God has been working in my heart in so many ways. This is both amazing and convicting. Conviction is this wonderful thing that comes into play when we as Christians have lacked in our Christian lives.   I have experienced incredible things on this trip and I believe these things have happened because I have given God the Glory and credit for all he does. He has taken my old self and is renewing my mind and soul in him.   I have been reading this book my father gave me before my trip here, labeled Crazy Love. The author of this book brings a cleansing perspective that...

When we had spaghetti for breakfast this morning, I knew it was going to be a special day. Warning: This is going to be mind-blowing! We set out for a prayer walk this morning with August, who is our translator, navigator and bodyguard. We stopped to pray for a man who was sitting on the steps of a Hindu temple. This man has had is left arm paralyzed for 3 years, and as we started to pray, a crowd was gathering (not uncommon for us). Some continued to pray for him for a while, and some of us went to pray for other people who had pushed through the crowd, asking for prayer in the name of...

Last Monday we were able to prayer walk here for the first time. Prayer walking is hands down, one of my favorite things to do. You really get to take in the culture and the people around you. August, one of the guys who works at the Asha House, came with us. We weren’t going to be walking in the safest of surroundings, so August was there to look out for us and to translate as well, since everyone speaks either Bengali or Hindi. We walked along the slums that were right behind our street, their living conditions remind me of how blessed I am. The road was so narrow; we...

      The children of the orphanage all come from histories that have been challenging, abusive or unstable. In most cases they have been through unimaginable circumstances that a child should never experience. They have been brought away from these tragedies to live in a home called the “Asha Mission homeâ€� Asha, meaning hope.   This word is beautifully meaningful for each child’s individual life, they live in hope of what the bright future holds, leaving what has happened to them in the past and moving forward. They have been brought to this place for a reason; it...

The last three weeks of my life have been nothing but a whirlwind of adventure. To see the way that the Lord has transformed my heart even over the last few weeks has been absolutely incredible. My words cannot even being to explain what I have experienced or what the Lord has been doing here in Calcutta, but here’s my best attempt at doing so: Training camp was an awesome time to spend time with my team and to get to know them. I am so thankful for the way that AIM taught us about overseas missions and equipped us for what we were going to experience together. I cannot believe that...

India is amazing. I am absolutely in love with everything here. The kids at the Asha children’s home are all so precious and so full of joy and eagerness to learn.   Everyday we get to tutor the kids in math and English which can definitely be a struggle at times but I enjoy teaching them. This is the boy I always tutor. His name is Borun. Usually I tutor 3 boys at a time but the other 2 are always different.   Also as a lot of you know it was my birthday on Monday and it was awesome. We went prayer walking around the neighborhood and we got to pray over many people who were...