Mud Hut Village Feeding

We found ourselves yet again at this Mud Hut Village. During my first visit to India we headed down here for a Medical camp. A medical camp is a bus type vehicle and several amazing doctors who head into the slums and do work for a day. They were checking peoples eyes, pulling peoples teeth (with no pain meds) and giving people check ups. Since our last visit here there has been quite a change. There are still tons of mud huts but now you see lots of one room brick buildings being built up. This means that the area is "thriving." Still no electricity but there are 3 pumping wells that are giving off good drinking water. There is little to no green, the plants that are there only thrive nearest the wells or if the people water them. It is dusty and hot, and dry as can be.

This year we found ourselves walking from hut to hut to witness a feeding at one of Redemption Ministry's church plants.  Before the feeding, the children sing songs in the church, and learn a little about Jesus. Today I got to share a bible story and Courtney shared a little too. They sang beautifully and listened carefully. They get so distracted and excited to see American and there smiles light up the room. It will never get old!

The feeding happens at 6/7 and is available for the children. It happens 6 days out of the week and they get a huge pile of rice with some chicken curry. Many of the small children didn't eat the chicken they would just eat their 3 or so cups of rice (about enough to feed me for like 4 meals, at least). We then dug into the same food, chicken and rice, said a prayer of blessing over the people, the children, and the land then into the car we went to a bumpy ride home.

It was a warm evening, spent in a dirty, poor, poor place but when you leave you walk away with a new perspective. Your spirit turns into a spirit of thanksgiving, and every time I am here I feel like they teach me, more then I can ever teach or share with them. And it is always in ten fold when you go to the least of them, when you go to the place that is dirty and poor.

- Carissa

Monkeys

How exciting this post will be. There was monkeys hanging outside across the road. Last year they said that a big fat monkey used to sit across the street but he wasn't around at all. Until now, there was a baby with a momma, then medium baby, a big fat one, and then a normal sized adult one. We threw an orange at them and they grabbed it and ran into someones drive way. Where they ate it up and watched us cautiously. Below is them in the cuteness.

Guntur Culture

I wanted to go out, in the car and take pictures to share of what India is like. Looking back at last year I know what a huge culture "shock" it was to come here. I wasn't literally in shock it was more just pure amazement that life could be so different else where. I shared with Ben that I wanted to spend an afternoon driving around in order to capture the city, the houses, the shops, the cars, the traffic, the life. The pictures below are just that. As we all spent the morning in the car I had my head out the window the shutter continuously going. I hope you get to see a little of what we see everyday when we are here. There is so much beauty and yet the dirt and human garbage piles up in every corner of the cities/villages.

a muslim man.

Hindu Temple, along with landscape, above is a young boy at work along with trucks and travel!

making flower leis.

hard at work, all the kids you see came along with mom to sit in the sand while she works.

we came across these camels.

xo, carissa

2011 India Adventures

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