Last Week

After 4 four weeks in India, it seems it was such a long time ago that we were in Indonesia where we started our trip. Now we are down to one week left. There is a part of me that is looking forward to going home but at the same time I am committed to finish the work I have left to do.

This last Wednesday I had an interesting experience while I was preaching during the Wednesday night prayer meeting. About halfway through my message I got very dizzy, light headed and my stomach was about to exit its contents out my mouth. I had to stop preaching walk over to one of the first pews to sit down. As I was walking to sit down I almost lost my vision as I was on the verge of blacking out. After I sat down I was able to compose myself and calm my body down. The congregation sang a few hymns and then I stood back up and gave a “conclusion” to my message before I left to walk back to the guest house to lie down and rest. So what happened? Well, I was dehydrated and while I was preaching in the heat and sweating (no A/C in this part of India) my body was shutting down because I did not have enough water and electrolytes. I went right to sleep for the night and woke up the next morning with the same dizziness. So I had to take a day of rest from teaching and replenish my system with water. I ended up drinking 4 liters of water by lunch time, but it wasn’t until dinner time did I feel back to my normal self. This was an interesting experience for me because I had never dehydrated myself before even with all the training I’ve done for my sports activities. Anyway, I’m all better now and I was back to teaching today.

Five members of our ministry team left today to head back to America so we are back to just Steve and Becky and me and Jodie. It was sad to see them leave but even sadder for the people here that they ministered too so faithfully. The Christian school had an assembly yesterday morning where they sang songs and gave gifts to us. It was a special time and a great pleasure to see the joy and happiness in all their faces. They wanted us to make sure and give Thanks to all of you who have supported us and prayed for us in our ministry because your giving has impacted their lives through us.

Prayer Requests for this last week include:

Continued strength to finish the work we have committed to do in the final week.
Josh will be preaching twice again this Sunday.
Jodie is working with 3 different teams teaching them The Redeemer skit, pray that we can teach the complete skit before we leave (we are also working to get full length video and music to pass on to them so they can teach themselves – the college kids are very eager to learn so they can use these in their ministries)