H.I.T.D. Salai Trip – 01/2011
Posted By admin on January 12, 2011
My dear friends,
We had a wonderful trip to Salai, Khandwa. We left on Friday night and reached Khandwa on Saturday morning. Sevak was there to receive us and we hired a car and left for the village. The roads are still bad and so the 25km journey took more than an hour to reach. The weather was extremely chilly. The train journey was difficult due to the extreme cold weather.
We were received warmly at Salai by Sevak’s family and neighbors. After a shower, we left to visit the nearby villages. We had a prayer fellowship at village Kesur – got a video with George preaching there. After that we went to other village, Debri and visited some houses where George prayed with the families. As the afternoon progressed the heat increased and we were very tired and returned back to Salai (we could not visit one village). We interacted with the Salai ladies and children who came in visiting us. The
Hindu religious group who had come to know of our visit beforehand had arranged their own program for the 8th evening and they took out a procession, singing to their Gods and moved around the village – to ensure that we do not have a get-together. We decided to sit in and meet with the women who came in and the children. The night was extremely cold too. 9th – Sunday – we had a wonderful church service near Sevak’s home. Some people attended – there were children, women and some men. Of course it was not like the 3 day meeting – because then we had a stage and lights and all the works. This was a church service which we have started and Sevak will continue every Sunday morning at 9:30am. After the church service, we distributed clothes to the children and sarees to the women. They were so very happy. The children immediately went home and changed in their new outfits and came over to show it to us. We had lunch with Sevak’s family and then around 3:30pm we left for Sevak’s wife, Maya’s hometown. It is on the other end of Khandwa. We had to journey to Khandwa and then journey further down around one and half hour. We met with her parents, brothers and sister-in-laws, neighbors etc and had a wonderful time of praying and fellowshipping.
Our return train was at 9:45pm on Sunday. We arrived at the station to find that the train was late by 8hrs. This was the 2nd time it was happening to us. The last time the train was late by 6hrs and this time the train was late by a full 11hours – because the train came in only the next morning at 9am. We reached back to Mumbai only on Monday evening 6.30pm. (that of course has put an end to my visits to Salai – I can’t possibly be bunking Monday mornings!). But it was so wonderful to be there
and meet with the people and pray with them and talk to them, especially the children.
I am going to attach photographs and videos of our trip and I do hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.
Continue praying for this village that God would work wonderfully and the people would truly accept Jesus as their saviour. There are lots of opposition, both the times we faced the opposition from the Hindu groups! Just continue to lift us up and also Sevak and his family as they continue to serve the people and preach the Word.
With much love,
Salomi