Operation Compassion
Although we have been supplying help for indigent widowed
sisters in India for about twenty years the increase in the number of
conversions and congregations in recent years has brought a surge in the
number of those who need our assistance; it is extremely difficult for an
American to realize their poverty. However, we continue to require,
except in extreme cases, that a widow who is baptized wait from 18 to 24
months before she receives help. Our first reason for this is that we do
not want them to be baptized for the sake of material things (loaves and
fishes, John 6:26). Another reason is that the government has a law, and
rightly so, against people being enticed to change their religion.
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