Jim Stuff

India 12 - Tsunami

Tsunami Info

The place we are staying, The Ideal Resort in Mahabalipurim, turns out was on ground zero for the Tsunami that struck couple two years back. The other side of the Bay of Bengal received a lot of press but India also had impact. Along the coast when we were driving down here the other day, we passed a lot of small hut villages that turn out to be government sponsored Tsunami relief. I hope to attach a picture of one. In addition to many of the houses in the area being wiped out (you can see rows of pads where they did exist), the hotel/resort we are staying at for these couple of days was significantly impacted. The dining commons where we take our meals was completed wiped out. The beach, the psalm trees – wiped out. All the fishermen lost their boats – and their livelihood. The boats were inland, and up in the trees.

After the Tsunami the boats were replaced by civic minded donations but the fishermen were afraid to go back into the water. So one of the local missions groups sponsored some famous cricket players to come down! They organized a party of sorts and all the boats went out - each with a cricket player. The belief in the people was that the sea would not hurt that many people so they all went out and their fear was abolished.


Today’s update

Today was a fantastic day of consulting. Before lunch I sat with the same client as yesterday and we worked through the topic of Products. His business is a Die Cast factory and wow we had a fantastic discussion on some future options he has. He has an incredible heart for God. At lunch my appointed client showed up, so for the afternoon I and another client worked with him and got to know him and his company. It was a good start, but it will take a day to really see him open up. It started, but he missed the first day where so much of the foundation is laid out. (following pic is of initial Client - not final Client)

Prayer

Please Pray that my client (Mr. A.), really gets it and digs into applying the principles he is learning in the seminar. He is very young and he and his cousin have a 600 person company. He also has an MBA and an incredible heart for God and a passion to reach others and his employees for God.

More Pics

Here is from the Resort seawall toward the beach.

Viru and Aunti (Virendra-Team Leader, and His Mom)

posted by Winya @ 10:18 AM