I brought 4 containers of beads with me to the LOT Home. I had craft projects for the children, something I do on every visit. Crafts are something the children lack and they always enjoy whatever project I bring. On this particular trip I gave the children bracelets made [...]
Esha is a girl who resides at the LOT Home in Relli, India. She is a gentle pretty girl but her story is anything but pretty. When she was just a small child her mother abandoned the family, leaving her 3 daughters with their father. He was uneducated, working at various odd jobs [...]
I have finished with my ‘bucket’ bath and now I am ready for the day. Bucket baths are unusual for most Westerns but it is something I am accustomed to since it is standard practice at the LOT Home in Relli as well as most of the people living in the hill district. [...]
A mental image comes to my mind of a mother hen gathering her little chicks around her. When I am visiting one of the TWAM children’s homes, I gather the children around to listen to what is happening in their world. They are so eager to share, to laugh, to sit and visit [...]
Holi Festival is a Hindu festival to the ‘god of nature’. It is also called the festival of colors because all the colorful flowers will soon be in bloom. It is a time to recognize the beginning of spring. As a way to celebrate people take chalk dust in various colors and rub [...]
I awoke to the pure voice of a bird singing outside the window, then silence. More birdsong followed by the homey sound of a rooster crowing. It is first light; the small village of Relli is slowly waking. The quiet is a coveted respite for me after the chaos of Kathmandu. I hear [...]
It is a 45 minute flight from Kathmandu to Bhadrapur. More and more people are traveling by air in Nepal and the 50 passenger commercial propeller airplane is twice the size of the planes previously used on this route. The plane flew to an elevation of 15,500 feet so it gave me the [...]
Before I left my hotel this morning, I read this from Psalms 32. "Steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord." Instantly I had an image of being surrounded by an invisible cloud which represented God's love. I boarded the airport shuttle and the thought that I am [...]