Outreach part 1: Nepal

Day one:

After 48 hours of traveling we arrived in Kathmandu Nepal! Stepping out of the airport was so surreal. I felt like I just stepped into a movie. It smelled like trash, people were staring at you, street dogs were barking, having to dodge cars and people. Part of me wondered "What am I doing here?" Then God brought to mind Isiah 61:1-2 

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim liberty to the captives,and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn"

Tomorrow we have cultural orientation, then my team splits into two teams and we head to separate ministries.


Day Four:
After a 15 hour bus ride, my team is now in the jungle! We are staying at a church for five days in a very small village. It's very peaceful and pretty here. We are staying and working with another YWAM team! While we're here we will be going to house churches, working with kids, and a blanket distribution. 

Day Six:
Today we went to a nearby school and walked with the kids to a sports event they had. It was kind of like a children's Olympic event. We were asked to sing a song. We thought the song would be for the kids but it turned out to be for the official leaders of the area! We sang "How He Loves" and it was awesome because we weren't supposed to do any religious acts there and we got to do that!



Day Seven:
Here is a taste of living in Nepal: the power is only on for a few hours each day, when greeting someone you put your hands together and say "Namaste" or if greeting a Christian you say "Jaimise". At night there is spiders in the squatty potty and the killer bees next door will suck the water from your wet clothes on the line.
Today we handed out blankets to families, and toys and clothes to kids from a nearby village. They came to the church we were staying at and we sang some worship music, gave testimonies and a sermon. We, then, handed out toys and clothes to the kids. Then we handed out really warm blankets to the families. The blankets were a huge blessing to them because hundreds of people in that area die each year because of the cold temperatures each year. It was so great to see the look of happiness in the eyes of the children, and the relief on the woman's faces when they received the blankets! God is so good.


Day Eight:
Today we went to a nearby school and we brought sports equipment and played with them. It was so fun and they loved it so much!

Day Nine:
So remember how we sang How He Loves for the area officials? Well, they invited us to their house for tea and briskets. They told us they've been receiving calls from people saying how much they loved our song and they asked us to sing more songs for them! We sang some more worship songs. God is amazing!


Day Thirteen:
After a couple days of debriefing we are now in Kathmandu valley staying at a YWAM base. Today we will be walking around evangelizing there. I got to share the gospel at a brick factory. Thank God for the Holy Spirit for giving me the words to say! My team also got to perform the Everything skit for the workers there. It was quite the experience because the music stopped right at the most insistence part of the song, but we were able to finish without the music. :)

Day fourteen:
We did more evangelizing today, and we went back to the brick factory. They were so happy we came back, and wanted us to do another skit! We sang some worship songs for them, too. We left some children's clothes with our translators for them to give to the kids there.


Day Eighteen:
For the past three days we went to Beauty For Ashes  http://www.beautyforashesintl.com/wordpress/ . It was awesome!!! Beauty For Ashes is an organization that gives woman, who have been in prostitution, jobs and a Christian environmental to be in. We did devotionals with them, and we helped with other things like sorting beads, tagging things, and whatever else needed to be done.



Day Nineteen:
We went to a church today and did the Everything skit, then we did the children program. We did motion songs, a puppet show, and a craft.
Tomorrow we leave. I'm really going to miss the people we worked with, seeing the mountains everyday, and the peacefulness of the village and the valley.

India here I come!