Map Pictures: Ongole Visit

Wednesday, November 9th 2011

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

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Map Pictures: Kakinada Visit

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. October 28  – Jayathinagar – Pastor Daneil October 29 – Gygolepadu – Pastor Sudhakar October 30 – Kakinada – Pastor Wycliff Pastor Wycliff is the father of

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Map: Train to Kakinada

Saturday, October 29th 2011

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

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Maps Pictures: One Crazy Sunday and a Few More Days

Friday, October 28th 2011

That is to say Sunday Oct 23rd through Thursday Oct 27th 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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Map: Oct 22 – Panasapadu

Sunday, October 23rd 2011

Pastor Sudhakar a year ago belonged to a another group of churches with Baptist ties. He audited the Bible School in Nidubrolu for a year, then just recently joined the CLCI and has started attending the Bible School. He has one small church and another small preaching station just outside his brother-in-laws house half a

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Map: October 21 – Preaching in Vejendla

Saturday, October 22nd 2011

On this last visit to the US I picked up a gps unit, a fun new toy for me. This means I can now easily upload gpx files that display my recent travels. Anytime you see a post beginning “Map:” you can click on the title to see a display of where I have been

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Quick Return

Wednesday, October 12th 2011

Made it back to India. I left the US last week on Monday Oct 3rd I traveled through London and Bahrain, arriving in India at 5am Wednesday October 5th. This return to India is “quick” because I will be leaving again in under two months, not because the plane ride was fast. The actual travel

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Powerless

Tuesday, July 19th 2011

Generally speaking the power in Chennai is fairly reliable. Certainly nothing like the US, it goes off almost every day during the “summer”, but it is almost always at the same time every day, for my part of the city that is from 4pm till 5pm. Today however for whatever reason it went out around

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Kabadi Video

Tuesday, July 5th 2011

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Kabadi

Thursday, June 30th 2011

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

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