Tuesday, December 1, 2009

BACK... in India...

So... Gene Ort and i set out on a 3 year mission to explore strange new life and new civilizations... to boldly go where no one has gone before! Cue the silly 70's theme music.

Okay, so we're not going to be gone for 3 years (whoof, thank goodness! I'd die from Wife-withdrawal), and considering how often we come to India, it's not exactly a "new" civilization (especially when you consider that Indian culture itself has been around for about 6 millenia), but we're here to do some pretty fantastic stuff, and so i'll be blogging about it over the next couple of days as we go. Here's the quick itinerary:

India
* We're going to be doing field and survey work for the March, 2010, India teams, and also spending some time doing preliminary recon on another village where we might start community development initiatives in 2011 or 2012. We'll start just outside of Chennai, work our way down to Kalavai, then back up to Trichy, and finally back to Chennai, where we'll stage for our next leg of the trip.

Cambodia
* That's right! On the back end of India, Gene and i will be popping over to Cambodia to do our field visit for our friends at the ONE Prayer network. We'll join Bob Craft (coordinated through our associates at Bible League Canada), Vibol Uong and Setha Say (with the National Cambodian Church Planters Network) in the north end of the country (with a walk through the Angkor Wat temple complex), and then on to the South to visit the Killing Fields and see mature churches planted through the first cycle of the ONE Prayer planter training process.

AND... the most excellent Michelle Wegner will be uploading our Cambodia stuff (because it has to do with ONE Prayer) to oneprayer.com if you'd like to follow along there starting on Dec 10th.

2 comments:

robwegner said...

Your in our thoughts and prayers!

Jim Blechl said...

yep, we've got your back.