A Great Day of Fellowship and Sharing

Wednesday 13th

As the Strike is for 2 days, 12th and 13th, we were expecting a slow day on Wednesday too. But, arrival of Aeron, the head of Campus Crusade for Andhra Pradesh state, from a leadership meeting in Chennai, changed all that. He planned visiting 3 families.

We started the day with Staff Prayer meeting. In that meeting, we prayed trusting God's Power to do what He planned to do through us in whatever circumstances. God just answered prayer so quickly. My parents were so surprised on how we were able to travel around in the city as if there was nothing going on. There were so many violent protests going on in the city and my parents were watching all that in news.

The first family we visited in the morning was a Pastor's family. That is a great family who has 4 sons, one of whom is planning on applying to US Universities for higher studies. I strongly encouraged him to come to Utah as we need more Indian Christians on Campus here. All 4 of them are good musicians, formed a band together and lead worship in the Church where their Dad Pastors on every Sunday. It was a good time to enrich our knowledge on Christian Community, Fellowship, Evangelism, and Outreach, and the Hindrances that they have in India. We tried to gain knowledge on how we can reach out to Indians in Utah.

Keith has been showing Autumn's picture to show who my wife is. Also, it's funny that I don't have her picture, but he has her picture. Everywhere, after seeing Autumn's picture, they ask me to bring her to their house next year when she vistis for sure.

Raj, who is planning on applying to US Universities for higher studies, in the same way I came to US

In the evening, we visited 2 families. One of them is a Hindu family. This family perfectly represents a lower middle classed combined family in India. In that medium sized house, 2 brothers with their wifes and children, their mom, 2 cousins, and a visiting sister with her daughter live. They are very hospitable just as all other families, on top of that, while being the poorest family of all we visited, they are the only ones who gave Susanna a nice pair of clothes as gift while leaving.

As it is custom here that we should not go empty handed when we are visiting a family, especially when there are kids on that house, we are grabbing some fruits and sweets. Those pink apples are a lot more expensive than they are in US. Each apple costs around 80cents in US currency.

Visiting this Hindu family is one of the highlights of my trip. The head of the house, oldest brother, Divakar is friend of Aeron from college. He likes what Aeron is doing in ministry, but asked him to leave Gospel out of their relationship. But, that night, God provided a way for me to share my Testimony. Whole family gathered in the hall to listen, and God led me to add Bridge Illustration to my Testimony in the end. It went really well. The whole sharing lasted anywhere between 40 to 60 mins. Not only my Testimony spoke the Truth of Him and His Existance, but also the Bridge Illustration illustrated the distinction between Him and other gods and illustrated why we need to receive Him very well.

Yesterday, I bought a good Telugu Bible to send it to them with a note and highlighted passages as a gift to them. So, please keep all of them and their Salvation in your Prayers. They have some prayer requests that Keith prayed for. Their sister needs healing and younger brother's wife womb needs to be opened by God. I believe God didn't open her womb yet for a reason, so He can open it now, throught which He will be glorified and they would find their Salvation. So, please pray for those two prayer requests.

From there, we went to meet a Christian family. It sounded like their family has a good history in Indian Christianity. Their fathers and forefathers had a great involvement in Church growth in various parts of India. Aeron visits them once a week to do a Bible Study for their 2 children who go to college. On that night, Keith led the study and shared Word, then, we had a nice dinner with them. Again, it was another long day with late night going to bed.

People love Keith here as he is very good in making conversations, especially with college students. He is very good at speaking slow and clear, keep asking questions to let them involve in conversations.

We really had a fruitful day in LORD. It was answer to our prayer on that morning. Thank you all for your prayers, and, I believe that your prayers helped us on having great time in Christ in the midst of all that was going on.