Adventures – Page 12

This I Know

Earlier this week we were finishing sizing the kids in the different homes for clothes in preparation to start labeling and repairing donations. First we went to the Victory House—a huge home with dozens of kids. It was chaotic. It was absolutely wonderful. Next, we went to the schoolgirls’ home—an apartment complex that housed the majority of the school-going kids. Walking in, the atmosphere was immediately different from the other house we had visited. It was quieter, the children who lived there mostly had physical disabilities rather than cognitive ones. It felt so much like Home. A...

A little bit of lately…

I’ve officially been in India for over a week! My time here has already been such a crazy experience. The Lord is already teaching me so much about myself and how to truly love others. So here’s a little insight to what we’ve been doing! My team spent all last week working in the ICM office working on adoption paperwork. Each child has a binder full of their medical history, previous institutions, and any other information on how they got to SCH. Many of the papers were a sloppy mix of English and Telugu, which was pretty hard to decode. While I was struggling with the...

I Got ya Kid

Ok, so I haven’t learned to trust God by now….I don’t know what it will take. FUNDRAISING “God, how is this money going to come so I can go?”……Go got ya kid. – Every time a deadline has come, I have hit the financial amounts weeks early. MEDICAL “God, I don’t know where to get this stuff?”….I got ya kid. – After a painful 6 months of trying to find this blasted stuff, my aunt gave me a number to call. They didn’t have it, BUT KNEW A PLACE THAT DID. I...

Week one observations

Tuk-tuks- My brother once asked the New York City taxi driver if he had a license.. A license to kill. Taxi’s in India have absolutely nothing on New York City taxi drivers. India has no stoplights, stop signs, speed limits or dotted lines. India’s taxis also have no running meters. Everywhere you go, regardless of the distance, it costs 10 rupees. (Roughly $0.20) Take that New York City. This three wheeled taxi, called a tuk-tuk (took-took), is ornately decorated with tapestry hanging from the ceiling and if you are lucky, a speaker that can pack some major bass and bollywood...

India Life and Loving Orphans

I am in India. I am sunburnt. The dirt underneath my nails appears to be permanent. The tan that I naively believed I was getting actually turned out to be nothing more than a buildup of sweat and earth. Cold water is my new favorite drink, due to its rarity. Peanut butter is the best meal of the day, eaten straight out of the jar with my absolute most cherished utensil, the spife (spoon, fork and knife all in one. God definitely invented it.) I have become vastly aware of my ankles at all times, and am constantly checking that they are covered by my skirts. Baby wiping is the new form of...

Stretching

So we’ve been in India for over a week now and my heart has been pretty much all over the place. I’ve been stretched past what I thought was my capacity to love- and though hard, it has been so beautiful. As a team we have made it a priority to come together as a body every morning on our rooftop overlooking the town and experience the presence of God in a variety of ways. The other morning, God gave me some insight into what He sees in this team of girls. As we were reading through Ephesians God spoke, “RATHER, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is...

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