Category: Kolkata
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More Reflections – from Bethan
I don’t know how to describe in words my experience in India, as we did so much. My main highlight was the journeys on the GNCEM (Good News Children’s Education Mission) mini-bus and visits to their mobile school. I wasn’t expecting the children to be as happy as they were as they have so little…
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Reflections on Kolkata Trip from Chris
It’s very hard to sum up my feelings about the experience because we did and saw so much, but it has been a wonderful opportunity to see what God has been and is doing in another part of the world. One of the highlights was that first morning on the GNCEM (Good News Children’s Education…
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Update on Big Life Ministries
Benjamin Francis, BMS associate regional team leader for India, (right) recently gave an encouraging update on the impact of the BMS-funded boat, which has been reaching villages in the Sunderbans region since the start of 2011. “At this point over 50 new villages have been touched because of the boat. By the end of this…
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Thoughts on this week
Having returned to the UK last Saturday evening I have spent the week trying to reconcile what I saw in Kolkata with the words of youths interviewed on TV and radio following the riots in Britain. One comment in particular stood out for me: “We hav nofing so we hav to do this “
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2011-08-06: Kolkata Daily Digest
04.30 (00.00 UK time) Awake and waiting to get up and go. # 05.25 (00.55 UK time) Taking our luggage down to the jeep. # 06.25 (01.55 UK time) We have arrived at the airport and now waiting to check in. The roads were the quietest I’ve ever seen in Kolkata. # We said goodbye…
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2011-08-05: Kolkata Daily Digest
06.30 This is the @favbap Team in Kolkata visiting @BMSWorldMission partners. It’s our last full day in the city. Day 13. # Later we will be going out with Big Life Ministries again. Before that we will lead staff prayers, meet Pastor Asis, and pack. # 08.15 More washing done. Now to prepare a bit…
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Emily – Day 12 Thursday
None of us knew exactly what to expect when we got up this morning. All we were told was we were going to go out with Big Life Ministries to a remote village. We left the BMS guest house at about 10 am and piled into the jeeps. The journey seemed to go on for…