About the Founder & President

Social work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or perceived social injustices and violations of their human rights. Research is often focused on areas such as human development, social policy, public administration, program evaluation and international and community development.
R. Gnanadhas
Born in Nagercoil, TN, India

Sacrificed himself to the social work for past 32 years with white heart and he started an organization for destitute and physically challenged children and backward red lined people in Tamilnadu, India

Contact

Ragland Foundation started by the foreword of JESUS CHRIST in vision to encourage the red lined people and studying children

RAGLAND FOUNDATION

5-D, Ram boyan thottam,
New Thillai nagar 9th Cross,

P.N.Pudhur P.O.

Coimbatore - 641041, Tamil Nadu, India.

Mob : +91 9003747547

Visit us at : raglandfoundation.blogspot.com

e-mail : raglandfoundation@gmail.com

IN THE FIELD

"RAGLAND FOUNDATION is a humanist organisation working to impart scientific education among people to eradicate superstition and myths regarding women and vulnerable sections of the society. Agrarian reform with a gender sensitivity is one of the prime focus of  RAGLAND FOUNDATION  apart from right to food, secular values and development of scientific temper among the community they are working with, such as tribals, studying children, women, minorities and other backward communities in India like fishermen, scavengers community."

The stakeholders for which  RAGLAND FOUNDATION  has been working are tribals, Studying children, women, minorities and other backward communities in India such as fishermen, scavengers community etc.  RAGLAND FOUNDATION  feels that without providing an economic alternative we cannot think of independence of women. Hence  RAGLAND FOUNDATION  has started several Students Empowerment Centres in different places of Tamil nadu, India. These centres encouraging students studies and trained them several industrial trainings. We are not only training them in techniques but also imparting right based education among them. In Dharmapuri district  RAGLAND FOUNDATION planned to form a model school for the backward children in Morappur area. Now these people are learning and happy with the changes they have seen.

About Ragland Missionary

     Missionary T.G. Ragland (1815-1858) is one among those who testified through life that obedience to God is better than offerings. When he was the Treasurer of Friends Fellowship of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) at Cambridge University, God called him to go as a Missionary to India. He implicitly obeyed. For Christ's sake he was beaten, ill-treated and humiliated. Yet he established Christian witness in more than one thousand villages in South India. He fell and died on Indian soil like a grain of wheat.

       King Saul stands out in the Scriptures as a monument of disobedience. In the battle against the Amalekites, Saul obeyed the Lord only partially. Incomplete obedience is disobedience. He spared the best of the animals for himself as against the Lord's command to utterly destroy all. When confronted by prophet Samuel, Saul duped that those animals had been spared in order to sacrifice to the Lord. Instantly Samuel challenged him, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice!" (1 Sam 15:22,23). Nothing offends and provokes God like setting up our wills in competition with His.

        Christ entered the world with a commitment to His Father: "Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me... Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God" (Heb 10:5-9). Even if the offerings are made "according to the Law," they cannot replace obedience (v8). The offering of Christ's body on the Cross was the culmination of a life totally lived out in obedience to God (Eph 5:2).

        The second great commandment equal to the first commandment is to love others as ourselves. But with all hatred, anger, jealousy, unforgiveness, backbiting and lying we dare to walk boldly to the altar with our offerings. God cannot be bribed. He totally rejected the first offering of the first son of the first parents. He has never changed. He does the same today unless we exhaust all possibilities to live in peace with all men (Mt 5:23,24; Rom 12:18).

        Marital unfaithfulness means disobedience to a covenant. Unless we break extramarital relationships mercilessly, God will have no regard for our offerings (Mal 2:13-15). When spouses obey God and walk in His ways, love between them will be supernaturally natural!

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