Hello everyone! I’m so sorry that I have not posted a blog in such a long time! I will definitely try to do better as I continue my race!
Ministry in India looked completely different from our other ministries.
Each night we traveled to a different village. In each village we visited the homes of Christians families. We prayed with each family for physical healing, their family problems, jobs, and any other prayer requests that were brought up. After visiting all of the Christian families, we held a church service in the local church. Two people from our team gave a message from the Bible or from our personal experiences with God each night.
We were never able to form deep relationships with the people we prayed for because we only spent 1 night with them. It was awesome to get to encourage and pray for so many Christians around our city, but I definitely missed learning people’s personalities and really knowing the locals we are around.
With knowing that we only had limited time with the people that we met, we tried not to waste time and got vulnerable with them when we felt like it was beneficial to the people we were with. This could be hard sometimes and even uncomfortable to share some parts of our past with people we had just met, but we are fully confident that the Lord used our stories to impact those people long after we left.
While we didn’t get to do an actual planned out ministry with the same people everyday, we were able to create our own ministry with our host family. We lived in the same house as our host family, sometimes we were in the next room, the roof or the small apartment downstairs. Our living situation was cramped sometimes, but it made for some amazing bonding times. We were able to hear stories about their past and how God has transformed their lives. We got to surprise them with chocolate and play with their kids. We got to make them laugh and create inside jokes with them. We became a family. It was different than any other family that I had been a part of, mostly because they didn’t always understand us and we almost never understood them, but I wouldn’t have traded it for the world. Mani and John Paul, you will always be our Indian family and we will love Noel and Joel like their our brothers forever.
While in India, God also started to turn my future plans upside down. He seems to like to do that a lot. Suddenly and fairly clearly, God put law school on my heart. I’ve always been passionate about getting justice for the poor and standing up for those who can don’t have a voice in their country. If God continues to press law school on my heart, I will most likely practice Human Rights Law. I’d love to practice law in poorer countries and give a voice to the powerless and stand up against the violence that is so prevalent around the world.
I have no idea if law school is something I will actually do, but it has been added to my list of possible career choices when I come home from that race. I’m trying my best to stay present on the Race and to not think too far into the future. I still have 6 more months of traveling to 6 more countries and partnering with what God is doing in each place. I don’t at all have my life together and for once in my life, I’m okay with that. I know that God will be with me wherever I go and that if I stay close to Him, my steps will never veer out of His perfect plan.
Thanks for reading and for letting me share my heart with you and what God is doing in my life!
Taylor
