Here In India

    
   Well we arrived in India late Sunday night.  The airport went really well we thought we were ready for everything we would see.  I prayed time and time again that God would set my heart right for the Shock of a whole new culture.  He does not fail to do so when you ask of him, it was very difficult but I was able to handle it.  The things I have seen and experienced the last few days just in Calcutta are indescribable to say the least.  Not only did God help me throughout every sticky situation but he allowed for me to see the light in every situation as well.  God is Great!
    So when we arrived in Calcutta we went and took a crazy ride in an Indian taxi, lets just say you have not lived until you've ridden in one!!! We got brought to a hotel that we made reservations at, when we got dropped off the driver said to "be careful, don't go outside because it is a Muslim only area."  That was not fun to here, so we went in and went straight to bed, got up the next morning and fled away to the train station quickly. 
    In the train station we went to get our tickets but came to find out that we couldn't get tickets and had to go to a different place for foreigners to get the tickets.  When we got there we met some Americans and they were able to help us along.  A little while before meeting them, a guy on my team prayed we would meet some Americans to help us, God answered that prayer as well.  So this time we found a nice hotel and we burnt that day up with things like the Mother Theresa House and exploring a bit.  That night we finally had our tickets for 10:05 p.m.
    So we were off at last, the train ended up being over 10 hours long.  We arrived in a village this morning, and got in a jeep for 4 hours.  It  brought us to Darjeeling where we are now preparing for what we will do here. Thank you for your paryers, Sorry for lack of words...didnt have much time.

God Bless!

India here I come!

    With the lack of time I have, I'm sorry but this blog will be pretty short.  But I found it important to let you all know what I will be doing for the next 7 weeks and where I will be in that time.  The past two weeks have been packed with a running tour to different country towns in Australia and with lectures and getting things ready for the next 7 weeks on outreach.

    Starting tomorrow morning at 6:30 we will head to the airport here in Brisbane, AU.  My team that includes seven of us will be taking off at 9:00 a.m and will head to Singapore on an 8 hr. flight.  When we get to Singapore we have a six hour layover in a luxury airport with massages, swimming pool, gardens and everything!  From there we take off to Calcutta, India for the biggest culture change a Westerner can get. When we land we will get on a train and head up the Himalaya Mountains for approx. 10 hours and then hop in a Jeep and go further up the range to beautiful Darjeeling India.

   In Darjeeling we will connect with the YWAM base there and start to figure out exactly what we will do for the next couple weeks.  We have a basic idea of what that looks like, so far we know will have a lot of children's ministry, we may teach a mini-DTS(Discipleship Training School), service projects, and also teach at a Bible college. The first week or so we will definitely be just getting used to everything, can't show foot bottoms while always sitting on the ground, don't grab anything with left hand, curry and everything else.

   My team and I would really appreciate it if you could all partner with us in prayer while we are in India for this time.  As you could imagine this is not the safest place to be.  A few prayer points would be, weather as it is Monsoon season, safety on roads both driving and during ministry, our time trekking to villages in the mountains, health with bacteria increase and food (CURRY), and also pray that our team would just be able to stay unified like a family in hard times.  Please commit to keeping us in your prayers.

   As some of you already know, God has called me to come back here to Australia and be on staff at YWAM for a year and a half 4 months after I return home in August.  So with this I have been asking God, how am I going to get the money for this?  I found that the best thing I can do is pray about it, so with all of this said, will you also partner with me in prayer that God would provide for me financially and that I would be supplied with a good job when I get home.