Mission Flat

Thanks to John and Roseanne Dangerfield we have an elegantly furnished very western mission flat now in Kolkata.

So we're going to have the most comfortable existance I've ever experienced doing mission work before for the next 2 months whilst we're at the flat. Quite a few of the ecclesia's take many hours travelling to, so we'll be out and about quite a bit of the time as well. It hasn't been so comfortable up until now as we've been sharing 4 between 2 beds, but when we get back next weekend, we'll be relooking at claiming bedrooms for the next little while. The only problem is that there is 2 bedrooms with onsuites and a study, which we need as a bedroom, so the occupants of the 3rd room always have to interupt those of the other rooms to use the bathroom as there is no bathroom in a central location.

Tomorrow Cals and Kate are training to Shunem and Mum, Dad, Wes, Jen and I are setting out to West Midnapur. There was a really lovely brother and his wife at Bible week (Akash Kumar Suhw) who has offered to build a meeting house on his land, and he wants us to visit and help organise, and while we're in the area, we have to visit a family (Das') who lost their house in the recent monsoons, and help them find another situation. So it looks like we'll be on the road most of this week visiting some of our very favourite people:-)

It's been nice to have some time to make the flat feel like our own after the 3 elder brothers left on Saturday evening, and we had a meeting yesterday afternoon with a family who lived in the area which brother Bappy led.

Every year some brothers get sent across by the mission from Bangladesh to help with translating for the BW, and this year we had Bro King Kong, Bappy and Mithun (Ronnie's younger brother). After the bible week we took our friends to a little restaurant called Flurry's which was quite interesting, because the restaurant doesn't just sell Indian Cuisine, and they decided to try sometime more our style and went for the lamb chops and definitely didn't appreciate them as much as we did a meal without rice. :-)

So King Kong left Sat morn, Mithun Sat eve, and then we've had Bappy for a couple of extra days which has been nice to spend some extra time with him and he left this morning.

So today is prep for the week on the road.

I'm getting quite excited about heading down to Bangalore to attend the next Karnataka Christadelphian Youth (KCY) weekend and spend some time with some very good friends of mine down there.