Re: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 17. Home Safely

So enjoyed your reports.  So blessed by what you all carried and took to India. Thank you for going!  The Lord is pleased with the singing bride that ministered to children in India.  Praise the Lord!  It's His faithfulness all throughout to you and to those you ministered and your humble heart of love to Him and the little ones in India.  Heaven rejoices! You have given a cup of water to the least of all - the little children in the orphanages - so it is you have given it to Him.

Jean

 

 

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Subject: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 17. Home Safely

Monday, July 25. We loaded up the bus with all 13 of us plus Tim and Kloe and left the hotel at 6:35, just 5 minutes after our planned departure and due to light morning traffic, arrived at the airport at 7:30. We said good bye to Tim and Kloe who are staying here another day before they leave for Korea and not returning to LA until Sunday. We had no problems clearing security, getting our boarding passes and got to the gate waiting to board by 9:30, an hour before our scheduled departure to Dubai. We ate the fruit and breakfast the hotel packed for us while we waited. The airport is new, beautiful, and clean. One would never know they are in India sitting here.

We arrived in Dubai about 12:30 PM local time. By the time we cleared security again, boarded the train, etc. to get to our departing gate, it was 1:30, about 45 minutes before boarding time and over an hour before departure time. We left the gate a few minutes late and arrived in LA at 8:15 PM, about 15 minutes late, got through immigration, found all our luggage and got to meet up with all the welcoming families at 9:30. Praise the Lord for journey mercies. Calida is back in Hong Kong and Terry and Allison should be in Japan vacationing with their family, but we have not received confirmation of their arrival.

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Re: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 17. Home Safely

Thank you Lord for a safe and successful trip.

Anna

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> On Jul 25, 2016, at 11:26 PM, Marshall Huang <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Monday, July 25. We loaded up the bus with all 13 of us plus Tim and Kloe and left the hotel at 6:35, just 5 minutes after our planned departure and due to light morning traffic, arrived at the airport at 7:30. We said good bye to Tim and Kloe who are staying here another day before they leave for Korea and not returning to LA until Sunday. We had no problems clearing security, getting our boarding passes and got to the gate waiting to board by 9:30, an hour before our scheduled departure to Dubai. We ate the fruit and breakfast the hotel packed for us while we waited. The airport is new, beautiful, and clean. One would never know they are in India sitting here.
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> We arrived in Dubai about 12:30 PM local time. By the time we cleared security again, boarded the train, etc. to get to our departing gate, it was 1:30, about 45 minutes before boarding time and over an hour before departure time. We left the gate a few minutes late and arrived in LA at 8:15 PM, about 15 minutes late, got through immigration, found all our luggage and got to meet up with all the welcoming families at 9:30. Praise the Lord for journey mercies. Calida is back in Hong Kong and Terry and Allison should be in Japan vacationing with their family, but we have not received confirmation of their arrival.
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Re: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 17. Home Safely

Dear Marshall and Meiring and Vision Team,

Glad to hear that you arrived back in LA safely tonight. Welcome back and have a good sleep and rest! God Bless!

Warmly,

Siang Yang

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> On Jul 25, 2016, at 11:26 PM, Marshall Huang <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Monday, July 25. We loaded up the bus with all 13 of us plus Tim and Kloe and left the hotel at 6:35, just 5 minutes after our planned departure and due to light morning traffic, arrived at the airport at 7:30. We said good bye to Tim and Kloe who are staying here another day before they leave for Korea and not returning to LA until Sunday. We had no problems clearing security, getting our boarding passes and got to the gate waiting to board by 9:30, an hour before our scheduled departure to Dubai. We ate the fruit and breakfast the hotel packed for us while we waited. The airport is new, beautiful, and clean. One would never know they are in India sitting here.
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> We arrived in Dubai about 12:30 PM local time. By the time we cleared security again, boarded the train, etc. to get to our departing gate, it was 1:30, about 45 minutes before boarding time and over an hour before departure time. We left the gate a few minutes late and arrived in LA at 8:15 PM, about 15 minutes late, got through immigration, found all our luggage and got to meet up with all the welcoming families at 9:30. Praise the Lord for journey mercies. Calida is back in Hong Kong and Terry and Allison should be in Japan vacationing with their family, but we have not received confirmation of their arrival.
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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 17. Home Safely

Monday, July 25. We loaded up the bus with all 13 of us plus Tim and Kloe and left the hotel at 6:35, just 5 minutes after our planned departure and due to light morning traffic, arrived at the airport at 7:30. We said good bye to Tim and Kloe who are staying here another day before they leave for Korea and not returning to LA until Sunday. We had no problems clearing security, getting our boarding passes and got to the gate waiting to board by 9:30, an hour before our scheduled departure to Dubai. We ate the fruit and breakfast the hotel packed for us while we waited. The airport is new, beautiful, and clean. One would never know they are in India sitting here.

We arrived in Dubai about 12:30 PM local time. By the time we cleared security again, boarded the train, etc. to get to our departing gate, it was 1:30, about 45 minutes before boarding time and over an hour before departure time. We left the gate a few minutes late and arrived in LA at 8:15 PM, about 15 minutes late, got through immigration, found all our luggage and got to meet up with all the welcoming families at 9:30. Praise the Lord for journey mercies. Calida is back in Hong Kong and Terry and Allison should be in Japan vacationing with their family, but we have not received confirmation of their arrival.

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Re: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

Shalom,

Thank you to everyone for being such a blessing to every child at children's home and School also all the lives you have touched. 

Blessings to all and safe journey Home!!

