Children’s Home – Saturday February 25

Saturday afternoon we visit the Seminary to meet Dr Kunjamon Chacko. We visit the classrooms where Team 1 taught the classes and met daily. Remember the little blurb about a week ago stating we made it, we’re here, talk later. It was sent from my iPad sitting on the steps in the hallway just before we left for the Children’s home. (Didn’t know that would be the last Internet until I got back to JFK Airport) At the Seminary we were treated to home grown pineapple, and banana nut bread. We then headed over to the Children’s Home to meet the wonderful children and have an evening with them. We arrived and the children gathered to meet us. They sang a song to us as we prepared to give them gifts we brought.

The courtyard

Meeting and greeting all the precious Children

Evening worship at the school. Songs were sung, roll was called and MANY were blessed.

Saturday February 25, 2012 – Travel to Kottayam

Our flight was delayed from Dubai to Kochi, India by an hour. It seems there was a little “unrest” in the country of Oman so we had to wait for an hour to get clearance to overfly Oman. We got to Kochi around 4:00am. We were hoping to be able to see the departing members of our 1st team but it wasn’t to be. They were at a departure gate not in sight of the arrival/customs area. We hit a little snag coming through customs. The customs officials didn’t look pleased to see a suitcase full of eyeglasses. He thought they were being brought in to sell. Penny tried to explain they were going to be given away. After a little while customs finally cleared the glasses after a small duty was paid on them.

As we exit the airport we are met by one of gracious hosts Sabu along with two buses to take us to Kottayam. After all the luggage is loaded we load up and head to Pearl Regency Hotel – Kottayam. The trip to the hotel is an adventure by itself. Saw many sights and got to see our first Indian sunrise (through a bus window but still beautiful).

Here are a few of the sites along the way.

Internet - How Much we miss thee

Team 2 made it back safely. I will be updating the blog with the activities in the next couple of days. We left Kochi, IN at 5:30 AM Saturday Morning (7:00 PM Friday night EST) and arrived in Atlanta at approx. 10:00 PM Saturday evening. As was said earlier. Once we left the Seminary on Saturday there was no more internet. At times there was no power.