Hey everyone
Delhi is beginning to turn up the heat lol today it was 104.F degrees or 40.C. All of the local people are telling us that we are getting to experience the true Delhi heat.... haha woo hoo as we melt away.
Any ways I thought I would explain a little bit about what ministries we are helping with. So the first week and a half I did Campus ministry and taught children in slum schools, the second 2 weeks I did ESL and Coffee ministry and now for the last 3 or more weeks I am doing medical ministry in the slums.
During Campus we go and make friends minister to them, talk with them, and find out more about Indian culture. We aks them if they need help in anything and really just reach out to the students. During Coffee house we make coffee lol and serve. We basically just work there and hang out with people, we also teach Esl classes for locals and foreigners, which are so much fun. The slum schools are schools that we teach at for the extremely poor people. We get to teach the children English and other subjects. Its such a joy and honor to poor love into their lives. Its crazy how small the rooms are we teach in they are smaller then my kitchen and 70-100 kids are in them. The medical ministry I am doing now is also in the slums, we feed children who are extremely skinny and also weigh every child in the slum to check and make sure they are healthy weights. There are about 1600 families in the slum we work at so that's a lot of kids hahah. We also do door to door visits and have a clinic that is open 3days a week. I really have found the ministry I love and it is working with the families in the slums!
There are so many challenges living here, but I am finally adjusting. God is so good and really has been so faithful :) Im sorry my up-dates are so few but know that I will definitely up-date and take time to tell everyone all of my stories and the crazy things that have happened.
I miss you all
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Site seeing + prayer walk 4/3/09
We were taken for a site seeing trip and prayer walk around Delhi today!
Our base took us to see the Red fort and to two of the biggest temples in Delhi and the 2nd biggest Hindi temple in the world. Our adventure started when we got on the rented bus and my friend had a rat run over her foot. Needless to say the entire hour tour there and back I did not put my feet on the ground. Ha ha the rat we so gross I wanted to cry, once again it is one of those experiences where I can laugh about it now but in the moment it was awful. We arrived at the temple and walked around, but the feeling was so depressing and dead. We had a chance to go inside and pray, and after that I am even more sure that Jesus Christ is the one true God. While being in India I have felt and seen and experienced Buddhism, Hinduism and many other idol worship and I can say that it truly is just pieces of man made metal. It broke my heart to see so many people just going through the ritual of it all and finding out truly what the religion stands for.All the gods they worship our because they are in fear of them. In America we truly do get a watered down version of these religions but now seeing it with my own eyes, I see the disgusting lies that are involved in it and the torment some people cause on others because of it.
It was awesome to go and pray for them thought and to yet again see how good Jesus is. I also got to use my first public Indian toilet :) it was awesome haha ha although the challenge was where to put our toilet paper after we were done. Next time we will bring zip locks hahaha..... on the way home we also stopped at the Lotus temple which was again so disturbing because it is a place where every religion can worship there own God but when you walk in the tension and aggressive feeling of the place was overwhelming. The one girl named Sammy who is only 14 brought up the good point of how impossible it is for so many religions who contradicted one another worship in one room. The Lotus temple was not a peaceful place and a bit eerie, however I am glad I got to go and experience it. Our site seeing trip was soon over and we arrived back to our home sweet home.
I got to take a "bucket" when we got home which was awesome since we had to walk bare foot almost all day out of respect for the temples. We call our showers here "Buckets" because that is really what they are, we dont have running water for showers so we bath we buckets of water which we bath with in the bathroom. Its hillariouse the entire bathroom just turns into the shower since the floors have the drains right in them. I have my buckets showers now and I kinda feel cleaner after them than real showers! It is the best when you get to shower in the evening since the water then has time to warm up all day in the holding tank ontop of the roof, and if you take one the the morning than you are totally refreshed and awake afterwards lol.
wow I am totally begining to fall in love the India, I will admit at first it was such a changed and as far as higene goes I was really freaked out but now its so chill. There are certain things that still are a bit of mind over matter but for the most part I enjoy all we have to do.
Until next time I love you alll and I am having a blast thatnk you for all your prayers they have helped me get through ruff times!
TADA !
Our base took us to see the Red fort and to two of the biggest temples in Delhi and the 2nd biggest Hindi temple in the world. Our adventure started when we got on the rented bus and my friend had a rat run over her foot. Needless to say the entire hour tour there and back I did not put my feet on the ground. Ha ha the rat we so gross I wanted to cry, once again it is one of those experiences where I can laugh about it now but in the moment it was awful. We arrived at the temple and walked around, but the feeling was so depressing and dead. We had a chance to go inside and pray, and after that I am even more sure that Jesus Christ is the one true God. While being in India I have felt and seen and experienced Buddhism, Hinduism and many other idol worship and I can say that it truly is just pieces of man made metal. It broke my heart to see so many people just going through the ritual of it all and finding out truly what the religion stands for.All the gods they worship our because they are in fear of them. In America we truly do get a watered down version of these religions but now seeing it with my own eyes, I see the disgusting lies that are involved in it and the torment some people cause on others because of it.