See you next week

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On Jul 25, 2016, at 5:10 AM, Marshall Huang <marshall.huang@feca.org> wrote:

Vision should be arriving at 8 PM on Monday night, July 25 at Bradley Terminal. Not usually takes an hour to clear immigration and customs.

On Jul 24, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Judy Hui <hui.jklmn@gmail.com> wrote:

Uncle Marshall,

Please clarify Vision's return flight and time info.  Is the arrival time at 8 pm on Monday, July 25th?

Thanks,

Judy

On Sunday, July 24, 2016, Marshall Huang <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:

Sunday, July 24.  Those of us who woke up early enough grabbed a quick breakfast and tried to leave at 7 for the English service at Pastor Joel's church at 7:30.  We wore our Indian outfits.  Worship was already going on when we got there and as two weeks ago, only a handful of worshippers were there. Tim preached about the resurrected life.  At 8:30, the Tamil service started.  At about 9:45, we sang "If This Is Not a Place" and Tim preached on Gal. 2:20-21 about living a crucified life so Christ can live through us.  At the close of the service, we had a chance to pray for their members (close to 200 were there today).  Each of us prayed for at least a dozen people: men, women, and children, listening to what God was directing us to pray.  Many did specifically ask for prayer for their family, some for specific pain and illness.  We ate lunch at Pastor Joel's downstairs from the church, then returned to our hotel and rested for an hour before our last group devotions.

After devotions, we all got on the bus at 3:45 to take Allison, Terry and Calida to the airport as they are leaving tonight; Calida to Hong Kong leaving after midnight, and the Kuo's to Japan via Delhi to meet the rest of their family and vacation.  The rest of us returned to Pastor Joel's church.  Because his whole family has been sick all week, the outreach originally planned for tonight was cancelled but the youth still had a fellowship service at church, so we joined them, sang three songs, did the Heart Skit, and Eric shared.  Their youth also did a skit about prayer, we watched a segment of the movie War Games, and Tim spoke from Jeremiah 29:11-13.  We ate dinner - a delicious non-spicy beef stew over rice which they said was tasteless, returned to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave early Monday morning.

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Vision should be arriving at 8 PM on Monday night, July 25 at Bradley Terminal. Not usually takes an hour to clear immigration and customs.

On Jul 24, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Judy Hui <hui.jklmn@gmail.com> wrote:

Uncle Marshall,

Please clarify Vision's return flight and time info.  Is the arrival time at 8 pm on Monday, July 25th?

Thanks,

Judy

On Sunday, July 24, 2016, Marshall Huang <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:

Sunday, July 24.  Those of us who woke up early enough grabbed a quick breakfast and tried to leave at 7 for the English service at Pastor Joel's church at 7:30.  We wore our Indian outfits.  Worship was already going on when we got there and as two weeks ago, only a handful of worshippers were there. Tim preached about the resurrected life.  At 8:30, the Tamil service started.  At about 9:45, we sang "If This Is Not a Place" and Tim preached on Gal. 2:20-21 about living a crucified life so Christ can live through us.  At the close of the service, we had a chance to pray for their members (close to 200 were there today).  Each of us prayed for at least a dozen people: men, women, and children, listening to what God was directing us to pray.  Many did specifically ask for prayer for their family, some for specific pain and illness.  We ate lunch at Pastor Joel's downstairs from the church, then returned to our hotel and rested for an hour before our last group devotions.

After devotions, we all got on the bus at 3:45 to take Allison, Terry and Calida to the airport as they are leaving tonight; Calida to Hong Kong leaving after midnight, and the Kuo's to Japan via Delhi to meet the rest of their family and vacation.  The rest of us returned to Pastor Joel's church.  Because his whole family has been sick all week, the outreach originally planned for tonight was cancelled but the youth still had a fellowship service at church, so we joined them, sang three songs, did the Heart Skit, and Eric shared.  Their youth also did a skit about prayer, we watched a segment of the movie War Games, and Tim spoke from Jeremiah 29:11-13.  We ate dinner - a delicious non-spicy beef stew over rice which they said was tasteless, returned to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave early Monday morning.

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RE: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

You guys look very Indian. 

Thanks for all the exciting report 

. God bless and have a safe trip back. Can't wait to see you in your home concert. 

Pearl 

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Date: 7/24/16 9:49 AM (GMT-08:00)
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Sunday, July 24.  Those of us who woke up early enough grabbed a quick breakfast and tried to leave at 7 for the English service at Pastor Joel's church at 7:30.  We wore our Indian outfits.  Worship was already going on when we got there and as two weeks ago, only a handful of worshippers were there. Tim preached about the resurrected life.  At 8:30, the Tamil service started.  At about 9:45, we sang "If This Is Not a Place" and Tim preached on Gal. 2:20-21 about living a crucified life so Christ can live through us.  At the close of the service, we had a chance to pray for their members (close to 200 were there today).  Each of us prayed for at least a dozen people: men, women, and children, listening to what God was directing us to pray.  Many did specifically ask for prayer for their family, some for specific pain and illness.  We ate lunch at Pastor Joel's downstairs from the church, then returned to our hotel and rested for an hour before our last group devotions.

After devotions, we all got on the bus at 3:45 to take Allison, Terry and Calida to the airport as they are leaving tonight; Calida to Hong Kong leaving after midnight, and the Kuo's to Japan via Delhi to meet the rest of their family and vacation.  The rest of us returned to Pastor Joel's church.  Because his whole family has been sick all week, the outreach originally planned for tonight was cancelled but the youth still had a fellowship service at church, so we joined them, sang three songs, did the Heart Skit, and Eric shared.  Their youth also did a skit about prayer, we watched a segment of the movie War Games, and Tim spoke from Jeremiah 29:11-13.  We ate dinner - a delicious non-spicy beef stew over rice which they said was tasteless, returned to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave early Monday morning.

