Won't be able to communicate for the next 7 - 10 days so keep those prayers comin'!!!!
Dave and I head south to the plains tomorrow! We are going to the village ( Sheshia) he has been working in building the church and digging the well in. It will be very hot and I don't tolerate heat all that well! It is a 2 km walk to the village from the closest bus stop!
The next day we'll walk back and he will put me on a bus to Chitwan and return to the village to try to push to finish the projects before we come home the last of May.
Pray the mosquitos really do hate all the garlic we have recently ingested in preparation!
Pray for safety on these crazy roads. And for no Bhunds!
Pray we will get water in this well. It is down 90 feet and still no water. The contractor has made excuses for a month why he can't show up to the job... pray he will show up, flush the existing system and find the water we have prayed for!
Pray the church will be completed this month... apparently they diverted the funds for the roof to building the outside toilets!!! go figure... not ususally a priority for Nepalis!!! Now they are out of funds to finish the trusses and roof! We need wisdom to know how much to do for them and when to let them learn from their mistakes!
Pray for the week I am in Chitwan to be clearly ordained and directed by the Lord and future direction to be divinely obvious!
Pray for the whole trip to be in His soveriegn control and for opportunities to share His love and grace to be obvious as well and for relationships to be built for His glory for the future!
I value you all so much! Dave and I truely depend on you and your faithful intercession for us and His work here.
Blessings,
Dawn and Dave
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Chitwan
I really did have plans to bug out of town and go to Chitwan but... Yo Nepal ho! (this is Nepal!) and one must be flexible! Plans made does not mean they can be implemented!
The gal I was to stay with in Chitwan suddenly had to go to Kathmandu this week so just as I was about to book my bus ticket, I found out about the change and developed plan "b and c" both which involve going to Sheshia with Dave and spending one or two nights there and seeing the progress and work for myself before allowing him to put me on a bus to Chitwan from there.
I hear it is really hot down there on the plains so I'm going for the minimal time in the village with no running water, outside shanty for a toilet and mosquitos! Can you blame me?
Also there is a new Bhundh so we'll see when we can get past that and how!
I hope to hook up with Julia again in Kathamndu after the week in Chitwan ( which both will be hot as well but should have a few more amenities like fans and showers!) and spend a couple days getting more supplies for the womens ministry and then get back to the hills about the first of May... again Yo Nepal ho and we have to see how it all plays out!
I'm enjoying my freedom without a cast and the increased activity! The arm is still very weak... not sure what I expected! I'm knitting a sweater though and trying to do what I can around the house. My cleasning lady is pretty protective though! ( she does need the job more than I need my independence!)
I heard from my friends that kept my cat, Mz Precious,( already on Kitty Hospice as I left) that she secumbed this week just before Easter!!!! I'll miss her and am grateful for friends that took such tender loving care of her!
All for now and I'll keep you posted!
The gal I was to stay with in Chitwan suddenly had to go to Kathmandu this week so just as I was about to book my bus ticket, I found out about the change and developed plan "b and c" both which involve going to Sheshia with Dave and spending one or two nights there and seeing the progress and work for myself before allowing him to put me on a bus to Chitwan from there.
I hear it is really hot down there on the plains so I'm going for the minimal time in the village with no running water, outside shanty for a toilet and mosquitos! Can you blame me?
Also there is a new Bhundh so we'll see when we can get past that and how!
I hope to hook up with Julia again in Kathamndu after the week in Chitwan ( which both will be hot as well but should have a few more amenities like fans and showers!) and spend a couple days getting more supplies for the womens ministry and then get back to the hills about the first of May... again Yo Nepal ho and we have to see how it all plays out!
I'm enjoying my freedom without a cast and the increased activity! The arm is still very weak... not sure what I expected! I'm knitting a sweater though and trying to do what I can around the house. My cleasning lady is pretty protective though! ( she does need the job more than I need my independence!)
I heard from my friends that kept my cat, Mz Precious,( already on Kitty Hospice as I left) that she secumbed this week just before Easter!!!! I'll miss her and am grateful for friends that took such tender loving care of her!
All for now and I'll keep you posted!
Too many "Easters"
Hope you have all had a wonderful meaningful, joyful Easter! I'm ditching services tonight... all last week, every PM for all of "passion" week there were services every evening with a 2 hour one on Good Friday, a regular sunguthi (fellowship lasting well over 2 hours!) on Saturday, an Easter Sunrise Service at 5 am on Sunday followed by another 11AM one (3 hours including snack) and today there is a New Years Eve service from 9 PM to midnight as it is Nepali New Years tomorrow! But who can miss out on a celebration!!!!!
