A note from India

A staff friend of mine from Nebraska is leading an international summer project to her region's partnership location in India. Here's an excerpt from a recent e-mail of hers that I thought I'd pass on:

The past few weeks here in Bangalore we’ve had the opportunity to work on several campuses. Our company here is present and working on 6 campuses, we have such a unique chance to get to work with these students who are the future leaders of this country and get to help out with what the team is doing here. There are over 7 million people in the city and just about 2% of them are christians, which seems to be a bit daunting at times. To add to that, there are several different main religions here. One minute you could be talking with a Muslim student and the next you could be speaking with a Hindu student, both with very different beliefs and so it has been difficult to adjust to the many different ministry needs.

As many of you read in my last email, my passport was ruined during a monsoon while we were in Mumbai. I cannot thank you enough for your prayers, because I have really seen God’s provision in this area. I decided to continue to travel to Bangalore with the rest of my team, and once I got here I was able to get a train ticket from here to Chennai, the nearest US consulate in order to get a new passport. A LOT had to happen in order for this to work, for example, most of the time train tickets here are booked 3 months out simply because of the number of people that live here. I showed up at the train station one morning not really knowing what to do or where to go, and a random stranger at the station was nice enough to wait and help me for 45 min while I filled out all the paperwork. Also it just so happened that they have a special foreigner ticket here that I was able to get for the very same day. AND there is a Cru staff team in the city I was going to that was able to meet me at the train station and drive me straight to the consulate and the consulate who is normally booked solid just happened to have one appointment open that day. The Lord provided in unbelievable ways, and I already received an email that my new passport is already finished! Please continue to pray though, I need to courier my old passport to them in Chennai and wait for the them to send them both back to me. I’m not necessarily worried about the time as much as I’m worried about one of both of my passports getting lost somewhere along the way. Please pray for everything to go smoothly with that and I will continue to keep you posted.