The Village!

 

FAITH
Today, we visited a friend's village! We all sat around and sang a couple of songs in Hindi...acapella style. As we sang, we noticed that more and more people would walk in. To me, it was so encouraging that my smile would just get bigger. When we finished singing, Klix shared his testimony and I could see a few people nodding their heads and smiling. It was all so beautiful. We prayed for so many of them for healing and the results were amazing! I loved it when the villagers would keep coming for prayer. We also took lots of pictures of them and with them. They certainly loved that. It was a challenge trying to communicate with them, but we did our best. I think it turns out better if you put in the effort. The weather was pretty good to us, probably because we were mostly in the shade. We took a little break by drinking chai tea (delicious!) and eating some cookies and biscuits. Afterwards, we continued to talk and pray with the people. Some of us even sang and motioned a popular kids song.

When it was time for us to leave it was heartbreaking because we all wanted to stay longer. Nonetheless, I believe that we made some kind of an impact in these people's lives, whether it was healing or just simply loving them. 

Tomorrow, we're getting up earlier than usual for devotions and a trip to the Mosque. We ask that you would pray with us as we enter this place and that we would be able to reach out to the people!

ANDI
Today we had the opportunity as a group to go to a village and talk to the people sharing the love with them. The experience was scary yet beautiful and wonderful, the people so kind and selfless, something not commonly found in America. Of course there was a language barrier but something about the experience kept me smiling. It was very hard at first because being a well raised person, thank you mom and dad, I didn’t want to disrespect anyone or cause any unnecessary embarrassments, but as the day went by I was constantly reassured by my team, which I am very thankful of. As previously stated the people of India have a generosity that is incomparable and incomprehensible for those who haven’t been here. They constantly offered us a seat, food and chai tea (which is AMAZING!!!) and they made you feel so important and loved. The thought that I couldn’t escape was what am I doing for them? I prayed a bunch and took tons of pictures and I couldn’t escape the feeling of being a tourist. All I wanted to do was help, maybe build a hut or clean someone’s house, maybe paint something, ANYTHING! But later on in the day Kathleen explained to me that it would bring them great shame because it is basically saying I’m doing it because you can’t. So I feel like even though there is nothing to show you, no pictures of a new library or newly painted buildings, that something great was accomplished. The Lord moved today and there was great healing through prayer.