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Update from Calcutta

July 12, 2011
Adventures
Admissions

We spoke with India team leader Carin, and the team has safely arrived in Calcutta. On their way to Calcutta from Ongole, the girls were able to stop long enough for a movie and some Baskin Robbins. They were tired, but in good spirits. 🙂 Carin will have all her team members blog within the next couple days. Please pray for renewed energy and rest after their long travels. We know God still has so much for them in India. Thank you for all the prayers and support. Real Life field support team

Goodbye Ongole….Hello Calcutta

Wandanalu! Today is our last day in Ongole. In a few short hours we will be going to SCH to say goodbye to the children who have stolen our hearts. There is no doubt that these kids will be missed! I see their faces in my head before I go to bed and every morning when I wake up. They are so amazing and they have so blessed me. Over the past two days as I have been preparing myself to leave Ongole and SCH I have been thinking about all the things the Lord has done in me while here. He has broken me down and removed my comforts. He has moved me to love even when I had no strength...

Happy Birthday To You

July 1, 2011
Adventures
Reflections

Today it was Veronica's birthday! Veronica is 20 years old. She is blind. She was found on the streets and someone brought her to SCH. She had been sold, trafficked and was used at others disposal. She has 2 children, we're sure where they were. We knew very little about Veronica because she speaks Hindi, not the local dialect of Telugu, and she didn't like to speak, well actually she didn't seem to like much of anything. Most of the time she seemed rather lifeless. From the first time I heard about...

Whole Wheat Bread and Naan

June 27, 2011
Adventures
Reflections

Anyone who knows me will attest that I love food. I love to cook and I love to eat. People will often joke about my ability to “put it away”. Food is a weakness of mine. I use it for comfort and satisfaction. It lifts me up when I am down, and serves as a means of satisfying boredom. When left to ponder, my mind wanders to food. I enjoy the luxury of being able to snack as I please, and eat as much as I like. In India I daydream about curry and naan, and sometimes luxuries from home i.e. whole wheat bread. I lack self –control; in dietary choices, and other facets of...

What’s Going On Here

I haven’t really posted in a while. I just haven’t really felt like I had anything to say. I sit down at my computer everyday and just wait for some great story to come out and then my mind goes blank and I suddenly have nothing to say. I still don’t have some great story, I don’t have an incredible word to share, I barely have a sentence of what’s going on. So I’m just going to lay out some key points of what’s going on here because it’s really not about me having some great story or about me being able to write some really incredible...

Not Shaken

June 26, 2011
Adventures
General Posts

I walk through the gates of SCH. So many children run up to the team to be loved on. One little girl runs full speed ahead to be hugged. She’s caught by a team member and swung up into her arms. This little girl is so insistent in wanting to be held. If somebody is not paying attention to her, she will push other children away. If somebody calls to her, she will run so fast and jump into her arms. She’s always running to someone so that she can be hugged and carried and loved on. The thing is, is that she’s blind. She can’t see where she’s running to. But she...

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