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First Redeemer Church's Kids are on Mission at VBS 2010!

Each day of Vacation Bible School the children would rotate through different teaching modules which included: Worship Rally, Class Time, Craft Time, Music Time, and Missions Time. Our agenda each year for VBS includes making Missions a priority. VBS is a wonderful opportunity to both teach children and engage them and their parents in missions and the Great Commission. This year we again partnered with Hopegivers International. We challenged the children specifically to help Hopegivers supply beds to two Hope Homes in Nepal and water wells in India! The kids met the challenge and even exceeded their goal! Because they exceeded their goals, we are also able to help Hopegivers care for the medical needs of their children!

August 23, 2010 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

Follow the Path!

The village is my kind of place, cause I can relate well to the people. They ain't smart, I ain't neither! They live in the middle of nowhere, so do I! But the reason I went on the 6-hour jungle excursion wasn't to give clothes, shoes, undergarments, soaps, or sporting goods. No, I went because it was the love of Christ that compelled me...

March 27, 2009 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

Crying Like Crazy Over a "Widow's Mite"

After receiving an outfit provided by some of you reading this, a little old lady came to me after the service. After receiving prayer, she stuck her hand out and placed 10 rupees in my hand! It was the most humbling thing I have ever experienced!

March 8, 2009 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

Joy Unspeakable

"Joy unspeakable" are the two words that are constantly in my mind when I see the children here; and as I said previously, my heart breaks for those of us that think that we have so much, but do not have that joy unspeakable. That is why I cannot help but give to this work, from both my time, my talents and my treasure.

July 16, 2008 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

In a Trip Around the World, India Shines

The following is feedback from a Global Challenge Expeditions (GCEX) team who recently spent some time visiting HG-sponsored projects in India on their way around the world. GCEX is an awesome ministry that we love very much, check out what they had to say about their time in India.

July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment | View or add comments

The Cost

I praise God that He took me to India through Hopegivers International and has shown me the true meaning of counting the cost to follow my Lord. I have found it is a magnificent thing to have such an incredible reason and purpose to live. If you don't believe me come with me and let me show you my India.

May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment | View or add comments

My India Top 11

Instead of re-hashing all the things we did here the last few days, I'd like to propose a list of my top 11 favorite things in no particular order about the country of which I've become so fond. We're speaking of India, for those who've not been paying attention.

May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment | View or add comments

If Only You Could Experience Their Joy

After a lengthy train ride consisting of 20 cups of coffee, 9 cups of soup, 3 bottles of water, and 2 books, I met up with some of our great orphaned kids who were ready for our annual shopping trip together. I cannot explain their happiness. All I can ever wish is that you could experience it for yourself...even just once.

March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments | View or add comments

Short, sweet + right on!

Pre-India, I think had somehow mistakenly equated a person's amount of privilege with their ability to give, but that notion is a grave lie.

February 12, 2008 | 2 Comments | View or add comments

A Holiday Away

For the first time in my life, I spent Christmas away from my house, family and friends. I was surrounded by my brothers and sisters in Jesus...I woke up to the presence of God through hearing 600+ children sing praises at 5:30 am.

February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment | View or add comments

A Nebraskan goes to India

The most important thing I noticed during my trip was not how much the children ate or the clothes they were wearing or the warm beds they slept in. Instead it was how loved they were, and how much they loved.

January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments | View or add comments

I Went Back to the New Testament...

I saw people without enough to eat give me the best food they could buy. I saw Christians take everything they had to buy flowers to put on my neck, when they barely had enough for food and clothing. I saw a zeal in believers common in this land, that is missing in my land.

January 14, 2008 | 4 Comments | View or add comments

A Thousand Steps

"A thousand kilometer journey begins with one step," this was the reply the Indian pastor gave to me as I described how God gives me these seemingly small tasks to accomplish...

January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments | View or add comments

Trip of Paradoxes

The Lord doesn't ask us to be super men and women. On the contrary, in the Bible he often uses the humble, meek, and those of little influence in society as conduits of His work.

December 17, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

The Journey

Each one of us has embarked upon a journey whether we realize it or not. God places the road map in our minds, the directions and rules are written upon our hearts and He decides the appointed time to go. The time had come for my daughter Hillary to return to India and I also decided to come along.

December 12, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

Do I Impress or Do I Inspire?

When I am preparing to preach, when I am looking for good stories to use in a message, when I am deciding which illustrations I will use to make a point, when I am sharing a meal with friends in a ministry setting, what is my agenda? Do I drop names to IMPRESS the people around me? The truth is, I want to mature beyond the point of impressing people...

December 3, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

Julie from India!

After almost a month in mostly the back country of India, we're excited to get home! But it's been an amazing trip...monkeys, cobras, dancing tribal children, the World Toilet Expo in New Delhi, encountering mice, bandits, and also there was the day we got into Bangladesh...I'll post the picture later. But really, I hate to give too much away...

November 20, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

Miracle Landing

After a normal takeoff and reaching about 1,000 feet, the engine suddenly quit. I lowered the nose to keep airspeed and started a turn toward the airport. While trying to restart the engine I broadcasted a ‘Mayday' and my position one mile west of the airport.

After realizing that I wouldn't reach the airport, I turned toward a nearby field. As I descended I noticed that there were power lines at the south end of the field that were directly in my path...

October 12, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

We Came To Encourage...

taj_150px We went to encourage, and they encouraged us. We went to serve, and they served us. We went to teach, and they taught us. We went to provide, and they gave us more than we ever even expected, more than they will ever know. Never have I ever seen the Body of Christ so united and so incredibly strong.

September 6, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

HG Spotlight: Angie Bechanan

angie_100px I am in awe of our faithful brothers and sisters that I have met in India and Haiti that truly give out of their poverty. If they cannot give materials, they give their smiles, hospitality, and faith. These are the true blessings I received through traveling with HG. I have had the privilege to see real-life examples of those great Christians that we read about in the Bible...

July 23, 2007 | Comments not allowed for this post

Bathing With Buffaloes

corn_pile_100px Greetings friends--everything is bagundi (Telugu for kosher) in Andhra. We've had an amazingly wonderful, indigenous, Jungle Book-esque 3 days in rural AP. We've swam in the Krishna river, played cricket with the orphans, and befriended a mischievous talking bear named Baloo.

April 14, 2007 | 0 Comments | View or add comments

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