Kathmandu, Nepal

Nepal - a country in turmoil, a country with a changing government. We arrived here only yesterday and will be staying just over a week. The status of Kathmandu appearas, intially, to be calm and collected at the moment - the Seven Party Alliance and the Maoist groups are currently holding talks. If you should care to know more about the Nepal situation please visit www.nepalnews.com for the latest news.

Between our departure from Beijing and our arrival in Nepal we spent four days on the road with a good three and a half days of that in Delhi, India. Delhi is hot. We just sweated the whole time - morning, afternoon, evening - and tried just not to move too much. The time spent in India was grand and just the experience of being there for three short days in the culture and the people. We stayed at the International House of Prayer during our time in Delhi and were able to participate as well as observe the intercessory ministry that they have there. It was also a grand chance for our team to spend a bit of time praying as a group and individually (or as a couple). A brief, but grand, stopover that we were blessed with.

Kathmandu is lovely. We are in Kathmandu valley, elevation 4383 feet above sea level, and the view from atop our awesome accomodations (the best place we have had to stay all outreach, hands down!) is of beuaftiful, rugged, green mountains ringing the valley in every direction. There may also be a chance to view Everest, directly to the east, on a clear day with the right conditions - we hope so.

As this is now my second version of this post (the first was eaten by the evercursed Internet Explorer "Security" feature - use Mozilla Firefox as a browser, that's my view on that) I will curtail it here. We will begin ministry tomorrow and continue for a week afterwhich we will shortly be flying out. We would appreciate prayers for a safe and God-focused time while here. Hopefully, with an internet place right next door and only $0.33 USD per hour, further updates will follow...