Outreach began...

Hey my lovely friends

For the next 3 months this is gonna be the team blog from team India...

After 5 Days at the awesome Slack`s, where we had a beautiful Christmas time, a lot of fun with paintball and  a lot of prepare time for India, we started our adventure...

On Thursday we went to the airport to get on the plane for 10 hours to Singapore.  With a 2 hour layover we then got on the final plane to Mumbai.  Once we arrived at the airport Daniel and Samuel came to pick us up.  We got to Daniel's house at 3 in the morning.  The next morning we got up at 9 and had our first Indian breakfast of scrambled spicy eggs.  After that we did some shopping for water and culturally appropriate clothes.  We prepared our stuff for the first evening of preaching at a church in the slums.  Kevin was the first to preach and he spoke on forgiveness.  It took an hour and a half to get to this church via train and taxi. During the service our team sat in the front and we sung praise and worship for an hour and then Kevin preached. After the service everyone came up to us to take pictures, shake our hands and see what God tells us about them.  We prayed for healing and to bless them with words of God.  We then went to the pastor's house where they offered us a real Indian dinner.  We later arrived home at 2 and fell fast asleep.  

The next day we did the same, breakfast, shopping and then to a different church in the evening.  At this church Ruby preached about Joy. It was the same as yesterday after the sermon everyone came to us and shook our hands and said `praise the Lord`. After this sermon we went back home and could go a little bit earlier to sleep. 

Today we went in the morning in a church. It was in the St. Augustine High school in a classroom. Today it was Kathryn`s turn. She preached about the authority we have in the name of Jesus. And how we can bring pieces of heaven down to earth by praying for healing and against evil thoughts.

We have been so blessed with wonderful food and a loving host family. The wonderful people that we have met have taught us so much about true generosity  They feed us their best food even when they don't have any for themselves. 

We all sleep on the concrete floor of a small room and share a "toilet" with 14 people. The water from the taps is only available in the morning for an hour, so the family collects it for the day in large tubs. Although they have so little they take such pride in their home and work together as a family to make it a clean and welcoming environment. 

Tomorrow we'll be heading to Bellary to meet Pastor Christopher. The train leaves at 2am on the first and will take 20 hours. It's going to be a wild experience. 

Thank you all so much for praying for us. We can truly feel God's presence around us, filling us up and overflowing form us. We are so thankful for all the opportunities we've been given and we hope to continue being a light to those around us. 

Happy New Year

Prayer Points

• For good health for our team. (Especially Kathryn and Vania's cold.)
• That we can become even more united as a team/ family.
• That the families who've blessed us will be blessed ten fold. 
• For protection on the train to Bellary