You Never Know What’s Happening Until it is Happening or Perhaps Not Happening
The 9th annual Odisha Bible School was all planned and scheduled for February 17-28, 2025, our bags were mostly packed and our MTM ministry team was all but ready to fly to the other side of the world to preach and teach this much anticipated OBS event at Bhubaneswar, Odisha State of India. Within days of our departure the OBS committee messaged me and said we need to postpone OBS due to politically motivated persecution and unrest.
As the MTM ministry team leader I did some fast stepping phone calls to my team as well as to India to see where it would be safe & convenient to take my team to minister at potentially another Location. The BIHER college in North India that Naomi & I are guest faculty for the past 10+ years invited our MTM team to come there and facilitate a Spiritual Life week with enrolled students.
Cleason & Sheri Martin Had A Profound Music Ministry On This MTM Tour
Finally after totally rearranging our flight itinerary we departed for Delhi, India February 19th and on to BIHER College in Himachal Pradesh in far north India finally arriving February 21, 2025. We had 36 students at the BIHER college for a fast paced Spiritual Life Seminar. Come Friday February 28th it was story and rainy as we were scheduled to fly from Dharamshala to Kerala South India for a marriage enrichment seminar. Once again its not happening. Due to the weather our first flight was cancelled as we arrived at the airport.
After some more fast paced not happening rescheduling with the India train schedule online, we are taxied on to a train station 3-4 hours away on twisty curvy turnny stomach curling roads at breakneck speeds to meet our train. By evening we did safely reach Delhi totally exhausted and decided to spend the night there and complete our journey on further south to Kerala State of India tomorrow.
Finally, March 1st we arrived in Calicut in Kerala State of South India for our scheduled marriage enrichment seminar. Here again this event was marked with not sure what’s happening. This seminar was facilitated at a Catholic compound, and it seemed most every day we had to move to another conference room to facilitate our teaching event. The reason being the compound rooms had poor ventilation, and the rooms were stiflingly warm. Actually, one day we were out in the yard under a big old mango tree doing our marriage seminar, teaching anticipating cooler weather but there was no breeze, therefore we moved back inside. It simply seemed at every turn of the way we did not know what was happening or not happening. Click on the photo album link below to see all the photos and read the captions that will tell the whole story.
The Marriage & Family Enrichment Seminar In Kerala State Of South India
Nevertheless, we had multitudes of God moments at the marriage and family life seminar. One particular brother, with his wife seated on the chair and ready to wash his wife’s feet broke down and sobbed before her begging God and his wife for forgiveness pleading with God for mercy for the oft times he cursed his wife. Finally, he washed her feet sobbing and begging for her forgiveness. Many tears of joy and love were shed as God more deeply united many couples and two were made one in Christ Jesus.
BLESSED BE GOD !!! It was worth it all for Gods Glory !!!
Raymond & Naomi Burkholder
Cleason & Sheri Martin
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