2/27/12
Yesterday I
had two brief but prodjctive conversations with Bishop Warris Masih of
Rajasthan Diocese, who is based in Ajmer. He was very welcoming. I had
previously been unable to reach him becaue he was in the UK on church business.
He has promised to arrange church guides to show me around Nasirabad and Beawar
in the next few days. I changed my itinerary in order to go directly to Ajmer
for four days there, because there is a Diocesan meeting of presbyters (CNI’s
specific name for ministers of word and sacrament) on the 28th and
29th of February, so that will give me a great opportunity to network a little to put faces to names
and prepare each other for my visits in the next 20 days to so. [ I am typing
as we are driving and it is a rather wild because we are on a minor road
that Bumpi has not driven in more than two years. I thought it was worth trying
because hand writing is totally out of the question.] So today is an important
day for me. It marks the beginning of the pilgrimage park of my visit to India.
I will be stopping in Nasirabad (my grandmother’s first post as a teacher in
India in 1915, the place of my grandparents’ marriage, my father’s birthplace
and place of baptism. Dad is among those reading this blog!). Today I will be
doing my own look around with the help of Bumpi
my Hindi-speaking friend and driver, before I take a guide in the next
day or two.
PS I arrived at my hotel in Pushkar after a meeting and talk with Bishop Warris in Ajmer. As it turned out there was insufficient time for my own scouting in Nasirabad today. I have been invited by Bishop Warris to preach in Jodhpur (one of the mission stations Grandfather was in charge of ) on March 11 in the morning service with an interpreter into Hindi. I was surprised and regard it as honor which I am glad to accept. I will be Udaipur church for this next Sunday, March 4 and will simply attend the English evening service there.
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