Living Springs Overseas Missions is working in cooperation with church leaders to provide a well-trained, dedicated army of national workers with a vision to spread the Gospel. We are seeking to accomplish this work through Bible seminaries, vocational arts training, orphanages, and midwifery training.
We have been in operation since 1977. In the beginning we operated a lifestyle center, medical missionary training program, and vegetarian restaurant in New York. Since 1993, however, we have been operating under the name of Living Springs Overseas Missions, mostly in the country of India.
Springs of Life Orphanage near Kolkata and Springs of Love Orphanage in South India are school/hostels providing housing, food, clothing, medical care, and education for 150 poor and/or orphaned children. They receive a Christian education and vocational training that will allow them to support themselves once they are of age. Many are planning to go to one of the Living Springs Bible seminaries once they complete their education.
Springs of Love Bible Seminary, Springs of Joy Bible Seminary, and Springs of Peace Bible Seminary are 2-year self-supporting lay training schools representing the three major language groups in India. The students receive a thorough training in the Bible, evangelism, health, and vocational trades. When they finish their training, they are prepared to go into the field as self-supporting medical missionaries in an area where there is little or no Seventh-day Adventist presence. While in training they are sent into the surrounding communities for hands-on evangelism. Thus far we have graduated approximately 200 students, 14 of whom have been ordained into the ministry.
Springs of Joy Village Midwifery Training Center is a one-year program for the training of Seventh-day Adventist girls as traditional midwives to work in the village areas of Jharkhand State, where 90 percent of births still take place in the home. We are in the process of building a clinic, lab facility, girls’ dorm, and a cafeteria. The clinic/lab will provide the much-needed basic medical care for the thousands that live in the nearby villages and will be a means of support for the midwifery program. Lab training enables students to detect AIDS, tuberulosis, malaria, and other life-threatening conditions.
Despite the fact that the entire community around our orphanages and seminaries are Hindu and Muslim, we receive great respect and admiration for what we are doing. We have a good reputation in the community and have received much encouragement from local government leaders, who have remarked that we have a very practical vocational training program that is a blessing to the community.
Living Springs also helps the community by assisting in building projects and meeting a number of the needs of the poor and outcast. Christ is being preached in villages the church had not been able to reach in the past. Physically and spiritually, the communities have been blessed by our presence.
