Jim Stuff

India Post 8 - (Equip)

Let the doors fly open: in ourselves, in our clients, in Chennai, in India.

God 4 – Enemy 0!

Well the venture is ramping up. Yesterday and this morning the balance of the consultants arrived and checked into the Hotel. Travel, setup, and kickoff have not gone unnoticed by the enemy. He has been working overtime to try and hinder and impair team members.

First Ruth had to get her Visa extended in order to be able to return to the US once the India portion is complete. She is a New Zealand citizen so she planned to get it renewed on a small layover while en route to India. The web indicated processing would be complete in 24 hours. Upon arrival, she was informed there is currently a 3 day minimum for Visas. The problem is here travel dates only allowed for a 1.5 day visit. The team prayed. God answered. Ruth received her Visa in an astounding 3 hours! Ruth is here with the team now.

Second Wayne and the passport fiasco! Wayne set aside his passport for safe keeping in his backpack or so he thought. He and family each looked through the backpack many, many times each! The enemy kept them from seeing it. The team prayed. God answered. Wayne's daughter looked in the backpack one last time (this is 30 minutes after he should have left for the airport) and God removed the blinders. Wayne is here with the team now.

Virendra's computer has crashed. He is getting the nefarious "Unable to load Operating System". AKA – that laptop is not happy. The team prayed. God is still unfolding this one. Please pray. Virendra is a little like a fish on try land without a computer. Add the fact that he is leading the venture and you can understand the importance of the computer (lots of material on it). Please pray for the restoration of that computer. We are claiming that this will be restored, and everything stolen by the enemy (time, frustration, hassle) will be returned 10 fold.

Jim's computer developed some hang issues. Even on reboot, once it booted it would hang. The team prayed. God answered. Turns out the built-in finger mouse pad has stopped working, but if I just use an external mouse, then things seem to work fine. Please pray that that this does not develop into something more.

So far a number of items have either fried or had their power adapter fried due to power mishandling. Please pray that God will not allow us to be blinded by the enemy's distractions and plug things into unprotected plugs and such. Please pray. God will answer.

Today was partially a catch your breath from travel, and sync up with team members day. We spent a good part of the day in meetings going over various topics from material review to basic logistics discussions. We also got out and did a tad of shopping for those awake after the long flights, and then finished off with a diner and training meeting with all Indian and non-Indian consultants together. That was very fun! This is the first time the balance of the 2 international teams have met each other.

The air of anticipation is real as the team(s) is locked and loaded and ready to get down to it. Please keep us in your prayers as we transfer to the initial consultation location tomorrow and setup shop in anticipation of the Clients arrival early Thursday morning.

-Jim Wynia

posted by Winya @ 10:07 AM