It has been an incredibly long week. It has been said multiple times that this has been the most exhausting week since the first week we were here. I can’t exactly put a pinpoint on what has been so hard… maybe it has been a collection of things. Maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the fact that we have only 29 days left and we are all aware of it. Maybe it’s because we have been dealing with a lot of sickness. Maybe it’s because we are all women and there is bound to be some drama. Maybe it’s a collection of all these things. However, I can say...

    Yesterday morning, I woke up sweating to a hot and congested cement room to the sound of Hindu bells after an awful night of sleep.  My hopes of taking a bucket shower to cool off were apparently a bit too high, as there was not a drop of running water in our house.  In a state of 6:30am apathy and confusion, I went outside, still wearing shorts from when I woke up, to see if the spigot had any water.  The water dripped out slowly, so I stuck my head right under it, contented for anything I could get.  Before half my hair was wet, there were about a...

Every night, like clockwork, at 6 we have prayer. Even on Sundays, after our three hour morning service, that night we have prayer. We pray, they sing three songs in their language, we sing three songs, one of us speaks, Subodh translates, and then we pray for a good 10 minutes together out loud, and then it’s over. It’s routine. When I was praying through that ten minute prayer one evening, I realized that. Instead of really focusing on praying I would be praying that the longest prayer in history would end because I was tired and the scarf on around my head was making me...

“You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.” Psalm 30:11-12   I love this verse. He could have left us in our sackcloths and leave us wailing, but instead he gave us a reason for dancing and singing; he has given us joy. Not just joy when life is going great, but joy through ANY circumstance. Whether the devil is shoving lies into our mind or through physical struggles, or with the emotional pain of losing a friend or family...

There are two sides of the coin. There are kids here that are so apathetic to what they are being taught here, and then there are kids who are so sold out to Jesus at such a young age here. I want to share with you two stories about two different children who are so sold out for Jesus here even at a young age. I hope this encourages you to realize that if children are lead into a relationship with the Lord that is mature and not discounted as “too young to understand” they really can live a life for the Lord. Lead you kids to love Jesus like these kids. Pritam: Pritam is a...

First and fore mostly, I need you to pray for me. Every day I fight my desires to do “good” to bring attention to what Christ is doing in me.  “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.”  -Galatians 6:14 I don’t want to do anything to bring fame to my name. I want it all to be about Jesus. When I walk my day to day life out, I want you to literally see the grace and love of Christ. Even writing this, I battle thoughts like, “I hope they can see how my...