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Re: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

Uncle Marshall,

Please clarify Vision's return flight and time info.  Is the arrival time at 8 pm on Monday, July 25th?

Thanks,

Judy

On Sunday, July 24, 2016, Marshall Huang <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:

Sunday, July 24.  Those of us who woke up early enough grabbed a quick breakfast and tried to leave at 7 for the English service at Pastor Joel's church at 7:30.  We wore our Indian outfits.  Worship was already going on when we got there and as two weeks ago, only a handful of worshippers were there. Tim preached about the resurrected life.  At 8:30, the Tamil service started.  At about 9:45, we sang "If This Is Not a Place" and Tim preached on Gal. 2:20-21 about living a crucified life so Christ can live through us.  At the close of the service, we had a chance to pray for their members (close to 200 were there today).  Each of us prayed for at least a dozen people: men, women, and children, listening to what God was directing us to pray.  Many did specifically ask for prayer for their family, some for specific pain and illness.  We ate lunch at Pastor Joel's downstairs from the church, then returned to our hotel and rested for an hour before our last group devotions.

After devotions, we all got on the bus at 3:45 to take Allison, Terry and Calida to the airport as they are leaving tonight; Calida to Hong Kong leaving after midnight, and the Kuo's to Japan via Delhi to meet the rest of their family and vacation.  The rest of us returned to Pastor Joel's church.  Because his whole family has been sick all week, the outreach originally planned for tonight was cancelled but the youth still had a fellowship service at church, so we joined them, sang three songs, did the Heart Skit, and Eric shared.  Their youth also did a skit about prayer, we watched a segment of the movie War Games, and Tim spoke from Jeremiah 29:11-13.  We ate dinner - a delicious non-spicy beef stew over rice which they said was tasteless, returned to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave early Monday morning.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

Sunday, July 24. Those of us who woke up early enough grabbed a quick breakfast and tried to leave at 7 for the English service at Pastor Joel's church at 7:30. We wore our Indian outfits. Worship was already going on when we got there and as two weeks ago, only a handful of worshippers were there. Tim preached about the resurrected life. At 8:30, the Tamil service started. At about 9:45, we sang "If This Is Not a Place" and Tim preached on Gal. 2:20-21 about living a crucified life so Christ can live through us. At the close of the service, we had a chance to pray for their members (close to 200 were there today). Each of us prayed for at least a dozen people: men, women, and children, listening to what God was directing us to pray. Many did specifically ask for prayer for their family, some for specific pain and illness. We ate lunch at Pastor Joel's downstairs from the church, then returned to our hotel and rested for an hour before our last group devotions.

After devotions, we all got on the bus at 3:45 to take Allison, Terry and Calida to the airport as they are leaving tonight; Calida to Hong Kong leaving after midnight, and the Kuo's to Japan via Delhi to meet the rest of their family and vacation. The rest of us returned to Pastor Joel's church. Because his whole family has been sick all week, the outreach originally planned for tonight was cancelled but the youth still had a fellowship service at church, so we joined them, sang three songs, did the Heart Skit, and Eric shared. Their youth also did a skit about prayer, we watched a segment of the movie War Games, and Tim spoke from Jeremiah 29:11-13. We ate dinner - a delicious non-spicy beef stew over rice which they said was tasteless, returned to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave early Monday morning.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

Sunday, July 24. Those of us who woke up early enough grabbed a quick breakfast and tried to leave at 7 for the English service at Pastor Joel's church at 7:30. We wore our Indian outfits. Worship was already going on when we got there and as two weeks ago, only a handful of worshippers were there. Tim preached about the resurrected life. At 8:30, the Tamil service started. At about 9:45, we sang "If This Is Not a Place" and Tim preached on Gal. 2:20-21 about living a crucified life so Christ can live through us. At the close of the service, we had a chance to pray for their members (close to 200 were there today). Each of us prayed for at least a dozen people: men, women, and children, listening to what God was directing us to pray. Many did specifically ask for prayer for their family, some for specific pain and illness. We ate lunch at Pastor Joel's downstairs from the church, then returned to our hotel and rested for an hour before our last group devotions.

After devotions, we all got on the bus at 3:45 to take Allison, Terry and Calida to the airport as they are leaving tonight; Calida to Hong Kong leaving after midnight, and the Kuo's to Japan via Delhi to meet the rest of their family and vacation. The rest of us returned to Pastor Joel's church. Because his whole family has been sick all week, the outreach originally planned for tonight was cancelled but the youth still had a fellowship service at church, so we joined them, sang three songs, did the Heart Skit, and Eric shared. Their youth also did a skit about prayer, we watched a segment of the movie War Games, and Tim spoke from Jeremiah 29:11-13. We ate dinner - a delicious non-spicy beef stew over rice which they said was tasteless, returned to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave early Monday morning.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 15

Saturday, July 23. We started with breakfast at 7 AM and devotions at 7:45 before starting our debriefing at 9. Kat is feeling sick so she slept in until lunch time, but joined us for lunch and in the afternoon session. Some deep sharing and tears were shed as some made profession of being bolder in sharing their faith back home, of building deeper friendships and becoming more vulnerable so Christ can be seen in their lives and of being called to ministry. We finished a little before 6, ate chicken rolls which Tim had purchased from a local fast food place at about 6:30, and spent about an hour worshipping; then got ready at 8:30 to sleep since tomorrow is another early day.

