ABOUT OUR EVENING SCHOOLS

Our Evening Schools in India provide education and nourishing meals for children in poverty-stricken situations. These tutoring centers operate in the evenings and are a much-needed resource to help these children gain a better education and fight the ever-present challenge of malnutrition.

Every poor child growing up in Asia faces two main predators: hunger & lack of education. Jesus for Asia currently has around 50 evening schools operating in India, which serve an average of 2,100 kids per night. We estimate we have served more than two million meals since the program began in 2007! 

Currently, we are working to start Evening Schools in Cambodia also. There is a great need for Adventist education in that country and Evening Schools are the quickest way to start providing something for the churches as well as their communities.

We’ve received testimonies from our Evening School Principals that these schools have opened doors into homes within their local villages—doors that were once closed. The children who attend the Evening Schools return home and share what they’re learning with their families. As a result, we’ve had baptisms take place through the impact of this ministry.

SAVING A STARFISH

This familiar story is a good reminder that we must do all we can, even if we impact only a few:

A father and son were walking down the beach after a large storm had stranded thousands and thousands of starfish on the beach where they would dry out and die. The son started picking one up after another and began throwing them back into the ocean.

His father looked at him and said, “Son, you can’t throw all those starfish back into the ocean. It’s impossible! You’re not making any difference at all to these thousands of poor creatures.”

His son paused, looked at the starfish he had in his hand, and said, “Yeah, but to this one, I will make all the difference in the world.”

TESTIMONY FROM EVENING SCHOOL

Subash and his brother grew up in a very poor family. Both of their parents were without work, and their family often lacked enough food. After the brothers started attending the evening school, they began sharing everything they learned with their parents. The school’s care for her family won the mother’s heart so much that she decided to attend church with her boys. Then, the father joined them after God answered Subash’s prayer for him to get a good job. Now, the entire family is baptized.