In operation since 1977 and working in cooperation with church leaders, Living Springs Overseas Missions in India trains and equips dedicated national workers to serve on a self-sacrificial basis to spread the gospel.
They accomplish this work through Bible seminaries, vocational arts training, orphanages, and midwifery training. Springs of Life Orphanage outside of Kolkata and Springs of Love Orphanage in southern India provide housing, food, clothing, medical care, and education for 200 poor and orphaned children. They receive a Christian education and vocational training that will allow them to support themselves. Many of the children continue on to one of the Living Springs Bible seminaries when they finish their schooling. Students at any of the three seminaries receive thorough Bible and health training. Additionally, they learn vocational trades, such as agriculture, tailoring, welding, mechanics, carpentry, and electrical installation and repair.
When they graduate, they are prepared to go as self-supporting medical missionaries to areas with little or no Seventh-day Adventist presence. One of these seminaries, Springs of Joy, has added a midwifery training program to their work. Already more than 60 young women have graduated. These women represent five language groups and have the potential to reach out to countless families as they minister to them through natural birthing methods. Midwives have unequaled opportunity to educate the families and public as they enter their homes.
Although the communities around the Living Springs orphanages and seminaries are all Hindu and Muslim, the ministry receives great respect and admiration for what they are doing. Local leaders have remarked that they have a very practical vocational training program that is of untold blessing to the community. Many of the orphans and abandoned children are from the local community, so the leaders are very appreciative that these children are receiving a good education. In addition, Living Springs has helped the surrounding communities in a number of practical ways. They have assisted in building projects and met the needs of the poor and outcast around them. Christ is being preached in villages that the church has not been able to reach in the past. Physically and spiritually, the communities have been blessed by the ministry’s presence.
