Hyderabad

Today was a busy day visiting and doing some sightseeing, but the highlight of the day was visiting a congregation at an outlying suburb of Hyderabad called Saroornagar. Today was the 5th anniversary of the church building. The preacher, brother V.J. Wilson had baptized over 500 new brothers and sisters in Christ during that time, about one soul every three days for five years. Today was no exception with a picture below of our new sister in Christ being baptized.  We celebrated the event with fellowship and an opportunity for Jerris and I to preach to a humble but very crowded church. These brothers and sisters come any day of the week and in some cases from long distances to hear the gospel preached. It was my first experience preaching to Indian brethren with an interpreter, and hard following in the shadow of Jerris, but it all seemed to go well.  As we were leaving, so many wanted to shake your hand and ask for prayers for their kids, their health and their family. One elderly sister held my hand and was trying in her best English to ask me pray for her health in tears, and very emotional for me. It is yet another congregation we won't soon forget in our prayers.  Tomorrow we are off to Bhopal to visit the Saints there, and will stay to participate in Sunday worship services.