A Day of Baptisms and Fellowship

Sunday 3rd

Morning

A Church in outskirts of Hyderabad has 18 converts getting Baptized, and we are invited to attend it at a clean water Dam. It was great to watch. We were supposed to attend the Baptism in early morning and attend 2 church services (one at 8:30am and the other one at 11am) where Keith was going to share Word. As it was India timing and getting very late, Keith started getting nervouse about missing Church service at 8:30am, Keith and Aeron decided turn back from middle. As they took a Auto Riksha and went back, I and Susanna attended the Baptism service. Here are some picture from the Baptism service:

The Korean Missionary, David, drove us.

We picked up Church Planters who planted the Church and Discipled the Church Pastor

I sat in the back of the SUV, on the floor, to make room for all the leaders. It was nice sitting here than getting squished in the seats.

We are following the Auto Riksha, in which 18 people who are going to get Baptized are packed into

All of them out of the Auto Riksha. The girl in the white Chudidhar (indian dress) is 18 years old and she has an amazing testimony. She is one of the leaders of that one church who brought Gospel to all these Converts. One of the converts was a male Witch and she said that entire Church witnessed Evil Spirits leaving that Convert. Amazing.

Had to do a little adventures walk to the Dam

Clean Water Dam (Manjeera Dam)

Shared Word, Asked the Converts questions on their Faith before Baptizing them, and Prayed by one of the Leaders

Some of the Baptisms

Some are Singing and Worshipping during Baptisms

After Bampisms, every one changed into New Cloths

Group Picture with New Believers

Evening

We went to visit a Christian family to have fellowship, pray and to gain more understanding of Christian life style in India. Being hospitable, they made us stay for dinner. Not anticipating that coming, we ate early dinner before we left to their house. But, we had to have second dinner and Keith loved it. One thing I learned from that visit is to have a daily quite time with God every morning as you never know when you have to share a Word on this Mission Trip. Before dinner, they asked both Keith and I to share Word which kind of caught both of us by surprise. Great hospitality and Susanna loved spending time with daughters.