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Questions in Togo
Thursday, November 29th 2012
The Lord is with us Last night in Lome Togo I was teaching on a passage from John 16. When I finished Kossi asked if there were any questions. After a couple questions one lady stood up to speak. “Previously before you came Kossi taught us this same thing. Now you came and taught the
What Is Really Needed
Tuesday, November 27th 2012
Earlier this year Rev Godwin Akpan was called to serve in the NCLC church in Obio Inyang. This church is next door to our orphanage in Nigeria and therefore serves the orphanas. Godwin for most of the year has been traveling to this small village from his home on Sundays, however when I came he asked
You Just Never Know
Saturday, November 10th 2012
This week I have been teaching at the Bible School near Guntur. The plan was three class periods a day for three days. I thought it would be nice to let the students see the new Luther Film, and since I was teaching for nine class periods, one or two periods for a film didn’t
Y S Rajasekhara Reddy
After class in Kurnool a couple weeks ago Pastor Victor Vemuri took me to visit the tomb of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Rajasekhara Reddy was a very popular chief minister of Andhra Pradesh until a fatal helicopter accident in 2009. He was popular in general because of his many social welfare programs. Among other projects
Finally Back Online
Sunday, August 12th 2012
So it only took two weeks but I finally have internet at my house again. The internet guy showed up at my house the very same day, my father and I returned from our travels around India. I paid him for two months and he said it would be active by the next day. Every
The New Guy
Thursday, July 12th 2012
The bus rides are definitely the problem. I hiked 3.5 thousand feet up and the next day had no soreness or discomfort of any kind. I hiked 3.5 thousand feet down and the following day had no problems whatsoever. I sat on a bus for eight hours and the day after that I can’t make
An Unbelievable Croaking
Sometimes it is the simplest thing that makes all the difference, but only when you already have everything else. Right now what would make all the difference is a comfortable bed, real coffee, true American food, an A/C room, a hot shower, and a room that isn’t surrounded by the loudest frogs this earth has
A Shirt in Bharatpur
Thursday, July 5th 2012
My father is out attempting to buy a shirt from a Nepali shop near our hotel in Bharatpur. I’m more than a little curious to see what he will return with. It is Tuesday July 3rd. Two days ago Sunday morning we woke early and set off on the type of adventure many American’s specifically
Sabbath Worship
Monday, July 2nd 2012
When we finally arrived in Kathmandu, Raju was busy at the American Embassy attempting to get his visa so that he may come this fall for school at Immanuel Eau Claire. He needed one more document from Todd Ohlmann and therefore skipped our Monday conference so that he could return to the Embassy. We certainly
Fatal Attraction
On Tuesday June 26th my father and I left for my return trip to India. Our plan being to stop in Nepal for two weeks first then my father would stay with me in India for the rest of the month before returning home and desperately trying to make up for lost time and prepare