October 31, 2010

Trip to India

I just returned from Northeast India. In NEI, I was invited to participate as the speaker to a Spiritual Life Conference. I spoke about discipleship.

I was able to meet with our SIM NEI personnel, the director and the personnel director are good friends whom we worked with in Sudan.

I was also able to meet with some of our missionaries' sending church leaders. Canberra's people drove 7 hours to meet with me and the NEI director.

Needless to say, I was experiencing a part of the world I had never seen. To some extent, I am a world traveller but wow, it was different. Perhaps I've been accustomed to the very Christian atmosphere of Sub-Saharan Africa, but it was a unique feeling to surrounded by millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists.

A special bonus: two new NEI missionaries accompanied me back to Nairobi. I was supposed to take care of them but they also cared for me. Buata was especially comforting when I took a very difficult phone call: one of our missionaries Yacob Aga succumbed to cerebral malaria and died in Yabus, South Sudan. I was really upset and he was a good brother to me.

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