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In February 2008, two mission teams from St Stephen’s Church, Twickenham, will travel to New Delhi, India, to each spend over a week serving the poor in the slums of this vast city. Once again, working with the Indian NGO ‘Asha’, the aim of the mission is to demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ to just some of the three million people who struggle daily to live in one of the worst environments in the world. Each group will undertake some manual work to help improve the community clinics at the centre of two slum colonies in West Delhi. We will also spend time with individuals and groups from within the slums, listening to their stories, encouraging them in all they do, performing workshops with the children and generally working with the Asha team in whatever way is helpful to bring hope into these seemingly hopeless situations.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

We want bangers and mash!!! (Day 6)

We are all having a great time bonding out here, and mark and libby seem to be recovering well with the help of antibiotics but still not top notch, we had a full van today for the first time in two days! yay! but do please keep praying, it is very much appreciated!

However the cravings are now kicking in, few of the adults (Nick in particular) are wanting gin&tonic, and every one else are craving bangers and mash with a load of veggies on the side (so we'd like it on the doorstep when we return please! thank you!)

Today was another great day, hottest so far we think! we have finished murals and have started outside the building, few of us decided to have a minor paint fight while the Indians stood round and watched with horror and mild amusement, we were covered in mint green paint. Not such a good day to do it on because as soon as we had called a truce we had to wash off the paint so we looked slightly presentable to the Deputy high commissioner's wife. It was still a laugh.

On the more not so pleasant side of things, at the beginning of the week we thought we'd have a hole in the ground as the toilet but pleasantly surprised that it was a sit down one. However e didn't realise where it went. we found out today that it just goes through a pipe to outside on the ground, pleasant eh?! this is also where the people who live in the slum, go to the toilet as well, they sit of the rubble of the broken down toilets (we found that a tad ironic!)

After the high commission where we told them about Asha and we met another english team. Was a beautiful late afternoon, with cucumber sanwiches and scones! Their garden was huge! we reckon that we could fit a whole slum in there. She was a lovely lady (her name was Wendy). It was also lovely to have a bit of quiet and clean grass. We then went to another market where no one would follow you round getting you to buy stuff, you had to actually pay to get in, it was lovely!

We've just had dinner at the YWCA, so now we're rather full and tired! A day playing with the children is i store for us tomorrow will be a great time to show that they're equals and we're all loved by God as his children!

Thanks again for the support and keep the prayers rolling!
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