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India Mission, 2013 |
| A new elevated mass transit rail system is on schedule to open in 2014 | 
| The assembly of the Scenic Hill church Feb. 10. IBA meets in this building. |
| Mass production of idols. These will be painted bright colors and worshiped by Hindus. | 
| Another Hindu idol: the monkey-headed man. |
| Leaders of the church and of International Bible Academe | 
| I met with 11 sectarian preachers, then preached here with them among about 100 souls. Several of the preachers came to my next 2 IBA classes, and we baptized 6 of them. |
| The current class of International Bible Academe | 
| Teaching at IBA |
| I preached in a number of house churches. | 
| The view from Scenic Hill |
| Student dorm seen from top floor of church/school building. | 
| Churches often meet outdoors and and at night, as did this one in Nandyal. |
| Modes of transportation and moving of cargo are many. | 
| Cows often roam freely, sometimes are herded, but are never eaten, and always are accorded the right of way on the open road. |
| I am usually invited to speak in at least one school. | 
| Teaching those K-4 students. Notice the height difference between me and Samson, my co-worker/translator. |
| Ready for another outdoor meeting at night. This in the village of Dowleswaram. | 
| The meeting house for the church in the village of Srikrishnapatnam is built atop the house of the preacher, P. Simon. |
| Over 70 varieties of bananas grow in India. | 
| On an afternoon drive in eastern Andrha Pradesh I saw corn in several growing stages, rice, cotton, beans of several varieties, watermelons, bananas, coconuts, sunflowers, chile peppers, bell peppers, sugar cane and hay, growing in the fields. |
| The common means of cooking in the villages. | 
| In the village of Mathiahvarigudem baptisms were accomplished in this canal. In non-coastal areas conditions are seldom much better. |
| This church building didn't have a roof. | 
| The women gathering at "the well" for the day's water. |
| Most of 20 were crammed into this entry hall of a house. Some were outside at the door and window, while I was crammed into a corner at the end...> | 
| ...and 20 children were off to my right in a bedroom (they couldn't all fit into the camera frame, but they werre counted). |
| A meeting on a porch. | 
| Space just beyond the last hut has been donated to the church for a meeting place. |
| Advertising banners like this are cheaply and quickly made for many of our meetings. | 
| About 70 (including 20 sectarians) were assembled for a preachers' lectureship. I preached three times that afternoon. |
| Again a building without a roof, but a church very grateful that we came. They begged me more urgently than most to return on my next mission to India. | 
| This church meets like this every Sunday. A major city street is 40 feet behind the camera. |
| Tent fabric makes a temporary roof over this meeting area of the Rajahmundry Children's Home. | 
| The Joe Rowe Children's Home assembled on the roof of their building. I preached in the dark as the city had cut the power until near the end of our evening. |
| 16 assembled on a minute's notice in squatters' camp under a highway overpass...> | 
| ...I preached of the eternal plan of God, and we baptized two. |
A. L. Parr, P. O. Box 266, Harrisburg, AR 72432 Phone: (870) 578-9154 alparr@acts1541.org |