Author: Adventures

“Teacha! Teacha!”

Little brown heads poke around from the corners.   With a smirk on their face they give a little wave and yell, “Teacha! Teacha!”  Everywhere we go that chant is ringing.  Children we know and children we’ve never seen sing this phrase over and over again until there is some kind of response from us back at them.  Sometimes they will even trickle in from their hiding and form a crowd around and behind us.  With joy and laughter rolling from their mouth, all they want to do is touch us, have us take a photo or laugh at us.  Some even want...

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Strange Love

     I feel that this week the Lord has been giving me a strange love for the children, culture and people of India like I never thought I would have.  As I look back on my first few weeks here, I tipped toed around garbage lying on the streets.  I plugged my nose to the interesting smells that filled the air.  I steered far away from the stray animals and their lovely trail of droppings they left behind.  At preschool I would distance myself from touching a child for the fear of getting their germs on me, sickness ect.  After using the...

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Scene. The Rising.

Scene. Dark homes. Adversity within. Dissension and discord interlaced. Hidden cries for help masked behind smiling faces. Overwhelmed with disorder. Discouraged by the system. Tears held back as we hold their hands. Empty words that are not heard. Our senses not able to be blinded by the darkness. Yellings and beatings behind closed doors. Hope offered but lost. Endless sighs. Silent thoughts. Loud prayers lifted. For them that are lost, left stumbling in darkness. Left gasping for hope. For freedom. Scene. In midst of the darkness, comes a rising. A bright light resonates. It brings...

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I Have Decided To Follow Jesus

No turning back, no turning back. So this is a song that God put on my heart this week and for the first time I really thought about what it meant.  No turning back when you decide to follow Jesus does not mean that things will be easy or that you will not fall flat on your face sometimes, but it does mean that even when we do fall and feel like giving up that we will arise and carry onward. No turning back! I was reminded too of a quote from a book I once read, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.” And so...

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This is Real

Though I seem to have these marking of times in every blogpost, I find this one to be fitting because we have officially been in India for a month now. This time last month we had just made it to Goa after three days of travel from Atlanta. All the possibilities of what would occur in India lay ahead of us. We had no idea exactly what we would be doing, who we would be working with, or even where we would be living. There was so much excitement and anxiousness within us, as we wanted to get to Goa; we wanted to start ministry and just start living India! And now we have gotten over the...

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