Greetings from India!!!
WOW!!! What a week!
We have felt your prayers! Thank you for your messages! Yes, we can receive emails. I look forward each time I get online to see your notes so thank you!
We are enjoying ministering! Our family is all doing Children's ministry as slum schools. We not only minister to the children but also to parents and landlords who are not Christian. They allow their children to come so they will learn english from americans but we are free to teach the gospel. In 3 schools we have done the witnessing bracelets and have seen 42 children pray and ask Jesus in their hearts for the first time.
Jesse has taught the children Jesus loves me. He is enjoying TaeKwonDo. and is making friends. He enjoys watching cricket too!! No baseball in India!
Hannah has made two sweet friends who walk her to the gate each day.
Sammi narrowly escaped stitches in the middle of her forehead. PTL. the bunk bed ladder fell squarely in the middle of her forehead leaving a HUGE bruise but did not break the skin. we do not understand why except for the Lord's hand.
Ned and I have befriended a man from Pakistan named Medlan who has invited us to his shop. Ned has made friends with some of the men who own businesses and they invite him in for chai tea! the "thing" in India!!
We celebrated Easter with a huge egg hunt by our leaders in our 4 story building!! Ned was moo'ed at by 3 big cows today while teaching and Sammi 's rickshaw almost turned over!! Life in India is fun! OH!! and it was 102 degrees today and getting hotter each day.
Please share your requests so we can be praying for you!
My praise!! I found an immersion heater for my bucket of water for 190 rupees that is about $4!!!
God is good!
Blessings All~
love and prayers from India!
the Walkers
Monday, April 13, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
update from India
Greetings from India!!!
This was our first day of ministry teams. The Walker Family is all doing Children's Ministry at this time. We are going to slum schools to do English Camps with American Teachers. It is really neat to be able to speak openly about the gospel.
We go in groups of 4. Ned and Hannah are on a team. Jesse and I are on a team. Sammi is on a different team. There are 2 class periods with 25 to 55 children in each room. Sammi said that she is not a good estimator of space so she counted the bricks and the room was 9 bricks by 15 bricks. Yes, this is normal bricks. Very small rooms.
Jesse made a friend named Jateen today. Hannah had two friends who did not want to stop holding her hand! Very neat for them.
Jesse also got to do TaeKwonDo tonight.
The weather is hot! The air is dusty! The food is spicy! India is wonderful because God is moving here!
Please pray for no illness and safety in the rickshaws (bicycle carts)!!
Ned was able to minister to a Indian business man today. Jesse and I met a Vietnam Buddhist today and were able to talk about our God with him. We are praying for Divine Appointments!
Please pass this on to whomever! Blessings and prayers to all~
the Walker's
PS check out ywamorlando.org\news winter dts 2009 for pics. I have taken most of them which is why you won't see me but everyone else is there:)
This was our first day of ministry teams. The Walker Family is all doing Children's Ministry at this time. We are going to slum schools to do English Camps with American Teachers. It is really neat to be able to speak openly about the gospel.
We go in groups of 4. Ned and Hannah are on a team. Jesse and I are on a team. Sammi is on a different team. There are 2 class periods with 25 to 55 children in each room. Sammi said that she is not a good estimator of space so she counted the bricks and the room was 9 bricks by 15 bricks. Yes, this is normal bricks. Very small rooms.
Jesse made a friend named Jateen today. Hannah had two friends who did not want to stop holding her hand! Very neat for them.
Jesse also got to do TaeKwonDo tonight.
The weather is hot! The air is dusty! The food is spicy! India is wonderful because God is moving here!
Please pray for no illness and safety in the rickshaws (bicycle carts)!!
Ned was able to minister to a Indian business man today. Jesse and I met a Vietnam Buddhist today and were able to talk about our God with him. We are praying for Divine Appointments!
Please pass this on to whomever! Blessings and prayers to all~
the Walker's
PS check out ywamorlando.org\news winter dts 2009 for pics. I have taken most of them which is why you won't see me but everyone else is there:)
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Update from India
Hello All~
We are doing well in India!!!!
