Author: Adventures

  It all starts with an expectation. A unvoiced desire goal or a need that we believe will occur or be meet in a certain way at a certain way. We all have them and most of the time we don’t even know that we have expectations until they are not meet. I arrived in Atlanta for a 5 day training camp before my team departed to India. Before making it to Atlanta I had training camp all planned out. Where we would be staying, how we would get there, I even had thought about where we would be sleeping.        After all the teams had arrived in...

enjoy these photos I managed to capture during ministry at the leper colony and the slums!   julia and myself hanging out with our english-speaking friend, David George, and his kind wife at the leper colony   eric & our english-speaking friend David George   praying for Leshmi   jenny & a little friend from the slums next to the leper colony   laura is a missionary living in our community and working at asha. this was shot walking down the row of houses that is the leper colony.   at the slums, jenny, sarah...

It’s been 24 days since I ventured from my home 5 of those days  were spent in Georgia  meeting my teammates and preparing for the next several weeks 1 day of just traveling from GA to Amsterdam to Delhi 1 day lost in the midst of time zone changes 17 days in country At training camp they spoke about giving up our rights and expectations. For the most part I was fine giving up my rights, rights  to comfort, to foods i like, to cleanliness, to communication, to personal attention. But one of things said about expectations was you don’t know you had them until...

The last couple of weeks have been really awesome. We celebrated three birthdays, preached the gospel to a leper, fundraised a lot of money for the kids at Asha Mission and spent the fourth of July at the Taj Mahal! Ministry at Laj Pat Negar Leper colony has been really interesting. The colony is really big, 205 people! So at first it was difficult to direct our energy. Now we have each started to build our own friendships! We spend the first part of our time at the colony with out friend Sharnaima, who has been at the colony for over 40 years. She is always sitting in the temple by the...