The day after visiting the orphanage and school, my cousin Pratap took me into the jungle to see one of the village churches. This is a ministry he and Sunitha have been working on for years. They now have 20 churches. What I didn’t realize, nonetheless, is how extensive the…
In the evening after I had gone to see the kids at the school and the orphanage, my cousin Moses and I went over to see the building site our cousin’s husband Venkat is developing. He owns a construction company and had mentioned I should come by and see it,…
I’m staying with my dad’s cousin Deborah Sunitha and her husband Pratap here in Rajahmundry. Pratap is a bishop now and he and Sunitha have a very large mission program, school, and orphanage they run, based out of Rajahmundry. Moses, their son, just finished his masters and is looking for…
Rajahmundry is hot. And humid. Everyone on my trip so far has been asking how I’ve been bearing the heat. In Goa (and Hyderabad and Bangalore) everyone said, “It’s so hot! How can you manage?” I said that it was hot in Kolkata, and hot in Goa and humid in…
