So what does cooking for 120+ people look like in India? Exactly like this:
Huge pots, all fresh ingredients and cooking over a fire. What an awesome experience! Pastors from all over the region gathering for this time, learning about each other’s ministry and encouraging one another!
After lunch we came back together for the second part of our conference. This time, Jay started with his testimony and how it brought a practical side to the talks from the first part of the seminar. It was clutch! A real-life testimony to the concepts we just discussed. It was awesome.
The second half focused on prayer and cooperation. It was a truly powerful time. At the end of the conference I spoke about salt and its power. We looked at why biblically salt related to us as believers. I talked about how we all are to work together in this ministry to hold each other up as we work. To bring that home, I had Pastor Moses get a large bowl of salt and bring it out. I challenged the pastors to pray and come up and take a handful of salt and put it into an empty bowl. As each pastor added his salt to the growing amount in the bowl, we were no longer individuals but a team, working together. It was a moving thing to see all of them respond.
Later I talked with one pastor that really moved me. He told me that because of the day he now had a burden for souls and that he was going to do something about it. He also said he would never forget the salt covenant we made at the end of the conference and how it encouraged him to know he was bound with brothers on the other side of the world.
Wow. I cried.
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