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My friends from church are leaving for India tomorrow
Prayers are more than welcome
I don't have any pictures of them now but hopefully they may post something in their blog
Alan
Prayers are more than welcome
Dear All,
On this weeks fine Wednesday I will be joining 11 other guys from Loughborough to embark on an exciting CMS (Church Mission Society) trip to India. I really wanted to let you all know what we will be doing whilst there so you can be thinking and praying.
On Saturday 23rd we travel up from Delhi to a place called Jalandhar by Train, (exciting!!). In Jalandhar we are spending 12 days until the 4th August. We will be living and working with The United Christian Institute which was set up to educate young children, particularly from rural and underprivileged backgrounds. The institute is made up of a number of areas including the United Christian Senior Secondary School for Boys; the United Christian High School for Girls; the vocational training wing; the Industrial Training Centre and the United Christian Primary School. Whilst we are there we will be helping in the classrooms as well as many other projects of the campus. We hope also to lead drama, art and sport workshops with children as well as a trip to UCI tree plantation site.
After that we travel back to Dehli and spend the rest of the time working in the slums. From the 4th until the 10th we will be staying and working with Delhi Brotherhood, who works in a slum area of Delhi with the deprived and underprivileged communities living there. Their mission is to inspire and motivate the people to realise their human dignity and develop their capacity to solve their own problems. We will be specifically helping them with a night shelter for boys, health work, A children’s centre, vocational training centre and in there formal schools. Im sure this will be an amazing and different experience. We will also be living in a monastery and following the Monks routine, which will be fascinating, I’m sure. An example is waking up for 6.30 prayer and silence from 8pm till morning. Crazy Fun!
We will then go to work with a group called ASHA from the 11th until the 14th. Asha is a project working in a slum area of Delhi mainly with community and health development. We will be going around with the workers meeting many of the women who carry the project as well as the communities they work with.
This is a busy busy schedule, but very exciting. We have a few days off between projects to visit some sights, as well as the 15th of August, Independence Day, which will be a lively and exciting time in New Delhi.
I will try and email when I am out there but I cannot guarantee contact, as it will probably be difficult. However, as a group we will be writing regular blogs on an Internet site called http://www.blahonline.net/ You should be able to catch all that we are doing through that, we will be called the North India team as CMS have various teams going out over the summer to different places.
Thank you to all those who have supported the trip with prayers or money I am so very grateful. Have a wonderful 4 weeks of British Sunshine, I hope. At least not Monsoon..he he. I look forward to seeing you all when I get back. Stay safe,
Lots and Lots of Love,
From Lucy xxxx
I don't have any pictures of them now but hopefully they may post something in their blog
Alan