Ganges & Care Center

Idol Worship - Every Day, Every Where. 1,000's of 'gods'

 We began our day at 5:30 a.m. by taking local transportation to the shore of the Ganga river at a place called “Old City”, which is one of the oldest living cities in the world. Here, we boarded a large row boat that took us parallel to the shore so we could see the people worshiping idols and laying the dead to rest according to their beliefs. Amazingly, this goes on 7 days per week; 365 days per year; for thousands of years.

Bells.  Ring the bells to wake the gods

Afterwards, we made our way back to the laundry mat where Lauraleigh pressed on with her home school studies (no rest for the weary). Zack and Rahul used this face-to-face time to carefully examine the “numbers” of the laundry mat business—past, present and future. It was insightful, challenging and beneficial all at the same time. It was two countries coming together to GROW HIS business through a common language known as Spreadsheets.  Zack can be remembered for saying “past success does not always result in future success.”

Care center children have very difficult home environments

By this time, Lauraleigh was connecting with the kids. More tag, tree climbing and just hanging out together. It was neat for me to see what a bright, warm and insightful 13-year-old Lauraleigh is as she coached me on my Sunday message or advised her dad at the end during our debrief time. So this was two against one…Rahul was the one. He had to carve out time during his busy, busy day managing his laundry mat team, overseeing the Care Center and hosting us short-term visitors. Well, Lorette helped him manage us as well. She truly is a great life partner for Rahul. God knew what he was doing when he brought the two of them together.

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