A cup of cold water in My name...

Yet another full, full day for the team here at Happy Home! First,I must share my favorite picture of the day. We all got serve the kids their midday meal yesterday, and here is Kaitlynn giving water this beautiful little girl. I can't help but remember what Jesus said to us about serving His children in His name.




And here are some more pictures of the team feeding the kids, learning how to speak Kannada from them, and just enjoying their smiling faces :)








Earlier in the morning we gathered them all together for a time of worship and praise.....then we sung them some them some fun songs with hang motions (Father Abraham, The Lord's Army, Hokey Pokey, etc) They LOVED it! Ever since learning The Lord's Army they have been running up to everyone and saying "akka akka or anna, anna (sister, sister or brother, brother), sing yes sir! sing yes sir!" It is so cute :)










Then we had a dance party with all the kids! They all love to dance, so it was super fun :)









Tiff somehow managed to convince one of the taxi drivers to let her drive his rickshaw around the field. Jeanne and Danielle decided to risk their lives and go along for the ride :)


Tiff, Melis, and Kaitlynn, learning how to cook some real Indian food from Irene


Esther, the cook, grinding some coconut for our breakfast



Chitra's greeting to each of us when we arrived this morning.


Some random pictures of the happenings throughout the morning and early afternoon....












Ok, and now for the finale! Roshan decided to take us on a "Safari"....so we piled into the vans and cruised over the their version of a zoo. It was absolutely pouring down rain, but Ryan and I prayed for it to stop for a bit, and it did! That was awesome :)
This place was absolutely crazy! The closest example I can give is the wild animal petting zoo in Bandon, Oregon. Except even crazier. (Mike, you know what I am talking about here!). We were litterally only FEET away from Lions and Tigers and a very harmless looking sloth bear. We saw jackels and hyenas and crocodiles and pythons. It was amazing! One scary story from Roshan: The tigers that we saw, actually ATE a person here just 6 months ago. Apparently a man was repairing the gates in between the compounds and accidentally slipped over and into the tiger pen. Yeah,.....not good. But don't worry, we all stayed in the bus for the most part, and came away unscathed. Here are the pics!



















At the end of the day we all dispersed to our rooms, but Jeremy, Ryan, Ben, and Roshan were at the hotel, and the manager Murthy (pronounced "murtee") asked to talk to them. He shared that he has been fascinated by our group of people. He has known Roshan for a few years, and so was comfortable talking with him. He expressed that he noticed a joy, a happiness in us, and that it was the same happiness that Roshan has in his face. So told the guys his story, about how he drinks too much, smokes all the time, is depressed, and though he was raised Hindu, he doesnt really practice it. He said he felt lost and wanted to know why we were so happy. So the guys just loved on him, and shared the gospel with him. And he prayed and accepted the Lord! Then the guys laid hands on him and prayed over him. Then Roshan told him to go home, throw all his idols away,and to cast his cigarettes into the trash. And he did it! Wow! He came to our worship and prayer time this morning and said he has never felt so free, so happy. God is so good. It is amazing to get to see His hand work in this way.

Thank you all for your prayers...

Please remember to pray for Kumar. We have not seen him in a few days, but hope to contact him again before we leave for Calcutta.

Love to you all......


.rebekah