Last week one of my friends and I went into the slums next to one of the preschools where we are working. As we were walking around a lady (we will call here Sue) came out of her house to greet us. There is so much I would love to tell you about Sue and her family, but I just can not even come close to bringing it full justice in a couple paragraphs. So I will just tell you a little bit. She is a believer, but her husband is not and she is not allowed to be a believer, so she does not “believe” in front of him. She reads when she is at work since she is not allowed to at home....

Ok, so we are in India..and ya my team is not really doing what we wanted to. But, no problems we are still having a blast at teaching pre-school and meeting people in the slums. I love it here and I am going to find it hard to go home in 3 weeks..But anywho, lets talk about my dad real quick.   So the other night the power went out at the flat we are staying at. (this sort of thing is normal for us so its what ever) But when it came back on around 12:30ish my roommates and I are dead asleep. And the fan turns on then I hear our balcony door slam close and feel this pressure on my...

 This week we were able to go into this place that we kind of named tent city. It is a place where families who move from place to place live. They only live in places for short periods of time so they really have nothing except the clothes on their backs and these tarps that they live under.  When we went we brought our friend that lives in India with us so that she could translate for us. Because without her it was extremely difficult to communicate with these people. We went  in with the purpose of telling them a story about how our Father sent His Son to die for us.My...

Lessons of the week: Don’t miss opportunites by contemplating God’s will. Let me elaborate. God has a will. It will come to pass…whether we sit there and try to figure it out first and pray hard about it–it will still come to pass. I say this not to take away from the power of prayer or the power of thoelogical discussions, but truthfully it doesn’t matter what we deduce from our contemplation or our discussion or our thoughts on the matter…God has a will and it will come to pass. I do not argue the importance of these things, but just wish to point out...

Far too often we, as Christians sit around and wonder what God’s will is.  The truth is that we are God’s will and are daily fulfilling His plan whether we realize it or not.  So many of us are completely caught up in figuring out precisely what God wants us to do and say that we end up missing many opportunities.  It’s not that complicated– if it’s in line with His heart and could or will bring Him glory, then just do it.  Don’t contemplate and pray and listen and seek advice from other Christians and not actually do anything. ...

five days before Christmas this past year, i decided to get a tattoo. it’s a picture of the Jeezus fish with the phrase “Jeremiah 29:11” under it…it’s on my right foot. since i’ve been here, i’ve had 5 opportunities to tell people (mainly children) what my tattoo actually means. it’s a GREAT conversation starter!!! it allows me an opening to share about MY God and also ask the people about their gods and their religion. i’ve talked about temples, Jeezus, bindis, the demon possessed man, friendship, love, and SO much more…all...