Monthly Archives: June 2009

Take a few moments for a photo-journey to the low caste village of Kalavai. Kalavai colony is one of the focal points for our Community Transformation initiatives.  The change in the last six months alone is remarkable.  One local high more »

We’re back!  After about 29 hours of travel, we arrived in our driveway a little after 11:00pm last night.   As we climbed out of the vehicle and walked to the front door, the first thing Whitney said to me was, more »

The Bike Wash from Gene Ort on Vimeo.

The Bike Shop from Gene Ort on Vimeo.

Elle White, our friend and video genius, is house-sitting/dog-sitting for us while in India. She just made my day with this little video.  Elle, you are the best.

Family Life Conference Final Session The Pastors and their wives in their own words. My wife is all the time smiling at me, laughing, and hugging me every other minute.  Everything is upside down!  This is the first time we more »

Family Life Conference Day Two Mukum Yellem Paul!   In Tamil that means, "Your face is full of teeth!"  In other words, "That's the biggest smile I've ever seen!"  It's the Tamil way of saying, "You look so happy that your more »

Family Life Conference Day One Session 2: God’s Order for a Pastor’s Relationships I delivered a simple message based on Ephesians 5-6, where Paul sketches out for us a snapshot of the various “orbits” in our “relational system.” First, at more »

Family Life Conference (FLC) Day One Session 1: Kingdom Life: All of Life as Sacred The goal of this first session was to break down the false dichotomy between sacred and secular that holds so many followers of Jesus back more »

Yesterday, we made our journey to the village of Thirumalaigiri, one of the partnership points for GCC’s Community Transformation initiatives. As you can see, we received a warm welcome. That’s an understatement! GCC is partnering with Pastor Job and his more »