Hello friends and family!
Sorry it took me so long to get a blog up, but many factors came into play. We arrived in Calcutta (Kalkuta) safely pretty late last week. Took one of the craziest, life changing, taxi rides any of us have ever taken, to a hotel. The original plan was to catch a train to Darjeeling the next morning, but we ended up having problems getting tickets so we got the pleasure of staying in Calcutta another night. We had a chance to visit the mother house where Mother Teressa is from and now rests in peace. It was an amazing couple of days where we had to really learn about the difference in culture. Personally, I loved it and think it was a great experience.
We then took a 10 hour train ride all night long to some town outside Darjeeling, can't remember the name right now. From there we took a scary 4 hour Jeep ride up the mountain. With every mile that passed up those curvy, tiny roads, we fell more and more in love with this beautiful place. Everything being so green and clouds that we drive through. Its absolutely amazing.
We got settled in at the YWAM base for a couple of days then headed out again to Sikkhim. A state that's just west of Darjeeling. Another beautiful place. There we spent last week doing all types of ministry. From visiting monasteries where we did worship and prayer walks, to going to a recovering addict house that we did skits at, to helping with the church service, to going to house churches for fellowship, we even spent a day on the pastor's (of the church we stayed at) farm with 21 boys where we just got to love on them and tell stories from the bible.
All in all its been an amazing first week. Eye opening and life changing already.
Prayer points:
Health. We all seem to be a little sick in one way or another, nothing major though.
Unity between the team. John 13:35 is our team verse. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Energy. We love having busy days of ministry, but its easy to run out of energy.
Love for the people. We want to just love the people so much that we miss them terribly when we leave.
(trying to get photo's to upload still.)
Sorry it took me so long to get a blog up, but many factors came into play. We arrived in Calcutta (Kalkuta) safely pretty late last week. Took one of the craziest, life changing, taxi rides any of us have ever taken, to a hotel. The original plan was to catch a train to Darjeeling the next morning, but we ended up having problems getting tickets so we got the pleasure of staying in Calcutta another night. We had a chance to visit the mother house where Mother Teressa is from and now rests in peace. It was an amazing couple of days where we had to really learn about the difference in culture. Personally, I loved it and think it was a great experience.
We then took a 10 hour train ride all night long to some town outside Darjeeling, can't remember the name right now. From there we took a scary 4 hour Jeep ride up the mountain. With every mile that passed up those curvy, tiny roads, we fell more and more in love with this beautiful place. Everything being so green and clouds that we drive through. Its absolutely amazing.
We got settled in at the YWAM base for a couple of days then headed out again to Sikkhim. A state that's just west of Darjeeling. Another beautiful place. There we spent last week doing all types of ministry. From visiting monasteries where we did worship and prayer walks, to going to a recovering addict house that we did skits at, to helping with the church service, to going to house churches for fellowship, we even spent a day on the pastor's (of the church we stayed at) farm with 21 boys where we just got to love on them and tell stories from the bible.
All in all its been an amazing first week. Eye opening and life changing already.
Prayer points:
Health. We all seem to be a little sick in one way or another, nothing major though.
Unity between the team. John 13:35 is our team verse. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Energy. We love having busy days of ministry, but its easy to run out of energy.
Love for the people. We want to just love the people so much that we miss them terribly when we leave.
(trying to get photo's to upload still.)
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