Wednesday, October 21, 2009

We need your help!

You can help us by gathering supplies for the orphanages for us to take over. We need items like vaseline, toothbrushes, children's vitamins, paperback nursery rhyme books.

We would also love to take small toys like: balloons, matchbox type cars, girls hair pretty's, Frisbee type disks, beanie babies or other SMALL dolls, small individually wrapped candy--no chocolate ..it melts :(

Contact me once you have a bag or two of items and we'll make arrangements to get them from you.

A few things to pray for...

We are putting together a medical team...pray for doctors and nurses to join us on the trip and for the many medical details to be worked out.

We may have the blessing of having some golf professionals joining us to minister at the orphanages and connect them to some possible donors. Pray for the hearts of believers in India to join in supporting the orphanages.

Some classroom work still needs to be completed so pray for God to raise up people to join us who would love to paint kindergarten rooms with colorful animals and symbols.

Pray for others to join us who will play with the orphans and pray for the sick and who will speak encouragement to the downtrodden.

The Pastors conference will take place in February so pray for Pastor's to join our teaching team.

Also pray for the funds to be raised to pay for the conference. Our goal is 1000 Pastors and it cost about $30.00 per Pastor to join the conference. That includes teaching material, food and board for the week.

Pray for all the travel details to be worked out. Taking a team of 20 to 30 people over involves a lot of travel details.

A new chapter...

Welcome to the our blog where you can find information and updates on our upcoming trip to India in February 2010. This blog is the place where you can tune in and listen to our story as we seek to be used by Him as lights in this world.

Check back daily to see how God continues to reveal His story to us and experience the ways we find ourselves caught up in His story as it unfolds in Peoria, India, and the ends of the earth.

My name is Dhondi and I will be your guide for this part of the journey. To begin, I have some helpful information for you below:

The trip is scheduled for February 5th to February 22nd. Some parts of the team will come the entire time and some will come first week and some the second. The Pastors conference is February 9th - 12th.

Leading up to the trip, we will have frequent information and planning meetings at the home of the Pipoly's. This is the best place for you to learn more about ways to be involved—whether you are going on the trip or not!

We don’t just want to send you to India; we want to send 1000 pastors as well. In India, pastoral training is hard to find and opportunities for encouragement are rare. Even when an opportunity is present, the finances may not be. We would like to provide Pastors in India with both the opportunity and the finances as we seek to serve and encourage them. You can help by sponsoring a pastor for only $30. This covers his transportation, food, lodging, and conference fees for the four days. For more information on how to sponsor a pastor, you can contact me.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more.