And the winner of the "Best Quote of the Night" goes to...Bob Henry!! Congratulations, Bob, on your focus-shattering, hysteria inducing adlib on our new skit.
And, this just in...the award for "Most In Need Of A Belt" goes to Lee Salley. No congratulations are in order. In fact, we all lost with this award.
Hey everybody-
Hope you all had a good day today. We had a great time today. We called today a "Down Day", which makes it sound terribly un-missional. So, we have renamed today the more appropriate "Recovery Day", because that's exactly what it was - and that's definitely what we were in need of. Between heat exhaustion, dehydration, food poisoning, respiratory problems (and that's just what Christi was suffering from) we all needed some time to gear up for a big weekend.
We spent some time today doing some souvenir pickups and breaking bread together at a Vegetarian restaurant (being a vegetarian would be easy if the food tasted this good). We then came back for some rest and recovery before our evening stuff. Before and after dinner tonight, we came together as a team and worked up 3 brand new things for this weekend. One is a "David and Goliath" skit with C.R. Maude (our 10 year old trooper) playing the role of David and Lee Salley (our 50 year old park ranger) playing the role of Goliath. It is perhaps the funniest version of David and Goliath you've ever seen 14 Americans perform in India ever. In fact, I'd bet money on it. What was amazing, though, isn't so much the skit (though it is pretty good for a few practices), but the amount of fun we had as a team spending time together and working this up. The team has come a long way very quickly in the past 2 weeks and the unity among the team is really special. Thank God for this.
After dinner, the guys and ladies split up. The ladies put together an interpretive dance to "Here I Am to Worship" and the guys pulled together another skit penned by our local theatrical scribe, John Kinsey. We're looking forward to putting these in front of people tomorrow. All in all, a very good night.
Tomorrow, as best we can tell, we'll be doing at least 2 new church dedications and even possibly some outreach events in the evening. Please be in prayer for this as David just told us that both the heat and humidity will be very high and where we are going, there is no electricity/air - so, tomorrow may be the most trying day we've had, weather-wise, since we've been here. With a lot of people having been battling health stuff, we really need the prayer cover to finish strong. In fact, that leads our prayer requests tonight:
1. Please pray for strength and energy to end the mission as well as we began it.
2. Pray that we would have eyes to see the needs around us and that we wouldn't miss the opportunities God gives us
3. Pray a prayer of thanks for David Rajan. He has been beyond hospitable and patient with us. He is one of the Godliest men on the planet and we all need to be thanking God for the work God is doing through him - our "Godfather"
Two more days left. Pray also for our team because earlier in the week I told them that in our sharing time/final debrief tomorrow night they had to answer this question: "Why did God bring you on this mission?". Please pray for clarity in knowing the answer and the ability to carry the lessons and experiences we've had here home.
And pray for Faith. We've already been discussing what to "bring back" with us. We've decided that our role is to give America "heart attacks". But, holy ones. The good kind - won't kill you...just make our faith stronger.
Thank you for the opportunity to represent you all and the Kingdom. Your support has been so amazing. We love you guys.
-Jeff
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