GLOBAL MISSIONS – SOUTH ASIA

Kolkata

RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
GODDESS OF DESTRUCTION
BEAUTY FROM ASHES
HOPE IN SORROW
RESCUE AND REDEMPTION

The People & The Place

In 2011, we were invited to the streets of the Kalighat red-light district and the mud-pathed slums surrounding the city. It’s a world completely different than our own, but one that God loves and one he has called us to love with him.

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Smriti

OUR PARTNER

For over 20 years Smriti has served tirelessly among the women of the Kalighat, to show them the love of Christ, and to care for their little ones.

Jesus said, “I thirst.”

JOHN 19:28

A group of Indian women celebrating, raising their hands, wearing colorful traditional sarees and headscarves, smiling, with some adorned with bangles and flowers.

HOW WE SERVE

1.

WOMEN

GRACE > DISGRACE

In the Kalighat red-light district women trapped in the sex trade who have been robbed of dignity since their youth. Through the Kalighat Bible Clubs, the women are able to form friendships in a safe environment and learn about Jesus.

Group of school children in checkered uniforms, some holding birthday cakes and celebrating outdoors.

CHILDREN

LOVING THE LEAST OF THESE

Smriti began a preschool for the children of the Kalighat that eventually spread into four locations in the surrounding slums. The children are taught about Jesus and how to read and write using the Bible.

2.

Young girl standing in front of a green wall and laundry hung on a clothesline, wearing a patterned vest over a white shirt.

RESCUE

3.

ENDING THE CYCLE

Mudpath Ministries seeks to rescue girls from the cycle of poverty and the sex trade by pulling them out of the Kalighat and placing them in boarding school before they can enter the system.

MISSIONS IS AN INVITATION TO SHARE IN GOD’S HEART FOR THE WORLD.