BROTHER RAMOUTAR is a rice farmer who lives on the Corentyne coastlands of British Guiana, South America. He has a wife and six small children. They are poor, yet rich in faith in God and love for their fellow men. Brother Ramoutar determined to do something for the large East Indian population living on the coast of British Guiana. They are Hindus, and very little had been done to teach them of Christ.
When he told his home church that he was planning to undertake work among these people, Brother Mootoo, another East Indian member, who operated a pharmacy, sold his business and moved forty miles up the river to be in the area where Brother Ramoutar planned his work and to give all the help he could, financially and otherwise.
For three and a half years these two have held evangelistic meetings and conducted Sabbath schools in village after village. They travel ten to thirty miles each way to hold their services and to visit interested people. Incessant tropical rains, savage mosquito attacks, and water or mud in their paths do not in any way dampen their ardor and zeal.
Brother Ramoutar loves his family, but his love for God and benighted souls is so great that many times, at great personal inconvenience and sacrifice, he stays with the little groups, shepherding them faithfully until they are well established in the Word of God. During the past few years more than seventy-five of these people have been baptized.
