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By 1985 I learnt the Kurumba dialect to the extent that I could do a phonemic analysis of the language and write a basic grammar for the same.  Using modified Tamil script I was able to write down the language as well.  By then I also translated the New Reader Scriptures of the BSI which is [...]

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Again it happened in my absence in Aravenu.  It was reported to Joyce that a Kurumba man was admitted in a hospital run for Tribals by a Welfare Society.  The hospital was right in the middle of the jungle and there was no resident doctor or other facilities there.  Very poor care was given to [...]

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Once I was away for three weeks for ministry elsewhere.  When I came back I learnt that one of our families in the assembly was having a season of sickness in their house.  They were estate laborers and they had fever one after another and had to be admitted for treatment as they were running [...]

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Once we were going  to Kerala as we were planning to keep Timmy with my parents for his studies from sixth standard.  He did his 6,7,&8 in Kerala.   For some reason we decided to go through Madurai.  At 7 pm we were in Coimbatore and filled the tank with sufficient fuel and proceeded our journey.   [...]

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A throw away tyre which was meant just for a week or so, was on the van for a whole year and six months, running about 40, 000 kms. on the road.  A new tyre hardly gave 30,000 on that van!  The Lord was proving to me the truth of Dt.8:4 which says, their clothes [...]

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Within seven years with our first vehicle, we have had three break failures.  The first one was a major accident and the Lord miraculously saved us from it.  It happened just within the first six months from the time we got our van.  I did not know driving when I got the van.  During the [...]

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By l984 we had five children.  The only conveyance we had was a Vijay scooter.  On one or two occasions we tried using it as a conveyance for the whole family of seven!  No one needed to tell us that it was very dangerous.  Once or twice some one commented on us  like “Sir is [...]

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Once some one came to our house requesting for prayer from Rob Roy Estate.  His wife had an attack of evil spirits and when she would get possessed she will fall down cramped and be in that position for hours.  They had two little kids.  Literally they were suffering.  She had this attack for several [...]

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Healing

Selvaraj took me to one of the houses where there was a patient for several years.  Philip Rajan hailed from Kerala.  His parents came to work in tea estate in Aravenu.  Though Rajan’s brothers and sisters were in Kerala, Rajan  was with his parents in Nilgiris. Now his parents went back to Kerala but Rajan [...]

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