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As Americans, or worse yet, being a woman, can we imagine the thought of having to crush big rocks into small pieces 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, for $1.00 a day, in temperatures sometimes as high as 120 degrees, sometimes in the rain, and each generation after us doing the same? |
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In a recent trip to India, we stopped at a colony of precious people who are called rock crushers. They did not chose this vocation, they were born into this caste as Hindu’s. Their fathers and mothers were rock crushers, and their children are destined apart from the grace of God, to also be rock crushers. They work 10 hours each day, 6 days a week, for $1 per day. They work in the summer with temperatures reaching 120 degrees, and in the rainy season in pouring down rain. As we walked to meet them we could hear the sounds of scores of hammers hitting the stones to break them. They wore no eye protection. As soon as we approached one married couple (see middle photo below), we spoke to them of Jesus Christ and they immediately identified themselves as followers of our Lord. They shared their faith with us, along with other rock crushers who came to us for prayer. It was obvious that their faith was genuine. The wife shared that she had been praying since childhood for the Lord to deliver them from this hard labor. These precious people are our family in Jesus Christ. How can we turn our backs on their heavy burdens and their sufferings? To do so, is to turn our backs on the Lord, Himself. Please pray for these Christian rock crushers, and if you would like to help them, please designate your gift to “Rock Crushers.”
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Two men, walking down the road by the rock crushers, both believers in Jesus Christ, ask for prayer and drop to their knees. The openness & desire for love and prayer is so obvious in the wonderful country of India. |
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A husband and wife work together crushing rocks for a living. |
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Pastor Bell (left) and Court pray for the husband and wife, and two others that came for prayer. |