Saturday, July 9, 2016

{FECA Vision Choir} Arrival in India

We arrived in Bangalore at about 9 AM local time, 22 hours after leaving LA, including a 2 hour layover in Dubai. All our luggage also made it, and we cleared immigration and customs with no difficulty, although one of Gentle's bag was selected to be X-rayed and opened, but thanks to all your petition to dad, nothing was stopped. But Calida did not make it! When she went to the airport in Hong Kong, she was told her passport looked like it was water damaged and could not be read by the computer so she was not allowed to board. She will try to obtain a new visa with her other passport, but at this time, we do know when she can join us. Please intercede for her to our dad.

We were met at the airport by Tim and Kloe, Pastor Joel and his wife, Pastor Jacob who is a full time working layman, our 20 rented passenger bus (for the next two weeks we are here), and a cargo truck to haul our thirty pieces of luggage to the hotel. We arrived at the Keys Hotel at noon, only to find out we could not check in yet as our rooms were not ready, so we went to the Phoenix Marketplace where we ate a piece of KFC and a traditional Indian fast food of Dai, nan, basmati rice, curry sauce and yogurt. It was exotic and spicy. Although the venue was less than two miles away, it took us over two hours to drive there, eat, and drive back. We then checked in, did our daily devos, small group, signed our "give up my rights" commitment form, and prayed the armor of God protection prayer from Eph. 6. We then worked on the details of VBS which will start Monday and practiced our skits. Though we are tired, we are determined to stay up and not nap so we can adjust to the time change.

The three pictures attached are most of the group praying for us at LAX, a selfie of us at Dubai airport, and the inside of our rented bus taken while driving to our hotel.


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