Erin's Good Shepherd Routine

My days go like this: wake, shower, breakfast, hospital, lunch, rest, ______, dinner, sleep. The blank could be any number of things, from going back to the hospital to shopping to church services to a rousing game of Indian Uno, where we basically throw cards at each other until it is apparent that one of us is victorious. I have never won a game.

I think about you often. Probably everyday I start to think about home, wonder what I'd be doing if I'd just gotten a summer job, stayed home, rented old movies. I miss America. But then, almost immediately, I remember why I'm here and how good it is.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1 Cor 15:58 (NIV)

Erin Raffensperger, from St. Joseph, MO and a student at the University of Minnesota is spending nine weeks working at Good Shepherd Mission. Erin traveled with nine others in January 2007 to Good Shepherd as part of a medical mission team from Wyatt Park Christian Church. Erin felt the call of God to return this summer to South India to work at the mission with the mission founder and director Henry Bhaskar. She will be joined by a medical mission team of 14 others from St. Joseph the first week of July. Here is Erin learning the finer points of eating a mango (sucking the day lights out of the pit).

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. Titus 3:14 (NIV)