India is coming to an end

Wednesday Jan. 25th
I can't believe it's already drawing to a close, the time has really passed by quickly! We left Goa by train yesterday to come to Pune, which is a few hours from Bombay (now called Mumbai). We had a chance to talk to the YWAM base here about the Jewish World Office, the School of Jewish Studies, the need to reach out to all the Israelis coming to India, and our plans to bring the school here (probably 2007), and then we led their prayer time, focusing on the above.

We spent the rest of the day listening to a great speaker named Anna George who talked about tactics of warfare, vision, and purpose. We got to tour the base (a new facility, recently paid off by a huge offering in Brazil that we were part of back in September), had a nice lunch, then got stuck in traffice (bad enough to rival Los Angeles) while attempting to see the city. There is supposed to be a really nice Synagogue here, one of the oldest in India, that we didn't get to see due to the traffic jam. (Tmw is "Republic Day" where they celebrate their independence from Brittain and they were already closing off some of the streets-I guess for parades.)

It's midnight now and we catch our last train in 4 hours to return to Delhi. I think it's about a 27 hour ride from here. Then we'll meet up with the DTS team and spend the last couple of days there with them.

As for how things have been going (meetings, visiting properties, etc.) it's been great, and I'll share more details another time, when it's not midnight. (We left Goa yesterday afternoon for the 14 hour train ride to get here at 4:00 a.m., so I'm a bit sleep deprived-and yes, this next train departs at 4:00 a.m. as well-same train, we just took a "lay-over" here in Pune.)

Please keep Michael and me in prayer for this long journey, and for our flights onward. He'll be flying to Korea as I make my way back to the U.S. (via Zurich, Switzerland-and no, I don't get to go skiing or anything like that, I only have 5 hours [starting at 6 a.m.] so I will probably not get beyond the airport-and I don't even have any more good books with me!).

Well that's it for now-I leave early Monday morning (really late Sunday night-1:45 a.m.-don't I pick great travel times???) and I'll be in Chicago around 8:00 p.m. (I change plans again in D.C.). Michael leaves Monday night, and I'm not sure when he arrives in Korea.

My cell will be back on as soon as I land in the U.S. on Monday, so give me a call!

Thanks again for all your prayers!
Love,
Monica
p.s. Please pray that I have no more encounters with rats, mice, or cockroaches, I feel like I'm being attacked!!!