Following is a message from Damon Vincent, who left today (June 1) for India.

Preparations are underway for a June 1 departure for India, my 26^th trip to that country since 1981. It's always a great spiritual experience for me, and I thank all of the brethren who make this trip possible each year. Four weeks of Bible teaching and village evangelism have been planned, and brethren are waiting to work with me in Mumbai (Bombay), Goa, and Andhra Pradesh state. I will see many of our preaching brethren who graduated from our Bible School and some of the children who stayed in our children’s home.

Besides evangelism, another project has been near to my heart lately, and I just have to do something about it. If you look on our web page under outreach, foreign, you will see women who are breaking rocks. This work takes place in a village near my headquarters in India where there is a large rock quarry. These women sit all day long on a rock pile and break rocks with a hammer. The resulting gravel is used to make concrete. Many women have been blinded or otherwise injured by flying chips of stone. That’s bad enough, but their school-age children often work beside them. These children will have no education because they must work to help support their families. My idea is to raise funds to replace the money the children would earn so that they can go to school without loss of income to the family. Probably they earn $60 per month. They would need just a little more for their school fees. This would be a small amount of money for most American families, but it would mean a lot to a child's future. Two Christian families are already committed to this project. I would like to rescue several children from this hopeless situation and give them a chance for a better future.