We arrived in Mumbai (Bombay), and stopped for a day before heading south to Coimbatore. These are the Coimbatore highlights.
- Out of 7 team members, 3 of us arrived in Mumbai without any luggage. I was one of those lucky folks, so I spent the next 3 days in the only pair of clothes I had with me before the airlines figured out where our stuff was.
- Watching India win the Cricket World Cup while in India.
- Taking showers from either a bucket of water or using a broken pipe sticking out of the wall.
- Learning to preach and share stories through the use of a translator.
- Great Indian food = sketchy bowel movements. I'll leave it at that.
- Picking up garbage at a Leper colony, preparing medical bandages, and then being able to sing worship songs and pray with the Leprosy victims.
- Spending time with a group of widowed women, listening to their stories, giving them some clothing, and sharing a meal with them.
- Food poisoning goes right along with sketchy bowel movements.
- Waking up to the sound of wild peacocks in the forest of coconut trees outside your window.
- Serving almost 100 people who gathered at a week-long seminar for healthcare in Southern India.
- Being blessed by our host family with a pizza from Dominoes in India was an amazing cure for my cravings for American food.
We had an amazing time in Coimbatore but we've moved on. We're in a more restricted area right now where Christians are under a lot of persecution. We had to register with the local police so they can watch us and we have to be careful with who we talk to and what we say. We're here for another week and a half as ''tourists'' before we fly north. More updates will follow, but I don't know when.