This week has been quite fun. We arrived Monday night and had Tuesday off to sleep and get settled in. We are staying in a 5 story building that is much like an apartment building. We have a two room area with two bathrooms on the ground floor. One of the two toilets work but it is in the bathroom that consistently has about a half an inch of water on the floor. We have two showers which can be translated into two garbage cans of water and a bucket!! We can it bucketing versus showering! It is quite cold too. I did get the man in the kitchen to boil me a pot of water today to wash my hair in warm water. What a pleasure!!
We have to go up to the top story of the building for meals and meetings. The main office is down about 10 blocks away around two corners. It is a nice area with upper to middle class people mainly.
Jesse got to play cricket in the street with some boys the other day. He was quite thrilled and is really wanting a cricket bat to play with.
We enjoyed Survival Experience on Wed. That consisted of taking a rickshaw (bicycle cart) to the Kamla Nagar Market and purchasing a traditional Indian ministry outfit. Did I mention that we had no translator!!! We did all survive and came back with appropriate dress. The clothes are extremely colorful and quite comfortable. Hannah I think really enjoys it and was able to get two orange punjabis:)
The guys in the group saw two elephants going down the street. The girls and I have only seen a camel. Not counting the multitude of cows and dogs and a few cats and a ton of birds and parrots.
We visited the 2nd largest Hindu temple in the world and did see a monkey there. We also visited the Lotus temple. It is so sad to see the extravagance and amount of time wasted on false gods. So very disheartening. The temple was quite overwhelming.
Sammi was especially saddened. We did prayer walks as we went and know that there are spiritual changes going on.
There is so much that I could tell you about and it has only been one week. Next Tuesday we start slum school ministry along with University outreach and coffee house and English as a second language.
The food is spicy!! The water is cold. The mattresses are rock hard:) But it is very good!!
We had potato butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast! Lots of rice and douhl.
Blessings all~
Thanks for your prayers!
Love the Walker's
check out ywamorlando.com\news for videos and pictures!
We are doing well in India!!!!
This week has been quite fun. We arrived Monday night and had Tuesday off to sleep and get settled in. We are staying in a 5 story building that is much like an apartment building. We have a two room area with two bathrooms on the ground floor. One of the two toilets work but it is in the bathroom that consistently has about a half an inch of water on the floor. We have two showers which can be translated into two garbage cans of water and a bucket!! We can it bucketing versus showering! It is quite cold too. I did get the man in the kitchen to boil me a pot of water today to wash my hair in warm water. What a pleasure!!
We have to go up to the top story of the building for meals and meetings. The main office is down about 10 blocks away around two corners. It is a nice area with upper to middle class people mainly.
Jesse got to play cricket in the street with some boys the other day. He was quite thrilled and is really wanting a cricket bat to play with.
We enjoyed Survival Experience on Wed. That consisted of taking a rickshaw (bicycle cart) to the Kamla Nagar Market and purchasing a traditional Indian ministry outfit. Did I mention that we had no translator!!! We did all survive and came back with appropriate dress. The clothes are extremely colorful and quite comfortable. Hannah I think really enjoys it and was able to get two orange punjabis:)
The guys in the group saw two elephants going down the street. The girls and I have only seen a camel. Not counting the multitude of cows and dogs and a few cats and a ton of birds and parrots.
We visited the 2nd largest Hindu temple in the world and did see a monkey there. We also visited the Lotus temple. It is so sad to see the extravagance and amount of time wasted on false gods. So very disheartening. The temple was quite overwhelming.
Sammi was especially saddened. We did prayer walks as we went and know that there are spiritual changes going on.
There is so much that I could tell you about and it has only been one week. Next Tuesday we start slum school ministry along with University outreach and coffee house and English as a second language.
The food is spicy!! The water is cold. The mattresses are rock hard:) But it is very good!!
We had potato butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast! Lots of rice and douhl.
Blessings all~
Thanks for your prayers!
Love the Walker's
check out ywamorlando.com\news for videos and pictures!
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