Dear Compassion Sponsor

Thank you for your further interest in Compassion! Our prayer is that through our experience, you are able to catch a glimpse of the awesome work that God is doing through Compassion's ministry.

In early 2010, our church began a partnership...

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Thank You To Our Supporters!

Doug Allord has wonderfully pieced together some of the memories from the trip into a nice 20-minute recap. Our prayer is that this can help you catch a little piece of the joy of what God is doing in East India.

Home, safe and sound

Exhausted and craving the comforts of home, we got back into Plover around noon today.  It's great to be back with our families and back on American soil.  Thank you for all your prayers and support!

Videos from India!

Compassion project kids playing on the playground

Dancing with the children and staff during the final day's celebrations

Day 12: Bloated on an Airplane

Our final day in India began with the 10 of us worshipping in the courtyard of the BMS center.

We encouraged each other from the Word, sang worship songs, and prayed together.  It was a great time of fellowship.  We specifically prayed for the change that God has encouraged us toward - change to be bolder, have more faith, pray more, and love more.

Our motto on this trip has been "Just the way we like it."  Brian encouraged us from Romans 12 that the Christian life should be

1. Lived on the alter.  We should always have a "that's just the way I like it" attitude.  
2. Lived on assignment.  India was/is just a small piece of our assignment, and now we go back to the rest of our day-to-day assignment to live for Jesus.

Then, our Compassion East India staff took us to a department store to do some shopping.  Everyone got something to take home to remind us of India.

As a final celebration, the Compassion staff took us to Ivory Kitchen restaurant for an amazing Indian buffet lunch.  We have seen the poverty of India, now we got a chance to taste the amazing opulence of India.

We ate and ate and ate.  And now we get on an airplane to Delhi, and then at 1:30 am, get on our airplane from Delhi to Chicago.  We all miss Wisconsin - we miss our families and homes.  We miss the snow... er... maybe not.

We thank God for all of you who have been praying for us.  Praise God for the 16 decisions that were made for Christ this week, the amazing relationships that have been formed, and the fact that none of our team members got sick at all.  God is so good; his mercies are new every morning.

Our trip may be over, but this amazing journey has only begun...