What amazing people! I've never seen people quite like this. They are living in some of the worst conditions I've ever seen, yet are some of the happiest people I've ever seen. They are truly a handsome and attractive people who experience some of the most wretched living conditions imaginable.
The believers here are quite bold in their witness and hungry for God. They love the Lord and they love His Word and spending time in worship. So far, there are not instuments (except a small drum!) but they sing at the top of their lungs (the leader's voice is amplified to the point of pain) and they seem to switch leaders at each song.
I have quite a strong connection with the pastors here who have come from this region and to the north. They really seem to enjoy the way I teach the word and are very hungry for any little thing you can teach them. they are pleading with me to return and spend more time with them.
I am finally managing, slowly, to catch up on my sleep. The food is excellent. The accommodations are somewhat difficult, but endurable. The most difficult is that they tend to sleep on the floor with only a thin reed mat. Impossible. They have offered the soft foreign pastor a bed with a mattress about an inch thick -- very luxurious for them, very hard for the soft foreign pastor.
Lord, give me the grace and power to accomplish all that you have sent me here to do!
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Hi Pastor Tom,
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to follow you and hear about the amazing people and their love for God. Oh we are so spoiled, or maybe that is blessed. I'll pray God gives you the grace and power to accomplish all that His has for you to do there in India.
We love you,
Dale