India

Gypsies for Christ is now looking eastward to the country that the Gypsy people originally came from and where large numbers of them still live.  In 2007 representatives from the organisation visited some of the Gypsy churches and the New Life in Christ Ministries International orphanage near Bangalore in Andhra Pradesh.  It was quite a short trip organised by Pastor Kumar Swamy, who is also a trustee of GFC, but since then it has been agreed to partner with NLICM in their ever expanding work with the Gypsy people and to support the building of the Bible College for Gypsy Pastors also in south India.

There is a great need for clean drinking water in India and while the GFC team were there wells and pumps were installed in some of the villages and the people were delighted to have fresh water at last.  GFC plans to continue with this good work and when possible to make further visits to the sub-continent to see how it is progressing.