It was awesome to go and pray for them thought and to yet again see how good Jesus is. I also got to use my first public Indian toilet :) it was awesome haha ha although the challenge was where to put our toilet paper after we were done. Next time we will bring zip locks hahaha..... on the way home we also stopped at the Lotus temple which was again so disturbing because it is a place where every religion can worship there own God but when you walk in the tension and aggressive feeling of the place was overwhelming. The one girl named Sammy who is only 14 brought up the good point of how impossible it is for so many religions who contradicted one another worship in one room. The Lotus temple was not a peaceful place and a bit eerie, however I am glad I got to go and experience it. Our site seeing trip was soon over and we arrived back to our home sweet home.
I got to take a "bucket" when we got home which was awesome since we had to walk bare foot almost all day out of respect for the temples. We call our showers here "Buckets" because that is really what they are, we dont have running water for showers so we bath we buckets of water which we bath with in the bathroom. Its hillariouse the entire bathroom just turns into the shower since the floors have the drains right in them. I have my buckets showers now and I kinda feel cleaner after them than real showers! It is the best when you get to shower in the evening since the water then has time to warm up all day in the holding tank ontop of the roof, and if you take one the the morning than you are totally refreshed and awake afterwards lol.
wow I am totally begining to fall in love the India, I will admit at first it was such a changed and as far as higene goes I was really freaked out but now its so chill. There are certain things that still are a bit of mind over matter but for the most part I enjoy all we have to do.
Until next time I love you alll and I am having a blast thatnk you for all your prayers they have helped me get through ruff times!
TADA !
Monday, April 6, 2009
DELHI woot woot
We are staying in Delhi, which is quite an experience!!. Our flight was awesome, I enjoyed all 16 hours or flying time. We watched movies (which was my 2ND movie to see in 3months) played games and laughed. We had s few turbulence but all in all it rocked! We left Sunday at3pm and arrived Monday at
After our eventful bus trip we unloaded our luggage in a main street because the bus could not fit down the tiny street we live off of. As we walked down this street i had my first run in with the auto traffic in Delhi. Literally it was a "Run In" the car just beeped its horn and proceeded to squish its way between me and the other parked cars hitting my luggage and squishing it against the other parked car. Honestly now I am grateful that the driver decided to go slowly or else i might have lost my luggage ha ha... I can now laugh at it, but in the moment I was so shocked and a bit outraged. After that we we shown our living quarters... (God answered my prayers) we are definitely living with true India accommodations. I have come to love our room, however the first night was a bit of an overwhelming adjustment.It dose totally remind me of the orphanage in Annie ha ha ill post pictures of it soon! God is totally awesome though and I am so grateful we have beds and a door that locks :) But seriously it has now become our home and we love it and it makes me so humbled to think of all I have back in the states.
On the second day in India we had awesome food cooked for us, and we found out that the cook who prepared the food would be out cook for the entire outreach! We are all so excited about that, it was sooo Delicious. It was strange to have left on a sunday and then go to bed and wake up on a tuesday morning. I am greatful though that my body adjusted so quickly. God is good! Jai Mashiki
Ill tty (all) soon!
Nomesta, Tada (goodbye)
After our eventful bus trip we unloaded our luggage in a main street because the bus could not fit down the tiny street we live off of. As we walked down this street i had my first run in with the auto traffic in Delhi. Literally it was a "Run In" the car just beeped its horn and proceeded to squish its way between me and the other parked cars hitting my luggage and squishing it against the other parked car. Honestly now I am grateful that the driver decided to go slowly or else i might have lost my luggage ha ha... I can now laugh at it, but in the moment I was so shocked and a bit outraged. After that we we shown our living quarters... (God answered my prayers) we are definitely living with true India accommodations. I have come to love our room, however the first night was a bit of an overwhelming adjustment.It dose totally remind me of the orphanage in Annie ha ha ill post pictures of it soon! God is totally awesome though and I am so grateful we have beds and a door that locks :) But seriously it has now become our home and we love it and it makes me so humbled to think of all I have back in the states.
On the second day in India we had awesome food cooked for us, and we found out that the cook who prepared the food would be out cook for the entire outreach! We are all so excited about that, it was sooo Delicious. It was strange to have left on a sunday and then go to bed and wake up on a tuesday morning. I am greatful though that my body adjusted so quickly. God is good! Jai Mashiki
Ill tty (all) soon!
Nomesta, Tada (goodbye)
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