Author Archives: John Ude

Friday July 6th We took the morning off for some recreation. We were at Chitwan Park. Unfortunately we were all rather tired and it was raining, perhaps dampening the experience. The night before a tree had fallen on the main power lines and the power was out to the whole area. It was hot, humid, […]

Thursday July 5th Yesterday and today we have had a Pastoral Conference with about 20 men in Bharatpur. They are very different in age, dress and the places they serve but all have one LORD, one faith, one hope. Some of them had to make those mountain trips, such as described in previous blogs, in […]

Saturday July 8 Let’s see in one week, I have ridden in a regular car, a van bus, a full size bus, a ruk-ruk, a put-put, a rickshaw, an all terrain mountain truck, a horse drawn cart, on a motorcycle, and on an elephant. In most cases they have been banged up and rickety and […]

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. […]

Sunday July 1st We set out for Dhading. The trip was an ordeal. We started in a bus for a three hour drive but the bus was very crowded, it was hot, and a truck driver had gotten in a fight with a policeman stopping all the traffic for a long time. So we were […]

Saturday June 30 Worshipped this AM with Eternal Life Lutheran Church – could not understand their words but across language, land and liturgy we share faith in Christ Jesus. The fervency of their songs and prayers conveyed the message of their hearts. There were about a 100 there in a room 20′ X 20′. The […]

Friday June 29th What a day. We got up Thursday 4:30 AM London time. Started with the flight hassles I described in London, flew to Mumbai. The night time portion was spent sitting in terminal rooms in Mumbai and arranging the changed flight to Katmandu. We got here after 11AM their time Friday. Raju was […]

Friday June 29th 2:00AM Places take on different appearance and meanings. British Airways had overbooked all flights to India the whole week, undoubtedly why they did not let us board. They said it was unlikely we would get passage the whole week. We could show up each flight and wait standby to see if there […]