SIX

Six is the number of days until I am on my way to INDIA for my Internship in Community Development. India, a mysterious and diverse country, has had a portion of my heart since the first time I went with my family in ninety-six. I went with eyes wide open having no Idea what to expect and I can tell you that there is no way that I could have ever imagined what I experienced. My time there was beautiful and miserable at the same time. It opened my eyes to extreme poverty, different religions, culture, new and strange foods, smells that I don't think I want to try to describe and over all it helped me to discover a new part of the heart of God.

The Lord had always laid on my heart a desire to serve the needy but it was in India that the Lord first stirred up in me a passion for culture. If there is any place in the world to see diversity in culture India is the place. In a land that is about a third of the size of the US but boasts a population of over a billion people there is an array of races, languages and religions.

I am eager to rediscover the unique and diverse country of India while I am there for three months this summer. Although at this time it is debatable what exactly I will be doing while I am there, the tentative plan is to research what impact Brooklyn mission school, which is run by Himalaya Evangelical Mission in Totopara India, has on the community that it is working in.

As I finish my finals at Covenant college and prepare for my trip to India my desire is to remember the Proverbs 19:2 which the Lord had placed on my heart recently. It says "It is not good to have zeal without knowledge nor to be hasty and miss the way". Through the last year I have had the privilege of studying community development on top of a mountain at a beautiful college. I must now allow the Lord to do his work in my life and show me the way that he would have me go.