India!

Well it looks like I will be doing an update for every country. Sorry it is so spiradic but between the power outages, ministry and having to pay for internet, It just doesn't get done. so India...Well we arrived in Kolkata on the early morning hours of the 4th. As soon as we stepped out of the airport a lot of us felt a heaviness that wasn't just the humidity! So picture this, 9 exhausted sweaty white people trying to get taxi's while hanging on for dear life to their luggage so they don't have to pay someone for helping. All of this while 20 other indians with nothing else to do just stand and stare at you. Not a great first impression. We finally got to our place in one piece. We had to split up and some of us got to have A/C and others didn't. Nice. We had to stay in Kolkata an extra day due to unavalability of train tickets. It turned out to be a good thing. we saw some other YWAM teams at the Mother Teresa house and we got to encourage and pray for them. The train ride up to siligry was a fun expirience. We were late getting our seats so we were running through the train with our HUGE backpacks and hitting everyone along the way! It was an overnight train so we had beds, we took turns watching our bags and sleeping. We finally made it to Kalimpong where we found out the next day we would leave and do a mini DTS near the border of Bhutan! What?! The students became the teachers! It turned out to be an amazing 4 days. We taught lectures for the first 2 days and then had an outreach day. During this time we saw at least 75 people be healed through our nightly programs and open air. The deaf heard, the blind saw, it was amazing that He used us in this way. Once we got back to Kalimpong we were exhausted but excited about what He is doing in a small village. Oh, side note, we also got to step into Bhutan where it costs 200/day to get in and we took pictures! The rest of our time in Kalimpong constisted of rest, doing a cultural show, and taking part in their DTS graduation. On the 14th we left to go to Darjeeling. We stayed in a lovely apartment and some of the things we did were; praying over the city, meeting and spending time with locals, teaching "moral values" at a drug rehab, doing childrens programs, praying at buddist and hindu temples, ect. It was an amazing week. Now we have our "vacation" for a couple days and them we head to Cape town, south africa. we should be there by this next saturday. It is nice that one of our school leaders Will Rosenburg is here with us for a few days. He is an encouragement to us and he also brings news of other teams. I hope this filled you in a little. It is hard to put 2 weeks of outreach in one post!
prayer points: continued health of our team
-travel mercies
- that the seeds we planted here would be watered and harvested
- helen- a woman that has been hanging out with our team, she isn't a christian, but she is lovely-that she sees that she can have life abundantly.
- the ywam team here and the local nepalis close with them specifically, anup and joseph
-that the men the the drug rehab program realize where their hope lies
thanks!