Our daily routine while at Children's Fellowship of India was quite busy. Check it out: 6:30 AM - We led morning devotions for the children. Our team was divided into three groups to teach the preschool, early elementary ages, and the older boys (oldest boys are in 7th grade).
7:00 - Breakfast for the boys. Usually we helped serve the food and then "hobnobed" with the boys while they ate.
7:45 - Breakfast for our team and CFI administrative staff (the most "American" meal of the day: cereal, toast, and either eggs, pancakes or french toast with lots of coffee!). This time also included our team's "meeting time" in which we went over the day's schedule, discussed any issues and prayed together.
8:30 - The CFI staff devotional time, which involved singing and the Word. Several of us took a turn at sharing the Word during this very special time.
10:30 - The boys walked to school. Usually four or five of us went along.
Some days we had free time from about 11 AM until lunch. Other days, we had short trips to make. We made several evening trips to other children's ministries (Boys and Girls Christian Home and Girls Christian Institute). We also made a trip to nearby Chadur Bazar for a visit to the tailor. There the women ordered pajami dresses (actually called punjabi dresses) and us men ordered shirts and/or pants (I wore my one shirt this past Sunday morning and several commented on how nice the shirt looked!).
The evenings looked like this:
5:00 - Playing with the boys (frisbee, baseball, cricket, swinging on swings, etc.)
6:30 - Evening devotional time. We took four consecutive nights (Wednesday through Saturday) to teach the boys the fruits of the Spirit using Caraway Street puppets that we brought along. I also introduced them to my friend Jack (a large jack rabbit puppet). It was quite satisfying to hear the boys shout out all nine fruits of the Spirit during our final review!
7:30 - Supper for the boys. Like breakfast we were there to help serve and "hobnob." It was also at supper that we would distribute candy to the boys (they called all candy "chocolate" although the closest candy we had to chocolate were mini-tootsie rolls and tootsie pops!).
8:30 - Supper for the team. I sure was not accustomed to eating so late!
After supper, some of us would sit around the guest house living room and chat - but I was usually heading straight to bed. I had to get my "beauty sleep" so I would not be so scary for the next day!
Hope you got a taste of what a typical day looked like as we served at CFI in central India. Please pray for the boys and the staff of Children's Fellowship of India.
Thanks for stopping by . . .
pj
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