Martha and Lilias’ blog
Thursday 27th July 6pm
Our first visit to Christ the Rock Church - (you’ll remember Raj Ignatius who took part in the World Without Walls training. He and his wife Vanitha are Pastors of this church.) What a fun packed evening we had!
There was:-
Beatty teaching the children how to do Silk Painting
Lilias and Rae doing balloon sculpting
Johnny and Albert entertaining on guitar
Indian Dance with some Scottish variation – thanks Mike!
Martha taught some songs with actions
Heather, Liz and Jackie assisted Beatty in foil craft
Then……………….. guess what ….………. We went to a restaurant for an….. Indian arriving back after midnight!!!!
Friday 28th July 10am
We left after a hearty breakfast of “Indian cuisine”! and set off for Chengalpattu Mission Field. This is an outreach of Mount Zion Church (you’ll remember Michael John who came on the World Without Walls training. He is joint Pastor of this church)This is a leper colony where people are ostracised from their local communities. They live here with their well children and have little contact with the rest of society. We received a warm welcome and joined them in a time of worship before distributing some rice.
We then headed off for Padappai Orphanage. This is a self-funded organisation run by Grace and Paul Moses (brother of Peter). Here they care for 60 orphans from the age of 2 – 5 years. We were amazed to hear a two-year-old child quote scripture to us in English. Today we actually witnessed the arrival of four new children. The experience was obviously very traumatic for them, but praise God and thanks to the love and care of the people who serve there, their lives will now become much richer and fuller.
Date posted: Friday, July 27th, 2007 6:46 pm | Under category: Uncategorized
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This is a fantastic way for all back in Bo’ness to keep up with what is going on in India. Great to see all the kids faces in the photo just beaming. Like kids anywhere interaction, attention and play goes along way.
Thanks for the call Lilias.
Regards to all,
David
Can’t believe that nearly a week has gone bye, reading your experiences gives us a flavour of what you are all up to. Hope all continues to go well God bless
Everyone made a fantastic contribution to the evening. Beatty with her craft and Martha’s response to the teenagers dancing brought the house down as everyone joined in with her dancing and clapping. Rae’s ballons really were a magificent contribution both Rae and Lilias worked hard all night making annimals out of the balloons. In all it was a great night. I was so proud to be the leader of such a great team. Albert
Woop Woop… BALLOON ANIMALS.
hehe well done they look great. - (tell rae i’ve still got my six legged doggy!! haha)
Nice to hear everyone is good and I hope Stephen and Lauren make it out ok aswell!
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Miss Everyone lots!
XxxX