The photo story below catalogues one aspect of our mission trip to India - the move of the Holy Spirit in the churches of Gondia, Maharastra. 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.
Reverend Sanjay with his wife, Bharati, at our village house church meeting. Bharati translated Simon's sermon into Hindi. The whole village heard both the sermon and the translation via loudspeakers!*
Simon eating the Indian way - with fingers! This meal, after our village house church service, was provided for us by the family who hosted the meeting. I had a good chat with the men here about their rice farming.*
Ruth has her feet washed. This is a common local custom in the villages of this part of India. The picture was taken at a village house church. The woman washing her feet is the house church leader's wife.*
Simon has his feet washed! This is the local custom. The man washing his feet is our host and house church leader. Afterwards Simon preached from John 13 on Jesus' conversation with Peter as He washed his feet.*
Students of the South Asian Theological Seminary were actively involved in both of our church missions. Here one of the students passionately shares his personal testimony for both the church and the whole village.*
An enthusiastic Indian congregation praises God in song during one of our church mission services in Gondia. There was a wonderful reception of the word of God. We saw the faces of the believers start to shine!*
Everywhere I preached the women received the word with great gladness. These ladies of a congregation in Gondia where set free by the anointed word and afterwards experienced a real outpouring of God's Spirit.*
As a result of the word God gave me to preach this church near Gondia in Maharastra state was filled with a fresh commitment to God and a new depth of gratitude for His salvation in Jesus.*
Hunger for the word was evident in all the churches we visited. These believers in Gondia really took to heart the message I delivered to them.*
The men of the church near Gondia. They worshipped freely in the Spirit after God touched so many lives as I preached God's word to them.*
