Sunday, February 10, 2008

NEPAL




Well I'm living in the land of the cold for the next month! That's me on top of what I would call a mountain but they call it a "foothill" campared with the Himalaya's! You can't see there but the Himalaya's are acutally behind the "foothills" behind me. They are amazing. The cold isn't that bad, icy cold showers arn't the best though. A nice cup of amazing Nepalese tea generally sorts me out.


The ministry here is amazing. So so open. We've seen over 30 saved and many healed too - and we've only been here a week! He's really moving and it's exciting to be apart of the harvest.


So this is me carrying a bunch of fire wood. Very very heavy wood. The woman in the photo carry the wood everyday down a steep vally path. It's crazy.





Nepal is literally in the 1200's in some places. There are clay houses and farm animals everywhere. This one slum area we went to was so poor. The photo below is of woman washing themselves and their families' clothes in a very dirty river near their homes.





Hunger is common in lots of places in Nepal too. Unfortunately the outside appearance is very reflective of what's going on in their spiritual lives. Idols are everywhere, there is so much confusion. It's so sad. This is a temple we visited to pray in. The people at the base of Budda were bowing down. Sometimes I just don't understand. It's a golden idol that they built - just like in the old testiment. We all know what G.od thinks of that.





Oh yeah the people here call this temple the "monkey temple" because there are so many monkeys that live there! Here are a monkey's family that we literally had to fend off so we could eat our lunch!





I'm not lying - at one stage there were 20+ monkeys surrounding us while we were doing intercession. they looked like they were planning an attack so I decided it might be better to spilt into groups so we dont attract a crowd. kinda scary though.


All in all things are going well. The tea is also a definate highlight.


At chur.ches we say "joy/victory to the Messi.ah" in Nepalese when we greet people so:


"joimasih!"


Adam