Youth & Adults


God Saw Us As His Children


My name is Kavitha and my son Nithis Kumar is in grade 7, he is 12 years old. When I was pregnant, my husband divorced me for not bringing a large enough dowry to his family. Then he married another woman. Since I had no money to pay the lawyer, I did not go to court system to get an official divorce. My parents gave some gold and money to my husband before the marriage, and when he neglected me, I lost that too. I did not get any financial support from him; he didn’t even come to see my new born baby Nithis. My husband has had no contact with me for more than 10 years. My son has no memory of meeting his dad when he was a kid.

When I was deserted by my husband, I came back to my mom’s home to live, she is a widow too. Many times I thought about giving poison to my son and myself to commit suicide. I’ve gone through lots of pain in my life; many times I’ve had enough pain to believe that my heart and brain were crashed and broken. Even relatives and neighbours called me and my new born son unlucky. I had no one to understand the situation I was going through in my life.

Whenever I thought of the problems in my life, I thought of committing suicide. I could not mingle with my relatives and neighbours because they all saw me and my son as unlucky. Last year my son got an opportunity to attend an IBCM summer camp at his church. I came to know that they provide recreation and teaching lessons to kids, so I sent my son to the camp and he had a great time.

After the camp was over, I went through the camp lesson book. There was a lesson that said that we are children of God. First I did not understand, then my son explained me all the 10 lessons he learned at the camp. Those lessons gave me some hope and strength to my heart. The church pastor and his wife started to visit my son at my home for follow-up and talked to me about Jesus Christ. The pastor’s wife talked to me about the hope we have in Jesus Christ. Through their follow up programs, I also learned more about Jesus and the bible.

I started to attend weekly Sunday worship at New Life Prayer Center in Trichy. I was baptized and now attend church regularly. I used to curse and hate my ex-husband for what he had done to me. But God changed my heart, now I pray for him and his family. Even though I don’t see him, I wish him all the best in his business and we pray for his salvation. Through reading the Bible, I learned to forgive and live a good Christian life with hope for the everlasting life. Now all my sorrows are gone, I have become a new person. I have great joy in my heart. I have made good Christian friends at the church and now I am not alone, I feel that I belong to a big church family. They care about me and treat me like one of them. Because of my son attending camp, I came to know about Jesus and have this wonderful church family.

Church is a wonderful place for me and so I would like my son to become a church pastor when he is grown up. He also regularly attends Sunday worship and follow-up programs. His ambition is to plant a church and give comfort and hope to thousands of people who live like us. I am so proud of my son; he will shine for Jesus Christ in my nation.

Kavitha
Golden Rock, Trichy

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