Oh how time flies!

It is amazing to think that our team has been here in India for over 3 months! Time is a crazy thing...at the beginning of our stay here in India we all could not stop talking about going back to North America and seeing family and friends again, but now that we have 3 weeks left we are all thinking about how much we still want to do in India! There is so much to learn about the culture, the languages and the food but most importantly the people we have began to know and love, teaching them as much as we can in what seems to be a very small amount of time but in God's eyes time is not an issue at all!

God has granted us with numerous opportunities to share our faith with a number of teenagers in the area. We have told them about how much God truly loves them and that just being a good person is not good enough. We have to believe in him with all our heart and accept him to be the Lord of our lives. Some of the youth that have accepted Christ are just so anxious to learn more. A handful of people on the team have started Bible Studies with many of the youth we have led to the Lord. They love hearing stories from His word and learning about how much Christ has worked in our lives and how much they can do for Him even after we leave. A major factor in keeping them connected has been a youth group that we started at the beginning of our stay here in India. Every Sunday night we have new teens coming in and hearing about Christ's love for them. It has been really encouraging! We play games, play music, sing, laugh and learn, all things I am a huge fan of myself! This makes it really easy for us to interact with the teens and get them connected with RJ as well! RJ and his family have so graciously opened their home to a bunch of loud crazy teens for one reason and that is to bring Glory to Christ's name by leading the youth in our area to the Lord! They have put so much time and effort into our lives here on team that once we leave we all know they will be a huge encouragement to the youth in the area as well!

We have met a lot of amazing people during our stay here in in India, so many people that have amazing passion for God! Our host family, Alex, Kyle, Cara, Cayla, Tanya and I had the privilege of going to a young ladies birthday party on Saturday night. We met her and her family back at the beginning of our stay in India and it was exciting to meet up with them and have a great time connecting with her friends and just having a fun time eating food and being big kids! Meanwhile the other half of the team, Jake, Ryan, Gillian, Alena and Kimmie were back at home leading a bible study, meeting new people and sharing the gospel along with leading a fellow friend to the Lord. It was amazing how God had everything planned out! We were all in the right place at the right time!

The past few days have been filled with personal evangelism along with time to get assignments done, and also equipping ourselves for ministry in North America with preparing music, drama and having time to work on P/T/CA (or the long version; Preaching/ Teaching and Chalk Art).

Yesterday was Cara's 20th birthday so a big Happy Birthday goes out to her! We are planning on having a big get together with all our our friends in a few days but in the meantime to celebrate we had cake, told Cara how much we all love her and watched a movie! Never a dull moment on F&F66!

But once again thank you all for keeping up with us here online and for all you prayers and support! A few prayer requests for our remaining time here; health, right now we have a few sickos that are toughing it out for the team, so prayer for them and just that we will not hold anything back our last 3 weeks, that we will live each day as if it was our last day here and not leave India regretting anything. That we follow the Holy Spirits guiding and just stay on fire for His sake!!

Thanks :) Until the next time!

Carmen