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  • Another Sunday

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    It was a very noisy morning today with the Hindu Temple loudspeaker starting up with a staccato rapid fire rhetoric at 5 am. It sounded like a military takeover by a Chinese dictator and went on forever before the more familiar chanting took its place for another two hours. A man was pumping water outside…

    Another Sunday
  • An Indian Theme Park

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    Well we mercifully survived the cyclone but the rain came down in torrential fury this morning. However we decided to make the trip of 60 klms to the Haai lands Theme Park where the kids could have some fun in a place they’d never been before.On the way we passed rice fields with damage from…

    An Indian Theme Park
  • 2nd Crusade Evening and Cyclone Threats

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    The second evening of our 3-part Crusade began with a hair-raising drive to get there. For some reason the driver belted down the road until I had to (uncharacteristically) speak up and declare I had not come to India to die on the roads. The car was full, including two children, no seat belts, some…

    2nd Crusade Evening and Cyclone Threats
  • Crusade – Ist Night

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    This was out of my depth for sure.:-) Started off around 3:30 with a drive of about an hour or more over some bone-jarring sections of road to a village in a neighboring region where Rau had spent two years as a very young child. There is no church in the village and were were…

    Crusade – Ist Night
  • Rural Life

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    Here are pictures of the surrounding area….

    Rural Life
  • More about the Orphanage

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    The orphanage has 17 boys and 13 girls of various ages… some have been here for 6 years others one or two years. Some parents have died of aids others are too poor and sent children from villages father away. The family is committed to these children and they are treated as family with a…

    More about the Orphanage
  • Visiting Lepers

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    Will add more pictures to the orphanage Blog tomorrow….. Today we drove back to Tenali where it had been arranged to meet a group of lepers and share the love of Jesus with them. Sanjeeva and his family have never dome this before because there were not resources. So some of the funds from Jericho…

    Visiting Lepers
  • Shopping in India

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    I want to acknowledge the generous support and giving from members of Jericho Road in Port Alberni and Parksville (Vancouver Island, Canada) – without your support none of what is being described in these blog entries would be possible…. so the sharing as best as I can with you along the way is an appreciation…

    Shopping in India