An Update... Finally!

So I have 2 months to catch up on! I've been so busy travelling these past couple of months...

In May I left for about 2 weeks to Northern India to visit one of our families. This family takes care of six girls who were rescued from being sold into prostitution. I had an a really good time getting to know these girls. I was told each of their stories, and was so amazed by how much their lives have been changed. They are each receiving a good education and are being taken care of by a loving mother. Most importantly they are being taught the love of Christ! The first picture is of all the girls.

While I was there, Tina (my new roommate from Nepal!) and I spent our days with a pastor and his wife while the girls were in school. We were able to travel (by foot...) all over the mountains visiting homes and doing prayer walks. I could add they were much more like "prayer hikes". One of the pictures is of the team we went out with. I enjoyed it so much and was so blessed by all the people I was able to meet. While hiking all over the place we made many connections where there are more children in need. I will expand on this much more in my next blog entry :)

At the end of May I travelled back up to Nepal to stay with Clark and Jennifer and their kids for one week. We sat together and brainstormed the rest of my time here in India. I love working with this couple and I believe so much in the things they are doing. After Nepal Jennifer came to stay with me in Delhi for a week. We are trying to get our new restart center built. We purchased land in one of the slums I am working in. So exciting!!

Tina came to live with me soon after. She has been such a blessing. She just graduated from the Bible College here in Delhi and will be working with me as part of her after school experience.

Finally, (summarizing all this is hard!) I spent a week of June in Turkey at Europe/Asia "conference". I realized I need to start being careful with my word choice on here :) "Workers" from all over Europe and Asia working through the same org as me gathered here. It was so encouraging to meet all these different people. We had meetings every day to discuss everything happening in our areas and what we want to see happen in the future. We also had a guest speaker in the evenings. I think it was a good time to step out of what I was doing in Delhi and, along with rest, receive a new perspective on God's will for my life. Plus it was pretty cool that I got to go to Turkey! I swam in the Mediterranean Sea!

Currently we are working hard to figure out ways to bring in more children and to start building our restart center. I am still visiting all of our children's homes and classes start up again this week since they've been on a holiday the past month.