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Just before the pandemic Hope Garden’s school bus struggled with the strenuous roads it had to travel on each day to safely transport our school children. It became too expensive to keep mending so needed replacing. We are delighted that our supporters fundraised for a brand new bus for us last year. It travels 80kmContinue reading “The wheels on the bus”

There is always a reason to be cheerful at Hope Gardens especially at Pongal time. Incredible dancing, costumes & visitor participation for this festival at Hope Gardens! Impressive balancing Tanya!

A privilege, a joy & and honour to spend time with our dedicate teams who are at the heart of our ministry. It was a blessing to meet our Hope Garden pastors & their families as they joined us at Hope Gardens HQ in the Rhema gardens chapel. To just hear the marvellous things thatContinue reading “The heart of our ministry”

Bob, Tanya & Esther have not stopped since they touched down in Chennai. The weekend has been spent reconnecting with dear friends and family and being rejuvenated by the wonderful work of the Hope Gardens. After the stop start building project for Barnabus’s church throughout lockdown, the dedication of this magnificent building on Saturday wasContinue reading “A blessed time indeed”

We have all stayed close to home over the last few years however I am delighted that our Trustees and dear friends of Hope Gardens are venturing to Tamil Nadu and Kerala as I type. Follow their adventures over the next few days here!

All good things must come to an end! It’s been an actioned packed journey. We leave India with suitcases full of amazing memories, uplifting experiences and hearts full of joy.

While at the Garden Bob, Hal and Kristin helped plant the new rice crop. Praise God for this land and the ability to grow rice for Hope Gardens This is the nursery. They take the plantings from here, separate them and replant them in the other fields. The plants need to have room to leanContinue reading “Planting time”

Jodi led one of the devotions at the garden about forgiveness. We were given time in prayer to reflect and then write things on a piece of paper what we wanted to forgive. We then ceremoniously burned them. It was a very powerful message for all of us

Yesterday we got stuck in helping out with the harvest of the rice & delivering the paddy to the mill. It was fantastic to see and be part of this process. 62kg of paddy in each bag is being sent to the local mill. 5,270kg (85 bags of paddy) has been packed up & sentContinue reading “Many hands make light work”

I wanted to give a bit more context around this stunning paddy field at Hope Gardens This is a portion of the 3.5 acres of rice paddy that we purchased early last year. The first harvest is dry and ready for processing. We are going to be able to put it in bags tomorrow toContinue reading “Paddy field update”