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| The "JayKay" Ice cream man |
Wednesday Lectures:
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| Preparing Lunch |
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| Elaine and her Interpreter |
We are again between services. We have finished the afternoon workshops and are awaiting our ride back to the building for the evening service. The pictures you see all have interesting stories. I don't know that you can read the caption on the ice cream mans cart but I just had to picture it. It says: "Jay Kay's Ice Cream." Since my initials are JK....well you get the idea. Of course these vendors move to where crowds are and they have obviously "hovered" here. Webought ice cream for all the children last night----such a treat to them. Bro. Gootam said teasingly to me this morning: "Jim Kelly has drawn the candy man, the ice cream man and the balloon man." The numbers are astonishing. Each person pays a 50 rupee registration (about a dollar) which entitles them to 3 meals a day and publications, afternoon tea..etc. They receive a ticket that allows them to obtain those things. One picture is of the ladies cutting onions and potatoes for the noon meal.
They have registered over 2500 people. They know there are more here than that since many local area people don't register but eat at home. None of us ever expected this kind of turnout! People from Orissa, Madras, and other places I cannot spell. Those are distances of 1200 kilometers away. It takes the people from Orissa two days to get here. The other two pictures are of me and my interpreter--Bro. Rao from SRIKAKULAM, (he has a school of preaching there) and Elaine and her interpreter who is the superintendent of schools here in Kakinada. (one of the Elder's wives.)
We know that this work is the result of so many people in the states who have made it possible financially. I do not have enough words to convey to you how grateful we are for your gracious contributions to this cause of Christ. Because of you, the Gospel is preached, orphan children helped, preachers encouraged, lives changed and souls saved. This is YOUR work. Thank God for you.
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| Jim and Bro Rao |
