Rajkumar lived in a remote mountain village. He is part of a family of devout Buddhists. Raj and the others in his village lived the same way as their grandparents and great grandparents. Very little had changed in the village for generations, as the people spent their days just trying to survive. One day, the amazing word came that a Christian mission school was about to open. Children from the village could come and go to school absolutely free. The school would provide food and clothing, a place to sleep and even medical care for those who needed it. Raj wondered why the Christians would care about him, but like many others of his village, he prepared for the long walk to the school. He had nothing to carry. He owned no clothing other than what he wore. Raj was incredibly thankful for the chance to go to school, knowing very well what a difference it would make in his life. He studied hard. He was very thankful for the good food and the jacket and shoes and clean bed. But Raj found something else in the Happy Home. Today, if he is asked what he is thankful for, Raj answers, "I am thankful to know the true God." Raj heard the name of Jesus Christ for the first time when he came to the Happy Home. He saw the love in the life of believers. He heard the words of life. And he believed and trusted Jesus as his own Savior.

Happy Home
Nepal

a ministry partner of Allow The Children

Happy Home was established as a means of reaching children in the Loba (ethnic Tibetans) villages of Nepal. The Loba people have lived in the mountains of Nepal for generations. They are Tibetan in culture, language and national origin, but not accepted in the Tibetan community. Many of them do not speak Nepali and very few have any education at all. Most are desperately poor, barely surviving from what they can farm and animal herding. Happy Home offered a place for the children from remote villages to live and attend school. Though it was clear from the beginning that the care and education was offered by Christians and the children would be taught from the Bible, many parents still gladly sent their children. Now more than 30 children live in the home, including some orphans, though many do have families who consider their children to be living in a "free boarding school."

More than half of the children from this home are from one village. After years of ministry outreach including medical clinics, building toilets, piping clean drinking water and providing needs such as rice and blankets, the leaders agreed that a small church could be built in the village. Today, the one room concrete structure stands completed only a few steps away from the Buddhist place of worship. The church building is there, but where are the people for the church? The children from Happy Home gather in the church and worship without adult leadership when they return home during school breaks. God is calling out a "people for His Name from among the Loba people of Nepal.

As the leader of this village lay dying, he asked that his 16 year old son, who had lived in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery for 10 years, be brought out and taught the "Christian Way." Out of respect for his father's wishes, the boy agreed, though he wore his monk's robes for quite a while. He had been expected to be the next spiritual leader for the village after his training as a monk was completed. Now, the boy has been saved and worships Jesus Christ with great passion and devotion. He studies his Bible and hungers to learn more. The church building is already in the village. The people for the church are already worshiping. Will this boy be their pastor? Will he indeed be the spiritual leader of his village, as he was always expected to be?