KULPAHAR, INDIA

After I had been blogging for a few months, I was wondering how long it would be before I ran out of things to blog about. I'll tell you, I don't worry about that any more. Now many days there are other things that pop into my head after I've already posted. I wrote the Happy Fall post below one day last week, but it kept getting pushed out of the way for something more important. Now I have something more important again, but since today is the first day of Fall, I decided to go ahead and post it too. So - here is my second post today. This one is for Mission 4 Monday.  You can go to Peggy's blog for more mission posts. 

If you read my post last Monday, you know something about this mission in Kulpahar, India that my husband and I visited in 1999. This is the church that belongs to the mission. Well, of course the church belongs to God. The building belongs to the mission. No, come to think of it, that belongs to God also. Oh well, you know what I mean.

This is a picture that I took out in front of the church building one day when we were there for the devotional that the Christian school had. Yes, besides being a Kids' home, the mission also has a school and a hospital. The school is well known in the community of Kulpahar. Most of the students are not from Christian homes. They also come from Muslim and Hindu families. These people send their children there because it is the best school in the area. All of the students are taught the Bible. 

The pictures below was taken during the devotional. You will see the boys are on one side and the girls on the other. This is the custom in India.

My husband and I visited the classrooms during the week while classes were in session. We were amazed at how polite and well behaved the students were. I'll tell you for sure, it was nothing like the classes here in America. 

Some of the children at the home were baptized while we were there. They baptize in their swimming pool. We were very impressed with this as well. Leah tells us that they are not able to fill their pool anymore because of the draught in India right now. They had always had their baptisms there, but now are having to find another way to do it. 

As I said before, we took a lot of pictures on that trip, so next Monday I'll be planning to share some more with you. I hope you will return here next week. Of course you don't have to wait until next week. Tomorrow I have something lighthearted scheduled for posting. It's something to make you smile.