Having The Time Of My Life

That is exactly what I am doing... hanging out with some of my best friends in the world all day, every day... and loving every minute of it.

Yesterday (Saturday) we had lunch at Jenny's (ICC 2008) house. Unlike most of the ICC kids her family is Meitei, a tribe here in Northeast India that is predominantly Hindu. A lot of her relatives are not Christians. My brother Marv and I sponsor Jenny through the Bibles For The World sponsorship program, so it was a very special time for us to be able to spend time with her and her family.

After having lunch and spending some time there, we came back to Trinity College and Seminary (TCS) for a few hours. Almost every minute we are here, there are kids her hanging out with us. In fact, when we leave, they are often waiting for us when we come back.

In the evening, we attended a dinner event for all the doctors and staff at Seilmat Christian Hospital, which is run by Bibles For The World, and then immediately after, we attended the church service at Seilmat EFCI church, and I had the opportunity to preach the sermon. They asked me to preach something about Christmas, so I spoke about "Missing The Messiah"... about all the people in Jesus day who missed the King of Kings, and then spoke about how many people even today miss Jesus Christ and what He wants to do in their lives.

Right after the service, we went to Edwin's (ICC 2006) house for yet another meal. It was his birthday, so he invited us to come and celebrate it with him and his friends.

This morning, we met Rohny (superintendent of education) and Isaac (principle of Seilmat School), and they shared with us some of the visions and dreams they have for the local school as well as some of the other school under their umbrella. We ate breakfast at Rohny's house, and then attended the morning service at Seilmat Church, but we went to the kid's Sunday School instead of the adult service. There are many, many former ICC kids that live here in Seilmat, so it was good to see a lot of them today.

We spent a few hours back here at TCS this afternoon and then went to Romila's (ICC 2006) house in the neighboring village of Rengkai for dinner. Sylvia (ICC 2008) is Romila's niece and was there too. We had a wonderful time with them.

Here is NE India, church choir's are a big part of the local churches. The EFCI Central Choir is a choir made up of some of the best singers from EFCI churches all over NE India. This evening, they were doing a taping for a new video they are releasing, and they invited us to come over and be with them for awhile. There are a few previous ICC leaders and a few young people the will be ICC leaders in 2009 that are a part of the Central Choir. We spent a few hours listening to them... they are very good.