Dhadding – The Kids in the Window

Yesterday morning (Friday) we awoke at a motel in the Dhadding District of Nepal. The entire group rode a bus for a few miles, to a dirt road turnoff that went up, up, up with winding, severely rutted switchbacks. I don’t know how any vehicle could possibly climb that “road,” but 4x4 sort of flatbed truck-thing that we rode on somehow managed it. It was a good two hours of lurching, bouncing, and nail-biting at the sheer drop-offs, but it was much better than hiking the whole way!

There were four different congregations at which our teams were let out for a hike to the locations for child evangelism. During the presentation it started to rain hard, and we found out that our driver wasn’t willing to try to get us back down the hills. 5-hour hike, here we come! It started out in the pouring rain, but things got better. The rain stopped, and after we met up with the other groups we found a different truck and driver; he was able to deliver us into town to meet our bus. It was 11 pm by the time we arrived at the HCLCN home city of Kathmandu.

You may be wondering about the title of this post – “The Kids in the Window.” You can some some of them in one of the pictures. We are very happy and privileged to bring the message of Christ to the children of the church members in these parishes. But it’s the Hindu kids of the village who come to hear – the “Kids in the Window” for whom we pray the most, that these words of life may reach them, and that they may become lambs of the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus.






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