Looking back on the two weeks here, we are so grateful for all your intercession for us. None of us caught the flu that plagued Pastor Joel's family and we only had minor coughs and stomach problems (not even clear if it most of it wasn't due to pollution and allergies and spices). We saw much that touched us deeply and we saw so many examples of redemptive work done for and by AIDS victims, orphans, and the handicapped. We learned to pray listening prayers which powerfully blessed those who then realized there is a God who knows what they were going through. Thank you for supporting us as we wind down our time here.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 14

Friday, July 22. We did our usual routine of devotions and breakfast. Then we checked out and loaded the bus and left Madurai by 8:45. Paulus and Rosie drove by just to say goodbye to us. In just a few days, we have grown to really appreciate them and their example of living for Jesus. We learned that one reason the church we sang in last night, Zion Church, is growing is because they have been ministering AIDS victims, many who live in the neighborhood. On our part, we have been learning to listen for His voice on what and who should share and what songs to sing, last night's program being an example of God orchestrating the whole evening. We also learned that Pastor Joel's whole family is still slowly recovering from the flu, and Shiney's little boy, Kevin is the last to come down with it and currently the sickest. We stopped for lunch around 1 PM but the place we stopped did not serve dosa until 4 PM so we just ate veggie fried rice and butter paneer (a deep fried cheese sauce). The drive back to Bangalore was uneventful (that is not to say any driving in India is anything but a nerve wracking adventure) except for seeng scores of red-faced and red-bottom monkeys by the side of the road shortly after lunch. We made fairly good time until the last 30 km, taking almost 2 hours, finally arriving back at our hotel, Keys Whitefield, at 6:50.

We ate dinner at the hotel and met Joseph, Tim's friend and key contact in India. It was Joseph who connected Tim with all the people and ministry in Madurai. We sang a couple of songs for Joseph and gave him a set of Vision CD's, then went to sleep. Tomorrow will be a whole day of debriefing to process what we learned on this trip; for us, probably the most important day of the trip so pray for us.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 13

Thursday, July 21. Today is our last day at Madurai so while we followed our morning routine, once we got to Peniel, we first did a short music program for the kindergarten through primary students, about 350 of them, sitting on the dirt ground under the mango trees. Marshall talked to them about Western music, the concept of melody and harmony, with Vision demonstrating by singing the chorus of Do Lord. We then sang the orchestra song, so they could here the different sections singing their own part, yet harmonizing. Finally, we sang the Victoria "Sanctus" so they could hear the interweaving of parts in polyphonic music. We than sang and danced three of the VBS songs. The children seemed to enjoy every bit of it. We then started VBS at about 9:45 while the adults had devotions with the leaders and staff of Peniel, about ten of them. Both Tim and Paulus shared how God had brought these two organizations together, beautifully answering prayer requests of Peniel,with capabilities of SFI and visa versa. For example, Paulus explained how their previous Correspondent of ten years wanted to retire in 2014 (I don't know why they use the title of Correspondent, but she is apparently the head manager of Peniel) and after prayer, God brought in Dulcy, a Godly woman who had retired after being Principal of a 4500 member school, eminently qualified. So Paulus has a vision of doing a choir music training (similar to what we did in Sikkim) so this choir can minister to the churches in Madurai. The graduating teachers from Peniel could meet the needs of teachers SFI needs in Nigeria as well as in Bangalore. The drinking water filters could provide clean water in the villages. The sewing skills of the trained seamstress could help produce more jute bags for SFI. The synergism and complimentary needs seem like God-orchestrated. After a tea break, we (adults) met up with with about have of the tutors from the tutoring centers (they call it Tuition Center instead of tutoring but that term is confusing to us in the US). Tim and Kloe encouraged these tutors, many of them believers but some still on the way, and we prayed and blessed these ladies. Tim then talked detail plans and business with Paulus.

We had lunch together about 12:45. We then finished up VBS with the children. Meanwhile, Tim and Kloe had an opportunity to talk to the professors who teach the teachers about the need for teachers in Nigeria and challenged them to either go themselves for a year or encourage their students to go. We tried out the tailored chutithar and kurtha. Most fitted very well, but some of the girls wanted a looser fit so they are being altered and were done before we left at 3:30. Done with VBS, most of the girls had washable tattoos drawn on their arms by three girls from the nursing school. As they dried, the guys had to clean up the VBS room as the girls were rendered useless by the drying paint. We arrived back at the hotel about 4:15 to rest up before we left at 5. We stopped at Paulus' home to celebrate his 51st birthday today, had cake and homemade ice cream, and left at 5:45 to sing our last program in Madurai at the Pentecostal Zion Church.

Because of traffic, we arrived a few minutes late at 6:37 and could hear the worship from the loud speakers a couple of hundred feet from the church. Because the keyboard was in reasonable shape, we sang a lot of songs we had not sung the whole trip (and it showed in lapses of text), songs like "If This Is not a Place" and "O That Will Be Glory". Josh gave a terrific testimony, almost sermon-like, and Rachel's testimony about miraculous healing just fit the needs of the church as many asked for healing prayers afterwards. We did not perform any skits as it seemed out of place in a church setting and Calida message about the power in the name of Jesus to heal, citing the healing of the beggar from Acts 3 seemed to fit the theme for the evening. She then asked for people to come forward for prayer but the pastor took an offering first. Nevertheless, at least twenty people from an audience of about fifty came up for prayer, including some children. Jada had a most interesting experience of listening prayer as she prayed for a lady with her son. With no foreknowledge, Jada got a thought about Hannah and Samuel and prayed that this lady's son would grow up to be used by the Lord like Samuel. After praying, this lady was in tears, explaining that her older daughter had died of cancer, her second child killed himself, and becoming a believer recently, she wanted her third child to be dedicated to the Lord, and Jada's prayer was exactly what her heart desired. We then ate dinner at the church cooked by the pastor's wife, debriefed during the bus ride back and went to bed after doing some preliminary packing.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 12

