December Update

India-

What can I say about India? Well I can start by saying it’s amazing. I’m totally loving it here. I’m getting to experience things that I didn’t get to do the last time I was here and it’s been really good. The food for the most part has been delicious and the YWAMers we are working with are great.

Our time in India started out slow, but has picked up. We’ve gone to village churches that were started by YWAMers here, played with kids at a daycare that will hopefully soon be turned into an orphanage, visited gypsy villages to share the Gospel, helped with medical camps, prayed for lots of people, and we even went to a Christmas party.

I really have enjoyed the villages a lot. It’s so neat to see how different people live and how God made all of our cultures different, but beautiful. The world really is just this huge piece of art made by God, and now more than ever I’m seeing that.

For those of you who don’t know, I am currently in Aurangabad which is located in the state of Maharashtra. Soon we will be going to a small city called Sillod which is where our host family, Shivaji and Manisha are planning to move to do church planting in the surrounding villages. After that we will be doing more work in villages, and then to wrap up our time in India we will go to Agra (which is where the real Taj Mahal is located). In Agra we will do a lot of intercession and worship. YWAM Idaho has a heart to see a base planted there so we are trying to lay some of the ground work.

This outreach has been so amazing. God has really blessed us in more areas then one. You should all come with me the next time I come back! That would be fun.

Needs-

I just wanted to let you know where I am at spiritually and financially. Spiritually I’m doing pretty good but I often do feel like there is this wall up between me and God. I also realize that is normal in a place like India, but I really just want to draw closer and closer to God.

Financially I am not doing so well. Over the past couple of months my support hasn’t been very good which means I haven’t

been able to meet my needs. This has been a big burden on my heart because I don’t like owing money. I also feel really bad because I left for outreach not having all my money and I still owe that, so I feel like I am hurting the team. So please just keep me in your prayers. I could really use them.