EPISODE 7: India from the Inside: A Live Field Report 12 Years in the Making
I'm recording this episode from my hotel room in India, looking out over a sea of coconut trees and blue sky and just beyond it, the Arabian Sea. And I have so much to tell you.
Twelve years ago our family of six landed in this city - kids ages 5 to 15 - in a tropical, chaotic, beautiful unreached city of one million Muslims. We came expectant and hopeful and we had to leave much sooner than we wanted to. That story is coming in a future episode.
But this week I want to give you a behind-the-scenes field report. Because I am here right now, and so much has changed, and some things haven't changed at all, and I want you to feel like you are right here with me.
In this episode I talk about: what it felt like to land this time versus 12 years ago, how relationship and years of investment change everything, the staggering growth and globalization of this city, what God has been quietly doing in this people group for 12 years, a funeral that none of us expected, and the Muslim friend who encountered Jesus in the middle of it, the Ephesians 6 moment that put my armor back on, and why one team covering 37 million people is simply not enough.
This one is personal. I have tears recording parts of it. I hope it moves you.
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