The photo story below catalogues one aspect of our mission trip to India - our impressions of the country. Each of mini-photo can be viewed larger and clearer - just click on the photo of your choice. Your chosen photo will appear in an independent window. Alternatively, should this fail, you can click on asterisk * at the end of each piece of text.
First stop in India. Samuel met us at the airport and took us to a Bible school in central New Delhi where we were able to rest for the day before flying on to the Bible Seminary in Nagpur, Maharastra state. *
L to R - Rev Sanjay, his wife Bharati and Ruth all ready to go into the town of Nagpur from the South Asian Theological Seminary (SATS) campus site. During our stay we often travelled by public transportation. *
L to R - Rev Sanjay, his wife Bharati and Simon on the road outside the SATS campus near Nagpur, Maharastra state. *
Simon and Ruth discovering Nagpur city. The local people call this season in January Winter. It was like our Summer in the UK! *
Fancy a bargain? An outdoor shopping area in Nagpur. *
Can you spot Ruth and Bharati in among the Nagpur shoppers? *
A local newspaper vendor. He was pleased to speak English with me. *
This is Nagpur! Every form of transportation jostles for road space and traffic regulations appear non-existent. The Jeep in the picture is ours - we hired it for our mission to churches in Gondia. *
Ruth on the bus to Chandrapur. The bus bounced its way there! We used public transport throughout our first weekend church visitation mission. *
This is our jeep on our way to a village church. For the first mission to churches we used public transport but it was slow and tiring. Privately hiring a jeep for the second mission was inexpensive and more efficient. *
A village in Central India. We passed through this village as we drove out to a house church meeting in another village. This picture illustrates well the general setting of rural life in Central India. *
Villagers using their large communal well on their village "green". This is a common sight in this part of India. *
This is our jeep out in the countryside on the way to a village church meeting. India is still predominately an agricultural society. This picture was taken in a rice growing area. *
Traveling back from our mission to Gondia we saw these ladies leading their camels. They belong to a semi-nomadic tribe of India and their men had already passed on ahead of them with the sheep and goats. *
