheat, cooking oil and dal,” Renuka explained. “It is for our daily food; it’s helped us a lot.”

And in the process of seeing Jesus’ love in the Compassion Services workers, Renuka was drawn to the local church for prayer and fellowship.

GFA Compassion Services teams faithfully reach out to those affected in South Asia’s yearly floods with physical provisions and the love of Christ. Pray for God’s continued work and abundant provision in Renuka’s life and the many others touched through these workers’ labors of love.

Praise God that He is bringing hope to flood survivors in South Asia. Pray for protection for each flood survivor, and that each will have the chance to hear of Christ’s redemptive love.