Paroikos

On the map below you will be able to find marked all the places I talk about in this entry.

On Monday the 21^st of November, Pastor Deepak and I flew to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands to visit our BELC pastors and congregations over there. The Andaman Islands reside almost all the way across the Bay of Bengal, nearer to Malaysia than to India, but are nevertheless part of India. Here Pastor Deepak has spent a lot of time training men and evangelizing since 1998. For a while he lived here, but currently flies over from Chennai four times a year for two weeks each time.

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The final CLCI district we visited last week was the Ongole area which is down near the southern part on Andhra Pradesh. This coming week I will be in Nellore which is part of the BELC but is again near the same area just a little farther south.

Nov 1 – Mallavaram – Pastor Simon

Nov 2 – Vavilatipadu – Pastor Rosaiah

Nov 3 – Nagannapalem – Pastor Korneli

Nov 4 – Jarugumalli – Pastor Madhavarao

Nov 5 – Rachavaripalem – Pastor Johnson

I missed getting the gps coordinates on Nov 3 for Nagannapalem so this congregation isn’t shown on the map.

The last night in Rachavaripalem we had a birthday party along with the service. This congregation has been growing quickly the membership is currently 100+, although many of the weren’t able to come Saturday night because of a wedding. We had about 70 people at the service on Saturday.

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After the epic train ride to the northern part of Andhra Pradesh we stayed in Kakinda four nights visiting three congregations. these congregations are marked on the map below.

November 28  - Jayathinagar – Pastor Daneil

November 29 – Gygolepadu – Pastor Sudhakar

November 30 – Kakinada – Pastor Wycliff

Pastor Wycliff is the father of Jyothi  Benjamin and oversees the churches near Kakinada in the north eastern part of Andhra Pradesh. We visited his church on Sunday and the congregation welcomed me with a shower of flower petals.

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This is a map showing my train ride to Kakinada on Friday. I will be here for the next few days visiting churches. The map has some pictures posted on it towards the end of the train ride, showing the scenes out the train window. It might be difficult to see the pictures in the map below, so you can also click on the link beneath the map.
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That is to say Sunday Oct 23^rd through Thursday Oct 27^th

The map below shows you my Sunday wanderings. Rather than mark the map with the lines of my travel as normal I have marked the various spots with pictures. More pictures of these areas can be seen down below.
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Last night I was in for a pleasant surprise. When we got to D Paul’s house his eldest son took me over to the government boys hostel, where the boys from the villages stay while going to school here in Nagalapuram. There we watched a game of Kabadi. In the picture below the young man in the black shirt and white shorts attempts to tag any of the seven players on the other team, while they try to tackle him. I have a video I will upload once I get home.

After watching the game we returned to D Paul’s house where the children gather every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday evening for bible lessons and treats afterwards. In the first picture you see them listening to the bible lesson. In the second picture they are eating boiled peanuts.