First Baptist Church of Washington, Michigan

Dr. Sam is president of Hopegivers International, a ministry in northwestern India, with a goal of providing homes for 10,000 orphaned and abandoned children.  It cares for these children through its 87 orphanages  throughout India.  Dr. Sam has extensive experience with Christian persecution in India, and has fought the recent anti-conversion bill. 

Hopegivers trains children from when they are 2  1/2  years old.  At that age they start kindergarten and by the time they are 16 they graduate from high school.  Their educational curriculum is based on whatever state the orphanage is in and includes Christian teachings, prayers and Bible studies with morning and afternoon prayers and Bible lessons every evening at the orphanages.  Ninety-seven percent of their children are ending up in full time ministry . . . and that is the reason India wants to pass the anti-conversion law.