From the drizzle of rain to the ecstatic, deep laughter of a small Indian girl to the spicy curry– I LOVE India. I am so blessed to have been here as God has allowed to me to do so many good deeds for his glory AND to have learned so many things. When people said I would never be the same after India I didn't think it could be that life changing but God has actually shown me a lot as I have sought Him desperately on this trip and had opportunity to do good deeds everyday. I know how to love people better now.
So here's the work we got to do:
1. We got all of the children at the Sarah's Covenant Homes orphanage (all 100+ of them) three new outfits each. We sewed different color patches on the inside of them for different sizes so that when they grow out of them they can get ones in the next size/color up. Sarah (the founder of SCH) was so appreciative that she even wrote a blog about us on her website. Google "Sarah's Covenant Homes India"… it should be the first thing that pops up.
2. We got all of the adoption papers into files on google docs so that they can go to the next step in the putting kids up for adoption process. This would have taken them SO long because most of the people working in the SCH office know english only as a second language so making sense of each kid's file is sometimes difficult for them.
3. We painted the new homes for the kids. The kids have thus far been living in pretty close quarters. With these new homes they will have more room to play and a place that is lit up by color. It's beautiful! Read more at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.591698687537073.1073741838.113779595328987&type=1
4. There's this village of tent people that we walk past everyday and the kids always come screaming after us for hugs. We always see these kids digging through our trash when we go to make our daily trash runs. We decided it might be fun at the end of the trip to put out a trash bag full of clothes & fun knick-knacks (since the kids will continue to dig through the trash no matter what). I had the idea of putting a gospel message into the trash bag along with the treasures and praying that the children would bring it to a literate person in the village. So I wrote out the gospel as thorough, yet simple, as I could and brought it to Sarah to see if my idea was a good/culturally appropriate one. She loved the idea, gave it to one of her team to translate, and all we have to do now is pray for that village. The village is literally right across the street from where we are staying.
5. We got to touch the lives of orphans and ayas (the Indian nannys). Though their was a language barrier I got to love so many of these Indian woman. I remember one moment in particular when I came in to work with a kid I had been asked to love on and the aya in the room had tears in her eyes as she hugged me, kissed me on my cheeks, and said "I love you" in Telugu. "I love you" sounds like "NayNewKneeNewPrayMissToNawNew" in Telugu. Master was the kid I worked with most. He could not walk or talk but I would read to him
If you want to read a bit more about what we did you can also read the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/schindia?fref=ts
Next blog post will be on "WHAT I LEARNED" … God has taught me alot! So stay tuned!
Also random note but I never got sick! Everyone told me before coming on this trip "prepare to get sick". I prayed I wouldn't get sick, didn't worry about it, and then I never got sick. Praise the Lord 🙂
