As you may know, our Appalachia Deanery is directly supporting our new Anglican Diocese of Kadapa, India, which is currently composed of eleven congregations of Dalits ("untouchables" in the caste system of India). Our mission partner is St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Moragudi. The Deacon there is the Rev. G. Dyvasirvadam; he will be made a priest within the next year. His wife and he have three young children. The congregation has 173 members (51 men, 60 women, 34 boys and 28 girls). The congregation has a Church building and site.
Over the next two months, I am asking you to join with me in raising no less than one thousand dollars for the Moragudi mission to be used as follows: