New Life Trust


SUDHIR and VIJAYA LAL

Located in Avas Vikas Colony, Sector 8 Agra 282002, U.P. India (the northern part of the country) Sudhir and Vijaya Lal work to bring the people of a great but poor nation to Jesus Christ. 

Here are some facts about this nation that you may or may not know:
*   More than a billion people live in this huge country, which       dominates south Asia.
*   India is the spiritual home of Hinduism. Of the 820 million             people in the world who follow Hinduism – 96% of them live in       India. The whole of Indian society is based on Hinduism, which      divides everyone into different ‘castes’ (classes). Hindu ways of        thinking even effect parts of the church and faith of some              Christians.
*   India’s economy has grown quickly in the last ten years and     India is now a nuclear power, but it is home to many of the     world’s poorest people. Over 600 million people in India live in       deep poverty and another 300 million don’t have enough to live     on each day.
*   There are 4 million orphans in India alone.   Half the children     and young people of India live in poverty and many more are     malnourished. Millions of children work sweatshops or are sold     into slavery to pay off their parents debts. There is also a         growing trade in child prostitution, buying children from        neighboring Nepal and Bangladesh.
*   There are 41 million Indians without a home, many living in the     slums of India’s largest cities. Pray for those whose lives and     health is at risk everyday.
*   There are at least 400 languages spoken in India. At the current     rate of progress it could take 100 years to translate the Bible in     all of India’s languages. Pray that the translators would be      equipped for this challenge and more people would step up to     carry out the task.

TOTAL POPULATION OF NORTH INDIA             110,862,113
AREA                                                                                       294,411
DISTRISTS                                                                                      78
LANGUAGES                                                                                  88
HINDUS                                                                            92,365,968
MUSLIMS                                                                         17,657,735 CHRISTIANS                                                                         162,199
Here are the facts in the words of Sudhir Lal:

INDIA: A BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

With more than all of Europe or Africa, and over twice as many people as the Americas, it is a challenge to consider India as a single country. With over 800 languages and dialects, half a dozen major religions, climates zones ranging from tropical temperatures to arctic-like conditions, its diversity matches its status as the second most populous Nation in the world.

75% of India’s life is still found in its villages. Indians still uses their home villages as a point of identity regardless of whether they have ever been there. The village gives a place to all ideas of community and family. It is there that the founding member may have been born; you have the right of land and marriage. It is most likely in the villages that the people will still maintain their tradition trades.

Social Background: The entire state consists of people belonging to various religious groups and backgrounds. Hindus make up the majority and follow vary rigid and orthodox customs and traditions. The caste system is still dominating communities. The backward and outcast both have been deprived of the social awareness and its common advantages. People mostly speak Hindi language but in the remote areas various dialects and broken Hindi are used. People are expected to observe traditional customs and calibrate various festivals in order to maintain their religious status in the community. About 50% of males and 75% of females are totally hindering the normal life and common welfare of the people.

Economic Background: Generally people have a very meager income and they are mostly dependent upon daily wages. Most of them are laborers, workers, small farmers, hawkers and vendors. Only a handful of people possess small pieces of land and they hire others to work in their fields. There is a severe job scarcity in the government sectors. Vacancies in the government are combatively much more less than the entire population of the nation. On the whole people are economically backward and the living conditions are quite pitiful. The size of the families is large and income is limited.  Children are the most affected ones as they are deprived of their necessities and childhood. In the rural areas both the parents and children have to work for their survival regardless of their age, education and emotional maturity.

Health Factors: Since the income of the family is extremely low they are unable to have a properly balanced diet with nutrients in their daily food.  As a result of malnutrition their health is badly affected and they are always weak physically. Their bodies are, there fore, receptive to various types of diseases and disabilities. This many times results in untimely death of people. Unfortunately, People are badly addicted to alcohol including many mothers causing health problems to their infants. Children are also indulging in the same habit behind the scene.