I am plum "serviced out!"
Instead I'm catching up on email!
I leave Wednesday for Chitwan! Pra-y His will be done for the week I'm there exploring conditions and options. This will be a second interview for a position at a Cancer Hospital who wants me to integrate and teach Natural Healing with Hospice/ Palliative Care and develop a rural program to assist terminal impoverished peoples at end of life! It would be a 2 year contract if it all comes together! I plan to go to Kathmandu for 3 days afterward to get more yarn for our women's projects which by the way, are coming along very well.
Had a great meeting tonight with the "elders" re: our proposal to do radio broadcasting in Dotiali, the local hill dialect/ language. All were in positive, unified agreement and want to get started ASAP. We need board approval and some agreements drawn up before we can progress, but things look good for that, so keep interceding!
No news on the well... priorities for the well contractor were to cut his wheat last week so he never showed up to the job! This is the new Nepal... just like the old Nepal! Dave will return there this week to push on that and try to "get somewhere with that!"
I'm free of my cast! Yipee! I'm running up and down the hill every day now... went to Bhag bazaar ( a kilometer each way)twice this weekend so the ankle is fully functional though with these uneven roads I still watch every step! My right arm is stiff and aches with occassional twinges of nerve pain if I twist it wrong though. I got it cut it off for me on Good Friday! Yahooee! Made it a really "good" day for me!
Dave made it up by a crazy miracle on Good Friday... a total God thing how he connected with Serp ( our friend and driver for the hospital who had taken Dr. Arun and Terry down the night before) but neither knew the other was down... they met up in Attaryia (the timing alone was a miracle of it's own!) and Dave decided to pose as a Bideshi ( foreign) Dr who knew no English and who needed to get up to the hospital for a "operation". They were in the hospital red vehicle loaded with supplies ( in and on the roof) so that was believable. They drove around over 3 miles worth of backed up traffic due to the Bhundh at Godavari on ( well... more off than on) the steep shoulder of the road right up to the front of the que of vehicles and played the "Dumb Blond card". Dave tapped his watch, smiled and spoke several words in English including "operation." The guy said "ok sir" so Dave and Serp helped them move enough rock to squeeze through the man made blockage.So they were first in line to open the bhund and they let all the remaining traffic go through as well!!!!
They got in about 11pm that night and we have had a marvelous Easter ever since!
Lopers, Pants ( our landlord and family) , Dave and I got together last night at my apartment for mesquite chicken pizza, ham, sundried tomato pasta, stir fried garlic zuchinni, cabbage waldorf salad and spice cake and oh yah... ladoos!( a Nepali sweet)
It was so much fun that we repeated it tonight at the guest house over a bonfire, over which we roasted a can of chicken hot dogs and enjoyed all the leftovers from last night!
What did you do to celebrate?
Well all for now!
Toodles, luv and hugs!
Dawn Didi
I am plum "serviced out!"
Instead I'm catching up on email!
I leave Wednesday for Chitwan! Pra-y His will be done for the week I'm there exploring conditions and options. This will be a second interview for a position at a Cancer Hospital who wants me to integrate and teach Natural Healing with Hospice/ Palliative Care and develop a rural program to assist terminal impoverished peoples at end of life! It would be a 2 year contract if it all comes together! I plan to go to Kathmandu for 3 days afterward to get more yarn for our women's projects which by the way, are coming along very well.
Had a great meeting tonight with the "elders" re: our proposal to do radio broadcasting in Dotiali, the local hill dialect/ language. All were in positive, unified agreement and want to get started ASAP. We need board approval and some agreements drawn up before we can progress, but things look good for that, so keep interceding!
No news on the well... priorities for the well contractor were to cut his wheat last week so he never showed up to the job! This is the new Nepal... just like the old Nepal! Dave will return there this week to push on that and try to "get somewhere with that!"
I'm free of my cast! Yipee! I'm running up and down the hill every day now... went to Bhag bazaar ( a kilometer each way)twice this weekend so the ankle is fully functional though with these uneven roads I still watch every step! My right arm is stiff and aches with occassional twinges of nerve pain if I twist it wrong though. I got it cut it off for me on Good Friday! Yahooee! Made it a really "good" day for me!
