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Salaam from India #15
- Posted by Devin Eckhardt on Jan 03, 2008 at 03:03 AM
The New Year in India
January 2, 2008 email #15
Our New Year’s Eve was uneventful. We stayed in our room and just listened to all the fireworks and hoopla! I wasn’t up for a party.
Loren and I held down the fort again for New Year’s Day. (CAN YOU BELIEVE IT IS 2008???) It gave us a wonderful opportunity to sit on the memorial benches outside and talk with one of the House Fathers. He had a lot of superb wisdom about the PBI students and their needs and discipline issues. Later we had him come for tea with us and just TALK. It is not often that we get this kind of quality time with other than leadership staff.
All day today was spent with the pastors projecting vision for the New Year for their ministries as well as themselves. They have a tough time with budgets and time management and Loren is so good with this. They feel that they are so poor so as to have no need of a budget.
Trying to show them that no matter what your income level is, you need to be prudent with your finances. This takes hours of persistent teaching along with visual aids.
On Sunday we attended one of the small house churches in the Slums of Nagpur. Recently they have now grown to the point that they are having to rent a Hall nearby which is very crudely built and has no electricity. This seems to make no difference to them, for joy of the Lord was evident in their service. Three of our RGI girls attend this fellowship and were so excited to see us. Again, I was surrounded and bombarded with questions.
It is amazing what unusual situations you run into in a different culture. We have been working hard on getting new schedules made out and rearranging the PBI dining situation. What seems so simple to us is a major deal to them. I THINK it will all work, but we will see tomorrow when it is implemented.
The PBI students are returning campus as I write. They all seem so happy to be back and share about their holiday. Loren is over at RGI putting a small bouquet of flowers on each of the girl’s beds so that when they return tomorrow they will find a love gift from us. I doubt that they have ever received flowers for any reason. We hope to re-enforce the fact that they are valued. I think Loren would adopt them all, BUT with no family planning in India he would have a whole bunch more next year that he would want.
All the students, boys and girls, have a way of stealing your heart. Just a little bit of love and attention goes a long way.
http://www.prakash4india.org
Sylvia H. Eckhardt
Prakash for India
About the Author:Devin Eckhardt currently serves as the Executive Pastor at Bayside Church. Devin brings a unique blend of expertise with over 21 years of experience in leadership, strategic planning and business management. With a successful career that started in the professional business marketplace before being called into ministry as a part of the senior leadership within a large California mega-church and finally serving as the Executive Director of an internationally syndicated Christian broadcast ministry. Devin and his wife Veronica have been married for 17 years. They have two children; Connor and Sabrina. Devin has a passion to see churches thrive and make effective use of their resources in fulfilling their specific mission and vision as well as the Great Commandment & Commission of reaching people for Christ. Additionally he serves on the board of directors for Prakash Association and longs to see the youth of India know Christ and live vibrant lives for Him.
