Pastors’ Conference Preparation
Today we are preparing for the pastors conference. We will have to run a VBS for 200 kids that don’t speak the same languages and do not know English. We have gone shopping many times for supplies. The market here is insane! Small open shops one after the other. One time we sat in the Jeep for twenty minutes waiting on the pastor. He got in and drove twenty feet to a shop and stopped. We all started laughing. T.I.I. –This Is India was all we could tell ourselves. Once you find the shop you need communicating what we are looking for is interesting. We attract quite a crowd. You spend five minutes looking in a shop and turn around and twenty people have gathered to look at you.
We spent time in a remote village yesterday afternoon. The countryside is beautiful! We were 30 km from the border. Meredith and I brought paper and crayons to the girls. They took us to their room and we spent a long time drawing things and asking how to say it in their tribal language. It was a good way to break down the barriers. I drank water from a village well. I didn’t know they took one of our empty bottles and filled it up. Thankfully I have lived to tell about it today.
Indians are so hospitable. Every shop you go to they insist you sit down. They bring you soda in glass bottles. They villages always make you the hottest tastiest chai tea. At meal times you are always being served more. I am walking, playing, sweating a lot and I will still gain weight here because they feed you so much. You haven’t lived until you’ve had egg curry in the morning!!!
Praise the Lord!!!!