Expansion Ministries
Expansion Homes and Care Centers
With praise to God, 17 Expansion Homes / Care Centers now dot several areas in 6 states, reaching urban slums, remote villages and unreached people areas. Children in these Homes are cared for by married couples, their houseparents. The houseparents train them in life’s necessities, seek to guide them morally, and teach them spiritual truths from God’s Word. Houseparents in many of the unreached areas extend a hand to children’s families and some have started worship centers which they lead.
Mukti expansion homes give kids a chance for a much better life.
In the Mukti Homes, children are sent to nearby schools for education. These children are often the first in their families to receive an education. Since these villages are remote, many have no schools within reasonable walking distance. If a school happens to exist, its teachers often lack skills that their counterparts, who teach in larger, better endowed schools, possess. Adults, who have been illiterate for generations, do not see education as a priority. Children are needed in the fields to bring in food and money for daily existence. Often adults see themselves as low class/caste citizens who do not merit the services, education and vocations that the more well-to-do warrant.
Once in schools, however, many of the children excel in their studies. As some of the expansion homes have been in existence for nearly two decades, many of the children are now going to colleges and/or receiving advanced training and securing good jobs.
“It’s like a dream. Who would have thought a girl, one of 6 children of illiterate parents, would have opportunity to receive an education and then a graduate degree in technology! It’s only God Who has done this for me through my Mukti Home. Recently I landed a good job with an IT company. How I praise my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ!” Mano (second from right), from an expansion home in central India
(Disturbingly, 80% of the population of this state is illiterate.)
Four of the expansion centers are day-care, not residential. Children in these Care Centers come for food, tutoring and teaching in such things as hygiene and moral education. The kids are sent to school. Entire families and communities are being impacted by the positive changes they see in the children’s lives, providing many opportunities to share the Gospel.
Community Development
Should the blessings and opportunities that Mukti provides be offered to others... to the unreached people groups of India? A resounding YES is what our Savior says and Mukti is attempting to do so.
Seeking to help meet the physical needs of the hurting, Mukti reaches out in a variety of ways: micro business start-ups in villages, classes in such things as raising goats, mobile medical teams that travel to villages to provide basic medical care, government certified tailoring classes, scholarships for children of poor families, etc. And there are no strings attached to Mukti’s assistance to poor, uneducated and often helpless people.
Sharing Christ
As our Savior demonstrated in His ministry on earth, we also offer opportunities for hope and life for eternity in Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. John 3:16 proclaims: “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Indeed, salvation is found only in Him (Acts 4:11).
What is the greatest thing that has ever happened to you? If you are a believer, it is knowing Christ and having the assurance of a future beyond the temporals of earth. What is the greatest thing you can do for someone else? It is sharing this Good News so that others can come to know Him, too. This is Mukti’s thrust: tandem balancing of the physical and spiritual.
Worship Centers
As people seek truth, ask questions and become curious about the Christian faith through the witness of believers, Bible studies and prayer groups often form. As these people get more serious and as some come to faith in Jesus, need is born to grow and learn more. Worship centers have sprung to life in many areas in which Mukti is working.
Historic Mukti Church
This large, historic, unique, Cross-shaped church was founded and constructed by Pandita Ramabai over 100 years ago. The church continues to be active as a center of worship, community and fellowship for Mukti residents and surrounding villagers.
Children in church