Tolentreasures

  Food plays a big part in travel for me.  I love to find local foods to any area.  The pizza above, while it was Domino’s,  certainly had an Indian twist with the chicken on top.  This little boy seemed to enjoy it!          The vegetable, picked from the tree could not have been any fresher!  I don’t remember what it was called.        And momos!  Not enough good can be said about these little dumplings!  These were from a restaurant on our return from Darjeeling.   Then we made our own!  And these eggrolls filled with vegetables, including beets, were amazing.          Chili Chicken from the restaurant was great,  but then Mridula made her version and it was heavenly!  I don’t have any pics of hers, but it was one of the BEST things I ate.  It was similar to General Tso’s Chicken,  but wit...

I often think of Lydia in the Bible.   I think of her working to provide for God’s church,  of her entrepreneurial spirit.  How God used her and I am sure other women’s Spirits, gifts and experiences to enrich  His church.   I don’t know the stories of all these women,  but I could easily see their work ethic.  I am sure many of them were providing for their families and I know that some of them were working  to care for God’s people.  The first one is of women running a stand at Darjeeling.  Food for the tourists.                A teacher at the school that I visited who brought her baby to work with her every day. Here she was cooling her down and washing her up on break time  between classes.      Nepali women at the Himalayan Zoological Park selling corn snacks. A young girl running her own tea stand in the tea fields ...

In December, I had the opportunity to travel to West Bengal, India on a mission trip with my church. Six of us made the trip to care for the children of mission workers who would be attending a conference there.   The last full day that we were there we went to a school in a nearby village and met Samuel who runs the school there.  He is a converted Hindu and teaches Hindu children a Christian based curriculum in English.   His school has been very successful because of the high quality of education he is providing.   This allows him to present the gospel to children and their parents often.  The problem?  He has more students than classroom space.  And three swings for over 200 children!  Such well behaved children! Such even lines!  Some of the older children are having outside class! They are starting a classroom on the second floor.  Here is where my part of the story comes in.   Samuel’s school was my moment.  That moment ...