Monday July 2nd
The congregation here has a new church, dedicated last year with a roof supplied by you the CLC. They are eager to be able to purchase some additional land so they can put in a toilet, the land they have can’t have one. They asked us to remember them in our prayers.
They asked me if I would forget them. I said, I never can. There are many reasons for that. The trip in I already wrote about. The vistic scenery. But we also just finished five hours of worship. The temperature was close to 100F, it was muggy and there were about 100 people in the building with a tin roof and hardly a breeze but the congregation rejoiced to hear the Word of Christ, praised Him enthusiastically, and I can still hear many of them singing in the church hours after the service ended.
Indeed mighty is the Lord who works in us and for us. Though I may forget and can do little. The Lord never forgets His people and is mighty to do all things.
They presented Nepali hats to us, they knew they would be too small, can’t buy ones big enough for Americans, and got a real laugh out of our trying them on.
There was no road to the village, the one hardly passable for mountain trucks ended an hour’s hike away. A truck going in even that far had not been available for us to hitch a ride. One wasn’t on the way out either til almost the end.
There was also no electricity. Yet the teens had cell phones, their music and some fashion statements. Some of the young men were wearing their jeans in the popular sagging fashion. The young ladies however were not following the revealing fashions of the US but their traditional styles which are very attractive with lots of color and design.
Coming out from Maidi was a joy. We got started early 5AM so it was cooler and mainly downhill. We got a ride after we were most of the way down the mountain but that had its own hazards. With the rainy season that clay, so slippery hiking up, caused the truck to often spin, at times on steep slopes where the valley opened out below the spin out. Then there were the wash outs, where it didn’t even seem there was a place for the truck to get by between the cliff and the wash out, which dropped off into the ravine.
We went by a Hindu temple as they were opening it for the day. They ring the bell to wake the god up and tell him it’s time to be on duty. Shades of Carmel.
indeed mighty is the Lord to be with us always, to protect and provide.
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