So I was planning to post this the past couple weeks, but we were in Hyderabad for debrief. Which was amazing!! That’s what the pictures are from. And then the other two weeks the internet decided not to work. So here it is finally! This is at a fort we went to. It’s Golkonda Forts or something like that. It was crazy to see everything. There was like the kings room and the ballroom, and court house and it was all made from this stone stuff. It was really cool I would just tell you the one experience, but there are two moments that I really want to share. So here’s the...

Before we left for debrief I was getting anxious about what it would be like. Since we decided not to have any expectations, I had no idea what it would be like. The great thing about that is that its always a surprise. It was better than I could have imagined. I was able to play drums at the School of Worship. I’ve missed playing music since I came here. But God knew how much I would love this and He opened the door for me to do this. I was so excited.                During one of the worship services in the...

One of the first weeks that we were here in Ongole we prayed for a woman of Pastor K’s church because she had been struggling with demon spirits. She felt as though she was being spiritually attacked, had trouble sleeping, and heard voices telling her things like not to read the bible and she would get so weak that she could not go to church or have energy to do anything. Before she came to the church she had been a Hindu and worshiped the Hindu gods and Pastor asked our team to pray for her at her home. When we arrived at her home we could all sense that something was not...

Since I spent most of the past week resting at home because of my boil, I had a lot of time to think and process. I was trying to, once again, try and think of something to write about and I hadn’t come up with much until the title of this blog popped into my head (It’s a GOD provided statement, I’m sure). We have a month left here in India. 2/3 of our trip is over. A month still sounds like quite a chunk of time until the weeks are broken down – 2 weeks in Ongole, 1 week working in a village near Ongole and then our last debrief. I’ve been thinking about all...

Quite honestly, I have no idea what to write for this blog, so I guess I’ll just do a quick rundown of the past couple of weeks. We got back on Saturday morning from our debrief/helping do administrative work in Hyderabad. It was a lot of fun eating American style food (McDonald’s, Domino’s, Subway, T.G.I. Friday’s Hard Rock Café…ah, now I’m starting to miss it again), going to a fort built in the 1600’s, visiting a [definitely not safety regulation meeting] zoo, and enjoying a lot of shopping. The fort was pretty cool for someone that...

Everyday in India is a new adventure and a new experience. I have definitley learned that what they taught us in training camp stands true with expectations. You cant have any! WHen you think that one thing is going to happen most likely  the complete opposite will. This plus language barriers, heat, sunburn, bug bites, and being away from home can make it extremely easy to get frustrated and just want to say i give up at times. I have experienced so many different emotions during my time spent in India so far, joy, sadness, anger, frustration…. you name it ive probably felt...