What an amazing day for Team India.  The rain has finally cleared! In case you didn’t know, the Houston team somehow brought a hurricane to India with us (although they are called Cyclones here) and we’ve been in heavy rains for a few days. But we awoke today to beautiful clear skies and the temperature dropped a few degrees—the perfect weather for our first day of pastoral training. 

Biff and Adam are preaching on 2 Corinthians this week to a packed chapel filled with local pastors and men who are in pastoral training school, many of  whom drove from hours away to be taught the Word of God. Biff commented that he was “overwhelmed by the crowd” and loved seeing how “eager the men were to learn and grow in their walk with the Lord.” I had the joy to teach Indian women (ministry staff and wives) from my favorite book of the Bible—the Gospel of John.  We had so many women attend that we had to move the meeting outside. Praise God! Please continue to pray for the three of us as we work with translators and communicate God’s word to those hungry for it.

We have a week to go and we are already dreading the day that we will say goodbye to our girls. We just returned from our second evening with the young women at Grace Home.  Our goal this week is to teach the girls about their identity as Daughters of the King. We hope to encourage them with God’s love and to shape their thinking around His truth.  Tonight Jenny Gutierrez taught an amazing lesson about Ruth and Jennifer “Tank” Seals trained the girls to make gospel bracelets.  Check out the photo to see the swanky spin we put on an old standard…we know you all will want one too.