Lincy (Staff)
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 20:11 |
 | Lincy, pictured here with Tabatha, has a daughter, Sandra: 7 years old Years. 12th grade education plus Bible College in Rajasthan. Lincy was raised in a Catholic family in Kerala, a state in southern India with the highest percentage of Christians in India. Her first language is Malayam, then Hindi, and then English. She is the oldest of all of her siblings. At the age of six, her father died, and a year later, her mother sent her to an orphanage. She completed her education there. At the age of fifteen, Lincy accepted Christ as her Savior and entered Bible College in Rajasthan, where she studied for three years. After graduation, Lincy immediately went to Jaisalmer to work in a church planting and outreach ministry. Within two years, she was the principal of the school. When she left Jaisalmer, Lincy worked in an orphanage in Udaipur. |
There were a hundred children between the ages of six and fifteen at this orphanage, and only two staff members. Lincy and her colleague worked from 4:30 a.m. to past midnight every day, caring for the children, cooking meals, running the orphanage, and washing clothes. After three years in Udaipur, Lincy returned to her childhood home in Kerala. A year later, she married V.V. Ullas, a local pastor and they moved to Andhra Pradesh, the southernmost state of India, where they planted churches and had an outreach ministry. During this time, Lincy also worked in schools while her husband traveled to unreached villages to preach the gospel. It was very dangerous, for terrorists often attacked these villages. The terrorists threw stones at V.V. and Lincy, and disrupted their nightly meetings. It was during this time that their daughter, Sandra, was born. In 2003, V.V. and Lincy’s ministry held open air meetings that lasted for three weeks. Because these meetings were so far away and Sandra was still nursing, Lincy didn’t attend these meetings. But one night in particular, her husband asked her to come, along with their daughter, and her sister, Simini, and be present at the meeting. The meeting ended late, around 10:30 p.m., and then the three of them (V.V., Lincy, Simini, and Sandra) had to leave via motorcycle. Some others were following in a Jeep, and because it began to rain, Sandra was placed there. The rain continued. Not long after, a truck hit the three of them on the motorcycle. They all woke up in the grass. Lincy’s teeth were knocked out. Simini’s cheekbones were broken in six places and she was vomiting blood. V.V. looked fine, but his injury was the most serious of all—a ruptured liver. He passed away before they got to the hospital. Lincy was now a widow and a single mother. Sandra had lost her father. Lincy and Simini were hospitalized and underwent multiple surgeries and reconstructions. Lincy stayed in Kerala for nine months after the funeral, until Sandra was a year old. In September 2004, mother and daughter moved to Chawla Village to work with another children’s home, Emmanuel Orphanage. For two and a half years, she was a teacher and a caretaker for the children. In 2006, Lincy and Sandra left Delhi to start a children’s home in Bahadugarh, which is in the state of Haryana. Asha House was born in 2007 and she has been there ever since, working as a caretaker and an administrator. Lincy’s heart is to minister to other women who have been widowed and evicted from their homes. She wants to care for street widows whose families are unable—or unwilling—to care for them. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 27 August 2009 20:18 |
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