Sorry for the many typos and half formed sentences in the last report. I will try to do more proof reading in the future. Here is a more complete description of the tutorial center: Tim and Kloe went with Paulus and Rosie to visit a tutorial center in a nearby village supported by SFI. Because many of the students' parents were illiterate, the tutorial center is another opportunity to minister to the family of these students while helping the children with their studies. Tim said he was amazed at how well organized the tutoring was, reaching over 1800 kids at 72, soon to be 75 centers. Kloe said one of the tutors, pregnant with her own children, tutored 60 kids at the same time. Another lady was back tutoring only 2 weeks after having a baby. These tutors are paid by SFI 800 rupees ($12) a month, teaching two hours a day. With more support, Tim would like to raise their pay.

Wednesday, July 20. We followed our now standard morning routine, devotions and breakfast, finally arriving at Peniel a few minutes after 9. At VBS today, we are going to experiment with not having the fifth grade teachers in the room with their students as they have been doing the first two days. At lunch break, we all agreed that the children were much more responsive (maybe it is because they know us by now) and spontaneous without the teachers there and VBS proceeded much better than the first two days. Soon after VBS started, Rosie took Tim, Kloe, Meiring, and Calida to visit a few AIDS/HIV child's home. They did not return until almost 2:30 so they ate a late lunch while we debriefed today's activities to date. Three different HIV positive families were visited. What was good was how this illness caused many in these families to come to faith. We also heard the story of this nurse who leads the AIDS project. Seventeen years ago, this young lady brought her dying brother to Paulus' father. Helping him find the Lord enabled him to pass away peacefully, this young lady subsequently joined the ministry and she recruited some of the AIDS victims to reach out to others (these are the people we met yesterday). Before returning, they stopped at the vocational school. One good thing this school does is to train the car mechanics as interns of specific car models so they learn hands-on and are valued mechanics when they complete their training and can go to work immediately. Before returning, we stopped to pay respect at the memorial graves of Paulus' parents, and were rewarded by also seeing several monkeys living in the trees nearby. We returned for an hour's rest before leaving at 5 PM for the CSI nursing school chapel.

Arriving at 5:45, we found all the worshippers, both men and women, seated and waiting. Precisely at six, one of them led an opening prayer and they sang two Indian worship songs in the local language. Calida led and directed all our singing and we performed both the distracted and puppet skits with Jordan and Terry sharing their testimonies. As we neared the end of our singing, Tim was nowhere to be found as he was to preach. It turned out he and Paulus were off behind the bushes talking to this pompous lady who was the head of the school. She came very late, and said she had to leave to take care of her son's activities. While put off at first, we came to realize this was God's plan to remove her from the premise so we would be free to minster. After the message, Tim invited the students to come up for prayer. No one moved as this was an experience many of these students with CSI church background was not familiar with. So Paulus came up and asked all the students to bow their heads to pray and for those who wanted prayer to lift their hands. Soon, we were all over the hall praying. Many tears were shed as these students felt the love of God washing over them. One girl had to sit while being prayed for. One lady shared she had problems praying, something was hindering her. When asked if she was a believer, she said no, but wanted to be freed so she came to receive the Lord. After prayer, her countenance changed to one of peace and joy. We went to eat a light dinner of mutton bryana and debriefed the evening's activity in the restaurant. We then returned to the hotel, full of gratitude and praise, to clean up and sleep.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 11

Tuesday, July 19. Starting our new routine, we met for devotions at 6:30 AM and went to eat breakfast at 7:15-ish, leaving our hotel at 8:30 and arriving at Peniel a little after 9. We set up for VBS and the children came about 9:45. Kat and Gentle, who is having stomach problems stayed at the office to rest. During VBS, the Kim's and Huang's had the privilege to attend the graduation ceremony of the seamstress students. They had actually finished last week and today is graduation (so the clothes they are sewing for Vision is not really their final exam but one of their first earnings). Some shared how learning to sew has transformed their lives and given them self worth. In a week, one lady said she is made 1000 rupees ($15) with her husband taking her product to a store and another saying she charges 60 rupees for a dress top and 100 rupees if it is lined for labor. The teacher who took our measurements yesterday travels weekly to the villages these ladies come from to teach the one year class. We looked at the very impressive curriculum, over 30 different types of outfits have to be completed by the students. In visiting the villages, this teacher also brings the love of Jesus and some have come to believe. 28 students were able to come to today's ceremony. After graduation, we then had the honor to meet up with their village HIV/AIDS program. Six ladies came along with the nurse who is their coordinator. They shared inspiring stories of how given two three years to live after being tested positive, they are still going strong ten and one lady, twenty years later. One lady shared her thanks for how her husband came to believe before he passed on. These ladies who live in different villages reach out in their communities to the children of adults who have tested positive and also children who have come down with HIV/AIDS. Many of the children of HIV parents have not tested positive. All together, they care for almost 800 children of which about 120 test positive. Several of these ladies asserted their intention to serve these children and follow Jesus until they go home. They are real heroes of the faith impacting their own communities and bring light in their little corner of the world. We joined Vision for lunch served by the school (a genuine non-spicy and delicious lunch), finished up VBS by 2 to do a one hour program from 2:30 to 3:30 for all their high school and older students in their auditorium.

