“Everybody’s got a WATER BUFFALO.  Yours in fast, and mine is slow.  Where do you get them?I don’t know, but everybody’s got a water buffalo.  Whooo..!” (If you are not familiar with VeggieTales’ Silly Songs with Larry, click here.)

A collection of joys & sorrows : Whenever he sees us, our outgoing neighborhood kid leads a chorus of, “Vicki! Vicki! Kaitlin! Kaitlin! Shake! Shake!” (They misunderstood when Shea introduced herself.)  This catchy new nickname reminds me of how quickly kids wiggle their way into our hearts!  (I will post more specific kid blogs again soon ..!)   In the past two days, two children at Sarah’s Covenant Homes Victory Colony passed away suddenly.  The caring staff have had to mourn too often, but thankfully the spirits of these two girls are free...

We have come face to face with some of the most acute desperation; Children starving, entire families living in small tents made of sticks, mothers forced to send their children to orphanages because they cannot afford to feed them… It’s heartbreaking to encounter such sorrow and know there’s nothing you can do to alleviate the pain.   This past week we spent some time doing house visits where we went into people’s homes and prayed for them. It was a wonderful experience, but sometimes it was hard to learn the situations and hardships that each family is going through. We...

I can’t believe that we have been here for over a month! I feel like we have only just started what we came here to do, but God is amazing in how he works and uses all things for His good, especially when we are seeking and running after Him!    It is hard to think about how much time has passed and how it feels like we have barely tapped the surface of the ways in which we can serve India. I didn’t really know what to expect when we arrived. I honestly wasn’t sure why God wanted me to come to India or what He wanted to teach me in this...

Time works differently here than it does back home. Sometimes it can feel like we have done something yesterday and really it happened two days ago. Or it can feel like something happened two days ago and it was really this morning.   India seems to run on this form of functioning chaos. It never ceases to amaze me how the laws for driving work here. You have people coming from all directions and yet you rarely see accidents. Water buffalo wander the roads and sometimes lay down in the middle of the busiest intersections but yet everyone easily steers around them.   There is no set time...

We were sent to India to deliver       love                  hope                  joy                  truth                   power ...