Forgot to mention that Nancy was able to rearrange her classes and will now be joining us full time for the rest of our trip here. Daniel, who is one of the Vision Seeds member has been with us the last two days. Daniel (like Joanne) is a PK and an aspiring musician who teaches guitar and potentially could be a conductor for Seeds. Pr'y for him that G*d will guide him and he is able to obtain further musical training as he has been basically self and Internet-taught and the May choir training was his first systematic exposure to music theory.
We left at 4 to sing at the youth meeting at the original NLF (mother) site, located (rented auditorium) on the United Theological College. As we have done the last three afternoons, we pr'yed during a significant portion of the bus ride. There were more than 40 youth there including about 30 from the New Hope orphanage and 8 or 9 mentors including P'stor Sam (younger man than the founder mentioned two reports ago). Daniel and Nicole shared their stories, and amazingly, Daniel's story matched so well with the skit in content (trying to fill the missing piece to the emptiness in her heart with money, education, work, partying and finally finding the key). Rachel was perfect as the lead heroine in this skit, expressing temporary joy and disappointment until finally finding the real answer. Nicole used the word "unashamed" in her sharing and it became a theme word used several times as the program continued, especially during ministry time. Because the audience was young, Jordan also taught them 4 VBS songs so they joined us in singing and dancing before Mari shared her story and challenged the youth to find their true destiny. We then spent the last half hour laying hands and asking the H. Spirit to come. It was a marvelous time that brought great joy to all of us as many tears were shed. Tim then asked the mentors to come forward and the youth then blessed their mentors as Tim also laid hands on these adults. Then we went forward and the audience blessed us wonderfully. Perhaps for the first time, many of these young people felt empowered and unashamed. Ann, one of their mentors, also challenged some of these youths to join Seeds. By the way, in the middle of the ministry time, our bus driver came and asked to be pr'yed, and although we did not have the language skills to explain the Good News to him, he will be driving us for the next week so remember him in your supplication too. We ate dinner there and returned rejoicing to do our devos and debrief. Kayla's bite still bothered her so Tim and a local brought her to see a doctor at Baptist Hospital, the best hospital in Bangalore with mostly western trained doctors to make sure the infection from the bite was not serious. Around midnight, received this email from Tim: "Kayla is doing fine, Dr. has run blood test and few other tests, she has cellulitis from bug bite she got on Tuesday. They are giving her anti-biotic and keeping her overnight to make sure she is fine. Joanne (23 years old, Indian girl) is here and spending night here with Kayla." Thank you, Lord.
Sunday, 7/2
Today is another cool beautiful day here in Bangalore. We will be singing at two services at NLF where we sang last night for the youth. Kayla will not be joining us this morning as the hospital wants to observe her reaction to the antibiotics. She is the only patient in the VIP third floor, so she getting the best of care. We left after breakfast at 8:05 and because there is little traffic, arrived at about 8:30, before the English 9 AM service. The service started promptly at 9 with P'stor Sam, a gifted musician himself, leading the worship singing. Because the Seeds people are attending their own service, Meiring sang with Vision for about 20 minutes, before Tim spoke. His very powerful message from Hab. 3:16-19 challenged us all to not have a circumstantial faith where we only believe when God is answering our prayers, but to build our faith on God alone even when things are going badly. At the end of the service, we had ministry time and pr'yed for many, and caused the next service to start 10 minutes late. The second service from 11-1 was their Kannada service. The worship music was very different in modality and tonality and very loud, but quite awesome. Communion was served at this service. We had to tear off a piece from a larger loaf and the juice was served in a pitcher with a spout. We had to tilt our head back and pour the juice into our mouth without touching our lips, actually quite a sanitary way to partake of the "wine". Vision sang only 3 songs because of the lateness of the hour and Tim preached an abbreviated version of his 9 AM passage, but we had an even longer ministry time. Maybe half a dozen were "slain by the spirit" during ministry time. The Kannada P'stor was suffering from back pain and Tim saw that one leg was perhaps half an inch shorter than the other, but during pr'yer, the short leg lengthened to match the other and cured his back pain. We also noticed our bus driver was among those asking for pr'yer.
We then left to have a special lunch cooked by Mrs. Samuel at her home. On the ride, Tim was finally able to return Kelvin and Claribel's many phone calls of concern for Kayla. She is doing fine, and staying in a hospital in India is not like the U.S., as many stay there even when they have a minor cold. We all stopped by the hospital after lunch to see and pr'y for Kayla who looked happy as a lark and drop off a change of clothing. Tim stayed while the rest of us returned home so he could talk to the doctors in detail about how Kayla is doing and check the blood test result to see if her white blood count is decreasing indicating her infection is subsiding. If Kayla has to stay a second night, Tim will stay over at Bangalore and fly down to Madurai with Kayla while the rest of us take ten hours or so to bus down on Monday.
But let's talk about lunch, our best meal so far in India! Home cooked Marsala chicken with yogurt and chicken briyani, topped with ice cream, all with a minimum of hot sauce - just a dash to add zing to the food. It turns out Mrs. Samuel celebrated her birthday last Monday and instead of gifts, she received cash which she spent on groceries to cook this lunch for us and a few church friends. We were so touched by her generosity and gift of hospitality. May she be repaid thirty or a hundred fold as promised by Jesus.
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