Jeevan Caleb Khawas has a heart for God. This doesn’t mean he is fair minded. It doesn’t mean he thinks good thoughts about others or about doing good things. It means when God directs his heart he acts. It means when God gave him a compassionate heart and showed him needs, he did something about it. He didn’t realize and push away God’s direction; he accepted personal responsibility to change situations that hurt his heart. He didn’t have a hard heart. He let God break his heart.
Jeevan would never boast about himself, but I’m boasting about what God has done through him. Jeevan gave up his job in order to start a ministry taking homeless children into his home as his own. He provided shelter, food, and clothing, funded education, taught language, and brought to church four children who weren’t his own. They each came from small villages far from Kathmandu. Out there families work intense manual labor to farm thin terraces of land stair-stepping up sheer hills. Their work is physically demanding for little reward. Jeevan rescued four children from families who were going through difficult times and couldn’t afford to feed them.
Nepal is known for human trafficking. Men visit the villages offering work to young girls. Who would turn down the promise of a life better than starving on a back-breaking cliff? Then the precious women are sold into prostitution in India. Jeevan knows this and he is doing something about it. He stepped out in faith and did all he could to help. For two years he was able to care for the children, ages four, six, seven, and ten (his own daughter is eight). Yet, only recently, he had to send all four back home because he could no longer afford to keep them. He still pays for the kid’s schooling and lunch, but that’s all he can do right now.
This man voluntarily sacrificed a week of his life to help us out. We who are demanding and complain and accidentally (or carelessly) make social faux pas, who seemingly deserve his sacrifice of a week of his life, and would either make great show of such a sacrifice ourselves, or make ourselves believe we would do the same though we never have.
I cried when I heard Jeevan’s story. Why does someone with such a heart for others lack resources while monetarily blessed people see needs without any inclination to act? He trusted that God would provide and followed what God asked him to do. I expect God also asks a sufficient number of people to provide for his ministry’s needs. Would you pray for him and consider supporting him financially? I don’t write a blog about every needy person I meet, but Jeevan touched my heart and I wanted to share his story with you. Similarly, this may or may not be a need God places on your heart.
Thank you for reading!
Praying and very blessed,
Meredith
