Soundings from Nepal

by Jerry Sellers

Our last day in Nepal we visited the office of a businessman. His office was well appointed with lush carpet, large desk, two computers, a huge aquarium with all kinds of fish. Across the desk sat the Managing Director of Grace Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd. Prakash Karki. But we don’t see a Managing Director, we see a small boy asking a missionary just after the crash of TG311 in July of 1992 “What’s going to happen to us?” As a ten-year-old boy, Joe Collins represented the only security Prakash had ever known in this world. A beggar sleeping underneath newspapers to stay warm most of his life, he was afraid he would be forced to search garbage dumps for food as he had before Joe took him into the Home. This same Prakash Kaki as a teenager wrote beautiful poems about his love for Joe and Tanna Collins and his thankfulness that they had come into his life. Now he is a successful entrepreneur whose business symbol is a cross inside a circle. God does still hear and answer prayers, even those of the least of us.