We arrived back from India yesterday, after spending two weeks in Varanasi (Benares) with a DTS outreach team currently working with local ministries. Our journey took us from Varanasi to Delhi, Delhi to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Belfast via plane, and we’re glad to be back in Northern Ireland for a bit of a rest over this weekend before jumping back into a few matters of responsibility in the coming week.

We’ve certainly appreciated all the prayers and encouragements from all of our friends and colleagues, and Christ has certainly looked after us. In travel, we received many mercies, especially in stumbling across a very friendly helper in Delhi late at night to help us find a good taxi to the airport after a ten hour lay-over that we spent in city centre, and also in regards to being able to rebook a flight from Varanasi to Delhi at a reasonable price with only a couple hours before departure (we arrived at the airport outside Varanasi and were told by our airline that our flight had been rescheduled for earlier and that we’d missed it. Even though the airport was rather small, with only a few flights each day, we found a flight on a different airline that left only an hour after our original scheduled departure, and our first airline issued us a refund).

In the next few days, we’ll post a couple entries regarding our time in India over the last two weeks, as well as a few photos.