A day in the life
We are partnered with an organization here in Bangalore that has connections with multiple ministries throughout the city. Because of this we have gotten to experience a variety of ministries we would not have otherwise seen.
Our typical day starts with two of us getting up a little earlier than everyone else and helping Regina, our cook, with breakfast. Every day there are two girls who stay behind to help with meals and clean the house. We rotate who stays behind from day to day. Around 8:30-9:00 we have breakfast and we usually leave for ministry by 10. This week we are at an Aids Clinic/compound. We are doing a lot of menial jobs like trimming hedges, sweeping leaves (yes sweeping leaves they don’t use rakes here), cutting vegetables, etc. While this isn’y the most spiritually hard hitting ministry, it has some semblance of routine. We leave around 1:00 and head back about 15-20 min for lunch.
After lunch we have a good chunk of down time to rest, spend time with the Lord, get chai cookies from Maria down the street, or whatever else we might need to do. At around 5:30 we go out for evening ministry. This has been somewhere new every night we’ve been here. They are all usually similar, either house visits, church visit, a girls home or a boy’s home. But we have never been to the same place twice. We have been to the church and surrounding neighborhood of a pastor in the slums and then went to the boys home he has a few nights later. It is during these times when we get the opportunity to see how the Lord is really working and moving in India. Most of the homes we go into are no larger than your walk in pantry. I have boarded my horse in a space twice as large at a five person home. But in this we get to see the faithfulness of the saints in India. So often their first prayer request is that their family grows closer to God, or that they be healed from a momentary affliction, for the studies of there children. Prayers for financial relief are most often at the bottom of the list. It is also very common for us to go into the home and hear testimonies of the Lord’s goodness. These men and women of the Lord cannot wait to share what the Lord is doing for them.
After few hours of whatever ministry we are participating in that night we go back for dinner. Ever now and then we are asked to stay and have dinner at the ministry. but for the most part be go back to our house. After dinner of Dal Curry and rice we go upstair and have team time and feedback time before bed. Most recently team time has looked like at least an hours worth of Dutch Blitz (nertz).
Feedback is a time for us to encourage one another in the strengths and gifts we already see in our team mates as well as a time to call them into better things. This time as been the most growing for our team by far. Depending on the amount of time spent in feedback we usually make it to bed between 10 and midnight…sometimes later.
I love the homes and ministries I have gotten to visit. I love the opportunities I have been given to witness the Lord’s faithfulness as well as speak truth and joy to the saints India.
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Prayers for India
– For India as a country to come back to the Lord
– For the pastors specifically as they are experience a lot of spiritual warfare
– For the women of India to have a greater heart for the Lord and the boldness to step out in faith to lead the country back to Jesus
– For provision for the many ministries we have visited ( I am sorry I can’t name them, but it sin’t safe for me to do so)
– For continues growth of the Indian church
