Cause this is India!

Havent posted for quite a while but things have been CrAZY!!!!! Since my last post I've taught at a bible school, and been really blessed by the response to the call for prayer at the end. Painted a church, and attended a service in the "new" church. Lived in a village, enjoyed the hard floor, the hole for a toilet and best of all pumping my own water to take a bath out a bucket pouring water over myself with a cup...good times!! I had a lot of fun, living with the people in the village and learning about them and their culture.
All in all India has been amazing and its been a true blessing, these people don't have a lot but still they want to give me the best they have, I really am blessed to be here.

One thing I have really come to realise is how blessed I am, and how I take things for granted. The fact that I can lay on a bed every night, watch TV when ever I want, turn on lights when its dark, turn on a tap when I want water.....those LITTLE things that so many people take for granted are LUXURY here!!
It's not easy in India! It's not nice having NO religious freedom, It's not nice riding down the road and seeing people give sacrifices and worship other gods because they are just so lost and brainwashed, kids programmes on cartoon network and disney channel that have gods as their main characters.
It's not nice seeing baby after baby being born because a woman needs to have a boy, and all those girls have no future but to be married off as a young teen if they lucky enough, it's too expensive to let your daughter get married because the woman pays. In the village we went to I had a woman ask me to keep her child! I guess she just didn't want the child.

My heart is broken for India, and I hope to come back one day when I can just serve these people. They need it, but the crazy thing is...so do so many other places in the world. We are More than Conquerors!

Be Blessed!

Our God is greater, Our God is stronger.

WOAH!! God is so good! In India being a Christian is like being a porcupine in a balloon shop, just not really acceptable. So I was really struggling with the fact that I can't just be open and go tell people about Jesus, but God has been so good, and he has brought our ministry to us. We have had Muslims and Hindu's come and ask us for prayer. Most of them are coming to us for miracles, because they have realized that their gods don't help them and they want to try our God out, and our God, has been so faithful, and we have seen Hindu women in tears and prayed for a lot of healing.

One thing that really touched me was in this one house a 13 year old girl has accepted Jesus as her Saviour, but her parents are still strong Hindu's and at first they didn't like it, but now that they have seen the change in her, and the miracles of God, they have started opening up to it. The faith of that girl to go against what she was brought up in and what her parents believe is incredible.

Last night, I had the opportunity to preach at the local service, of Hindu's and Christians mixed, it was really amazing, and God really moved. The language barrier is a bit much at times, but God is faithful and we manage.

So far CULTURE SHOCK is CRAZZZZY!! But I know God has a plan and thats great and I'm waiting to see what he has in store for us next...We will be moving to the next city in a few days, amazing opportunities there as well. Cant wait!

Be Blessed!
Miss you all!!!!

This is Outreach...Travelling!

WOW...after plane tickets been messed up in Cape Town, and being delayed in Mumbai causing us to miss all 3 trains that could get us home, we FINALLY made it after 36 hours of travelling!!!
It's so crazy, we've been chased off the platform by police, we've seen children carving idols, we've eaten funky vegetable curry, we've seen people washing their cows, as an act of worship...WOW...when they say nothing prepares you for India they mean it. There was a children's ride outside a shop, that was a god. It's CRAZY!!!!
We are starting tomorrow, with our ministry, today we all slept in till after lunch! But we are all very excited to get started tomorrow, and can't wait to see what God has planned for us.
Hope all is well, with all the other teams! I know God is using each and every person weather in Japan, Mozambique or India, to make a difference for Him, and it makes me soo excited!!!

God Bless!