India...May 21

Our final Thursday here in India began with a bang as we had 62 new kids show up for our 2nd Kids Camp. These new kids where ones that had never participated in PMI before so it was great to watch their faces as we introduced new activities and concepts. Since these kids have never been to PMI before, most of them have no understanding of the things of God or have even heard stories from our Good Book. So yesterday it was cool to think that for many, really most, of them that it was their first introduction to any kind of Good News teaching. Hopefully as they are now connected with PMI they will continue to be involved and understand more and more.




Thursday afternoon, we conducted English lesson 6 of 8. We are still continuing to have a ton of people present, which has been a great encouragement to the PMI staff. From what they have shared, usually it starts out with many people the first day or two but as it continues, the people dwindle away. We’ve been consistently having about 50 people present with a few new additions each day. As I’ve shared before, we’re continuing to teach in the main session about idioms. Yesterday, they brought newspapers and magazine articles in that had idioms that they had found. Each day we try to do one “hangman” session revolving around an idiom. The students absolutely love it. Hangman…we really should get back to playing it more back in the States. Anyways, after the main session we broke out into our conversational groups. At some point throughout the sessions our groups have focused on pronunciation. This is something that they are genuinely interested in as they try to develop their fluency in English. It’s interesting to hear some of the sounds they have trouble with…some of them are like almost impossible to grasp such as the sound made by “th”. For many of them it just sounds like “t”. Our team has enjoyed helping, teaching, and watching many of the students grow over the past 6 lessons.


After classes we split up for dinner. Each free evening some of our team members have been visiting with our hosts P&H to talk, understand more about India, and be encouraged. Some of the team used the opportunity to have some Indian Henna put on their hands. Thanks to those who have been lifting us up. We’ll be home soon!