INDIA -- A boy sleeps face down on the concrete platform as a train pulls into the Indian train station. Around the corner, a boy who lost his foot to an incoming train hobbles through mounds of garbage.

The boys' stories captured the hearts of members of The Ring Community Church in Baton Rouge, La. After a vision trip last year, The Ring committed to partner in prayer and finances with Prabal and Debjani Dey,* an Indian couple who have opened a hostel for railway children like these.

Nine boys and four girls, thanks to the Deys, have a chance for a new life, both physically and spiritually. The Deys' hostel for boys has been in operation several years; the girls' hostel opened this year.

The Lord led the Deys to open a hostel for girls when the couple saw two sisters, ages 6 and 10, picking through trash for plastic water bottles to sell. Their father, a rickshaw puller, had recently passed away, and their mother ran away with another man.

"I started crying," Dey said. He told Debjani that he couldn't leave the girls, but didn't know what to do because the boys and girls couldn't live in the same home.

"Maybe this is the Lord's plan," Debjani told Dey. "When you started the boys' home you didn't have any money," she reminded him. "The living God, He can take care of them."

The Deys decided to trust the Lord to provide financially for a girls' hostel. A leather company near their boys' hostel announced space for sale, but the building was out of their price range.

The Lord provided. Someone donated the money they needed for the first two months' rent.

Both of the Deys' hostels are already at maximum capacity, but the Lord has provided for the Deys' ministry again through The Ring Community Church.

The Ring Pastor Josh Causey first heard about the Deys' ministry through "His Voice Global," an organization that partners U.S. churches with ministries abroad.

"For a generation that's kind of drawn to difficult kinds of ministries, this puts faces with human trafficking, drug trafficking and homelessness," Causey said.

Hundreds of boys and girls live in train stations throughout India. They are runaways – orphaned or abandoned.

"There are a lot of people who are overwhelmed by the story of the train station and the kids," Causey said. "The thought of kids living in that kind of reality is so heartbreaking." Read More