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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

Unknown

College student on a flight. Me. Heading to the unknown. 

Meeting up with the rest of the team in Seattle. Then we fly together across the Pacific Ocean to Taiwan. There we’re scheduled to serve for ten weeks in various cities. 

Suddenly, people on the plane start exclaiming. Calling others to look out the windows. 

Clear, blue summer sky. 

And we’re flying over snow-topped Mt. Rainier. 

Magnificent.

Mt. Rainier. Image by Ghantavya Bhatt on Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Memoir

Power outage

New Delhi, 2012. The electricity goes off. Right after a loud explosion. Most likely a transformer that’s blown in the neighborhood.

It’s late afternoon when shadows lengthen and shade our second floor flat. I sit in the dark. And wait. 

The mental checklist forms automatically. Honed by long experience. If it’s an extended power outage, there are things to do.

New Delhi, 2012.