Well…Week 1 of India is complete. I haven’t been blogging because I have been trying to process everything that I am experiencing and witnessing. It took 55 hours to arrive to where we are in India from Washington, DC. It feels sometimes as if I am in the middle of nowhere. It is true thus far that your only “alone time” comes from your headphones (they really are your sanity). My team has been working at a home for orphaned children with special needs. Here in India children with special needs are ranked below the lowest in the cast system. Our ministry this month is to show love to the children in the home as well as their caretakers. Since God is love, hopefully the caretakers will come to know God as their one and only and Jesus as their savior. Right now most if not all of them are Hindu which mean they worship many false gods. They are willing to accept Jesus and place Him right up there with all their other gods, but don’t fully understand what it is to be Christian. The language barrier definitely seems like a bump in the road when trying to communicate with these women, but hopefully just having them witness to what we are doing, our actions will speak louder than words. It was so easy at first to blame the women taking care of these children for their lack of care (even though it is better than what the children would have if they weren’t in the home). But we have come to realize that we must pray for them, we must show them love. It seems as though a lot of these women are broken, which understandably explains how it is difficult for the broken to heal the broken. The home that we are with is a great opportunity for these children, but there is much to be done there. There is a lot of heaviness that needs to be lifted from the children’s home, and only God can do that. Through us as His vessels we pray that He will do great things in this place.
Below is a list of things that you can pray for for this month of ministry in India:
- that the caretakers will learn what it is to be gentle, loving and how to provide complete care above and beyond for these children
- that adoptions will become available in India, and the homes to which these children would go to would treat these children as they deserve to be treated
- that the caretakers would come to fully know God and understand His ways
- that light would overcome the darkness in India
On a lighter note, I will end with the fact that the rumor is true…Indian’s do not use toilet paper. Left hand rule.
(Don’t worry we bought some napkins)
