We had four teams under one contact in India. His name is James and he runs ICM (India Christian Ministries), in Ongole, which is the capital of anapoura. Anapoura is a state on the southeast coast of the country. ICM plays a big part in church plating in Anapoura and it also has an orphanage for the mentally handicapped. Two teams went our to the country to work with local churches and the other two stayed in Ongole to work at the orphanage. My team (Limitless) was lucky enough to be out in the rice fields for a month.
Our living situation was a bit different than most months. We lived in a one-room church. The bathroom was squatty-potty down the street, or anywhere outside if it was after dark. All our dirking water was filtered from a well down the road. The pastor of the church spoke about three words of English, which is about how much telgu we spoke. We had two translators in India. Melik, who is a twenty nine year old ecology professor, and Agape, who is barely fourteen.
James informed us that our team would be evangelizing in small villages in the area for the month, about twenty in all. So at about three o’clock every afternoon, the ten of us packed into a small “Tuck Tuck” and headed to ministry. After traveling in one of these for a month I will never complain again about not getting shotgun or sitting middle. Seriously
