Partnership in Family

“Now there was a certain man… and his name was Elkanah… He had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh…

But to Hannah he would give a double portion for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb. And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat. Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

I Samuel 1:1-8

From the Editor…

Dearly beloved in Christ,

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and SAVIOUR Jesus Christ,

Peter S.C. Pothan, while writing about Christian home, defined a Christian home as, “A body of different members of a family living together in love and harmony in a house, where Jesus Christ is the Lord, Head and Host”.

He further wrote, “The home is a place of peace and comfort, it is a place where joy is shared and sorrow is eased away, where money is not as important as love and kindness and where, ‘even the kettle sings out of happiness”.

All of us know that a Christian home must be a place of joy and happiness. It must be heaven on earth. But in some families, it is a place of conflict, sorrow, tears and bitterness, from which nothing could be expected for the kingdom of God. It is because Christ is not the head of such families, and each member in the family fails to fulfil his God ordained role in the family. In this issue we deal with partnership in the family. We request you to pray for its usefulness for our dear reader.