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El-Shadai
"Love to the Unloved, Hope to the Hopeless & Joy to the Joyless"

EL SHADAI CHILDREN
Welcome to El-Shadai!
° El-Shadai is home to 64 orphans onsite with additional children studying at vocational schools.
° Located in Chennai, India.
° "El-Shadai" means nourisher, strengthener, and  satisfier.
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On average at El-Shadai, it costs 10 cents to feed one child a well-balanced meal.

History

Located in Chennai, India, El-Shadai was Established in 1997. Founder, Joseph and his wife Lydia oversee this growing ministry with a vision to teach, love, and develop children to be capable, contributing leaders.
Today, the campus is on two acres of land, with four buildings, including two dormitories. In the summer of 2007, El-Shadai dedicated a new bath house.
MOSES
Children, like Moses, help prepare meals.

Mission


The El-Shadai Charitable Trust has a mission to uplift and rehabilitate down trodden, destitute children. They do so by providing good shelter, education, food and clothes and rearing orphans as useful citizens of India. El-Shadai is committed to showering an abundance of love and care on a personal level, regardless of color, caste, religion, sex or creed.
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Each orphan  finds a home and becomes part of this nurturing family.

Daily Life


A typical day for the children begins with morning devotions, exercise, chores, and breakfast. This is followed by a full day of at school located about two miles from the campus of El Shadai. Upon returning home, the children engage in homework and Bible study and of course much loving interaction with Joseph, Lydia, and the staff.

Joesph PaulPAULS

For several years, Joseph Paul  felt called to serve the orphans of India. However, this overwhelming needs of this population and other advantageous career opportunities kept him from this service. In 1996, Joseph Paul was working in Secunderabad, India, as a translator for an organization called Operation Mobilization. He served as a translator for Richard Smith and Jim Bowman, two ministers from South Carolina. While translating the book of Esther, Joseph Paul was moved by this paraphrase of Mordecai’s famous challenge to Esther, “if you remain silent, God will find someone else for this mission.”  (Esther 4:14) The conviction of that moment lead Joseph to leave his translation work at summer’s end and return to his home in Chennai, Inidia. In a short time he began his ministry to orphans, out of his father’s garage. Within a year Joseph was caring for five children and had secured a rented facility in which the children lived.  After one more rented facility, Joseph was able to purchased two acres of land that is now home to four buildings.  Today Joseph, and his wife Lydia, along with three staff members, care for 43 children at this campus.