Well we made it! I can hardly believe it! After 2 days of traveling we made it to Calcutta, India and have settled in to our busy little apartment.
Calcutta is a city like no other- it’s rich in color, but also in poverty and idol worship.
Half of my team went on a market/money exchange run yesterday and as we were coming back we walked past a Hindu temple. The god inside was massive, it had a sword in one hand and cut off heads in the other. It was also standing on top of another god. It was the god of destruction, an evil god and we saw people on the streets offering sacrifices to it. The need for Jesus here is overwhelming, but God has no limitations and I know He is about to do great things here. I can’t wait! One interesting thing that happened as we were walking back, we were trying to walk across the street and a police man stopped busy traffic for us to cross. I felt like royalty, because of being white. Everyone stares at us, I mean EVERYONE- it’s the craziest thing.
We’ve been going to the Asha Mission boys home everyday for our meals and play time. They are the most precious kids I have ever met. They are spunky, have the sweetest giggles and love to be loved. They wear me out, but I feel it’s my duty to pour into them as much as I can. They are going to be the future Christian leaders of India I know it, they are wonderful. A new boy came to Asha yesterday and he made it pretty clear that he had been exploited sexually, it is heart breaking. I keep singing that song to myself “there is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain, break every chain, break every chain”. There is power in His name and I pray that God would use him and raise him up to be a part of that chain breaking in India. Everyone at Asha is amazing and love the Lord so much, every night they have a service and they sing, have a message and pray. It’s beautiful, I have never felt so blessed, in the small, dirt stained little room they have to worship in, they worship with everything inside of them. They get it, they understand how much the Lord loves them and the need for him in India.
God is about to do something great and I’m so glad I get to be a part of it. I pray that God would wake these dry bones of India, that he would give them life and to the fullest. Like in Ezekiel 37, when God shows Ezekiel the valley of dry bones he realized God has no limitations, he is great and I feel that I’m about to get to see how great.
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