Traveling through open countryside and rolling hills to remote villages in Odisha  Pastor Nabin and his friends from this local village church. These are mud homes hard as concrete made from local clay soil. Goats were out on lunch. This little village was built on the side of a mountain given to these poor families by the government to settle on. A very popular women’s evening sport in India. Pastors conference with pastors from surrounding village churches.  Travelling to tribal villages Pop quiz, which one looks safer, this one…? ... or this one? A long slender fibrous green pod from the Moringa tree something like asparagus. Remove the beds and a small village home becomes a church! Church teens  A family brick making business. One of the sons in front of the machine that mixes the mud which gets poured one by one into the mold he is holding. I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure this is the first rototiller ever invented. It grinds up the clay soil into powder to go into the mixer above. Bricks drying in the sun Bricks are then stacked around a large log fire and baked for 3 days This little church is surrounded by 16 tribal villages in the mountains that have never heard the name Jesus. Their mission is one by one to reach all of them! The pastor was so excited about our biblical presentation he wanted to say a few words about it.Notice her leathery skin from many years of hard work in the fields. Roz offered and was on her way out to help this woman in the fields, and everyone shouted out “Not dressed like that you don’t!”
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Travelling out to the villages in northern India.     Pastor Nabin’s Church that we built.Children acting out a bible song.Pastors training conference  4 adults were baptized and welcomed into the church!Hay storage for cows too lazy to walk out to pasture  The pastors in this training believed in inviting their wives to come!  Indian Crossword (Scrabble) Spelling doesn’t necessarily count! Thanks for watching! See the village life you’re missing?See the nightlife you’re missing?Our team traveled over 1900 miles to two very remote villages up in the northern part of India in the state of West Bengal to conduct Kids Camp in two places with 58 kids gathering from three village churches in one place and 47 kids gathering from 2 village churches in another place. .  The children loved the story times and payed such keen attention to every story detail and the messages that we were teaching them.  The children along with the elders enjoyed the time of singing, as the team led them in interactive songs of praise and worship.  The younger children are listening to their teachers sharing interesting stories and enjoying fun activities.  The team had a completely worked out plan, material, and activities for the camp and they fabulously implemented it during the camp each day.  It was fascinating to see how they divided the whole group according to their ages for age specific activities and games.  All of the children who attended expressed that this camp was the most fun and educational experience ever of Vacation Bible School.  We have always struggled with our transportation when traveling as a team to the youth camps. On average we are a team of 10-12 people, plus luggage and camp materials requiring being packed into three small individual vehicles.  We have been seeking the Lord for a solution, and in our prayers God revealed that he would like to bless us with a 12-seater Traveler van. This will nicely fit all into one vehicle, saving us a great deal of expense. We are enthusiastically holding onto this promise!
I traveled out to different villages this past week, preaching and teaching the Bible with our presentations. They too expressed this was the first time the Bible stories came alive allowing them to visualize them and understand them!    Village woodworking shop, I put in an application.   Sugar cane fields  Stopped to buy some fresh pressed sugarcane juice! Villages are surrounded by rice patties. On the right is the pump house that draws water from the river and floods all these fields.  Now is the time for harvest so the workers are digging this ditch by hand to drain the fields so the rice can dry out before harvest. Just like in America, one works, the other supervises!  Traveling “No Color Left Behind” bucket shop.   The TV was broken at this church, so I had to make do presenting the Bible stories with my laptop.  Typical roadside restaurant. If you look close, you can see cages with live chickens, a man on the far right butchering them, and pots of fresh chicken curry for sale on the left!  Sheared sheep  This is the ingenious “I push you pull” cart.  Many many hours spent releasing people from oppression through the inner healing prayer  Visiting with Jasper Paul, and praying with patients at his Second Chance Foundation, a death and dying rescue mission like Mother Teresa‘s.     Roz has been teaching nutrition and diet and giving detox foot baths to hundreds of people.  We were gifted outfits of traditional Indian dress!   Socian Praise and Worship streamed live from our studio. Pastor Lijoy and I traveled back this week to northern India to the villages around the tea gardens.      This is Pastor Herald’s church, one of the churches that we completed this year. At this mid-week service I gave a presentation on the story of Abraham, how God sent his angel ahead of his servant to find a wife for his son Isaac.  At this Sunday service I gave a presentation and preached on many of the Bible accounts saying how God will go ahead of his people to guide them, protect them, provide for them, and fight for them! We were thrilled to perform four baptisms on this trip and then provided a celebration lunch for everyone. We actually have ten more catechumens in training now for baptism next year! This is Pastor Nabin’s church, another church that we completed this year. Because their small one room homes get so unbearably hot during the summers, we felt led to gift each of the 15 families in this church with a ceiling fan! We were able to buy them for $25 each installed, and we are trusting that God will provide.  This is Pastor Nabin’s beautiful family. After praying the inner healing prayer with them, Jasen, the boy in red was pronounced cleared of a life-threatening blood imbalance, Praise God! They are so thrilled!  We invited 25 village pastors of this region to come for three days of training using our biblical presentations and practical leadership teaching. They claimed they experienced training like never before!  Roz gave 3 lectures today at another nursing college about new research regarding Lymphatics and Nutrition! She was the first nurse lecturer from another country coming to show a new paradigm of practice through Preventative Care. Their response was overwhelming!   Ceremonial dancing at the seminar. Mimes demonstrating how a family cares for the sick by not just giving medical treatment, but giving loving care at home. Greetings from India! This is the first of two powerful presentations that we have created and brought to India with us that we have been sharing with families and churches. This is the story in 2 Kings of King Sennacherib of Assyria attacking Jerusalem with his mighty army, and how God shows up against insurmountable odds to save Jerusalem! They are absolutely loving it!   We have been spending many hours counseling and praying inner healing with one family after another, and very powerful healings are taking place.  This Pastor and his family that we support and work with. We gave the Ezer Kenegdo presentation at his church on Sunday morning. He wanted to share how this presentation has impacted him and others to fully embrace these stories with such powerful visuals to imprint upon their memory.  We rented this space and started this church one year ago, and already it is overflowing!  Roz is helping everyone with energy for their tired legs and explaining stretching exercises that will reduce swelling! She is teaching principles of health and nutrition, including eating according to your blood type.  She made an excellent PowerPoint presentation and today she gave a seminar at a nursing college to 350 students!   The smiles here are contagious!  Roz and I having some photo fun in the local villages   Praise and worship tonight in our studio that we built that we broadcast live. Teaching the power of Jesus' miraculous healing, they are so eager to learn here.  |
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