Serve Trust Ministries

World Wide Word is proud to help fund the ministries of Leena Lavanya. Leena is founder of Serve Trust Ministries, which is devoted to helping the poor and disadvantaged in many rural parts of India. She began her ministry in 1993 as a young woman when she decided to fully dedicate her life to Christ.

Her numerous ministries include:

  • A home for the aged
  • A home for lepers
  • Providing homes for HIV/AIDS-infected children and adults
  • An HIV/AIDS counseling center
  • A computer training school for unemployed females and impoverished youth
  • Building an elementary school for children in a depressed rural area that has no school
  • Job re-training programs for female sex workers and their daughters
  • Starting over 40 churches, many in remote villages.

    • Leena is often described as "a living saint steeped in prayer and a love for the scriptures." She frequently provides basic food, free of cost, mainly to poor and marginalized women, and blankets to beggars who sleep on the streets.

    Leena was chosen as recipient of the 2009 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award as recognition of her Christian humanitarian work and church planting endeavors in south central India. In 2008 Leena received the "Baptist of the Year Award" from the Baptist Center for Ethics, based in Nashville, Tennessee.

    To find out more about the remarkable Leena Lavanya and her missions work, visit her website at www.servetrust.org.

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