Gospel for Asia Sowing the Gift of Sewing

KERALA — My mother had a sewing machine. Both of my grandmothers had sewing machines. I haven’t seen a sewing machine up close in the 21st century. I had actually thought sewing machines had gone the way of IBM Selectric® typewriters and the manual typewriters that had preceded them.

I certainly never thought of a sewing machine as a tool for ministry, until I learned how Gospel for Asia and so many similar faith-based, humanitarian missions use them. Sewing machines introduced me to the concept of what it means to live in countries where extreme poverty is perpetual for hundreds of millions of people.

A number of years ago I realized sewing machines could play an integral part in both demonstrating the love of Christ and providing income and dignity to women in cultures where neither were regularly available.

Ministering to people with the love of Jesus requires more than just saying words, then moving on to another place. It requires Christ followers coming alongside them and helping them bear their heavy load (see Galatians 6:2).

In regions like Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, most people bear a daily load that would crush the average American under its weight and its complexity. There are many intertwining reasons why these people are trapped in perpetual poverty. Combinations of low social status, illiteracy, lack of sanitation, dirty water, disease, no education or skills, and being unaware of our loving God are all at work, defeating attempts to replace hopelessness by merely concentrating on a singular contributing cause.

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