What it's About

My initial entry, "The Brief" is part of the flyer telling friends and family about our trip to India in February 2007. It is not my intention to maintain this blog for very long, instead I plan to track a few of the things leading up to the trip and then to do a write up after we return.

As I like to carry my camera around too, I'm hoping to be able to document as much of the trip, as is appropriate, with words and images.

Raising Money
Some of preparation is about raising money for our trip and to take to ASHA for our project there.

More on how we're raising funds for the project soon.

The Brief

In February 2007, a mission team from St Stephen’s Church, Twickenham, will travel to New Delhi, India, to spend nine days serving the poor in the slums of this vast city. Working with the Indian NGO ‘Asha’, the aim of the mission is to demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ to just some of the three million people who struggle daily to live in one of the worst environments in the world.

As a group, we will undertake some manual work to help improve the community clinic at the centre of the Zakhira slum colonies in West Delhi. We will also spend time each day with individuals and groups of slum dwellers, listening to their stories, encouraging them in all they do, performing workshops with the children and generally working with the Asha team to bring hope into a seemingly hopeless situation.