Week one in India: ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Not letting the heat index get to us TOO much, the team and I are hard at work here in India spreading the gospel through a street ministry and cottage prayers.
During the days we run or errands:
- Sari’s: check
- Internet: check
- Zoo: check
- Rock Temples: check
- Beach: check
- ATM: to do today
- Thomas’ Mount: someday
Our street ministry consists of us going down roads of where some of the church members live or close to where a church member lives and we hold a small service right out on the road. We girls put on our saris with all the help from Manchoo(Glory) and Leema, and the guys put on their “nice” shirts, and after an intense prayer we all head out of the church with Pastor our contact, a group of women who sing from the hymnal, Lijo the pastors oldest son and our translator, and Leo, the Pastors youngest son, coming up the rear with the sound equipment attached to a bike. Then when we reach our fial destination, the choir of beautiful Indian women begin to sing and start our night of ministry. After a passionate message delivered by Pastor Devados, it is our turn to sing and deliver a message too. From the street ministry we move onto cottage prayer (I like to call it an in-home-church-service).
At the cottage prayers, the entire church shows up, and maybe a few extra (praise the Lord), and they sing songs and pray. After the prayer we deliver a small church service: singing, praying, delivering a message, and more praying. Sometimes we pray for a while because people ask us to pray over them for healing. And then we eat at 10 or 11 that evening and fellowship until we go home.
God is still blessing me with great women who love Him. In Thailand God blessed me with P-Tip, our contacts sister, Cambodia was Pastor Virraks mother, Saran, Australia it was Vivian and Roslin, Malaysia Hannah and Cheyung, Now it is Leema and Manchoo. I pray that I use my time wisely to dwell on these women and the blessing attitudes that God has shown me in each of them.
Sotrum (Praise GOD)!!!!!!!!!
