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Director of Women's and Children's Ministries at Taft Avenue Community Church in Orange, CA, and trying my best to implement and encourage Family Ministry concepts and approaches in all aspects of what I do.
July 2, 2012

First day out in a village

By melichte

I spent quite a while with this woman and her two kids telling them about Jesus for the very first time.  Her name is Indira and she sat with a very strange look on her face while I went through the cube.  When I was done her expression changed to amazement and she smiled and told my translator that she had never heard of this Jesus before and that she very much wanted to know more.  She asked what would happen if she became a Christian – where would she go, what would she be expected to do?

We went through the things on the cube explaining what is expected of Christians – praying, reading your Bible, meeting with other believers and going out and telling others.  We told her about the church that is starting to meet in her village and told her where and when to go.  Even though she didn’t really make a commitment she was happy that the pastor would come and visit her and she invited three other friends and their children to come and listen to what I had to say.  I went through the cube a couple more times, gave out several Bibles and some small balls to the kids.

What an experience!   Please pray that the pastor does follow up with Indira and her friends and that their amazement can be turned to great joy as they choose to become believers!

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June 30, 2012

Dinner at the Appolo Hotel

By melichte

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Here we are at dinner in the restaurant at Hotel Appolo. We have ordered (Chinese) and are waiting for the food to arrive. You may notice that Pastor Bob is missing – he is upstairs trying to get Katie and Anna’s door fixed. Two hotel rooms, two nights, and two door problems for the girls. Katie got stuck in the room and almost didn’t make it to dinner.

We will just rest for tonight, but tomorrow we will split into two groups and go visit house churches. Should be a great Sunday!

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June 29, 2012

The view from my hotel window

By melichte

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This is the view from my window in the Hotel Saptaguri in Delhi.  Yes, the window is that dirty, but the street is quite noisy with activity as people on foot, on bikes, and in cars go honking by. It’s about 6:30am and time for me to get in the shower and get ready for the day.  We go back to the airport at 9am for our final flight at 11am for Bagdogra and then on to to Siliguri by car (bus?) .  After 3 doses of antibiotics and lots of Mucinex I am feeling a lot better and should be completely better in a couple of days. Thanks for all the prayers!

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June 29, 2012

We’re in Amsterdam!

By melichte

Well, that was the longest flight I have ever been on.  But a big thank you to Kristie Koontz for the support socks and to Pastor Bob for the antibiotics -both made the flight much more pleasant.  Now we are sitting in the Amsterdam Airport wanting for our flight to Delhi.  Time to head back to the gate!

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June 15, 2012

Trip Preparation is Progressing Well

By melichte

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!

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