Dave made it up by a crazy miracle on Good Friday... a total God thing how he connected with Serp ( our friend and driver for the hospital who had taken Dr. Arun and Terry down the night before) but neither knew the other was down... they met up in Attaryia (the timing alone was a miracle of it's own!) and Dave decided to pose as a Bideshi ( foreign) Dr who knew no English and who needed to get up to the hospital for a "operation". They were in the hospital red vehicle loaded with supplies ( in and on the roof) so that was believable. They drove around over 3 miles worth of backed up traffic due to the Bhundh at Godavari on ( well... more off than on) the steep shoulder of the road right up to the front of the que of vehicles and played the "Dumb Blond card". Dave tapped his watch, smiled and spoke several words in English including "operation." The guy said "ok sir" so Dave and Serp helped them move enough rock to squeeze through the man made blockage.So they were first in line to open the bhund and they let all the remaining traffic go through as well!!!!
They got in about 11pm that night and we have had a marvelous Easter ever since!
Lopers, Pants ( our landlord and family) , Dave and I got together last night at my apartment for mesquite chicken pizza, ham, sundried tomato pasta, stir fried garlic zuchinni, cabbage waldorf salad and spice cake and oh yah... ladoos!( a Nepali sweet)
It was so much fun that we repeated it tonight at the guest house over a bonfire, over which we roasted a can of chicken hot dogs and enjoyed all the leftovers from last night!
What did you do to celebrate?
Well all for now!
Toodles, luv and hugs!
Dawn Didi
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Growing Mushrooms
The Nepalis are starting to grow mushrooms as an income generating option. The process has been fun to watch!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Happy Easter!
Hope you all have a wonderful blessed Easter!
It is all moving very fast and I am grateful to get internet access again to wish you joy from this side of the globe as we celebrate "He is Risen"!!!
Thanks to all of you who have faithfully pr-ayed and written me notes of encouragement!
They mean so much and I apologize that I can't personally respond to each on this limited time on internet but know I love you all and how I value those thoughts and p-ray-ers... keep them coming! they got me through a rocky week!
Beth, Randy, and their son Jonathan arrived last week and Randy looked pretty pale and peaked... 24 hours later his wife Beth was on my doorstep asking for whatever I knew might help him over the Nepali Nachna ( dance) ( coming and going at both ends... basically!). He was also pale and dizzy. I sent her home with colloidal silver, probiotics, charcoal pills and a packet of chicken soup... 12 hours later I went to check on my "patient" and found him "feeling great" and treating patients at the hospital for a full days work! So praise the L-ord for his full recovery. It has boosted my credibility in the community as well and we now have a run on those requesting "jouri butti" or natural healing. On the way here today I was asked for an interview for the new FM station for "jouri butti" ... I said 'We'll talk later!"
2 days ago I got the Nepali Nachna! The same routine fixed me up in about the same time frame! I can sure relate to Randy now!
We are in the middle of another Bhand ( road closure) with Dave on that side of it and me on this! Pr-ay he will be able to get up the hill in time for Good Friday and Easter as planned.
Also 4 urgent P-ray-er requests:
1) Rama... one of the paraplegics had what was to her a catastrophe... her 12+ year old waterbed became brittle, cracked and leaked water all over the floor for 2 days before the maintenance man could be located and give it attention. They did patch it yet again! She is back in it but it is fragile at best and who knows how long it will last.
Waterbed rubber mattresses are simply not available in Nepal! Her room mate Digri is in the same plight with multiple patch job version of a bed also! Pra-y with me for 2 full size new or in great condition water bed liners and at least one pump/hoses to be donated for their cause. I'm told there is another believ-er in the bazaar, also a paraplegic, who could really benefit by one too.( he is a victim of a attack by the "M"'s during the war a few years ago! both girls are victims of falls from trees while cutting fodder for the goats and buffaloes!)
My sister,Di, and family are coming to Nepal, L-ord willing, in June for 6 weeks and Di when you get this, let me know if it would be a possibility for you to bring one or more with you if we can gather them by then! They are currently in Rapid City So. Dakota.
It would truly be a blessing to these women to have the security of an firm unleaking bed under them!
2) P-r-ay re: our involvement with the local new FM station. Currently there is no Ch-ris-tian programming and certainly nothing in the local Dotiali language! Di and Larry, with SIL, are comming as afore mentioned to assist with training and programming to see if this could be a viable option for us to assist with! ( Di, a Dr., will also probably be put to good medial use as well!)
Dave and I plan to meet with the local elders and the FM station managers to discuss the logistics and details ( yet again) and hash out how we could do this! It costs $4500.00 for a 15 - 20 minute slot once a day for a year. That is just the broadcasting. Double it ? for the programming and salary of a committed staff. Who would that be? Can we prepare 6 months of programming in advance? Would the Ch-u-rch be responsible for the outreach and content and we just assist with funding? Or do we set up a new committee to manage it all? These are some of the concerns. Could you intercede for us on this important issue. We need wisdom and direction as we'll need to move fast if we are to get Board approval (once we know some of these answers post meeting this week), sign a 6 months or one year contract before Dave and I return on June 1st, and get our team motivated and started before we go or at least excited to participate with Larry when he arrives!
