Preaching at Balanager

Friday night we kicked off a weekend meeting with the Balanager church in Hyderabad. Balanager is the smaller of the two churches we work with in Hyderabad. It takes around an hour to fight through the Hyderabad traffic to get to the other side of the city where they meet, a situation made more difficult by the monsoon rains we’ve been having. There were about 100 in attendance, several of those were visitors. We are conducting the meeting different speakers style. I spoke last night on the faith of the Canaanite woman of Matthew 15. Tonight Ed Harrell will speak with Rod Amonett to conclude the meeting on Sunday morning.

Tomorrow I travel to the city of Warangal to preach. The morning will start early, as it’s approximately a three hour drive to Warangal. As I mentioned in my earlier post, none of our group has ever had opportunity to travel there so it should be a great opportunity to meet the Christians there. After the day’s travels on Sunday I will be preparing for classes in Chennai where I fly to on Monday.

Our “down” time has been spent discussing the work here in India as well as interviewing some of the preachers about their work. One of the important responsibilities we have is to make contact with Indian preachers who are being supported by American churches so that we can report back to them. We are the only way most of the churches have to have direct contact with the men they support. This morning we will be meeting with bro. Surender of Balanager.

The week ahead will be a very busy one. Please remember us in your prayers.

Speaking at Balanager, bro. Surender translating.