CSI Jaffna Diocese

Aussie visitors awed by our work among needy children

Pastors Luxman and Damayanthy of Melbourne visit our homes in Jaffna and Pandatheruppu

Friday and Saturday 19 and 20 February our Samuel Boys Home in Jaffna and Harriet Winslow Girls Home in Pandatheruppu respectively were visited by Pastors Luxman and Damayanthy Kanagasabai accompanied by the Rt Rev Dr Daniel Thiagarajah during the course of their Mission to Jaffna visit.

They are also colleagues of Pastor Anto Samuel who visited us in October last year as one of our guests at the Annual Diocesan Festival. During their visit to both the homes, they freely communicated with the children and were also spontaneously entertained by them.

In a region rent asunder by thirty years of civil war during which thousands of lives especially of those of the young were lost, families scattered and hundreds of children orphaned, the homes run by the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India offer oases of hope for our children in need.

The work among children is primary to the spiritual, cultural, social and economic progress of a country. They are our peacemaker hope.

Twenty years ago Pastor Luxman, a former banker committed himself to pastoral work going out in the world and preaching the faith of his conviction actively aided by his wife Damayanthy. Peace is the platform of hope and through peace peoples and nations bond and in today’s children in Sri Lanka this hope is vested.