We sat down with Prisha and her daughter on their front porch that also serves as their kitchen. Through her own words and with the help of a translator, she shares her story of loss, struggle, and coming to faith in Jesus....
We walked between dilapidated houses of the Leper colony in India until we came to a small, two-room house with a tin roof. We were greeted by Ahana, a 14-year-old girl along with her mother, brothers, and sister. In the dimly lit bedroom, Ahana began...
In the heart of a leprosy slum lives a 13-year-old girl named Saraswati. She lives with her mother and grandmother in a small home amidst many makeshift shelters. As we walked up the dirt path to her home, we were warmly greeted with smiles and...
It was so sweet to be greeted by “baby” Christina as she ran with outstretched arms and said, “I love you Unkie Ronnie.” How can it have been eight years since she was born? I still remember celebrating her birth in the US, holding her...
So I have been back from India for a few days now, I have PTSD from honking horns and zooming into head on traffic during the middle of the night as well as a variety of “invasive security sessions” in airports that depleted my anxiety...
During a series of flights that took me from Jodhpur to Delhi, Delhi to Dubai and Dubai to Washington D.C. I had plenty of time to reflect on the last five weeks in Asia with Carissa. I was already missing Carols Chili chicken and grandma...
Not to sound like grandfather twilight but the older I get, the more I look for something that makes me wake up excited and anxious to get out of bed. Waking up on the rooftop of the Shahi guest house has become that morning moment...
On our way out of the historic town of Jodhpur, en-route to ride camels in the desert, our auto rickshaw was caught in a traffic/donkey jam. The streets are too narrow for anything other than single file so our driver had no choice but to...
Flying over India, en-route to Jodhpur, our hearts were still with people and places that now lie 20,000 feet below. Still processing the experiences and memories from Varanasi, our plane took us to Delhi and then on to Jodhpur, just shy of the border of...
Tucked behind a wall to prevent myself from being blasted by water, I watched and then photographed this little boy covered in mud attempting to clear the steps of a Ghat from it’s mud....
