June 11, 2007

Dear Friends of Rahab’s Rope,

Thank you all for your prayers and support. Moving our store to Gainesville has been very positive. If you haven’t been by to see us yet please stop in and say hello, we are on the backside of Thompson Court.

We are trying to put together a medical team for September. If you are interested or know of anyone who is please contact us. It will be a 10-day trip, hopefully leaving on a Friday and returning on a Sunday. The medical team will have clinic for 2 days at Rahab’s Rope, one day at Beulah home for children and one day at a leper colony. If you can’t go but would be able to send some medical, health, or hygiene type supplies please contact us.  The in-country cost is usually $400-$500, the airfare fluctuates greatly, currently it is around $1400.

Please be much in prayer as we have an opportunity to rescue 10 Devdasis (girls that have been used in temples) in North Karnataka. This will be a first for us and will be quiet challenging. If you are familiar with Amy Carmichael, these are the girls she devoted her life rescuing.

Storying of the Bible is a very effective and positive way of sharing God’s love to someone that has never heard or that cannot read. This has always been a big part of what we do at Rahab’s Rope Women’s Center in India. We are very excited to share with you that now some of our women will be going into the communities and sharing God’s love through storying. This is a very big step on the part of our women to go out and do this. Please pray for them as they go.

Training classes are going well at the center the women have been busy making more jewelry, handmade paper bags and greeting cards. We should be receiving them later in the summer. We have hundreds of earrings and handmade paper gift bags at the store now for your purchase and enjoyment. They are doing a great job.

We have a new street contact, Salma, who works for a non-government organization that has begun bringing women to the center. Please pray for Salma and her understanding of who and what we are and do at our center. Salma brought two children to be entered into Beulah Home; their mothers were forced into this business at 12 years old. We cannot begin to imagine the life these women have been forced to live.

We have had an incident where two men came to our center trying to buy children. This is a first for us and is very scary; these men now know where we are. Please pray for protection for our women, children and building.

Ravi Kumar our main street worker coordinator is ill with a viral fever. Please pray for his quick recovery.

Please pray for water at Beulah Home for children. All three of their wells have gone dry. They had a geologist to do a water survey for where they could strike water and they have drilled three new wells and all were dry. This was a very expensive process for the children’s home and they still have no water. They have to buy water for about 150 people. Please pray the rainy season that is coming will provide some much needed relief and they will be able to drill for a good water supply or that the rains will fill their current wells. 

It seems this newsletter is filled with prayer request. Prayer is one of the greatest things you can do for us and we are so grateful that you remember us in prayer.  In Romans Paul exhorts us to behave as Christians and says; “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer”. Thank you for your prayers!

Many Blessing to You and Your Family,

Vicki Moore
Rahab’s Rope
P.O. Box 907308
1062 Thompson Bridge Road
Gainesville, Ga. 30501

vickimoore@mindspring.com
www.rahabsrope.com
770-287-5218