Maybe as we continue to send away our passports for visas in the future, the excitement of finally receiving that very important document safely will decrease and fade. As for now, we’re still celebratory when the package is returned….

Some of our community will be aware that both Renee and myself will be traveling to India in the last few days of May, staying for two weeks with an outreach team we’re sending out from Closkelt. The outreach team is leaving in less than two weeks for a two month DTS outreach all around India – six students and one staff. We will join them in Varanasi (and possibly Calcutta), primarily in a pastoral role to see how staff and students are interacting with each other, India, their ministries and their responsibilities.

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The Closkelt DTS team will be piggy-backing a team from the Belfast DTS that left in April. That team is on the ground right now, and you can read about their adventures via a couple blogs. Two colleagues from the Leadership Teams of YWAM Closkelt and YWAM Belfast (respectively) have been them for a couple weeks on a pastoral visit and have particularly good stories about the haps.

• Heather Clark is director of communications for YWAM NI, and writes about some of her mishaps and joys in India on her blog.
• Erin Seibel has been leading DTSs in Belfast for the past couple years and is visiting her outreach teams with Heather in India and Burundi.