DAY 1 DEPARTURE
Date Tuesday, February 28
Departure from your homes and leaving to India.
DAY 2 TRANSIT
Date Wednesday, February 29
Day will be spent in transit, connecting to the Indian flight.
DAY 3 ARRIVAL AT COIMBATORE
Date Wednesday, March 1
Place Coimbatore
You will arive in Coimbatore after a long journey and check into the hotel. You may want to spend the first few hours in your hotel rooms, before the first taste of the delcious Indian food.
Time PM
Place Mielkal, Kovaipudur
Program Visit Widows Home, Boys Home and the Kovaipudur Church
The Widows at the old age home will be thrilled to meet you and pray for you. The dinner here will be a treat again!
DAY 4
Date Thursday, March 2
Place Mielkal, Coimbatore
Time AM
Program Visit to the public School
The Public School has about 350 children who are from slum areas in and aroud Mielkal. You will have an opportunity to see their dances, as well as distribute candies or small toys to them. They may crowd you in ecstacy with a desire to get your attention and say Hello to you or shake hands with you. Be ready!
TIME PM
Program Graduation of womens' Bible college
Place Coimbatore
Time PM
Program Church Dedication, Dindugal
Dindugal is a place near, Palani which is a Hindu Pilgrims area where thousands of people walk every year barefooted and climb their moutain temple. At Dindugal, Pastor Ebenezer and his wife are pastoring a church and their new church building is going to be dedicated. They are doing ministry among much opposition.
DAY 5
Date Saturday, March 3
Time AM
Place Maruthamalai
Program Visit Leper Colony
The sight of the lepers folding their deceased hands to greet you will be a memory that you cannot erase in life. Here they will sing songs for you and your team will be given some time to minister to them.
DAY 6
Date Sunday, March 4
Time AM
Place Coimbatore
Program Church Services at many churches
Services are going to be conducted at many of our churches in Coimbatore at differnt times. The team will be split up into 2 or 3 groups and will minister in 1 or more services. It will be a great experience to worship with an Indian church.
Place Coimbatore
Time PM
Program Church Dedication, TVS Nagar
A chappal has been built in this place, and this serves as a church for the orphan girls, Bible Women and the believers in and around the area. The pastor of this church is Mrs.Joy who is the correspondent of the Womens Center.
DAY 7
Date Monday, March 5
Time AM
Place Coimbatore
Program Free / Shopping
Time PM
Place Coimbatore
Program Visit the Anakatti Home / Community College
This is a tribal area where we already have an orphan home for the boys. The tribal people need a college. We are going to begin with a career college to teach job education to them.
DAY 9, 10
Date Wednesday - Thursday, March 7 - 8
Time AM / PM
Place Coimbatore
Program Pastors Conference
The Pastors from all our network churches will gather here, hungry and eager to receive God's word and ideas to propogate God's Kingdom in their areas of ministry. Most of them come from villages and areas which are under developed. These 3 days of meetings will be a great boost for them and their ministry.
DAY 11
Date Friday, March 9
Time AM
Place Tanjore
Program Travel to Tanjore
A journey of a around 9 hours. It could be hectic but expect to see the greens of India, watch some Indian cultural movies and get a taste of the Indian roads and traffic! The team will arrive and check into a hotel in Tanjore.
DAY 12
Date Saturday, March 10
Time AM
Place Tanjore
Program Kattumannarkoil Dedication
This church work was started in 2004 but was halted due to some land problems and has been restarted again and is due for dedication in March. The Pastors Karnairaj and his wife have suffered much in pioneering and establishing this church here.
Time PM
Program Ullikottai Church Dedication
The church at Ullikottai has been pioeered by a young couple Mr. and Mrs. Yesurajan and they have done a lot of ministry to bring souls into God's Kingdom in this area. The night stay will be at a hotel at Mieladuthurai.
I N D I A
MISSION TRIP
March 2012
DAY 8
Date Tuesday, March 6
Place Udamalpet, Coimbatore
Time AM
Program Dedication of the Udamalpet School Building (First Floor)
There is a Share In Asia Girls' Home, a Mother Ruth Health Center and a Bethel School in the same campus.
The Ground floor of the school will be dedicated by the team. You will have time to interact with the children in the orphan home, visit the classrooms and look at the health center.
The Udamalpet lunch is special and one of a kind...
Time PM
Program Local Evangelistic Meeting
There are many hamlets and villages in and around Udamalpet which have not known Jesus. So the evangelistic meetings in one of these areas will help them know about God and also give the team an opportunity to minister to the people.
DAY 13
Date Sunday, March 11
Time AM
Place Sirkali
Program Sunday Service / Orphanage Visit
Pastor Paul and his wife Jayaseeli, have a church at Sirkali, where the team will minister in the sunday service. There is also this Tsunami Children Home for Girls which was established in 2006. The home parents Pastor Paul and his wife Jayaseeli take care of about 25 children. You will have the opportunity to meet, interview and minster to these children whose lives were affected by the Tsunami.
Time PM
Program Manalmedu Church Dedication
This church has been pioneered by an elderly couple and they have worshipped in the tatched shed for many years. Now it is a great thing for the church to have this new building where they can worship God every sunday. The night stay will be at Pondicherry.
DAY 14
Date Monday , March 12
Time AM / PM
Place Chennai
Program Departure to Chennai
The team will depart to Chennai, where they will connect to their International Destinations.
Part II
DAY 15
Date Monday, March 12
Time AM
Place Faridabad
Program Departure to New Delhi
The team will move on to New Delhi and camp at Faridabad.
Time PM
Place Agra
Program Visit the Taj Mahal @ Night
Be ready to witness one of the wonders of the word - the most beautiful Taj Mahal built of beautiful white Marbles. This monument even after several centuries, stands out on the banks of the river Yamuna, in Agra. You can buy pleanty of souviniers to give your family and friends at Agra. You will be lucky if you can get to see the sunset over the Taj.
DAY 16
Date Tuesday, March 13
Time AM / PM
Place Hisar
Program Visit the Hisar Center & Evangelistic Meetings
As a part of reaching out to North India, our ministries are going to build a Discipleship Training Center at Hisar. During the latter part of the day Evangelistic Meetings will be held on this ground.
The Night stay will be at Hisar.
DAY 17
Date Wednesday, March 14
Time AM / PM
Place Delhi
Program Delhi Local Sight seeing & Departure back.
Delhi has been the captial of the country for the past 3 centuries. It is a city with many tourist attractions. A local sightseeing tour would be a great adventure to look forward to. By 11 PM we need to board our planes back to our countries.
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