Good-bye India

We leave tomorrow to begin our long jouney back to the United States. I am anticipating a long two days of travel. It has been quite the great experience to work beside the Indian people here in Andrha Pradesh. They have warmly welcomed our entire group and gone out of their way to serve. I know that when I return I will be forever changed by this experience. It will only be by hindsight that I will be able to see the change God has affected within me. I'm not sure I made a huge impact here, and I didn' expect to do so. I simply wanted to show up, do my part, and see where I could effectively serve here and be an advocate for the poor back in the United States. Honestly, I think the impact has mostly been within me. It has been an incredible experience.

I hope my blog entries from the past two weeks have accurately captured life here in Guntur, India. By no means did I capture or fully understand the complete culture of India as a whole or the area within which I sit today. India's diversity and size prohibts me from doing so. At the very least, the Lord has opened my eyes to the beautiful textures of India within it's culture and people of the state of Andrha Pradesh. To that, I am extremely grateful.