Category Archives: Blogs
Help Needed
Saturday, November 13th 2010
The wife of one of our pastors in koppedu district needs heart surgery within the next couple of months, or else the doctors say she will not make it. The price for the surgery comes to about $850 in USD. Not much for Americans but far beyond her husband’s means. Considering the time sensitive nature
Benches Beyond
Thursday, October 14th 2010
Teaching – October 11th – 14th Fresh from my victory over the bull, close enough for me anyway, this week was teaching time at the Bible School in Nidubrolu. There was some miscommunication over the subject matter. Jyothi apparently had understood that I was going to be going through the whole book Ephesians, where as
Fellowship of the Four
Weekend in Guntur – October 7th – 10th Raju and Rajan Bhitrakoti came down from Nepal for the Joint Asian Pastoral Conference 2010. Due to the Commonwealth Games taking place in Delhi as well as the Indian holiday season, train travel especially towards Delhi was stuffed to overflowing. It was difficult to find any tickets
Come Together
Joint Asia Pastoral Conference – October 6th and 7th From all over Asia, okay maybe just India and Nepal, we came to Nellore, to do the things that apparently pastors do these days when they get together, show hundreds of hours of slide shows. We saw pictures of pastors preaching, pastors teaching, pastors praying, pastors
Incidentless
Monday, September 20th 2010
The week after my return from Africa my internet was down. I arrived back in India, thinking I would have the opportunity to talk to my family and friends again, catch up on my email and finances, and maybe write a final post. Instead I arrived to find the internet was not working. This isn’t
Final Days
Thursday, September 2nd 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010 Even though I am headed back to India tomorrow morning and not back to the US, it certainly feels like I am almost done with this particular segment of wanderings. It’s hard not to be a little excited to head back to a place where at least I have my own
Christ
Saturday, August 28, 2010 The ministry is of course at all times and in all places difficult. It is hardly fair to say it is more difficult to be a missionary than say to deal with a married couple who simply don’t want to hear what you have to say to them. Different aspect of
TV
August 25th 2010 Today I made it to Togo. What’s in Togo? Great food, French culture, and of course Pastor Kossi. I turned on the TV hoping, without much hope, to find English news. What I found instead: a small fat cartoon style drawn rapper singing about being fat, French soap operas, and Lizzie McGuire
Advanced Social Structure
Monday, August 23rd 2010
I think I already mentioned once that I got in to a discussion last year with a couple people over what indicates human advancement. In other words when is it fair to say of a social community no matter how large or small, they are advanced, developed, modern, fresh etc. I have decided there is
The Week After
Friday August 20th One week after the burial of Pastor E. E. Essien. Most of our mission trips are hectic things filled with preaching and teaching and traveling. When I visit the NCLC things are a bit different. In the NCLC since it has the Bible Institute where Patrick Udo and Edwin teach, preaching and