Author: Adventures

Looking Past the Big Events

Event Calendar: 1. Monday, November 21, 2011: Prayer walk in a city near here 2. Thursday, November 24, 2011: Thanksgiving Celebration 3. Friday, November 25, 2011: India team Christmas Eve 4. Saturday, November 26, 2011: India team Christmas 5. Thursday, December 1, 2011: Last day of ministry in Preschool and Tuition 6. Friday December 2, 2011: Going away party in the Rahab’s Rope Center 7. Friday night, December 2, 2011: Heading to Bangalore for Debrief   This is the order of events for the next 2 weeks here in Goa. Wait. The next 2 what?? Yeah, my feelings exactly…. We...

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Here’s a little somethin

The past two weeks have been full of challenges and blessings alike, like most weeks. One challenge in particular was the fact that my body is still having a hard time keeping up with my heart and my mind. Coming out of surgery and getting used to the groove of things was at times exhausting and most of the time pretty frustrating. When your in a place where your work is where your heart is it’s hard to let yourself rest. God is still showing me how take it easy and take care of my body…I have a feeling that He will be teaching me that for years…ha.  As far as our...

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Preschool

It’s true! I have fallen in love with the children at preschool.  Teaching them has become a joy rather than a burden.  After all these weeks, I finally know every ones their names.  There’s still a language barer that I terribly wish it could have magically disappeared a long time ago.  I desire this for different reasons.   1) It would making teaching a whole lot easier.  (Even though I have learned some words in their mother tongue and have learned how to talk to them in a way they might be able to comprehend.) 2)  Just like any...

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BUS

The weeks seem to become more and more of a blur as they go by faster and faster.  Every day we are busy.  The days blend together.   And in the back my head there is an excitement and sadness that sweeps through me when it dawns on me randomly that I only have four more weeks here in India.  Riding the buses has become more adventurous and sometimes even dangerous.  When we arrive at one of the towns we teach preschool at, we have to by standing at the door to get off as soon as the bus stops.  If you don’t start getting off right when the bus...

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It’s Always Either A Wedding Or A Funeral

The name of the blog doesn’t have much to do with the blog itself, it’s just something that I’ve found to be true in India, and it’s really kind of funny because right now in the lobby which I’m blogging there’s a really loud and awesome Indian wedding going on and outside the groom just rode in on a horse and I just happen to be wearing my sari today :P. Oh and last weekend there was a wedding but HE rode in on an elephant!                I was really convicted this week, and sometimes I...

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YOU WON’T RELENT.

There’s a family with five children who all come to the tuition program that we work with. Four of the five kids are crippled to varying degrees. The two crippled girls can both walk, although their legs are mangled and the two boys both have to be carried from place to place, but scoot pretty well around a room. We go by the boys house every single day and ask if they’re coming to tuition. If they are, we usually pick them up and take them with us. The youngest boy, I’ll call him Madarsab, stopped coming to tuition a couple of weeks ago. He had called one of our contacts...

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