by India Trip | Mar 14, 2013 | India
Ron Gremore shared the following thoughts regarding our Monday morning experience. The day started early with the launch of our “small boat of hope in a sea of darkness.” (Renee Cole). After prayer by Chuck Rapp asking for God’s protection we took a pre-dawn walk to...
by India Trip | Mar 13, 2013 | India
Shane Christopher is our guest blogger. Here are some of his thoughts from our experiences Monday. We were blessed to hear many church/community learning center leaders share their stories. In this room were about twenty humble men who have together personally...
by India Trip | Mar 12, 2013 | India
Monday afternoon we continued our up-close-and-personal tour of world religions. Our first stop was a Buddhist temple purportedly on the location of Siddhartha Gautama’s first sermon. Varanasi is not only a holy city of Hinduism, it’s also the birthplace of...
by India Trip | Mar 11, 2013 | India
Apologies that this post is a bit late; we were without internet last night. I suppose one upside of jet lag is that 4:30 AM doesn’t feel so bad; your body has no clue what time it is any way! By 5:00 we were on our way to the Ganges; this river is quite holy to...
by India Trip | Mar 10, 2013 | India
The highlight of the day was definitely worshipping with a congregation of about 130 Bhojpuri people in Varanasi. Their facility was approximately 30 feet wide by 60 feet long, so it was definitely cozy. And lively!! (I especially appreciated the chairs for the...
by India Trip | Mar 9, 2013 | India
We arrived safely in Delhi Saturday afternoon. We must have had good tail winds as the flight from Chicago was “only” 13.5 hours. A big answer to prayer is that our luggage made it too. Seen here is Shane’s view of the Himalayas as we passed over. The...
