This blog is ultimately about why I want to go minister in India. Only, I don’t really have an explanation for that other than that my desire is from God, so I am going to start by telling you a story.
My family moved to the “wonderful” state of Illinois when I was in seventh grade. I learned quickly that DaBears and the Cubs (and now the Blackhawks) were more like religious entities than they were sports teams. You followed them passionately into battle and they could do no wrong (even when they loose it’s not their fault – you blame the refs or the QB). I learned that wind blew really hard year round, what lake affect snow was, that their was such a thing a ChicAgo accent, and Nothing But Casual at a church meant that shorts and flip-flops and t-shirts were a little too casual.
My family started attending a church that I HATED (my opinion has since changed). At this church I really didn’t want to be at, they had a group of kids for foreign countries come and sing for us one Sunday. I remember spending about five minutes talking to one of the little girls from India. She was an orphan and she lived in an orphanage and she had a name I couldn’t pronounce and she was from New Dehli.
I left the service knowing I was going to India one day and I knew absolutely nothing about India. I have since learned about the history, and the religions, and the culture, and the food. And I have also learned about the struggle in India. To make this brief, when you look at India every possible struggle or problem a country could have India has. Everything from immense poverty to infanticide to corrupt and oppressive government. India hits the gauntlet on things its people need help with and it’s almost overwhelming.
But not because of any of these things, my heart beats for India. I will go to India and love on the Lepers or the Orphans or the poor or the abandoned or whomever else is in India. I don’t care what I do their I just know that I am meant to go to India and do whatever I can to help and love on the people there.
India is a place God placed on my heart. I have no rational reason for wanting to serve there and I can over look the smell people talk about and the lice and flees missionaries always seem to get there. I want to go love on the people of India because God made my heart beat for India.
I am so excited about going to India. If you would like to support my trip and enable me to India and serve the people there just click on the link below.
