Wednesday Evening

Our last evening at the mission was probably the most powerful and emotional. We purchased blankets for the poor (this sect of poor do not bathe, some do not wear clothing, and they do not live in houses). We distributed 50 blankets. They treasured their gifts-you would have thought we had given them a million dollars!

The children are lined up in the Ashram receiving one set of clothing and a blanket.

Tara is distributing a blanket.

This little boy is at the mission with his brother. The father has passed away and the mother also stays at the mission so she can be watched because she is mentally unstable. He carries the little beanie baby puppy around with him that we gave him. He is so precious.

Vijay, Henry's brother, leads the Evangelists in prayer thanking us for our journey to GSM and for safe travel home. Paradise is to the right of Vijay (with microphone). We held a service at his village when we first arrived. The tears flowed as we were thanked individually.

The outside area was dark--we served food to over 400 people!!!

The story behind this picture--Mary served us food for almost two weeks and Doug served Mary heaping amounts of food out in the court yard--they feel it is their duty to serve as we are guests. So, after we served, we went back to the house (for dinner-not that we were hungry) and Mary brought heaping amounts of food for Doug.
Ahh amaaa!!

After no one was hungry to eat (as it was 10:30 pm) and we were physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted, the girls brought henna to decorate our hands. It took about an hour and then we had to wait an hour to let it dry(we couldn't do it)--we just went to bed and just crashed!

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. -James 1:17 (NRSV)