When we walked to the auditorium located above the high school classes, all the students were already seated on the ground neatly in rows, girls on the left facing the front, and guys on the right, youngest in front, with the class teachers seated on chairs at the sides leaving a nice aisle in the middle and the dignitaries (that's us with some school officials) sitting on chairs at the rear. There were about 400 there. After a quick introduction and welcome, we were given the time. Singing almost all our acapella songs and one VBS song, we mixed in powerful testimonies form Katie, Gentle, and Michael, the puppet and heart skits. No sermon or invitation were given but the message was clearly transmitted and seemed very well received by all the students. The heart skit was probably their favorite once they figured out the plot and were surprised by the twists which they had not anticipated, with a clear non-verbal invitation given at the end, while the puppet skit resonated with many of the student who have alcoholic fathers who squander his wife's meager earnings on drink. We were both saddened and happy when it was over: sad because we could not spend time ministering to those who may have wanted prayer, and happy to go to a cooler room downstairs and sit a spell. We returned to our hotel before 5 PM with Nehi, Paulus' son, while Tim and Kloe went with Paulus and Rosie to visit a tutorial center in a nearby village. Because many of the students' parents were illiterate, the tutorial center was another opportunity to minister to the family of these students while helping the children with their studies. Tim said he was amazed at how well organized the tutoring was, reaching (I think) over 800 kids,

We left at 6:30 to go to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, And after 45 minutes, arrived at a place which is now a tandoori restaurant, so we went to another place, Chopstix where we met Tim and Paulus (Kloe returned earlier to the hotel) for a simple and definitely not gourmet Chinese food. Returning to the hotel, we debriefed the day, praising God for another good day.

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{FECA Vision Choir} A personal reflection and a commercial

In talking to Tim and various locals, I have come to learn that the Church of India, both of north India, CNI and south, CSI, hold enormous wealth since they received huge chunks of land when the British gave India its independence in (I think) 1947 and the Church of England gave their properties to CNI and CSI. But instead of using this wealth to bless the poor and serve the people, the church has become big business, neglecting the heart of missions even to her own people. CNI has already experienced tremendous attacks by the locals who forcibly confiscate their land. It is as our Lord taught in Matt. 10:39, "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it," or in this case, the church that seeks to hold on to itself will lose it, etc. May we learn the lesson of how to give generously and graciously. As I see some (actually only a very small part) of what SFI is doing and learn that many supporters in FECG have stopped giving after only one year, may I urge you instead to double your efforts instead. God is no debtor and will richly reward you (Mal. 3:10). I also think SFI is something both FECA's missions and social concerns should get behind. I will be happy to share with you as individuals or as committees in more detail after we return and I am sure Tim would appreciate your support. Blessings.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 10

Report 10. Monday, July 18. We woke up at six to eat breakfast at 6:30 but they not only do not open until 7, but really did not get ready to serve until 7:15, so we met to have our daily devotions while waiting. Kat is probably the sickest among us, but Marshall, because he did not eat anything spicy, seems completely recovered from his stomach problem (even without ice cream and fried chicken). We decided Kat was healthy enough to go with us to the Peneil Campus located in Vemparali, about 45 minutes from town. During the bus ride, we played our new favorite morning game - killing at least a dozen mosquitoes which somehow found their way into the bus every night. In this kill or be eaten (bitten) exercise game, we appear to be the winners, as few of us have been bitten.

Located among green trees, far away from the noise and pollution of the city, the Peneil schools consists of separate buildings housing pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, elementary (1st grade to 5th grade, 6th grade to 10th grade, 11-12 grade, the Peneil Rural College of Education to train teachers who have already graduated from college, nursing school, vocational schools (it seems these are located off campus) for auto mechanics, electricians, sewing and maybe more, a planned College of Arts and Sciences, a dorm for a few college students, all located on 32 acres of land purchased and built up from empty forested land by Paulus' parents, a few acres at a time over a period of ten years. The site abounds with greenery, including fruit trees, primary mangos and coconut trees. Originally planned for educating the orphans rescued from death, the school now serves the community and villages all around the campus, while the orphans, now much fewer in number, attend schools in the city. Because of the poverty level in the villages, only a small percentage lays tuition while a larger majority are on partial or full scholarship. SFI has helped fund these students since Tim connected up with Paulus a year ago. We were met by the correspondent, Dulcy, of the entire campus, who escorted the adults around while Vision started the VBS. We were also individual measured for our chutithar and kurtha by the head seamstress teacher, so there would be no mistakes in size.

Meanwhile, the school decided that our VBS program will focus on only the fifth grade class, 44 students in all, rather than select a few students from each grade. The English language skills of these older kids should be better and we would have an easier time not having to deal with a wide age range of students. We started the VBS about 10, took a lunch break at 12:30 while the students took their lunch break. We resumed at 1:20 and continue the program until 2:30. We then debriefed the day, relaxed with tea and/or soft drinks after the teaching sessions and decided the language level is not as high as we expected and better translation is needed. It rained slightly, lowering the temperature from the low eighties to a comfortable mid seventies. We returned to the hotel to rest before leaving at five for our evening program.

