Selvi Rubin

I am Selvi,  Hindu convert.  Now the minister of Christ unto the abandoned children  by the will of God.

Faith

There is only one God as the Holy Bible says. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! (Deuteronomy 6:4)The Bible gives attributes of deity to God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit of God. I believe that there are not three God’s, they are One .Forgiveness is only from Him and He is the only way to eternal life.

Education

Bachelor of theology, Madras theological seminary and college

Master of Divinity, Hindustan Bible Institute and college

I like

Nature and  Music (melodies).

Call

Children Ministry

Sharing the love of Christ to the orphans, destitute      and    raising   them in faith, addressing their spiritual, emotional and physical needs.

Family

Married in 2002 and blessed with 4 boys , 2 are biological. We are willing to raise  more  abandoned infants.

I am able to offer genuine empathy to the unfortunate children who comes to me. By the age of 6, my mother had died and father is  85% disabled. Up until that point  I  had been raised by my grandmother since my parents were separated and both unable to care for me.  After the death of my mother, my father took me and my little brother along with him to Chennai. However, facing impossible circumstances due to his disability my father was unable to properly care us, the step mother who came into our life never wanted us to live with our father, she torched us so much.( beating, heating up the spoon and keeping on us, not giving us food) by looking at this, my father sent us  to orphanage.

I started missing my mother so much, she came for few days in my life when I was in my grandmother’s house, started caring me, before I express myself,  suddenly one day she asked,  “will u cry if I die”  before I could understand the meaning she committed suicide,  left us alone with out thinking about  us.  I was deeply hurt. I left as an orphan.  Mother left me and died, even thou I have father I could not experience my fathers love and care.

Orphanage was a different world, I was very much confused about myself, gradually I started mingling with other children in the new atmosphere, I heard many  terrible, pathetic  stories from other children, how worst they were treated in their own homes, by relatives and  by the society and how  happy they  live  in the orphanage.

All the needs were met before We ask. ( food was on table  before We say We  are hungry, good clothes were given) I realized that orphanage is a very happy and   safer place for the deserted children.

I saw children playing happily, singing songs praying to God. I was wondering how these children could be happy without parents. Even thou all my  needs were met,  I had  a lonely feeling with in me  and always had a thirst  for  care and love, but there is no way that I could get back my mother or go and live with my father, I craved  so much to be with my mother and father even though that was not possible. I was wondering who can love and care me.

I had a dream in which I was crying and saying that I don’t have anyone in this world . “Jesus came to me and  sat next to me,  wiped my tears and asked me to read verses John 3:16 For God so love the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life .and said that He loves me and He is with me” I realized Gods love, and how much he cares for my life that he gave himself.

I understood the reason of other children happiness and accepted Christ as  personal savior. The loneliness, emptiness and the crave for love which shadowed me has vanished after I accepted Jesus. I experienced the joy of happiness within me, even people recognized the change in me whoever called me long face started calling me happy girl. I realized that  Jesus  alone could quench the thirst of love for Orphans and I should share this Jesus to Orphans to experience the same joy which I am experiencing.

As all the college students go back to their homes on Christmas vocation I also went to my father’s house. But, my step mother chased me, didn’t even allow me to enter in,  being a girl I was  very much afraid and worried about myself for shelter return back crying to the college,  God provided place for me to stay till I get marry.  My sponsor educated and got me married, for which I am great full to Him and my Jesus.

The feeling of my parent’s absence and that sense of abandonment shadowed me constantly. Somehow I am managed to constructively channel my grief and began to think about the possibility of caring and raising children from similar unfortunate backgrounds. I am  lucky enough to marry Ruban who also shares my  vision of loving and raising  the unfortunate children. Whenever I See children with the same situation my heart longs  to care and raise them take them with me to my home.

I believe God has created everyone with the purpose. I strongly believe  my life purpose is to raise orphan children, that’s the reason God allowed me to experience what other orphan children experiences in day today life.

I have taken a step to raise them  by Faith.  At present I am raising 2 children along with my  2 sons (1 is orphan he joined my family in 4 weeks now he is 1 year and 3 month, other boy is 3 year old of a blind father, mother deserted.

In Christ

M.Selvi