June 2, 2009.
This morning we had worship and devos. After I led the devos I asked the girls what prayer requests they had. Many of them were asking if we could begin to pray for their unsaved parents so that they would come to know the Lord and so for their spiritual lives as well. After I led the prayer the girls said they wanted to pray for us and they got up and stretched their hands out and started to pray out to God, even though I didn't understand what they were saying (they were speaking in Hindi) I was just taken back at how eager they were to pray and to cry out to God for others. The morning session we taught the lyrical dance to the song Beautiful.
After lunch I taught them the dance to My Romance and two new girls came to my group- Darshani and Vidya. They are the faces that I see everytime I close my eyes.... the girls that stole my heart in India =). Those two girls have just so much love in them and they are so deeply in love with God. After practice the girls put on Hindi music and we danced for hours non stop. It was 110 degrees, the fan wasn't working and it was so humid- but somehow, that didn't stop our fun.
Today I am staying the night at Jubilee while the rest of the team went back to Asha Gram. I went and sat outside and talked to Asha Aunty (in charge of Jubilee 1&2). She began to tell me all about her life and about some lives of the women in Asha Gram. There was a girl who was sold to a family because the Husband couldn't have children with his wife. When he girl was sold to the family she had no idea that the only reason she was brought there was to make children. She wasn't even told about the wife. She was treated real bad and kept isolated from the world and the family. No matter how many times I hear stories like this, my heart still breaks each time. That girl now resides in Asha Gram after many long abusive years.
At night, I taught some of the girls some Indian dance moves and then we spent the night on the balcony looking at the stars. The sky was so clear that night and all the girls were telling me how the see shooting stars all the time.. I was hoping to see one that night but I didnt =/. I had indian snowcones! It was really good and only 2 rupees!!!!!!!! If your ice ran out of flavor the guy would just pour more syrup on your ice.. so it was good to the last piece of ice =D
Some of the girls from the Jubilee Homes have been to the US before on mission trips- they were brought to share their testimonies, and on trips sponsored by the US for environmental studies! They have gone to different states and shared their stories to many churches and just got an opportunity to minister to people and tell others of how God has been working in their lives. These girls really love God and many of them want to devote their lives trying to bring others to Christ.
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