Made it back "home" to Kakinada -- Steve

 We made it home from the jungle this evening--dirty and exhausted.  Much of our travels are over semi-paved roads and we always have all of the windows down, so we get coated pretty well with grime in the car.  We also breathe an unbelievable amount of diesel fumes along the way.  I think the dust, smoke (trash and fields burning constantly seemingly everywhere) and diesel exhaust keeps us both a little green in the gills a lot of the time.  I think that is why I have this nagging cough that I can't shake.  We are always grateful to get where we are going!

We had a another great day in the village where we were on Wednesday, this time with a preacher's workshop.  I'd guess there were around 30-40 preachers present.  Daryl already drafted a post about that, but he is waiting until he can download some photos to go with it, so I will let him tell that part of the story.  Overall, it was another great day with a bunch of faithful and humble servants of God.  These guys preach in several places each week with very little in the way of financial support.  We certainly cannot support all of these guys--and it likely would not be good for the long-term health of the Indian church if we could--but we greatly admire their faith and dedication and sympathize with how difficult their lives are.  Maybe we can find ways to help them (e.g., by providing bicycles and Bibles) short of providing monthly support.  

Tomorrow is our first day "off" since we've been here.  We are looking forward to getting some rest and (we hope) going to see "our kids."  I think we plan to drive to Rajamundry (about an hour away) tomorrow evening to visit Sudeepa's parents (her dad is a long-time preacher) and the children's home they run.  We've also been told that Rajamundry is a good place to shop, so we will likely do some of that as well.

Bye for now!  We love and miss you all!  Thanks again for the comments.