Our program this evening is to sing and testify at the evening chapel service at Lady Dory College. This college, founded in 1948 by a British missionary, Wilcox, is the first all girls' college in Madurai (the school is named for the generous donation to start the school by Wilcox's friend, Lady Dory). We were met by the chaplain and college VP who welcomed us and were served tea (but no crumpets) at Wilcox Chapel. Promptly at 5:50 PM, the chapel bell rang is first warning and again at 6. People began coming in after the first bell so by six, the chapel was about half full. The chaplain started with a prayer and someone led a hymn (It Is Well) and after a short introduction, we took over. Using the chapel full sized keyboard was a joy (even though three notes did not work) after using pint sized keyboards at all the other venues we have been in, so we sang a lot of our songs with accompanied. Soon after we started, almost every available empty seat seemed to be filled so there must have been almost 200 there. Terry and Eric gave strong testimonies about their personal experience finding out how God is real. Between the two testimonies and songs, we performed the puppet skit. Calida preached from Psalm 68, ending promptly at 7 (it was nice to be at a meeting in India that started and ended exactly on time). She then asked whoever wanted to come up for prayer. Tim repeated her request when no one responded. Then one came, and a second. Pretty soon, we were all busy praying for many, probably more than 30 ladies. We each prayed for at least one person, some as many as five. Many tears were shed as they asked for healing for themselves or some friend or family member. Two asked to be closer to God. One asked that her alcoholic father would be set free as depicted by the puppet skit. We were so thankful to God for this overwhelming response. We may never know his God will answer these prayers, but we know He heard each petition and will answer them in the best possible way to bring Himself glory. The leaders led us to a dorm cafeteria where they served us dinner. We returned a little after 8 to the hotel where we debriefed our experience at the chapel and retired for the night at a little after 9 PM. What a great day we had again!


Dorm building. Paulus' parents are buried in the garden in the foreground.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 9

Some factual corrections. Our favorite dish is not curried beef but fried rice cooked with chunks of beef called bryana. It can also be cooked with chicken, mutton, etc. The school Paulus parents started now has about 750 students, not 1500. Sorry for the errors in the details.

Sunday, July 17. We woke up at six, met for breakfast at 6:30 consisting of fruit and veggie sandwiches and dashed off at 6:45 to get to a Church of South India (CSI) English service which began at 7:30. This church was started almost 90 years ago by the Brits for the Indian equivalent of "hapas", mixed British and Indian descendants. So their worship style is derived from the Anglican (Episcopal) Church, very formal liturgy, much like the Catholic mass. Everything is formalized reading and response. We sang God Is My Refuge and Just a Closer Walk with Thee played on an inadequate keyboard (we would have been better off singing acapella) and Tim preached a short message taken from Jesus first miracle of turning water to wine. We then observed the communion service but did not want to participate and share the wine cup since some of us may have colds. The church than served a breakfast consisting of stuff we could not identify - fried bread kind of like doughnut, and maybe a variation of dosa with different sauces. We then led the youth worship with seven or eight teens and young adults, all about our age. Josh led two worship songs on the guitar, having learned our lessons, we sang only acapella songs with Allison and Michael sharing their testimonies and Calida sharing for ten minutes about becoming living sacrifices. We then gathered in twos and threes to pray for each youth before returning to our hotel at 11 AM. The only meeting room we could find at this hotel was a room off the bar. It was dark and we also sensed a lot of darkness in this place. Indeed, Tim tells us that Madurai is also known as Temple City, because there are more temples here than any other place in India. We prayed for spiritual protection, had our small group devotions and debriefed this morning, so the team members who only grew up in FEC can understand more about liturgical services and how God is honored at this kind of service too. We also prayed for Katherine who appears to have a bad cold or maybe flu and Allison, whose bad stomach resurfaced after being completely well yesterday. Marshall too has a bit of bad stomach, which he attributes to the spicy food alone and says what he needs is simple nutritious foods like ice cream and down home fried chicken (both vetoed). We ate some granola bars for lunch and took the rest of the afternoon off to rest before meeting at 4 PM to have dinner and go to the orphanage for a short time to visit with these girls.

Paulus and Rosie met us about 4 to guide us to dinner and the orphanage. Apparently, the rest did us all good as Kat and Allison both seemed fully recovered. We ate at a restaurant serving bryana, fried rice cooked with chunks of mutton, good, but nothing like the dish with beef we had last Tuesday. There were only 13 girls there at this time, with a few more currently living at this orphanage; sixty something living in schools, almost twenty now married, and a good number working, and some even reunited with her biological family, for a total of about 200 rescued girls, all of whom consider this place their permanent home where they grew up. All of them came as infants, the youngest 5 hours old, all abandoned, originally in front of the temple where they were either taken in to be raised as temple prostitutes or sold or left to die, now abandoned at hospitals. We met the "mother" of the house and her small staff of ladies. She proudly talked about her girls, how some even though handicapped are now holding down good jobs and showed wedding albums of some of the recent weddings The place is clean and homey. The girls sang several praise songs for us, some in Hindi, some in English. We sang a few songs back to them including a couple of VBS songs complete with dance motions which they all enjoyed. We then gave the girls the clothes which Jennifer Kuo's sewing group made, enjoyed eating cookies and drinking chilled mango nectar, before returning back to our hotel by 7:30, sans Meiring and Kloe. They had gone with Rosie to go shop for cloth with which to make chutithar (Indian dress) for the girls and kurtha (Indian shirts) for the guys, custom tailored by the students learning to become seamstresses at the school where we will start our VBS tomorrow - this is kind of their graduating exam project. We will of course pay the seamstresses for their work, so they will actually be making their first product of their future career, giving them a sense of accomplishment. For us, we will be getting a custom tailored product at a fraction of what it would cost us if we went shopping for it, a win-win situation for everyone, except maybe for the retail clothiers. These dresses and shirts should be completed by Thursday, a day before we leave Madurai to return to Bangalore. We will be showing off our Vision Indian uniforms at Home Concert of August 20 so please come. Incidentally, lest you think Vision is loosely spending money staying at three star hotels, we are paying less than $23 a person a night including breakfast but the main reason is security and safety, since the cheaper hotels are located in a worse neighborhood and does not provide security guards for the property.


