Rivers, "hills", and Norwegians
Friday, June 4th 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010 Tuesday was all about the scenic climb. We rode the bus about two hours into the mountains. Then we disembarked and pretty much climb straight up for two and half. Raju keeps reminding me that it was a “hill” not a mountain. But I think anything that you can climb for
Chunks of Pork Fat
Monday, May 31st 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010 Not having church on Sunday really messes up ones sense of the week. Since we traveled out of the Kathmandu valley into the southern and much lower parts of Nepal yesterday, the temperature would normally be quite a bit higher. However it rained quite heavily during the last part of journey
Hungry Treat Hotel
Sunday, May 30, 2010 I left India early on Saturday morning, and arrived in Nepal without incident early afternoon the same day. I purposely set up my trip to arrive in Nepal on Saturday so that I would be here for service on Sunday, completely forgetting that Nepali worship on Saturday not Sunday. The weather
Kanakram Wedding
Tuesday, April 20th 2010
Last night Dave, Mary, and I attended the wedding of Kanakram. Kanakram is the younger brother of Rajamani one of our district chairmen. I thought some of you in the US might like to see what an India wedding looks like. As far as I could tell the basic liturgy of the wedding wasn’t too
Good Friday for Small Groups
Thursday, April 1st 2010
Considering the fact that most churches won’t have their services posted online in time for those who are away to worship with them, I’m posting here what Dave, Mary and I used in India. This service works well for families or small groups. Let one man read the Pastoral lines marked with a P:. If
The View of Mercy
Thursday, March 25th 2010
Sometimes when I am teaching lessons when I am teaching a lesson I will use material prepared by other people. Even when I prepare my own material I am really only recompiling what others have already said and done. It doesn’t really bother me one way or another whether it is my material or that
This is India
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
Early last week, I was down visiting pastors south of Chennai ( the massively large city where I stay while in India ). At one point we were stopped before railroad tracks. As we waited for the train to past, I took two pictures. The first one below was out the passenger side window. The
Blessed Christmas
Friday, December 25th 2009
Isaiah 9:6-7 6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the
An Indian Christmas Eve
Thursday, December 24th 2009
My brother Nathanael came to visit me in India for Christmas. We decided to do our best to make a traditional Christmas Eve supper. We mad a list of various German/ Norwegian Christmas foods, and headed out to see what ingredients we could find. Much to our surprise we found all the ingredients we needed