Sharon India Foundation

Greetings to everyone back home. We have had an unbelievable time so far. The travel took a pretty long time and the layover in New Delhi was quite an experience.

Sunday was the highligt so far. We went with our sponsoring pastors to their churches. I met some of the most beautiful people. Their love for my family and I is humbling. It started of with baptisms. I had the joy of baptizing many of the faithful believers at Adam's church.

I thought they were going to have a change of clothes for me to wear during baptism but then Adam said to get in the tank with my clothes on. I started to get very nervous about what I would be wearing the rest of the day. After the baptisms they gave me a wonderful outfit to wear. The little kids are so great. They live in poverty but it does not bother them at all.

Then we had a three hour service. The brothers and sisters we so kind. Some poor widows who had nothing knitted a gift for Shannon and gave us a couple of small gifts. It reminded me of the widow who dropped the two coins in the offering and Jesus said that she outgave everyone else.

They showered me with flowers. I can only think I don't deserve any of this special treatment.

Then many people asked me to pray for them. One young lady asked me to name her child. What? A young girl may now have the name grace.

Then I had lunch with Adam and his family at his 200 square foot home. It was a very wonderful time to just hang out with him and his family and Sabesh who is our translater.

We finished the day visiting two small congregations in the outskirts of town. They were very poor. One group made bricks for a living and they lived in these small brick huts. The other group lived in huts made out of dried mud and wood roofs. I spent some time in one of them. They work 7 days a week and they still took some time together. My camera battery had died so I don't have any pictures of the end of the day. By the time we started home I was exhausted but so thankful. God is at work in a might way here.