Back Home Safe

Hey everyone, thanks for your prayers for this trip. We had a great trip and despite a couple health things with the team, it went really smoothly, so again, thank you for praying, I know it was because you all were supporting us through prayer that things went so well.

I went to bed last night after getting home from the airport, and fell asleep around midnight... woke up and looked at my watch and saw 4:30... I immediately thought 4:30 am because it didn't feel like I had slept long, but I could see some light coming into my room. So I thought, ok, my watch died, so I looked at my alarm clock. Same thing. So then I thought, did they do Daylight Saving while I was gone? So I got up, looked at my computer and saw it was 4:30 PM! I had just slept for over 16 hours and it felt like 4. My bio clock got a little messed up with all the traveling I guess!

We woke up in Chennai at 7:30am on Saturday, had a full day of visiting 2 churches and lots of driving, and got back to the motel at about 10pm. A few hours later, we headed off to the airport and flew out of Chennai to Dubai at 4:30am. About 4 hours later we land in Dubai and thankfully we had no layover, the timing was perfect and as soon as we got past security, they started boarding our flight to NY. 14 hours later we got to JFK airport and waited a couple hours for our flight to SFO. Got to SFO at about 9pm, got our bags and headed home.

Needless to say, traveling to the other side of the world takes a while, even in an airplane!

Well, I just wanted to say that I'm back, doing well, and as soon as I capture the images and video, I'll be putting together a video glimpse of the trip and will try to write more about specifics.

In a nutshell, God is moving in India through native pastors, and through financial and prayer support from people back in the US, they are being equipped to spread the Good News to a place where only 3-5% are Christian and 75% are Hindu (13% Muslim). The cool thing about India is that the people want to know the truth and aren't already shut down in their minds about God like people in the US. Atheism is not their problem, it's just a matter of showing them it's the God of Heaven, not the thousands of gods that they have been trying to please and "attract" to their homes with shrines and lights and hanging things around their doorways.

The Hindus we saw were asking us for prayer despite our religion, and that is something to praise God for. As a nation whose population of Hindus is 3 times the size of our population, and the fact that they are not shut down to hearing and "Considering Jesus" (I'll talk about that more later), India has the opportunity to turn around and become a billion people who love the Lord!