Thursday

We visited a "fast-food" restaurant run by a small church in the slums of Vijawada. These two ladies were opperating it this evening.



Indian food is great; but, according to Tom, the only thing to beat a big bowl of American ice cream . . . . is the 2nd bowl!

2 older house workers at Lanka's. They secretly asked me to take a photo while Lanka was preoccupied.

Prayer meeting in the slums of Vijawada. These kids had E-N-E-R-G-Y!

Michael's perspective on the day:

Tom said it best, "This is the part of the trip where you start to think about home." We are missing our families, but it helps to be surrounded by a group of children. But I guess the singles in the group don't have anything to worry about in that department. Although, yesterday when we were shopping for dresses, Leroy mentioned maybe he would purchase a dress and put it in his "hope chest"! Not sure what is on his mind!

We had a good day. We got to visit the school a bit. Then in the afternoon we went shopping in the nice part of town. We visited a small restaurant booth and a print shop which Lanka has "micro-financed".

In the evening we got to share with a small church. All 5 of us got to share a bit of the Good Word.