As required in the state of Bihar, if you stay in the state more than 15 days you need to report to the police station and register your presence with them. I went with my friend to the police station with all seven passports for a talk with the…
We have been learning so much about traveling and what you need to do to get from point A to point B. Unfortunately this means that your best intentions and well laid plans don’t always work out. It has been an adventure to say the least….. here is…
We have some BIG GOALS and prayer requests for 2020. God is leading us to believe him for bigger things in 2020. We are trusting that he will allow our teams to increase from 12 to 20 and increase our team members from 100 to 400. We…
We have learned much about Christmas in Nepal; since we are novices at this, I will fill you in on what we have learned. We have befriended the shop owners across from the team house in Kathmandu and we invited them to have celebrate Christmas with us. They…
One advantage about being in Nepal is that I am 11 hours and 45 minutes ahead of US Central Time. So, we ate our Thanksgiving Dinner about 5 hours ago (5:00 PM local time), which was 5:15 AM Central. As I write this, your turkey has been in…
We arrived in Kathmandu at around noon on October 7th, but I didn’t stay long. There were some pressing things that Mike Keator and I needed to address at our team site in Biratnagar, so we left the next morning for a short flight to visit the team. …
I (Ryan) am learning so much about the structure of RUN Global and all that is involved with a church planting movement. I have been focused on helping where I can, teaching when needed, and offering suggestions/advice when I have it. It has been a wonderful, wonderful…
The camper is buttoned up for the winter and we are ready for the next leg of the journey. It takes quite a bit to move our family. With 7 of us and traveling with everything in suitcases (10 total checked bags), we take up some space. We…
The ministry in Nepal / India is rapidly growing, five months ago, we had five teams, now we have eleven teams in India and Nepal, and three more are forming (the map above shows our training center locations)! People are coming out of the woodwork to join up to…
We have driven 3185 miles and visited 14 states since the first of August. We have slept at 1-Menard’s, 2-Costco’s, 3-Walmarts, numerous rest stops and many host homes / churches over the last month and a half. We still have some distance to go, namely the LONG flight…