Thank you to New Life Baptist Church and to our Growth Group for contributing.They thanked us (and New Life Baptist Church) for the crafts, songs, games and Bible stories. A number of girls spoke during evening devotions of how they were blessed and encouraged in their walk with the Lord. It made us cry. Some of THEM cried! Tomorrow about half of the girls will return for the summer holiday to their home villages - perhaps to a mother or other relative. They want to be strong in Jesus. Pray for them. They did several skits for us - some hilarious in their actions, accents and costumes. They speak in Kannada language, but even WE could tell when they were imitating some country dialect or grouchy tone of an old cranky person! But one skit, while funny in that respect, made us weep because one girl was a Christian trying to share Christ with Hindus. They all rejected her initially, even to the point of beating up on her. This happens 
all too often for real to Christians in India. But she continued to pray and in the skit, each person was healed and came to know Jesus as the one true living God. Karen, properly dressed in a saree, shared one last song, their favorite for this trip - "Sing Alleluia to the Lord". 
Seated next to Karen, is Shobha Massey, & her two dashounds, Dizzy and Rufus!
Here is a picture of half the group holding up today's craft: a bookmark that declares "He is Alive"!
Each child has a trunk that holds all their earthly possessions, as pictured here. They may have 5 or 6 changes of clothing (church clothes, school uniform and play clothes) but it all fits in the trunk. You will see in this girls' trunk, she is displaying the photo frame that was Wednesday's VBS craft. We had Arun Massey's file photos of each girl printed & sized to fit the foam frames which they decorated. Double click on any picture to enlarge.
Thank you for joining hearts and hands with us in this journey to India. Your support and prayers have meant SO MUCH. It is your hand reaching out to touch that little brown hand with attention and with God's love. Continue to pray for us as we leaving in about 12 hours. We will be in transit for probably 30 hours - 4 flights, layovers & such. Pray for smooth flights and good connections. Thank you!
God go with Rick and KC as they leave India and head home, let their journey home be smooth and let each of them be able to rest on the planes and etc. The lives that were touched and ministered to let their hearts and minds grow even more closer to YOU and keep each safe in Your arms. In Jesus Name, AMEN
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