Last weeks in India

Dear friends,
We had a wonderful time during last weeks in India.
We spent lots of time with the closest ones and had good fellowship with families, seminary students and all  the kids from the campus.
We miss the campus greatly and really, really hope and pray to come back one day.

Enjoy all the pictures from these last days in ACA.

Holidays with pancakes and the kids

We were also exploring little while travelling by train or by bus

and by auto rick-shaw

Slum areas in Bangalore (in these blue 'tents' people live)

'Beauty Day' - applying coconut oil on our hair

Visit to close friend - Sudha and her family

enjoying colorful Hosur

Some shopping

Eating mango

By were given beautiful traditional North East dresses by our friend John

We had mehendi done on our hands

Sweet boys

with the lovely Noby family

We participated in the celebration of the new school leaders oaths

Justyna with her favourite 'Moral Instructions' class - 10A

Delicious tribal lunch in Naga restaurant

one more lunch - eating good south Indian food.

eating snake for late dinner ;-)

and one more dinner - Burmese this time. DELICIOUS!

cow on the campus!

And some rest ...

Children's Gospel Club

On the last week of May we were able to help in leading Children's Gospel Club (CGC) in two nearby  villages. CGC was organised by a Faith Bible Church from Bagalur (one nearby village). Pastor Pilli invited us to help him in tellin Bible stories and leading small groups in those two places. For the 5 days we were going in the mornings to Chanasandram and afternoon to Bagalur.

Children were very intrested in all event and sometimes we had nearly 40 children. Thanks to God's grace this time was wonderful, we got to know some children, we could share with them about Christ and other Bible truths and also we could start relationships with some of the parents. All CGC was amazing time because almost all of the children coming were Hindu.

We send you some nice pictures below - while watching them please pray for those children and their families. Ask God to work in their hearts through His Word which they heard so that they would accept Him.

This is the room in the school in one of the villages where we had CGC

Justyna having her small group

Marta telling a story about beginning of the Church

One of the brothers from Faith Bible Church telling Bible story 

Justyna telling a story about Gedeon

Marta having her small group

Time of prayer

It was also a great opportunity to get to know the parents of children

We had also some games and fun with the children

Children colouring

At the end of the CGC all the children got a certificate and a small gift

All the children attending to CGC in Chanasandram (with the pastor and some parents)

Children from Bagalur

Justyna, Marta and pastor Pilli with his family - he organised the CGC.
 He is a pastor of a Faith Bible Church in Bagalur.

Trip to Delhi

Hello friends!
We want to share some pictures from our trip to Delhi.
We've visited Delhi during school holidays at the end of April.
We've gone there with Lori & Andrew Spurgeon and had a wonderful time with them.
We thank God for the opportunity to go there and the Spurgeons for taking us!

It was a good time for us. We were basically sight seeing, shopping and resting. We've seen unforgettable views in Taj Mahal or Qutb Minar, we got surprised by cool weather and cleanliness of the city and we tasted lots of delicious food from that region of the country.
Every day we realize more and more how diversed India is. What we experience is that India has a huge variety and richness of languages, food, colors of skin, culture, religion etc. - and that it's just outstanding!

Enjoy the pictures!

busy street in Delhi

camel pulling the hay

with Spurgeons in Taj Mahal

we really went there! :)

the carvings in Taj were extraordinary! 

famous Qutb Minar in Delhi

beautiful carvings in Qutb Minar preserved from 12th century!

each pillar there is slightly different!

Red Fort in Agra - one more beautiful place

and coming back to Bangalore  by train - we've made around 2000km in two days!

April events

Hello!

Sorry for a long break in writing here, but so many things were happening  here in ACA!

First we had a Bible Olympics for the children from House of Joy and form hostel. It was a whole week of different kind of competitions in two age groups including singing, skits, preaching, memorizing Bible verses, telling stories. Children had a lot of fun and I hope they grew also spiritually preparing for the competition. Here are some pictures from that…

One of the girls singing - Justyna as a judge 

Bible verse memorization - Marta as a judge

one of the older girls preaching

We also helped two groups of girls to prepare two skits
 for the competition. They did a great job! 

Second big event that we went through lately was graduation of seminary students (form Evangelical Theological Seminary ACA). This where few days of different kind of celebrations and programs, farewells and delicious special dinners! It was a great time of thanking God for what He already did in India and for what He will do through these people. Please also support them in prayer!

Graduation programme in a new auditorium

With one of the graduates (in saree!)

We with almost all graduating female students.

On a farewell dinner in burmese student fellowship (food was delicious!)

Special song performed by all the House of Joy and Hostel kids (and youth) on a  ceremony of  dedication of new auditorium

For a special farewell sunday service Justyna and some girls performed a nice choreography...

... they did a great job!

Marta also helped some girls to prepare special songs

Quite big group of students is going to serve the Lord
 outside India (Myanmar, Nepal, UK). Pray also for their safety there.  

With Ledbetters - the founders of new auditorium

Beside this Justyna led 3 day workshop about activities and discipline for the 19 kindergarten teachers. It was a great time of inspiration and equipping for their future work! God blessed this time and we pray the He will also continue His work in hearts of these teachers (most of them are Hindu).

With all of  the participents of the workshop. It was a great and blessed time!

We also build closer relationship with House of Joy kids, hostel students and seminary students. We will miss them all!

Some friends...

...more friends (eating special dinner)...

... and more friends (during graduation ceremony).

With Abijah...

With Bwhwithi and Party...