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Hey Friends,
Please dont feel obligated to read all of this or even a large portion of this. It is a work in progress and I have created it mainly for my own processing purposes and to help me make sure that I am hearing what God is speaking to me through the events of my life.
1.)I started off writing how this trip all got started.
2.)Then I moved to a section of photographs and an article by a pair of journalists who joined us from the Rocky Mountain News.
3.)Then I moved into a seciton of photos with my own journaling.
4.)Next I have a section with photographs with quotes that I picked out that echo God's speaking to me through this trip.
5.)Then finally I have some photos with some of my journaling.

Please enjoy, dont get overwhelmed and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Overall my hope is that God is seen as the Powerful, Loving, Redeeming, Tender, Merciful God that He is through this page. For indeed He did great things during this two week trip and he used weak individuals that make up His Church and where His Church is so is the Presence of Jesus Christ; and Christ in His Church today is still doing the same wonders and miracles he did when he walked in his own human body.

Warren, Dan, and I are at Pizza Place in Pondicherry, India. There was a great conspiracy, we were looking for Pizza Hut but no one would give us directions, they simply told us we had to go to Pizza Place. Strange but true. Anyways this was one of our days off and the three of us enjoyed our pizza and dreaming about our futures and how God might continue to allow us to work together in the future.

This is my sister in law Theresa Thurman, she isnt a real doctor she just plays one on tv and when in India. She was awesome, she was pulling out teeth and comforting those who were fearful and worried. I was so blessed to be able to serve with her. She was a great gift to the team! 

This ia photograph of a temporary orphanage for all the children who lost their parents in the tsunami, we were able to play with them and talk with them about the trauma they had experienced 

I just had to take this photograph, you dont see this everyday in the states,an open manhole, how unsafe 

This is Johnson, we became quick friends, he is on Operation Mobilization (OM) staff and is getting married next year and is wanting to be a preacher when he finishes OM school. Please pray for him and all the OM staff who are continuing to minister in each of the 7 villages that we were in. After meeting the initial physical and emotional needs, they are remaining to minister to the spiritual needs of the people. 

This is a photograph of the entire Medical Team 

This a photo of the Dental Team, this included Sterilizing Team which I was part of 

Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we ask or think.
Andrew Murray

All Gods giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on his being with him!
Hudson Taylor

"Faith never knows where it is being led. But it loves and knows the One Who is leading. Oswald Chambers

He has set eternity in their hearts (Ecc. 3:11) If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis

When Christ said, I was hungry and you fed me, he didnt mean only the hunger for bread; he meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept hurting him. The same hunger, loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness, thats the hardest part, thats real hunger.Mother Theresa

Here is the mystery of our lives unveiled, we are loved so much that we are left free to leave home. The blessing is here from the beginning. we have left and keep leaving it. But the father is always looking for us with outstretched arms to receive us back and to whisper again in our ear, “You are my Beloved on you my favor rests”
Henri Nouwen 

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury,pardon. Where there is doubt,faith. Where there is despair,hope. Where there is darkness,light. Where there is sadness,joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek-to be consoled,as to console. To be understood,as to understand. To be loved,as to love; For it is in giving, that we receive; It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned; It is in dying, that we are born to eternal life.
St. Francis of Assissi

The word which God has written on the brow of ever man, is Hope.
Victor Hugo 

I still believe deeply that our few years on this earth are part of a much larger event that stretches out far beyond the boundaries of our birth and death. I think of it as a mission into time a mission that is very exhilarating and even exciting. Mostly because the One who sent me on the mission is waiting for me to come home and tell the story of what I have learned.
Nouwen  

At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when youre caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.
Frederick Buechner

Long before any human being saw us, we are seen by Gods loving eyes. Long before anyone heard us cry or laugh, we are heard by our God who is all ears for us
Henri Nouwen

I do not agree with the big way of doing things. To us what matters is the individual. To get to love the person we must come in close contact with him, if we wait for the numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person. I believe in person to person; every person is Christ to me, and since there is only one Jesus that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Theresa 

People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.
Mother Theresa 

Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.
Mother Theresa 

People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.
Mother Theresa

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing you have received, fading symbols of honor, trappings of power, but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage
-Francis of Assisi  

at the end of our time he offered us some of his cocunuts, Dave and Gomathi(one of the OM workers) indulged themselves, I had a sip and realized my stomach was sick enough and didnt want to add anything else that might make it worse 

This is the same man from the previous picture, he is holding a picture of his wife. We spent 2 hours with him as he told us the story of how he lost his wife. He wept as he shared that as he was having breakfast with his wife and daughter the wave came into the house and then washed them out and separated them. He was able to hold on to a tree and watch as his wife, who was able to push their daughter to saftey but then tripped on the sari she was wearing and was overcome by the wave. I wish I had a photo of him at the end of our time. In this photo you can see the utter sorrow and lifelessness but after hours of reflecting on who his wife was and telling his favorite stories of their life together (which he had a lot, this man was passionate about his wife, it was inspiring!) and after we layed hands and prayed for him, he looked completely different. He also said something profound. He said people have come to help before you came, they handed out some supplies but you are the first to ask me about my heart and how I am doing. Then he said I am finally at peace. Yup thats our God at work!