Adventures – Page 23

Here we come:)

January 18, 2013
Adventures
Training Camp

Training camp came to a close tonight and we are packing up, shaking down, and getting ready to start the journey to Calcutta TOMORROW! So thankful to be co-leading this team of eleven lovable, crazy, incredible women, and so excited to see the crazy ways that God is going to use us in the next four months in India. Thank you everyone for your prayers and support!

Sweet Redemption

There’s a boy at Asha. We’ll call him Sanji. When we arrived at the home he was quiet and withdrawn. He had only been there a few months. He cried often, didn’t respond to questions, and spent much of his time alone, staring off into space. He got picked on by the other boys a lot too. After weeks and weeks of different Aunties spending time alone with Sanji, holding him, telling him we loved him, wiping his tears away and praying for him, something happened. It was settle at first. He started to come alive. He would approach the Aunties with a smile on his face, excited...

Dancing With My Jesus

Before I am came on this trip one thing that I was praying for was to be able to hear God’s voice more clearly. Well, I have learned how to do that. One time when He spoke to me sticks out really clearly. It’s rainy season here in India and everyday it rains…with the exception of maybe one or two days. It started raining one morning and God said, “Hannah, come play with me.” I said, “Ummm, no. I have make up on, I’m wearing a long skirt that will get soaked, and I’m wearing a white shirt.” (That is not a good response. FYI) It...

A New Level of Trust

How do you say goodbye to the children you have spent the past 2 months with, 7-10 hours each day? How do you say goodbye to greeting them every afternoon with hugs when they get home from school? How do you say goodbye tutoring them and to the children who don’t understand the English language yet are being taught in English every day at school and are making bad grades? How do you say goodbye to the children who fall asleep in your lap? How do you say goodbye to the cheek kisses and the goodnight, I love you’s? How do you say goodbye to the tickle fights? How do you say...

Using Broken Vessels

There were many lasts this week, our last days of ministry, of seeing the boys, of interactions with the neighbors. We wanted to be super intentional with the short time we had left. We went to see Rupa, the Hindu pastor that we made friends with early on in the trip, wanting to share Jesus but not knowing how to and scared how she would receive it. So we went to her house and we talked for awhile. There was a lot of awkward silence and repeated conversations from past interactions about school, weather, and the states. Because of the language barrier we didn’t know what else to talk...

The result of our ministry

2 Corinthians 3:2-3 ” You are our letter written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” In our last evening of prayer with the boys this is the verse the Lord prompted me to share. You see, as the team and I leave this place we carry the boys, the ministry, and the different people we have encountered in India in our hearts. Everything they have taught us about love, prayer, worship, or...

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