So this morning was our earliest morning yet! We were out the door at 6am and off and running for an hour long drive to our first school! We are helping Pastor Rakesh do the schools in his area today.
Our first school this morning had about 1100 students in it! They were only going to allow us to give Bibles out to 100 students, then they upped to 500 students! Then when we arrived they said we could speak to them all, but we had to go classroom by classroom! So 20 classrooms later we finally finished the school! We had a very good reception and only had a couple refusals.
Our 2nd school was actually the school Pastor Rakesh went to when he was a kid! So that definitely helped keep the kids attention! It was also a school of about 500 students and they were very spread out, but it went very well and again only a couple refusals! Both of these schools are Hindu schools and have at times tried to get Pastor Rakesh arrested, but so far they have been unsuccessful and today he got to preach to them instead! God has a sense of humor!:)
We headed to our third school which we thought was scheduled for 1:30pm. This school was located right on the ocean and we were all hoping to stop and take a couple pictures before leaving. Turns out Pastor Brooks got the times mixed up and we weren't supposed to be there until 2:45pm! So we got to spend the next hour walking in the waves and taking pictures!! What a awesome blessing and so much fun! Only God could have planned a mix up like that at that particular school! (It's the only school we've been to that's right on the beach like that!) it was an extra special blessing! Before starting our 3rd school we said goodbye to our "South Carolina" team of Tanner, Kelly and Drew. We had a lot of fun with them this past week! Pray for their safety as they spend the next 25 hours flying home.
The third school which was a Catholic school went very well! There was around 200 students and all listened very intently! There was a man mowing the sports grounds not far from where we were doing the presentation and a couple minutes into it I looked over to see him push the mower aside, lie down on the grass and proceed to listen to the whole gospel presentation! He got a Bible at the end as well.
We had an amazing day and it was extra special for Pastor Rakesh...his wife gave birth to a baby boy late last night and he had not yet seen him! He wanted so desperately to get Bibles into the hands of the young people in his area that he stayed to help distribute them before taking off to go meet his new son!
I think we are all looking forward to an early bed tonight and another full day tomorrow!
The picture of us with the Pastors are pastor Brooks on the left, Pastor Rakesh in the middle and Pastor Grey on the right. We have been blessed to work with all 3 of these men these last several weeks.
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