Namaste! ("Greetings" in the Hindi language, kind of like "Aloha" or "Shalom"). It's been over a week since I boarded a plane to Delhi. Oh how time flies! Anyways, it feels like I've been everywhere this week, not necessarily ministering to people, yet, but just checking things out: learning culture and language. One thing I have learned is that driving here is crazy! In this culture, there are no such things as lines. If you want something, you gotta fight and claw you're way in. Well, this thought process applied to the road is just insane! I'll have to show you all a video clip sometime soon.
In regards to what me, Mike, Janna, and Bethany have been doing, it's been just being part of the culture, whether it be going to the slums, walking the ritziest of malls, going to the market, going to a Hindi-speaking/Talmut-speaking A.G. church, eating at homes of some Indian Christians here, inviting them to ours, among other things.
What we've been focusing on mainly, though, is developing a 5 week program that will bring awareness of poverty to youth groups back in the U.S. What we have so far are just ideas and a basic outline, but I think our finished product has the potential to absolutely rock the worlds of the kids in the U.S. I believe this program is going to do more than make some kids get goosebumps and teary-eyed; it will completely change their lives. So if you so desire, pray that we gain wisdom in exactly how to structure this project, and that we do it efficiently so we have more time to love on (and be loved by) the kids in the slum schools.
Namaste
Garrett
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