Worship Dance

Worship Services in India often include drama and or a worship dance.Here is a worship dance performed in one of the evening services! Worship Dance from Big Timber Church.

India – Day Four

An Attempt at Describing Things India is an incredible place to visit! I consider it a blessing to be here. At the same time there are just things that are hard to process. The sea of humanity is never ending. The vast divide between the wealthy and the poor is also extensive. Every morning, with [...]

Busy Days…

                           I don’t even know where to begin today, it’s been crazy.  We left just before 8 am to another city named Virudhunagar or ‘V’ for short.  I can’t pronounce it but "nagar" means city.  So, there you go, I know an Indian word.  I also know ‘Nandre’ which means ‘thank you.’  That’s about [...]

Bohol, Philippines

 Greetings! This is Denny and Ellen from Bohol. We have been here for two weeks and plan to leave for Seattle on this coming wednesday the 13th, a quick trip for us. We have not come with a team this time, instead we have focused on fact-finding and program evaluation.   We have spent a lot of time [...]

India: Day Three – Saturday

Pastor’s and Ministry Workers Conference:Some traveled from as far as three hours by bus! This morning we ate breakfast with a widow and her daughter. Two years ago she lost her husband and was suddenly unable to take care of herself and her daughter.  Through the ministry Pastor Samuel has she receives monthly support, enough [...]

What do you do when your senses are overwhelmed?

Imagine the non-stop sounds of cars honking, bells ringing, cattle, goats, chickens, motorcycles, and music blaring. There is the smell of raw sewage in the air, mixed with the smell of the incense so many of the Hindus use. There is also dust and diesel smoke in the air.  There are so many people and so [...]

Hard to understand…

      The trip to the orphanage turned out way better than expected.  It was fun and exciting to spend time with the kids.  What was most important was that they are very well taken care of by the house parents.  They were joyful and outgoing kids and promised to teach me a little [...]

India: Day Two

Shopping Trip Earlier Jay wrote about our shopping trip so I will spare you the details of it with the exception of telling about a couple of the young kids we saw working atthe fabric store. I noticed one of the kids was standing very close to me for a long time but when he [...]

Shopping trip

                                  The first picture is from the top of the hotel.  A 365 degree view with a lot of people and buildings…  We went to a clothing material store this morning and purchased enough material for 17 pastors and their wives. The pastors will receive enough fabric to make a suite and their wives [...]

India: Our First Day on the Ground

Our first full day on the ground has been eventful and in some ways exhausting. Thirty-six hours in airports and airplanes with 5 flights tends to take it out of a person. And watch out for the fruit in the yogurt. Actually it wasn’t a piece of fruit, it was a pepper that looked like a cherry [...]

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