For the first time in our church life in Gurugram, we undertook a blending trip to the South taking advantage of the National Colleger Training held in Chennai. Though I myself had no service in this training, for the sake of blending I registered myself as a serving of the College students from my locality. Likewise, other saints too registered in one service or the other. This blending trip did not come without paying a price as I myself lost my Bible bag on the first day of the trip at New Delhi train station and my daughter fainted due to weakness and car sickness as we reached the train station. In the midst of the crowd and huge pieces of luggage, we paid all the price we could to attend this training and blending. Our sleeper class train journey from Delhi to Chennai took us about 32 hours and from Tirunelveli to Delhi, about 48 hours. All these hours were also utilized for blending apart from the sleeping time. The train journey itself was the time for blending especially for the children as they all enjoyed so much spending time together playing. Some saints also spent time in fellowshipping, and we had ample time together sharing food and fellowshipping together.
During the training itself, I had the opportunity to blend with a brother with whom I started praying together and we have now become prayer partners. All the saints had their own share of the meeting as each one has their own meeting based on the service they registered for.
After the training, our blending trip started from Chennai itself. We visited Marina Beach in Chennai, dined together at Sangeetha Restaurant near Egmore Station, and travel overnight to Tenkasi. In Tenkasi, we visited a famous waterfall, Courtralam, had lunch at a famous South Indian cuisine at the border of Tamilnadu and Kerala, and then went sightseeing and shopping. In the evening we had a time of blending with the church in Tenaksi where a specific burden on attending the annual feast was released. Finally, we left for Tirunelveli where we were given hospitality.
The next day, we had a love feast breakfast with some saints at a restaurant and went for an ocean boat ride in the Bay of Bengal, visited a fishing harbor, and had a love feast lunch with the church in Tuticorin. After a few sightseeing at the beach and a boat repairing factory, we had a meeting with the church in Tenkasi where a specific burden for the young people was released.
My
Goodland: Fellowship at Tuticorin (palmeichung.blogspot.com)
Then we traveled back to Tirunelveli for the night stay. The
following day, after breakfast we had a four-hour-long meeting with the saints in
the church in Tirunelveli where a specific burden was again released for the saints
in general, followed by a love feast, after which we visited an ice cream factory
and got ready to leave.
My Goodland: Fellowship at Tirunelveli (palmeichung.blogspot.com)
The entire blending trip lasted for about eleven days and it
did not come without paying a price. Most of the saints got sick either during
the training and blending trip or the train journey. Nevertheless, we all gain something
of Christ in this trip through the many fellowships on the word of God and
meeting with the saints. Blending has a price tag too! Just pay a little price and
enjoy all the benefits. Now looking forward to another blending trip to happen again in His time.
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