{FECA Vision Choir} Report 2

Sunday, July 10 - After a wonderful night's sleep, we were awaken at 6 AM (that is our scheduled wake-up time each day) and rushed to eat breakfast at the hotel so we could leave at 7 to attend the 7:30 English service at Pastor Joel's church, Full Gospel, Christ the Light Church. Even though there were only about as many people worshipping as those of us singing, we could sense God's presence. We sang This Is the Day and Majesty and Glory before Tim Kim preached. The Tamil service followed right at 8:30. This service was much better attended with over a hundred people, although because of local festivals, not as many came as on a normal Sunday. They worshipped enthusiastically for almost an hour. Again, we sang (Jesus, Name Above All Names, Keepin' in Touch, and Yes, Lord, Yes) before Tim preached, this time translated to Tamil. A lady then gave her testimony about how God preserved her problem pregnancy and how she did not even have to see a doctor for the last five months of her pregnancy, and her baby boy, born soon after Easter, was dedicated (her husband led the Tamil worship) by Tim. We left for lunch at about noon to a Chinese-Indian restaurant where we ate fried rice with a curried chicken sauce, returning back to our hotel at two. One interesting thing we noticed during the worship and our singing at the Tamil service was this loud music coming from across the street. We later found out this neighbor of Pastor Joel (he lives below the church) was a powerful Hindu leader who would frequently try to disrupt services at the church.

Bangalore, also known as the Garden City, is a beautiful place with green plants and trees growing everywhere. It has been growing at a tremendous rate with high rises going up everywhere due to the electronics semiconductor industry so that land is extremely expensive here. The weather is wonderful. It was 72 when we landed, cooling breezes, and it has been cloudy, with light drizzles, and very comfortable, not hot at all. Our hotel is newly completed, so the rooms are clean, very pleasant, soft yet firm beds, nothing like we thought we would face coming here, PTL.

We met at 2:30 to practice our skit, the sin chair, for tonight, leaving at 3 to our venue for the outreach. We stopped at Pastor Joel's home for snacks, cookies and fresh coconut milk from just cut young coconuts. We arrived at the venue for the outreach. It turns out it was not exactly an outreach since it was held in a rented public meeting room (so even the local pastors were not allowed to ask for decisions), but more of a musical worship meeting. The first hour or so was worship led by teams from five different local churches, some solo or group singing, and even a children dance which they learned from Tim's children camp he led in April. We were amazed at the passion of so many of the worship leaders. We sang six songs for about a half hour including salvation testimonies from Katie and Jada and our skit. Tim then gave a message about Lazarus being raised from the dead from John 11. After this, one of the local pastors asked each worship team to send a representative and Josh represented us. He said how remarkable it was to have such a gathering of different churches in Bangalore to worship together and challenged each church represented to come pray together for the city and reach the millions here who don't know our Lord. We were so blessed to witness what could be the start of something wonderful here in Bangalore, so pray for this. We then returned to Pastor Joel's home to quickly debrief the day and eat a home cooked dinner of curried chicken dal and Indian tortillas. Exhausted and still fighting jet lag, we returned to crash at our hotel.

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