“Many people hesitate
to go to the slums and
identify themselves with
the slum dwellers. But
my vision and desire are
to work here, where no
one else cares.” —Nitya
Nitya will never forget the dream he had five
years ago during his Bible college days.
“God showed me a place,” he remembers. “I was
standing on a hill, and beside that hill I saw a big
pond, with a lot of ships. I saw houses there also.”
Nitya began to pray for the place he’d seen,
and though he had no idea where it was, he grew
confident that the Lord was calling him to live and
minister there.
Then, during his six-month practical field
training, Nitya noticed a familiar-looking hill while
standing on a rooftop. Next to the hill was the “big
pond”—it was his first-ever glimpse of the ocean—
and houses everywhere. He borrowed a bicycle and
pedaled toward the community.
A sprawling mess of fishing nets, cramped homes
and wandering children greeted him.
“I found exactly the place I had seen in my
dream,” Nitya recalls.
As soon as he finished Bible college, Nitya made
his home in that slum. Although he traded fields of
