as I begin this post, we’ve been traveling for 11hrs 25min and we haven’t yet set foot on the first of two 8+hour flights. the Delhi airport is huge. and smoggy. that’s right. the air here is so polluted that it’s smoggy INSIDE the terminal building. otherwise, it’s like most …

Monday morning. departure day. we leave Mungeli in the afternoon to drive 2.5 hours to Raipur. then we take to the air. Raipur–DelhiDelhi–AmsterdamAmsterdam–Minneapolis*Minneapolis–Kansas City including layovers, total travel time, door to door, is about 36 hours (give or take). *ken flies to Atlanta and then on to wherever in Texas …

last we spoke, we had just seen a tiger (“in Africa?”*). as the sun rises on a Sunday morning in India, and sets on Saturday night in Kansas City, we are up, waiting, as buckets of water warm for another “shower.” We are preparing for our last full day in …

It’s Saturday morning in Mungeli, India. the hospital is open. the kids are in school. but as you might expect, it’s quieter than a weekday. the outpatient clinic is more or less closed. normally bustling with patients for everything from x-Rays to physical therapy to dental care, today, it seems …

click “read more” to see the whole alphabet. …and the tradition continues as team 2 presents: “the ABCs of an India mission trip.” -A is the Ambulance that acts as our bus,  -wasn’t a Boar, but a tiger!! Big fuss!  (sorry group 1.) -C is the Chapel that starts off …

Wednesday 20 January 2016.  1500 hours.  Mungeli, India.   (that makes it about 0330 in KC on Wednesday morning.)   the monsoon made a brief cameo on Tuesday evening.  it’s the dry season in this part of India but you’d have never known it.  monkeys, goats, cows, dogs, chipmunks (with …

it has been a busy few days. lots of travel, lots of work, the occasional wifi outage so to bring you up to date, here’s a quick snapshot of team two’s last few days in India. friday and Saturday were spent with dinesh (the world’s most affirmation-needy tour guide) touring …

Click “read more” at the end of this post to see the entire thing. Friday, 15 January 16.  New Delhi, India.  2240 hours — approximately 21 hours after arrival. first thing that hits you is the smell– smoky, smoggy, spicy. it fills the plane right after touchdown and never goes …

E. J. Becker is our blogger for Team 2 and the second half of the trip. … Tuesday, January 13th, 1457 CST, 2057 UCT (universal coordinated time — when it’s 0830 UCT in Kansas City, it’s 0830 UCT in New Dehli. Knowing this is key understanding all that follows, so …

The group has been so busy serving the last few days, it’s hard to find time to even write about what we’ve been doing. Sandy has been very busy teaching English in the Rambo School and Nancy and Carla have been giving her a hand. There were vocabulary lessons with …

We traveled into the hills of Kona Park where it was cold enough to remind us that this is the month of January. Neeraj, his wife Deborah, their 3 year old son, Duguu, and Prerna were our guides. It was overnight trip and heavy blankets were in demand at the …

Our team. A remote clinic where our team worked. A family met in the clnic.

Our team’s apartment, above.