Beautiful scenery and highway from Bangalore to Madurai

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{FECA Vision Choir} Dosa and Utabang

You probably have not seen this before, what we ate for lunch on the road on Saturday.
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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 8

Saturday, July 16. Today is a week since we landed. Our health has been pretty good. Rachel and Kayla had sore throats when they came. Allison and Marshall had minor bad stomach, and today, Katherine and Kayla have slight sore throat and stuffy nose, a few of the girls are not sleeping enough, staying up late to talk so they are catching up their sleep on the bus. Of all the food we ate in Bangalore, our favorite was a curried beef over rice cooked at the orphanage on Tuesday. The beef was tender, cooked just right, that most of us had seconds or more. But one of the teachers at the orphanage was Hindi, and even the smell of the beef caused her to put her veil over her nose. So while we enjoyed the food, we still have much to learn. As Paul reminds us in Romans 14:20-21, "Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble."

After breakfast and devotions where we read verses from John 10 about hearing the Shepard's voice, we spent a few minutes practicing listening prayer. After checking out and packing up the bus, we learned that Pastor Joel and his daughter Shiney are both sick with the flu and so he and his wife will not be traveling down with us. We learned a bit about the orphanage and school we will be visiting in Madurai. Twenty years ago, a middle aged couple felt called of the Lord to come to Madurai. With no idea what they were to do, they prayed, and soon learned of a practice where parents would abandon their infant girls in front of the temples, because the dowry they would have to pay for their daughter's future marriage was exorbitant (the order of $5000), much much higher than typical in the rest of India, so they gave them up basically to die. This couple started rescuing these baby girls and that is how the orphanage started. As the children grew, a school was started. These young ladies soon became well known throughout Madurai as smart, intelligent, well-mannered girls which every family wanted their sons to marry, with no dowry required, a wonderful example of redemption: from unwanted waifs to sought after treasures. The school now has about 1500 students including vocational training for nursing, school teachers, auto mechanics and electricians. Another ministry this couple started is ministry to people dying with HIV/AIDS (India denies they have a serious problem with this disease and so does not provide medication to ill patients nor care that these "non-entities" {like handicapped persons} become believers). These ill patients soon found Jesus and died peacefully, so the reputation soon spread that instead of dying miserably, believers in Jesus died peacefully so many came to faith.

The 450 km drive to Madurai is mostly on a nice two to three lane toll road where we can speed along at 80 kph (50 mph). The Indian country side is verdant and lush and beautiful. It has gotten progressively warmer as we drove south, from the high sixties when we left Bangalore to the mid-eighties with accompanying high humidity. After about three hours, we stopped for lunch at 12:30 in a veggie restaurant by the road side and ate paper dosa, a paper-thin crepe, and utabang, rice pancake with an onion topping. The dosa is a two foot diameter pancake, fried, and folded into a roll. Utabang looks like an 8" pizza and like dosa, is made of rice flour. After this light meal, we continued our drive to Madurai. It started to rain when we got within about 60 km of Madurai which also caused the temperature to steadily drop to the low seventies, PTL. But the heavy rain also caused extensive flooding slowing our progress. Tim's GPS also took us to a route with a low underpass which our bus could not get through so we had to detour around, traversing flooded zones at least a foot deep in sewer contaminated water. We finally arrived at our hotel at 7:30, called Poppys, with beautiful and nicely appointed rooms. We were met by Paulus and his wife, Rosie. Paulus is the son of the couple (now home with the Lord) who started the ministry here. We ate a buffet dinner at the hotel and turned in early since we have another early start tomorrow, Sunday

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 7

Friday, July 15. This morning, Vision woke at our usual time and had breakfast together at 6:30am to 7:30am. Marshall and Tim arrived back at the hotel late last night from Sikkim. We proceeded with devotions and prayed in small groups for the day.

Today, our schedule was much simpler than running after the children at Knoble Academy. Instead we visited and sang for Swanthana, a mentally disabled facility for females run by nuns. We had a tour of each of the rooms and sang songs of blessing and praise for each. Our team really enjoyed visiting the girls.

Afterwards we visited Vathsalya, meaning "love" in Hindi. Formerly focused in adoption, Vathsalya has turned their focus in educating the children of India, including the children of migrant workers. Our team enjoyed singing with and for the children. We spent a small amount of time playing and speaking with them before the last hour. It was beautiful to see all the work the school has been perpetuating. We returned to the hotel for a small break and rest.

To close our day, we left at 5:30pm for Kutumba, meaning "family" in Hindi. This is a facility that helps care for and train women who are physically and/or mentally disabled, many are deaf while others have various other ailments. We were able to sing a handful of Vision songs and because many were deaf, we then sang a few more VBS songs with action and dances with the girls there. Afterwards we had the opportunity to pray for each of the girls individually for a variety of requests all while battling the multitude of mosquitoes in the outdoor courtyard. It was a rewarding experience that reminded us of past tours filled with individual prayer ministry, such an awesome day!

Overall, today was filled with many small visits where we were able to be blessed and be a blessing to various people. What a great day! Tomorrow will be a travel day as we are busing down south to Madurai, a smaller city 6 to 7 hours south where we will minister for the better part of a week.

Photos of Vision singing at Kutumba, Vathsalya, and Swanthana.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Photos

Sorry for the incorrect dates from Josh and Katie's reports, but we are 12-1/2 hours ahead of LA time and our smart phones are on funny time. Anyway, here are photos of the owl mask from the orphans on Thursday, prayer ministry and Calida preaching at Bethel Teluga Baptist Church on Thursday night.

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