Bethel House India Life Centres
Abortion takes innocent lives, hurts women, destroys families, and weakens countries. BHI stands against the cultural views endorsing the deconstruction of human life and family by providing support through unexpected pregnancy and life-affirming alternatives to abortion.
Changing Minds – Saving Lives
Healing Hearts – Saving Souls
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ,
who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: “MINE!”
-Abraham Kuyper
Summer 2021 Update
We are excited about our upcoming Bethel House / Jeevan Annual Conference. This will be held online from September 15th – 17th, 2021. We are pleased to have staff from Heartbeat International contributing, as well as Mr. Bill Freeman who had accompanied us to India last year. This is a wonderful opportunity for our Indian staff and adherents to receive training, fellowship and encouragement.
Another encouraging development is that our project manager Anbu has been able to resume her outreach on the local trains, going from Kanchipuram to Chennai and return.
Here in Canada, we are looking forward to a November 5th, 2021 fundraising event, called India Night 102.
This fall we hope to be able to present many more awareness seminars and presentations through our five ministry centers. Your financial partnership will help us reach many more desperate young women, helping them to affirm the value of life for their unborn children. Please see the donate link below.
Our History
Bethel House India supports very needy children who live in a loving foster home in South India.
In 2014 we took another step to address these crying needs. A social worker was hired to be our project manager. She lives and works in Tamil Nadu, South India, presenting the message of the sanctity of life, fetal development, abortion procedures with the side effects, and forgiveness and healing. She has spoken to thousands of people – 100-Days workers (poorly paid manual labourers who work for a period of 100 days before getting paid), students, pastors, nursing students and gypsies – with this message. Many women have chosen life over abortion as a result.
In 2015 Doug contacted many others in India, those who had a similar desire to affirm life, inviting them to a “Gathering” of people affirming life. This was held in Delhi and was attended by seventeen people in all, a far cry from just two in 2008. Very encouraging.
Since then Doug has hired a Regional Director with the goal of expanding the work throughout India and establishing an Indian work team and support base.
Strategic doors are opening to expand the work with Resource Centres throughout India.
Our Needs
We are seeking to add two additional staff. We would like to multiply the number of Awareness Seminars to 180 and add four professional conferences.
It is also our aim to reach and support 15 additional women experiencing unplanned pregnancies.
We would like to provide a manual and training for staff for new Resource Centres.
In order to strengthen the financial base of the work, we have a two-pronged goal. In India, the Regional Director would seek to inspire various groups with the tremendous need and opportunity to invest in such centres.
He would also like to come to Canada to present the project and stir donors with the opportunities.
In addition, we would like to have a videographer collect the stories and testimonies of Indian women who have been assisted.
Our budget in 2021 is $90,000. This includes the project work in India and the Canadian expenses related to fund-raising here and sending the lead member and his wife to visit the field annually to encourage, strengthen, expand, and establish the work.