Today
marks one week in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is amazing to be here. My team
is settled into the locale rather well, and i am experiencing just heaps
of grace. Every day i have found the joy of the Lord in my soul. Already, this outreach has been remarkable!
This place is wild and wooly, challenging and desperate, frenetic and vibrant. Mornings begin with steaming milk chai, and the days end by candlelight and a deep chill settling back in after our curried dinner. Dust, yelling, colored scarves, rickshaws, careening buses, babies with kohl lined eyes, incense, curry, endless streets of potholes... and so the city sprawls at the base of the Himalayas.
This week we are heading to villages up the valley to teach. We will be there through Christmas, with a fellowship of Nepali believers. Afterwards, we will return to Kathmandu for a couple days, before heading to the mountains of east Nepal. I hope to post an update during that stop back through the city.
Its a privilege to serve the church in Nepal- the believers here are often just that: believing converts. They have little or no knowledge of how to grow and follow Christ. Basics such as repentance and the character of God are unknown to them. It is a joy to be here and to be sent to the villages all over Nepal to make disciples that in turn can disciple others.
This place is wild and wooly, challenging and desperate, frenetic and vibrant. Mornings begin with steaming milk chai, and the days end by candlelight and a deep chill settling back in after our curried dinner. Dust, yelling, colored scarves, rickshaws, careening buses, babies with kohl lined eyes, incense, curry, endless streets of potholes... and so the city sprawls at the base of the Himalayas.
This week we are heading to villages up the valley to teach. We will be there through Christmas, with a fellowship of Nepali believers. Afterwards, we will return to Kathmandu for a couple days, before heading to the mountains of east Nepal. I hope to post an update during that stop back through the city.
Its a privilege to serve the church in Nepal- the believers here are often just that: believing converts. They have little or no knowledge of how to grow and follow Christ. Basics such as repentance and the character of God are unknown to them. It is a joy to be here and to be sent to the villages all over Nepal to make disciples that in turn can disciple others.
