We seem to be well on our way to being prepared to leave as scheduled on June 28 on the latest TACC outreach to the Adivasi people of Northeast India. That’s good because the tickets are purchased, Visas finally approved and in hand, hotel reservations made, and village visits scheduled. The next steps are for us all to prepare for our areas of responsibility while in India and for us to pack.

My area of responsibility will be to work with Gary to attract and teach the children. He will do most of the attracting with his magic tricks and then I will attempt to dazzle them with truths about the one true God through storytelling. I am preparing four stories mainly for the children, but also for the adults, particularly women, who will hang around as we talk to their kids. Since we will be talking to people who currently worship many god’s (animals, objects and nature), I will be ready with the real account of creation. Also, I will be prepared with a presentation of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.

The other two stories will be “A boy shares his lunch” (the feeding of the 5000) and “Jesus calms the storm” to demonstrate the sovereignty and power of the one true God whom we serve. The telling of these stories will be complete with Swedish fish candies, wheat thin crackers and squirt bottles (you can probably figure out where these things figure into the storytelling). Thanks to Mary Beth for imparting her vast wisdom and helping me think this through and get my stories and plans together.

Just like Doug, my other reason for writing this trip update is to make sure that I can do it correctly completely using my tablet to do it. So far so good,but I haven’t posted yet. Please let me know if you discover any problems I may need to fix before we go.

Don’t forget to be praying for us – now while we are preparing as well as while we are gone. God’s word makes it clear that suffering and difficulties are always a part of serving the Lord and Satan will do his best to assure that, so please be a part of our team of prayer warriors!