In the Presence of the Poor : Changing the Face of India

Why does God make so many poor people? That is the question that Dr. Vijayam, PhD, recipient of India's highest national science award, kept asking as he grew up. He could not get over the suffering, despair and seeming hopelessness all around him in India. It eventually led him to embrace Marxist Communism as a hope for the poor.In this deeply moving account, you will be profoundly challenged through the life of one man who, after giving his life over to Christ, took his Godgiven talents with his training and experience and then got to work right where he was for such a time as this. Reaching across the deep cultural chasms of caste and class, Dr. Vijayam pioneered the idea of harnessing technology for the poor and using it in combination with cuttingedge microenterprise concepts. He and his wife worked to free those enslaved as bonded laborers. To fulfill his vision of seeing the Gospel spread to each of the 4,000 unreached people groups in India, Dr. Vijayam established a center dedicated to training men and women master trainers who in turn train grassroots workers in the most inhospitable of areas. So, what can one person do for the Kingdom of God in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties? Only change the world is all.CONTENTSChapter 1 How It All BeganChapter 2 For Such a Time as ThisChapter 3 A Better WayChapter 4 If Not I, Then Who?Chapter 5 Transcending DividesChapter 6 A Generation ChangingChapter 7 FullTime for ChristChapter 8 India for the Kingdom of GodChapter 9 The Power of One MultipliedChapter 10 A Family MatterChapter 11 East Meets WestChapter 12 The Time Is Now

Kay Marshall Strom is the author of thirty-three published books. For ten years, Kay taught writing classes through the California State University system, and with husband Dan Kline, she designed and directed the Writers Certificate Program for Long Beach State University. Her most recent books have allowed her to travel the world and spend time with people of many backgrounds, especially in those areas most difficult for Christian witness, such as Sudan, North Africa, India, and Indonesia. Kay and her husband, now partners in Kline, Strom International, Inc., have together spoken in more than 20 countries, including a pace-setting writing course they developed and taught in India in 2008.