Nepal and India

This Buddhist shaman was doing a ceremony for someone who died

Beautiful!!

This woman carried all our bags of rice (100 of them) to the helicopter.  Each bag was 60lbs so 2 at a time are 120 lbs

That would be 7500 ft elevation

Take a look at the drop on the other side of this 10x20 helipad.

This is someone elses copter towing kerosene underneath it.

The village of Nyak

View down from the copter

The villagers

Check out those earrings etc

I couldnt carry this

Mahadev ready to fly

Town of Jagart

Loading the copter

Adorable

Amazing

 Even the army needs food

This is in Kathmandu. Scary !  

Waiting for rice

Kathmandu

On the way to Ramechhap

Rice, lentils, oil and salt were given out

Love this sleeping little guy!

This is how you carry things in Nepal.

The Overcomers!  Pastors of the mountains

Standing one place we took three panorama.

Another piece of the panorama

Last part of the panorama, Everest is under the clouds.

At about 9000 feet up

John at the top of the world

There are people under here caring limbs on their backs.

We were able to give a ride to these two pastors and their families who need to get to the hospital.

We were all stuffed in one Land Cruiser!

A good portion of the road.

Buddha

A hotel room, no kidding!

At the Dept of Social Welfare.

AT UMN.  We loved these people.

Jeff and John with flowers

These girls followed us down the mountain for a ways chattering in Napali to me.

Looking out from the church down the hill.

This  woman has a basket with a baby in it on her back.

 

At World Vision

John made it to the top of the mountain

view from on high

A house on the edge of the hill.

View of Everest

Mahadev, we couldn't have done it without you buddy!

In Priti we were festooned with flowers

Our diver loved kids

The church in Priti was decorated for their dedication

The church in Priti

Pastor Purna

The congregation of Priti Bethlehem church

Rebecca, John, Mahadev, Pastor Denish, Jeff

Mahadev and Pastor Denish

Kids in Priti

Priti, on the highest hill

Mahadev with the kids of Priti

Our bedroom in the village.  Mud walls with newspaper for wallpaper and a slate roof.

The church in the village we stayed at.

kids looking in at the meeting

Rebecca presenting in the village

Village pastors working on the questions.

Lady pastors in the villages

Looking in at the foreigners.

girls in the village

Pastors taking tea break in the village.

A boy in the village.

Looking down from the church.  These are the roofs of houses.

Drying corn

Terraces

Rice drying

Looking down on one of the villages

Rebecca and John hiking up the hill.

Inside one of the Bethlehem Churches we prayed in.

Taking a break from hiking up the hill.

Can you see the house on the edge?

Close up of the same house.

A bicycle rickshaw

Mahadev, Jeff, and John

Soldiers on duty for the election.  They were everywhere.  And it worked, no trouble.

With traditional Neapli hats.

The village church

See those houses way up there?

With Pastor Denish on the left and his first convert in the village, his father in-law, now aged 95 on the right.

Making paper

Terraced village

Roadside temple

A Nepali city

Check out the wires

Buddhist temple

The Buddhist priest turns these cylinders as he says prayers

The pagoda was invented in Nepal

In the old palace

This temple was built on this hill when Kathmandu was a lake and this was an island in the middle.

A market from above

This cinder block building is a house next to the one we stayed in.

The church service in Kathmandu.  Everyone sits on the floor.

The women lined up for communion

Kids in the free lunch program

The neighborhood where the church was located.

Jeff, Rebecca, John, Mahadev, Pastor Denish, his wife, and one of the foster mothers in the church

A loom in the pastors home.

Kids in the second free lunch program

One of the elder ladies of the church

A gateway to a temple in Kathmandu

Pastors and the Kathmandu meeting answering questions in small groups

John and our driver

One of the group leaders giving the report.

The ten children who live at Pastor Denish's house

Pastor Denish's house

A Buddhist temple

A river on the way to the village.



I think she hit him with the balloon!



Enjoying pizza, Reluca 12, is being adopted to Italy.



Waiting to watch a movie.



Eating ice cream

A quite early Saturday morning in Bangalore

Coconuts for sale



Boys playing cricket



Notice the scaffolding, it is sticks tied together.



A Bangalore street



Our house is down the street on the left.

A little one in the handicapped section.



Gabi with Devia, her favorite little one.

Gabi teaching Manesi her spelling words.



Playing a game.



Playing with the kids at VCT.



Nephtalie teaching Kevin his colors.

Lunch time!



Friends at VCT.



Martine with Devia.



Rebecca and Anan.



Preshila, a precious little girl.



Talie with her new friends.



Vathsalya Charitable Trust

A curious little girl in the handicapped section.

A taylor shop



Commercial Street



Construction workers

Cows in the road

A "slum' house with a huge pile of coconut shells in front



Another slum house



The sign says "Do not put garbage here."

Beautiful girls

Rebecca with Manasi and Bablu



Constrution workers carrying cement on their heads

Dressed up for a Hindu ceremony

Foster mothers' training

Preshila and Anand

Police motorcycles are all in cheetah print!

Chendru

Renuca and Martine

Martine and her friends

Nagamma

Playing under the mango cart!

Our favorite shoe repair man.



Nap Time!

Hanging from the tree are two saris with babies in them.