India 11: Sudheers final thoughts

So what a journey it has been for everyone. We thought it might be nice to have Sudheer, our host, say a few final words at the train station before we left Tenali.

India 11: the final video diaries

Well we have all had an amazing journey over the last 2 weeks. To give you an idea of the impact it has had on our lives just have a look at each persons personal end of mission video diary.

India 11: day 10

Day 10 was our final experience of India bar the final day of flying and what an experience it was. Becci and Richard take you through it.

India 11: Day 9

Sorry for the delaty in these last few video diaries. Here Taylor and Tom tell you about our last day in Tenali. It is in 2 parts and not just on twice.

India 11: Day 8

Today was our final day of doing meetings visits and wells. We dedicated our final 2 borewells as well as visited an orphanage and led our last outreach meeting. Jenny and Jordan tell us (well try) their versions of today.

Here is a glimpse of the team doing some dancing at the final outreach meeting.

India 11: Day 7

In what seems like a shorter day today, starting with the boys having an indian head massage (check out twitter or facebook for tom's vid), sarah and Grace take you through the rest of the day.

and just a glimpse at Tom's cheeky head massage.

India 11: Day 6

It was another emotional day for the team, Today was Sunday and we started off dedicating a borewell and the leading a church service. It was then time to go over to the runaway railway childrens project. Here we heard some hard stories which hit the team very hard. Finally we went and ran our final medical camp and an outreach meeting with a community ex communicated from their town. This made it very remote and avan more isolated when what little electricity they had cut out. Richard and Jess give their thoughts to the day,

Here is a just a small glimpse of the team feeding some of the railway children

This is the start of the outreach meeting with electricity.

india 11: day 5

So Day 5 has been and gone. Here Taylor and Gill tell of their experiences at an outreach meeting, medical camp and a daycare centre for young people.

Here is a little bit of footage of the people attending the outreach meeting this morning .

India 11: Day 4

Welcome to our video diary for Day 4. Today we went over to an English School to help the young people and staff in communicating with the English language. We visited classrooms and then shared presentations with the young people (see previous blog). We then were part of some staff training. On the way back we went and ran a mercy ministry (feeding street children) and a medical camp which were based in a slum. Connie and Katherine take you through their insights of the day.

India 11: day 4 school

Today we were invited into a school that was English speaking to do some cross cultural work with the children and the staff. As part of the day a number of the students put on a presentation.

We had problems with the camera tonight so the video diary for today will hopefully get put up sometime tomorrow

Day 3 medical camp

Here is some footage of our time at the medical camp and outreach meeting today.

India 11: Day 3 video diary

Tom and Jordan talk about what they have been doing on day 3. Our first school visit, sari shopping, our second medical camp and third outreach meeting were all on offer.

India 11: 2nd outreach meeting

Along with our video diaries occasionally we will put up videos of the different things we have been doing. This first video ios the beginning of our second outreach meeting. This is a village where they had never heard the Gospel before and because of the water well we provided it gave us an opportunity to share the Christian faith.

Keep following our blog for more video diaries on how the team are finding India and we will try and post more videos of the things we are doing too.

India 11: Day 2

Day 2 has been a day of extremes. We first of all dedicated our first borewell of the trip and we were welcomed like celebrities this was then followed by a trip to an elderly peoples home where all of us ended up being very emotional. This evening we had our 2nd outreach meeting and we ended up in a little remote village where they had never heard the Gospel before and we dedicated a well and shared the Gospel message with around 50 -60 people giving their lives to follow Christ. Have a look at how Jenny and Becci found the day. We will hopefully post some footage up in the next couple of days.

India 11: first full day

So after plenty of travelling we have finally got to the point where we are able to make a difference to peoples lives. Jess and Grace tell us about how they found their first full day where we visited a leper colony to do a medical camp and hand out soaps and toothbrushes and then our first outreach event.

India 11: Finally arrived

So we finally arrived in Tenali. One coach journey, two plane journeys and an eight hour train journey we finally arrived at Sudheer Kumar's house who is director of Reap India. Katherine and Sarah share their first thoughts now they have landed.

India 11: just off the plane

Sarah and Grace talk about how they are feeling after an epic journey.

India 2011: On the way to the airport

Ok so i think we are there. Here is our journey through video so far as we aim to bring life and hope to the people in India through our partnership with Reap India.

First thoughts from India

Hey guys, well we are just getting on board with this technology thing, but why we do that and try and get some video blogging going we just thought we would touch base and let everyone know what was happening. We have just done our first proper day here after what felt like too long traveling. We arrived at Sudheer's house yesterday at around 9pm India time, that is about 4pm UK time. Everyone was really tired and were desperate for some kip, but our welcome at tenali train station was certainly amazing. As we got off the train after over 7 hours we were met with Sudheer, his team and others who all had flowers for us, which was certainly overwhelming after all the traveling. We are all doing really well at the minute and really appreciate your prayer. As soon as we get sorted properly with the internet we will post the video diaries we have been doing, but there are glimpses of these already on our facebook and our twitter stream. If you have neither of those you can find them on our homepage www.nottinghamyfc.co.uk Looking forward to telling you some amazing stories.

The NYfC India team