Our stories have brought us here offering our gifts; strengths and weaknesses alike. All that has been a part of us, every story, relationship, each crumb of knowledge, and any moment of encountering God has brought us here. Each of us now take new steps on the same path, offering our threads that are beginning to intersect, eventually weaving into something new and beautiful. We can no longer look out only for ourselves. We are a unit. A single entity, sculpted into one form using many clays. Though made up of separate parts, we are now incorporated together. Storms of tasks and ideas hit us abruptly, these two days we have found ourselves swimming in decision-making, brainstorming, new responsibilities, and discovering our collective dynamics. Much is happening and surely much is to come. After five months of vague ideas, educated guesses, and hidden hopes, things are finally coming into the light and we are laboriously seeking for the vision to come to life in a sustainable ministry for India. Though my mind holds no charts for these new waters, I am confident in one thing: the message I have been given. This summer I sought a direction, a message for the people of India. I wanted God to custom make me into his mouthpiece for India. Faithfulness delivered a message tailored for the poor and I will run with it to the nations, proclaiming it repetitively because I believe it’s too important to be vaguely active. Out of this message arrived the desire to make something tangible and effective for communicating it to all who were interested in what I am about. I visualized how this would look in the form of a video and commissioned a good friend (credit to Josh McQuire) to let me boss him around for extensive hours in order to gather my thoughts. I am hardly creative and hold no previous experience in any form of media, so this has sprung up from a singular desire, unmatched by skill. I hope that by watching this you will be faced with the truth of who India is as well as what God has exclusively promised for the poor. The goal is not to provoke guilt, but prayer and awareness for reality as well as the right perspective and response towards poverty and injustice.
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