Author: Adventures

Just Beyond The Horizon

Sweat.  Blood.  Toil.  Ambition.  Noises surround and the battle around you seems to cave in closer and closer at every angle you glace.  Sweat spills from your brow.  Everything seems to become a blur.  However, you sharply and swiftly rotate your sword around you, jabbing at the enemy.  As you do, your shield is gliding to protect you from the fiery darts that surround. In the heat of a battle it could be very easy to grow weary, but you are armed from head to foot and you stand firm. You stand strong.  And just when the enemy seems to be...

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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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Declarations

For India… Lord, I know you have the power to bring… JUSTICE for the oppressed FREEDOM for those bound in chains STRENGTH for the downtrodden REVELATION and SIGHT for those that are blind RESTORATION on broken homes PEACE for those that seek it HEALING on the sick SALVATION, SALVATION that they might know that you are God alone… This week our team has been focusing on worship and prayer during our personal team time. We have spent every evening after ministry and dinner either lifting praises to our God or lifting prayers up in a specific way led by some of or teammates....

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High Risk and High Joy

I’m back! I’ve slacked off in the blogging department the last couple of weeks. So I’ve got some good news and some bad news… The bad news is we only have three weeks of ministry left. The good news is we still have three weeks of ministry left! I feel like I’ve been in a time warp ever since I left the U.S. It seems like I’ve been in India forever but the weeks are flying by! I’m already dreading leaving and excited for it at the same time. How do you say goodbye to people that have changed your life forever? How do I go back home a completely...

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Another One Bites the Dust…

          Once a year in India there’s a huge holiday called Diwali. It lasts about 3 weeks and is celebrated by every Hindu. Even if the family is very poor they will choose to buy lights to decorate rather than food. So, on the first day of this holiday my stomach wasen’t feeling so good. After a day of willing it to feel better it was only getting worse, and it seemed like my appendix was the cause. So, while all of the craziness of Diwali was happening my leader, a teammate and I got a taxi to the hospital and visited the ER....

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Get Ready…

We are now in our last month of ministry. When did it ever get to be November anyway? Which I KNOW this last month is going to go fast. I can’t say that it feels like just yesterday that we were exiting the plane in Goa, because really it feels like that was FOREVER ago,  but I know it was just there. We were just coming to this place, so unsure of what lay ahead but excited for all the Lord was going to do and how He was going to use us. And though many may be skeptical of what could happen in only three months, really the Lord is showing us day by day that His work...

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