Church in Mussoorie

The team joined Ryan today at his church in Mussoorie. The church is assuming, to say the least. In fact, had we not been with Ryan, we would not have even realized the small building we were walking into was a church at all. The church doubles as a store front; the women of the church work to sew clothing and make other trinkets which are sold there when the service is not in session.

There was a small level of apprehension in the team as we joined the service. Ryan had told us that lately their services had been running from roughly 10:30 AM to as late as 4:30 PM. This was a bit intimidating, to be sure. However, today the service only lasted about 2 hours, and Edwin, the pastor, delivered a great message to his congregation (translated for us by his wife) about the need to stay rooted daily in reading and dwelling on the Word. It was a great service overall, and it was punctuated by a great opportunity to meet and pray with a young married couple who was spending their last day in town before going to Southern India for new missions work.
[Simeon Turner]