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• Fr Jeff’s Journal - Return Visit to the Mission in India, Week 3

  This third and final week at the Holy Family Home for the Needy in South India, has continued to be very eventful for Margaret Price, Mary Skaag and myself. We thought it a good idea to give our personal reflections on this visit and the work that has bee...

• Fr Jeff’s Journal - Return Visit to the Mission in India, Week 2

    This second week at the Holy Family Home for the Needy in South India, has been full of surprises for Margaret Price, Mary Skaag and myself. The highlight for me has been walking through the rural fields surrounding the Home with the children. I’v...

• Fr Jeff’s Journal - Return Visit to the Mission in India, Week 1

   This return visit to the Holy Family Home for the Needy in South India, wil,l I am sure be full of surprises and interesting experiences. During my previous visits in 2005, 2007 and 2009 it has been amazing to see the progress of the project at the Home...

• Indian Project – Holy Family Home for the Needy, diocese of Kadapa.

  In 2003, Mary Skaag an ex St Patrick’s parishioner, now living in Coventry, asked Fr Jeff if an appeal talk during Mass could be made to support a project in one of the poorest villages in India. The parishioners in the West Derwentside Catholic Partner...

• Fr Jeff’s Return Visit to India – Sunday 25th January, 2009

   This last journal piece is being written from the small chapel at the Home for the Needy, in the village of Balamma Satram. I have only a few days left before I return to the UK. I will deeply miss this place. Living daily with these poor people has o...