“I try and give my best in my work. In order to have a great engagement with community members and to earn their trust I mostly focus on working with womenfolk learning their language and culture.”
Khatsulou works as a missionary for the church in which she was born and raised, traveling wherever needed to build trusting relationships with local communities. In this work, she teaches lessons far beyond the typical classroom setting: gardening, seed saving, foraging wild vegetables, and other life-saving skills. Her success relies on her willingness to learn and adapt to any given culture or place. In particular, Khatsulou reaches out to women in the communities she serves, learning their particular values to earn their trust. Only then, can she best serve them as a missionary.
Chizami village, her home region, has people from all walks of life, valuing purity, truthfulness, self-discipline, and perseverance. Khatsulou also must manage disputes over land rights and differing values between groups within her community, as well as leadership issues which occur between generations.
After Khatsulou returns to India, she will continue helping her sending body, Chizami Baptist Church, as a missionary. She will utilize all that she learns at ARI to help people in their all around growth and development. With this empowerment, society will progress and the quality of life will improve.
Sending Body
Chizami Baptist Church is a Place Of Worship with a mission to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. The main goal is to reach out to the nonbelievers through preaching, teaching, and training. Chizami Baptist Church disciples people and helps them find their purpose and identity to build the body of Christ Jesus. Their community is mainly agrarian, with very fertile land. Their hope is that, when Khatsulou returns, she will make use of ARI’s sustainable agricultural knowledge to build leadership within their communities, to improve their quality of life.
