Traveling the world with the Word. The personal online journal of a foreign missionary. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos en-us sesoomai@gmail.com (Matthew Ude) sesoomai@gmail.com (Matthew Ude) Thu, 12 June 2008 18:05:00 +0530 Religion,Travel,Lutheran http://www.lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/images/path4.jpg http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos Hey everyone. Since I completely redid my site, backend and front, it was easier to just change the rss feed address rather than try to integrate this file. This means that this is the last post I'll put out under this feed. Here is the new address http://www.lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/?feed=rss2 alternately you can go to the site and click on the subscribe button. Sorry for any inconvience. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/kathmandu.php Thu, 12 June 2008 18:05:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) A few words about Kathmandu. . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/kathmandu.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/kathmandu.php Tue, 27 May 2008 22:05:00 +0545 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) So here it is eight at night and I’m studying, reading, trying to finish some research and get some other work done and boom we get the opposite of the first day, all the lights go out. One second I have the fan on, and plenty of light, and the next - the dead black of night . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/nolight.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/nolight.php Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) The oldest Anglican church east of the Suez. Consecrated in 1680. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/marry/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/marry/index.html Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) It should be noted that yesterday my washing machine attempted once again to take me down with it. While I would prefer that the machine not break at all, I definitely would prefer it would not use me as the conduit for it disgruntlement. In other news . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/mayday.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/mayday.php Thur, 01 May 2008 10:51:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) It should be noted that yesterday my washing machine attempted once again to take me down with it. While I would prefer that the machine not break at all, I definitely would prefer it would not use me as the conduit for it disgruntlement. In other news . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/questions.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/questions.php Mon, 28 April 2008 14:30:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Pictures of the Regional Tamil Pastor Conference, Raniguntur, and Nidobrolu. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/larry/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/larry/index.html Sun, 27 April 2008 09:37:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) It should be noted that yesterday my washing machine attempted once again to take me down with it. While I would prefer that the machine not break at all, I definitely would prefer it would not use me as the conduit for it disgruntlement. In other news . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/health.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/health.php Sun, 20 April 2008 00:46:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Two days ago I walked out of my apartment to go get some errands done. Two of the neighbor kids were out there playing ball, but immediately stopped for the greater enjoyment of bombarding me with questions. Like who had the better cricket team, India or __________ ? To which of course I always answered India, to their great amusement . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/pizza.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/pizza.php Thurs, 03 April 2008 19:08:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) My house, My groceries, and God's workers. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/own/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/own/index.html Thurs, 03 April 2008 19:08:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) In my last blog I mentioned that the one image that stood out in my mind from the trip is simply the overwhelming immensity of the work yet to be done. The vast populations of Indians who have not yet heard about their Savior, the wonderful message of the gospel and the hope that it brings. But there is another image which I forgot about, . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/7035.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/7035.php Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) After two plus weeks out in the fields, I return with too many thoughts and impressions for me to even attempt to articulate, but one more than any other - How vast the work, and how limited our resources. There is so much more that could be done, except we lack both the man power and the financial resources. Faced with the immensity of the work there is always the double danger . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/stand.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/stand.php Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Not everything over here is work. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/beach/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/beach/index.html Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) The children singing and doing action songs. The last two they are singing in English. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/childrensinging/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/childrensinging/index.html Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Pictures of the Indian Landscape in the Guntur area. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/indianlandscapes/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/indianlandscapes/index.html Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) These are pictures taken at the Seminary in Nidubrolu and the villages that we have visited in that area. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/nnidubrolu2/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/nnidubrolu2/index.html Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) These are pictures taken at the Seminary in Nidubrolu and the villages that we have visited in that area. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/nnidubrolu/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/nnidubrolu/index.html Sun, 16 March 2008 13:45:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Last night, as well as Monday night, we went to visit tribal areas. This means that the people can not read or write and are pretty much the poorest of the poor. After the service last night a couple of the members asked me to pray in their houses. Normally I have to bend to get into their huts, . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/crats.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/crats.php Wed, 05 March 2008 10:28:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) This simply a list of all the things that happen to me for the first time over here. I will try to keep it updated. But you will have to check back periodically since the RSS feed won’t tell you every time I update it. Some of these things are explained more fully in other blogs. If you are curious about something you can check the blogs that are dated about the same time. Or simply write and ask me. Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/firsttime.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/firsttime.php Wed, 05 March 2008 10:28:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Tonight half way through my sermon, a guy sitting near the front simply erupted, he was furious about something he started pushing people and yelling and hitting. I had no idea what was going on, to tell you the truth I thought that he had mental problems. Before the sermon he had refused . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/childmen.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/childmen.php Sat, 01 March 2008 23:49:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Yesterday and today I have spent teaching at the Seminary, 4 periods of 45 minutes each day. We spent a good deal of time on Noah’s Ark and how that particular account applies to eschatology, then some time today also on Jacob and Esau and what we can learn about predestination for that . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/notspicy.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/notspicy.php Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:09:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) I once read an editorial in a newspaper in which a guy made fun of God, saying how ridiculous it was to believe in God. He claimed that the eye was a perfect example since apparently in his mind the eye doesn't work anywhere near as well as it should. He claimed that man has made cameras that are far better at doing what the eye is supposed to do. I have always wanted to ask that man if he is really so foolish that he would rather have a man made camera than the eye that God has made. But what really makes me wonder at this guy's foolishness is when I am desperatley trying to capture on camera the beauty of the natural world. I know I'm not an expert, nor do I have the very top of the market technology. But I still have yet to see a photograph that can truly convey all that the eye God has given me can take in at a glance. Somethings I have tried to capture in the hopes of showing you at least part of what I see, others I haven't even bothered you'll just have to come and see them for yourself. http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/beyond/index.html http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/beyond/index.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:31:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) I think this picture encapsulates for me the real difficulty about a foreign culture. It is n’t the fact that there are difference. It is the fact that you never know when one of these differences is going to sneak up behind and smack you a good one. It’s like an ill kept road, of which there are plenty over here . . . Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/stamps.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/stamps.php Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:31:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Most of what they say I can not understand, but there are a few things that are universal. Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/words.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/words.php Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:07:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude) Making it to India I find I have left a few things behind. Read More http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/bust.php http://lutheranmissions.org/paroikos/bust.php Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:28:00 +0530 matt@lutheranmissions.org (Matthew Ude)