Taking the Light of Christ to the darkened dens of Kamathipura

How a Customs officer, after embracing Lord Christ as the Savior, became savior of hundreds himself

Kamathipura, Bombay, India., Dec. 20 - Just as the night envelops dusk into its fold, sleazy dance numbers begin to add to the atmosphere, a nauseating tinge. It is difficult to walk on the narrow lanes along the cramped shanties without feeling miserable. The rusted grills on the windows exposing the shabby walls illuminating under a murky bulb stand like sentries, a mute witness to the screams of the innocence that gets lost forever in the dark streets of Kamatipura, the infamous red light area of Mumbai, leaving only a corpse that at every night would dress in to gaudy attires, before getting on with the business of satisfying urges of a perverse mind.

Nothing much remains of the woman in the flesh trade, nothing that she could call her own, not even her name. Called by derogatory terms, and commercial sex workers, as the secular NGOs put it, these women could not have believed their ears when someone called them sisters.

Ten years ago, Anson Thomas, a Customs officer from Mumbai found himself at one such by lane of Mumbai