Religious Background: Politically and religiously India’s eyes focus on Uttar Pradesh. This is the Hindu heartland of India, with more than one sixth of Indian’s total population. Many of India’s prime ministers, including the Nehru family come from Uttar Pradesh.  Uttar Pradesh is the birthplace of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. It contains many holy sites like Ayodhya Mathura-Vrindaban, Allahabad, Haridwar, Rishikesh, and Varanasi, Gengorti, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath. These places draw millions of pilgrims annually. People take a holy dip in various rivers to wash off their sins. Hindus and Muslims of Uttar Pradesh are among the world’s least reached mega-people. Muslims and Sikhs are in minority. The total number of Christians from all traditions is a tiny 0.14% of the total population. Mostly people appreciate fraternity. Village people follow there are old traditions and mythologies.

Our Observation: In our culture women have the decision to have children imposed on them. There is strong preference for boys and girls are often regarded as inferior. Boys work for their family, look after their parents in old age and carry on the family name. Girls leave their parental home and get married. Moreover, the dowry system drives towards the desire of producing a male child. Though dowry is an illegal practice still it is widespread. The brides’ family pays a huge amount of money (equivalent to almost several years of income for most workers) as a dowry to the grooms’ family. These kind of bad practices often makes the families to remain in debts for several years.


OUR WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN

CHILD ORPHANAGE AND SCHOOL

We realize that the children are a blessing from GOD. They are meant to be welcomed into the world with celebration and to be given respect and dignity. However, many children do not experience life as a blessing but as a tragedy. They live in extreme poverty and are street kinds who are neglected and deprived of their childhood, barefooted with running noses, the children are found in the fields grazing dome stick animals and hence they remain a aloof from schools. This result is that their lives have been spoiled. We work exclusively for social development and enlistment of needy, poor and deprived children of all communities with out any discrimination of caste, creed, color or background. The aim is to give absolute priority to the needs of the children. We understand that children’s needs are equally important. We plan to help out all the children with the food, shelter, clothes, books, and education and want to see overall development in their lives.

OUR PASSION FOR THE CHILDREN:

We cry out in our inner heart knowing and seeing the condition of the children around us because:
*Child prostitution is increasing rapidly.
*About 80,000 to 100,000 children are estimated to be working as prostituted in India.
*About 300,000 children suffer from commercial sexual abuse and also 111 million Indian children (out of 250 million Indian children worldwide) are child laborers.

We have a passion to take these children out of this present condition/situation.

Presently we have more than 30 children in our care .We provide them basic education and teaching them some Bible stories, skits.verses and some songs also. They come to us from their guardians (caring persons) and they never want to send them in our care because they want to send them to work and earn as child laborers instead of coming to our care and take education.   Therefore we have considered the idea of a children’s Home and for this reason we want to buy a piece of land to construct the facility of 5 rooms.  This would provide a place where we can put these children in our regular care and provide them shelter, food, clothes, stationeries and education. We do not have any provision and financial support from anywhere but we have a definite vision and passion for these children to make them a responsible person like Joseph and Esther to influence the society with the love of Jesus Christ

My wife Vijaya and I together have started a nursery school for the preparatory children and hence we can enter into the children’s house and reach the parents with the gospel of the Lord and afterwards make them prepare for the kingdom of God.


CHURCH PLANTATION

We never forget the impotance of the Church therefore we have founded our independent Church NEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP and engaged the in church a plantation ministry in North India. India is a home for many religions. While India is predominately a Hindu nation with 82% of the population being Hindus, it is also the fourth Muslim country in the world with over 110 million Muslims .  In India’s 6,000,000 villages, many are lacking amenities such as running water, electricity, schools and medical services or hospitals, transportation etc.  We have a vision “COME LET US ARISE AND BUILD.”

FINANCIAL POLICY: We invite individuals , churches, organization, and groups to help us through providing your ideas, prayers, material and financial help to do the effective ministry in the most needed place NORTH INDIA


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We are in need of a full budget for these orphaned children.  Please help.
WE NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE
OUR CONTACT INFORMATION:

New Life Trust
Sudhir S.N.Lal
Agra-U.P. , India
Tel: 919990665926
email:  Sudhir Lal nldsin@yahoo.co.in

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