TOMORROW Bob and I will leave for Hyderabad, India. With the home front cared for by friends and family, we will have the freedom to minister to a people whose culture and lives are totally different from ours.
This is Bob's first trip to an Asian country and no matter how much preparation or pictures we look at, it is still a culture shock. This will be my 7th trip and I still consider this nation to be incredibly different from our American lifestyle.
The traffic is unimaginable - people... thousands of people around us all the time, the noise of honking horns and traffic fill our senses. The poor, poor people, many begging. . . children begging. . . . and yet there are the wealthy. Shop after shop that look like sheds line the streat. Animals roaming freely on the main thoroughfares and gods, millions of gods and their shrines everywhere you look.
With that in mind, I would appreciate your prayers and thoughts. We will be there two weeks with a very distinct purpose in mind.
We will be working with Joyland, a children's home of 125 children and school for 350 students. Bob and the husband of a couple traveling with us, Dave, will be evaluating and launching a woodworking shop where the older students or residents of Joyland can learn how to use power tools that we will buy with money collected in America. The goal is for the new carpenters to learn a skill that will enable them to make useful products to sell. With that money, they can help provide economic assistance to Joyland's expenses.
Shirley and I will be visiting women, speaking to groups helping them to see their value as people. We will attempt to help them see that they have a destiny and that they are important to God. There will be a lot of travel involved.
Thank you for your prayers. Keep watching this blog as I will post as often as I can. I will also have video that I will post via YouTube so you can see snippits of our journey. God Bless You All, Debbie
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