R.S.Pura, a beautiful borders village of Jammu and Kashmir and very close to Pakistan. Ushas, a B.Sc. rank holder of Mahatma Gandhi University went there as a full-timer. She had restless nights as the occasional shelling at the border disturbed her sleep. They always had their belongings packed up to flee at short notice. When Indian parliament attacked by the terrorist group on December 13th, that day they even sensed that they were walking in the valley of the shadow of the death. The convent she stayed was surrounded by Indian troops. Through out her dreadful ordeal she placed her full faith in God and sensed His protection through out. The depth and width of Psalms 127: 1, “If the Lord does not protect the city, it is useless if for the sentries to stand guard” revealed upon her.
Jammu and Kashmir, people mainly use the language Dogri. R.S.Pura came under Jammu and Srinagar diocese. Here only 2% population follows Christianity. These Christians mainly engaged themselves as sweepers and other fourth grade works in municipality. Most of the Christians were uneducated. Their socio- economic condition is very poor and it created a feeling of inferiority among Christians. In every field they counted as oppressed and depressed and they themselves were looked upon as “Lower Caste” This was the realm where Ushas asked to shine for Jesus! Ushas find it very difficult to mingle with people because of lack of command over their language. But with the help of Holy Spirit she slowly became efficient in handling the local language. It was her first duty to keep that torch alight, which was kindled by the 9th batch full-timer Jyothi in the parish prayer groups. In R.S.Pura she worked as a teacher and as a social worker. As a teacher, she was supposed to give Jesus to all kids in its fullness. She remembers her role, as a teacher was not so smooth, because she didn’t relish this profession. Substitution class added more burden to her. But she managed to lift up all her difficulties to God who can even make a way in road through the sea, a path through the swirling waters. His wisdom led her to accept all the substitution class, which was used to introduce Jesus in a mighty way in the tender hearts of her students. During school Annual day, the children sang a song taught by their ‘Ushas teacher’ and did, a one-act play based on Bible. Yes through her hundreds of students in R.S.Pura now knew about a man & God named “ Jesus” Its too proud to say that 'Ushas' was shining there as a star to give little light to the minds of ignorant villagers. Many villagers didn’t have any knowledge about the sexual relationship and sexual disease. She took it as her responsibility to teach them something about sexual life. She began to preach the importance of monogamy and conducted some seminars on AIDS. She arranged a street play about AIDS with the help of parish youths. This spinster raised her voice against abortion. Gave advice for monogamy and awareness about HIV positive. No doubt a girl from Kerala become real “Ushas” in Jammu and Kashmir, yes a twinkling morning star! Praise God! Priya Cochin/ India **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
