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My friends from church are leaving for India tomorrow :applaud:
Prayers are more than welcome :wink:

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 :up:

Alan
 
http://www.blahonline.net/blogs.php?BlogMemberID=284

Arrived in Delhi and feeling the heat

After little sleep on the plane, apart from Johnny, who was dribbling on an old lady from lift off, we arrived in Delhi and sorted out some interesting taxi rides from the airport to the church of North India base. It has been a hot few hours,with limited communication exchanged between us and the locals, basically constant smiling and Namaste (hello, but we are working on the lingo, with Vic giving vocab lessons from her guide book!).

Delhi is amazing, a completely new experience for all of us, especially Rich who has never been out of England, he was positively leaping like a frog with excitment when the plane took off - you should have seen him when we landed in India.

There isnt much to report, but we have had a brilliant meal in which we basically ordered anything that sounded fun and tried it. I think we made 4 sets of orders in the end, and only ended up paying fifteen pounds. I think they thought we were elephants with the food intake.

Havent seen any elephants much to Vickys disappointment, but we live in hope.

Everyone feels really excited and blessed by the opportunity to be here and looking forward to seeing what God has in store.

God Bless India,

Love Lucy and Johnny

I haven't got a pic of Lucy but her Dad is Dave Moorcroft, ex-distance runner and Chief Exec of UK athletics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moorcroft :)

Johnny's profile is here.. http://www.openheaven.org/profile/98 :lol:

Rich http://www.openheaven.org/profile/330

Vicky
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:)
 
http://www.blahonline.net/blogs.php?BlogMemberID=324

Our time so far at United Christian Institute, Jalandhar

There is so much to say concerning our first five days staying on the UCI campus.

We arrived here midday on saturday 23rd after two bizarre days stay in Delhi. Our time in Delhi could be summed up with the phrase, "In at the deep end" Our thoughts are that Delhi represents the extremes of the Indian culture.

Everyone in the city has their own story, something unique happening and a team of 12 people, unexperienced in the Indian way, pitch up and are thrown into confusion as they try and determine the unwritten rules that drive the bright, colourful and alien Indian culture.

Whilst submersed in the strange city, we had to begin to adapt to the heat and humidity. Six days on from then, we are getting a little closer to handling it!

We had our first experience of Indian roads about 40 mins after landing. We loaded our bags into some Stock car lookalike taxis and began our first road trip to the city centre. Unfortunately we forgot to pack crash helmets and safety harnesses.

After being thrown side to side, up and down for 25 mins - we arrived at Church of North India, Bhaven, Delhi. We stayed there for our introduction to the city.

:)
 
I'm white and British and live in the UK :wink: :lol:

I've had word from Lucy's b/f Pete (working in Munich over the summer) that Lucy has come down with a sort of fever and some of the others are having trouble with the heat out there so more prayers are needed. She did text him that she is just about able to work though :hug:

It's a bit wet out there now... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4723335.stm ...but they are in Chandigarh at the moment where the Church campus is. Pete gave me a link for a local weather forecast...

http://www.amssdelhi.gov.in/dynamic/weather/localforecast.html

:)
 
Chandigarh! Wow I actually went to boarding school there. However being American born, I wanted to come back home to California :) You appreciate EVERYTHING you have here.
Chandigarh is one of the nicer towns in Punjab. I hope its not too hot for them.

You guys rock!! :)
 
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