Thanks for lifting us up during this narrow window of opportunity to get out the Word in the language the women and children understand!
3) Well, well! Still have not hit water at 90 feet deep on the well... pr-ay Dave will arrive with good news on that on Good Friday!
4) as in many places... many attend services this time of year where otherwise they may not! We ask for increased ripening of hearts and sensitivity to the lifechanging message of Grace for the Nepali people!
It is all moving very fast and I am grateful to get internet access again to wish you joy from this side of the globe as we celebrate "He is Risen"!!!
Thanks to all of you who have faithfully pr-ayed and written me notes of encouragement!
They mean so much and I apologize that I can't personally respond to each on this limited time on internet but know I love you all and how I value those thoughts and p-ray-ers... keep them coming! they got me through a rocky week!
Beth, Randy, and their son Jonathan arrived last week and Randy looked pretty pale and peaked... 24 hours later his wife Beth was on my doorstep asking for whatever I knew might help him over the Nepali Nachna ( dance) ( coming and going at both ends... basically!). He was also pale and dizzy. I sent her home with colloidal silver, probiotics, charcoal pills and a packet of chicken soup... 12 hours later I went to check on my "patient" and found him "feeling great" and treating patients at the hospital for a full days work! So praise the L-ord for his full recovery. It has boosted my credibility in the community as well and we now have a run on those requesting "jouri butti" or natural healing. On the way here today I was asked for an interview for the new FM station for "jouri butti" ... I said 'We'll talk later!"
2 days ago I got the Nepali Nachna! The same routine fixed me up in about the same time frame! I can sure relate to Randy now!
We are in the middle of another Bhand ( road closure) with Dave on that side of it and me on this! Pr-ay he will be able to get up the hill in time for Good Friday and Easter as planned.
Also 4 urgent P-ray-er requests:
1) Rama... one of the paraplegics had what was to her a catastrophe... her 12+ year old waterbed became brittle, cracked and leaked water all over the floor for 2 days before the maintenance man could be located and give it attention. They did patch it yet again! She is back in it but it is fragile at best and who knows how long it will last.
Waterbed rubber mattresses are simply not available in Nepal! Her room mate Digri is in the same plight with multiple patch job version of a bed also! Pra-y with me for 2 full size new or in great condition water bed liners and at least one pump/hoses to be donated for their cause. I'm told there is another believ-er in the bazaar, also a paraplegic, who could really benefit by one too.( he is a victim of a attack by the "M"'s during the war a few years ago! both girls are victims of falls from trees while cutting fodder for the goats and buffaloes!)
My sister,Di, and family are coming to Nepal, L-ord willing, in June for 6 weeks and Di when you get this, let me know if it would be a possibility for you to bring one or more with you if we can gather them by then! They are currently in Rapid City So. Dakota.
It would truly be a blessing to these women to have the security of an firm unleaking bed under them!
2) P-r-ay re: our involvement with the local new FM station. Currently there is no Ch-ris-tian programming and certainly nothing in the local Dotiali language! Di and Larry, with SIL, are comming as afore mentioned to assist with training and programming to see if this could be a viable option for us to assist with! ( Di, a Dr., will also probably be put to good medial use as well!)
Dave and I plan to meet with the local elders and the FM station managers to discuss the logistics and details ( yet again) and hash out how we could do this! It costs $4500.00 for a 15 - 20 minute slot once a day for a year. That is just the broadcasting. Double it ? for the programming and salary of a committed staff. Who would that be? Can we prepare 6 months of programming in advance? Would the Ch-u-rch be responsible for the outreach and content and we just assist with funding? Or do we set up a new committee to manage it all? These are some of the concerns. Could you intercede for us on this important issue. We need wisdom and direction as we'll need to move fast if we are to get Board approval (once we know some of these answers post meeting this week), sign a 6 months or one year contract before Dave and I return on June 1st, and get our team motivated and started before we go or at least excited to participate with Larry when he arrives!
Thanks for lifting us up during this narrow window of opportunity to get out the Word in the language the women and children understand!
3) Well, well! Still have not hit water at 90 feet deep on the well... pr-ay Dave will arrive with good news on that on Good Friday!
4) as in many places... many attend services this time of year where otherwise they may not! We ask for increased ripening of hearts and sensitivity to the lifechanging message of Grace for the Nepali people!
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