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| Thank you for making this work possible! |
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| Sunday lunch in the Gootam home. |
This will be the last post for a while since we are headed out early tomorrow to begin making our way home. We are supposed to fly out of Rajamundry but the small planes that fly out of that airport have been grounded for several days because of the weather. It is solid rain here and the outlook is the same. Ricky is taking us to the airport and if they cancel our flight he is going to drive us on to Hyderabad to get to our flights home. The big airport and the big planes are flying OK so hopefully we can make our connections. It is about a 9 hour drive but Ricky assures us the road is good and will be well above water. It makes for a hard day but we'll make the best of it. Ricky has a bunch of cartoon DVD's in their SUV and a player so we may watch cartoons all the way. :) We had a great Sunday service with the church in Kakinada and lunch with the Gootam family. I have truly enjoyed preaching to these people and know they appreciate it. They continue to be insistent that we come back next year (and every year) but that remains to be seen. I have no doubt that with the overwhelming success of this years lectures, next year will be even larger. It is wonderful for people to be so hungry for the Word of God! A lot of tears flow as we leave --- especially from the little girls who have become so attached to Elaine -- but we are anxious to get home. One little girl asked Elaine "will you be my mother" and you can imagine how difficult that is. She was not asking to come with us to the USA---just love me and care what happens to me like a mother would. I know of no one to be a better mother than Elaine. (I'm probably a little prejudiced) We are looking forward to the first Sunday "pot luck" at home---Asher, and being with our family there. You know how I am about first Sunday! I have so much I want to share with you and will make a movie about this work this year and see to it all who have supported our activities get a copy. I am also anxious to go and report to the congregations who have helped make this possible.
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| Even with the rain-Life goes on |
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| One block from the church building |
