Tuesday

This was a rest day as we went shopping for presents and clothes. We did however see the usual mad traffic antics along the way.

Monday

This day we went to Purnata Bhavan where we saw a project run by Oasis Trust that provides a refuge for those children who have HIV Aids or are affected by HIV. Adam says that 13 of the 35 children are HIV + and around 25 are orphaned and live on site.

The project also runs training schemes to enable the women to do jobs such as tailoring or candle making. Those of you with connections with team members may be fortunate enough to receive gifts purchased from the centre!

We were able to pray for the team who are led by a lady called Bethany from USA with assistance being made by Helen(who teaches 5 children) and now Kris (who will be advising of new designs for clothing)

In the picture on the left Karen is in the red top and Kris is next to her in the light blue top. Bethany is in the gold top and on the right hand side of the picture.

Sharmaine is pictured below with a number of the children at the project

The journey back will go down as the most eventful we have ever experienced as due to a (probable fatal) accident on the mountain road resulted in driving practices you will never the like of again as cars overtook each other on the inside and outside in order to get past the accident. This is inspite of oncoming traffic and a sheer drop (protected by a 4ft brick wall on the left side!)

Apologies for also missing a photo opportunity as a wee boy lifted electric cables above the height of a lorry using a long wooden fork!

Sunday

Sunday was a remarkable day where we saw God’s power move in miraculous ways.

Picture below is the walk up to the church.

We went to the church where Adam’s housekeeper worships and part of Sharmaine’s sponsored silence money went to fund an extension.

The church building has been extended from the area on the wall that you can see the banner with Jesus's face.

We arrived at around 10:30 where the service had already been progress since 9am!

The service was in hindi and appeared to be very informal with the singing being accompanied by a guy on the bongo drums and a guitar player so when we arrived we just clapped along as the songs where being sung.

We then took communion and also witnessed a baptism.
We were first ushered up the front where Adam introduced us all and we received garlands of flowers from the Church and then we all said a short prayer each.
It then became obvious that God had other plans for the rest of the service as one man then had to be prayed for as he had become possessed by a devil.
The pastor of the church then asked the congregation if we would pray for healing for the members of the congregation who required it. First it was one or two people but then as the Holy Spirit came, more and more people came forward and in the end the whole team were either praying or “catching” people as we prayed. We were grateful for a couple of congregation (and also Adam!) who could translate for us into and from Hindi.
In the end we were praying for folks for nearly two hours and then we had a very welcome lunch.
We managed to leave around 2:30pm elated but exhausted at what God had done through us.

After a short rest period we then went for a swim and basically played about in the pool.