July 9, 2009--Governmental School Visit
Moe, Sandeep and I ventured out into Delhi by way of a Rickshaw. We stopped for an iced coffee and made our way across town to a governmental school that offers free education. There are many children that are still not in school from the Nandlal slum, so PMI staff are trying to get about 20 children enrolled. One of the qualifications for enrollment is to show the authorities at the school the Child’s birth certificate. Many of these children born in Nandlal do not have birth certificates making it difficult to enroll them in school. Thankfully during our visit yesterday we were able to convince the authorities at the school to allow these children to enroll without their birth certificates. One requirement that they had is that the parent be there with the staff to enroll the children. That presented another difficulty, because many of the parents are not willing to do that. Many of the parents did not go to school themselves, so they are not concerned about their children going to school either. When we returned to the resource center we prayed that the parents heart’s would be softened and willing to go with the staff to enroll the children. My prayer is that these kids could get an education, learn to read, and be more well equipped to one day be a student of God’s Word! Many of these kids are the same kids that the staff picks up by Rickshaw every Sunday morning for Sunday school.
July 11, 2009--Answers and Thoughts:
Some Answers: Yesterday Moe and Sandeep went to pick up the parents (“untouchables”) by Rickshaw and take them to the school. Prayers were answered and they were willing to go to the school to sign papers and enroll the children! These kids get to go to school! Now pray that seeds would continue to be planted. I hope people ask why Moe and Sandeep are so eager for these children to go to school. Why do they care so much? Why are they going out of their way on such a hot day to do this for these people they aren’t even related to, to these people that they do not really know all that well?
Some thoughts: There are needs everywhere. In some places more than others. Where ever it is that God has me, I want to live with this motto, “Live a life that demands an explanation!” That can be: being a considerate surfer out in the water on the coasts of California or Hawaii where people are really selfish about the waves and want them all for themselves, it could be inviting neighbors over for meals and getting to know their passions about life, it could be being the one at the party that has self-control not to get drunk, it can be the one that makes millions but lives simply, it can be the one that spends every Saturday serving at the local homeless shelter, instead of sleeping in like many others do after a week of hard work, it can be the one that has the word of the Lord always n their tongue, who boasts not of their own accomplishments and successes, but of the Lord and what He has done, it could be the one who reaches out to the rejects, the lonely, the abused, the widowed, it could be one day being a mother and investing my life into my children, teaching my sons to be gentleman, and my daughters to adorn their inward beauty, or it can be moving away leaving everything that I have always known to learn a new culture, a new language, and live in a place that has never seen nor heard. There is not an option that is more “spiritual” than the other. All are good options and bring glory to God. Where would the Lord have me? I know where He has me now and I know, Lord willing, where He will have me in August, and I long to live a life that demands an explanation wherever I am. I definitely need God’s grace to do that;
To live this out now, and not just in the, "When I finally get to wherever it is I am trying to figure out where to go" points, but now wherever it is God has me.
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