For the past couple of weeks, most of my team has been cleaning out goat and sheep stalls. The farm we are working on just sold about 250 goats and slaughtered about 15 sheep, so we get the privilege of cleaning out their stalls. These are not just like a little poop here, a little poop there. No. Some of the stalls, when cleaned down to the ground, would be as deep as our knees. So, we have literally been knee deep in crap for the past few weeks. This past week my amazing team finished cleaning those rooms and finished cleaning all the poop that needs to be cleaned. The second to last day cleaning...

We work pretty hard here for a solid eight hours a day, typically doing repetitive manual labor. So absolutely no one on the team is ever opposed to driving out to Sheng Jin after dinner to get second dinner at a pizza place and wander the beach for a little bit. During our first experience at this pizza place, our team leader, Chris, made friends with a boy who was super jazzed about playing soccer with him. It was amazing to see them hit it off right away and bond, even without knowing each other’s language. Well, the boy knew a few English words, but I’m not allowed to write them...

Do you ever have a fear of something that is so great, when you see it, you can’t help but shake in fear? That fear has a power over you that is so great that some might say it consumes you. All you do is think about that fear, you spend your life avoiding that fear but at what cost? What great things out there are you missing because of that fear? We have been given the challenge to read Proverbs this week. It talks about wisdom and fools. The fools are the ones who think they are wise because they don’t have any fears, but they are wrong. In the first chapter of Proverbs it talks...

Do you ever have a fear of something that is so great, when you see it, you can’t help but shake in fear? That fear has a power over you that is so great that some might say it consumes you. All you do is think about that fear, you spend your life avoiding that fear but at what cost? What great things out there are you missing because of that fear? We have been given the challenge to read Proverbs this week. It talks about wisdom and fools. The fools are the ones who think they are wise because they don’t have any fears, but they are wrong. In the first chapter of Proverbs it talks...

Do you ever have a fear of something that is so great, when you see it, you can’t help but shake in fear? That fear has a power over you that is so great that some might say it consumes you. All you do is think about that fear, you spend your life avoiding that fear but at what cost? What great things out there are you missing because of that fear? We have been given the challenge to read Proverbs this week. It talks about wisdom and fools. The fools are the ones who think they are wise because they don’t have any fears, but they are wrong. In the first chapter of Proverbs it talks...

One of the first things they introduce you to at training camp is bucket showers.  So what is a bucket shower?  Basically, you take a 5 gallon bucket fill it with cold water, and use a scoop or measuring cup to pour small amounts of water over your body.  At training camp, the showers were in a small building with six curtained stalls and slatted wooden floors.  Here in India, the showers resemble American showers with the main difference being the bucket on the floor in the middle and the spigot sticking out of the wall. Bucket showers remind me a lot of the work God desires...