Bethlehem Lutheran Church

It has been warm, yes, but little sun: it has been POURING the last several days. Streets are flooded, traffic a bigger adventure than usual. The auto-rickshaws dodge other vehicles to avoid cascades of water over them, and not incidentally, their passengers- like my friends and me!

Yesterday, we (my Norwegian friend, Rita Lunda and I) visited the Park Town School. It is, as you have heard before, a slum school, with many of the students living on the sidewalks in the area. This year, there are two young women from Denmark serving at Park Town. Christine and Mikelyn have started a day care for children too young for kindergarten. They showed us the platform (sidewalk) where one of the children lives, along with his mother and brother. Heartbreaking.

I was invited to present a computer that Bethlehem members purchased for the school. This computer will add much to the capacity of the school's faculty and students, with high speed internet that will, among other things, allow face to face conversation between students there and students here!

And here's a very cool thing: I did not learn of the gift until we were nearly at the school! Bethlehem people act to meet needs, period, without any mediation or permission or anything. The need is there,
Bethlehem folks act to meet those needs.

To use the title of our November Sermon Series, my heart was moved!

The seminar at Gurukul goes well. I will share more tomorrow.
Blessings and peace to you all!