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Count Your Blessings

November 26, 2011
Adventures
Life on the Field

This week our team finally celebrated our own holiday. In a country full of holidays just about every month, we were excited to celebrate a (pretty) traditional Thanksgiving holiday, stock full of fellowship and of course (American) food. We invited some of our Indian family to join us in the festivities and we spent the morning cooking (or resting), the afternoon at the beach, the evening around the dinner table eating tons of food, and the evening laughing at silly videos and lighting off fireworks. It was a wonderful holiday spent with the people I love in one of the many countries I...

Sized Up To My Suitcase

November 25, 2011
Adventures
Admissions Department

Only 1 weeks of ministry left. Not really sure how I’m feeling about that… Mainly because joy from reflecting on my time here plus sorrow about leaving plus anxiety and excitement about going home equals a whole lot of emotion that I don’t really have time to deal with right now! Not when I have so much more of India to enjoy in so little time! Earlier this week while I was chatting with God about this very subject, He brought me to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. A time for everything. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. While here I’ve...

Dreams On Fire

November 19, 2011
Adventures
Admissions Department

The beach was open, wide, and beautiful. The raging red sun fell beyond the sea, and the stars came out to watch us. The waves rolled and came crashing in. I sat and admired this from the shore while wearing my new sari. India. Then breaking the peaceful oceanâ€™s voice came the now so familiar sound of a nearby airplane taking off, and we watched as it soared over the sea and into the twilight sky. And as if in one mind we all knew, that would be us in 3 weeks. The prayer was read aloud by one...

Dreams On Fire

November 19, 2011
Adventures
Admissions Department

Shake It Like Shah Ruhkahn

November 19, 2011
Adventures
Admissions Department

Well, another week gone by. A little love, a little joy, a little Jesus, all wrapped up into one big blur of a week. I can’t believe this has been my life for the past two and a half months. A fourth of my year will have been spent in India. On Tuesday, we went to a friend’s house for the first time. She’s nineteen, I work in the preschool with her every day, and she’s also in the afternoon classes. I love her to pieces and she’s become a good friend while here. We followed her through the slum, dodging the murky water flowing down the middle of the narrow...

PUZZLE PIECES.

November 19, 2011
Adventures
Admissions Department

My preschoolers are really bad at putting together puzzles. Ironically, so is the teacher I’m working with. They can’t seem to comprehend that you can flip the pieces around to make them fit. They’ll try to mash different pieces that don’t even come close to matching together. They’ll try one piece and then cast it away if it doesn’t work the first time. Sometimes, they’ll get so aggravated with the puzzle that they abandon it all together, or my personal favorite, they’ll throw all of the pieces up in the air, which makes a tremendous...

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Count Your Blessings

Sized Up To My Suitcase

Dreams On Fire

Dreams On Fire

Shake It Like Shah Ruhkahn

PUZZLE PIECES.

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