“It was an honor and privilege to serve alongside such an awesome team! I left a piece of my heart there in Mumbai, and my prayer for all of us is that the lessons God taught us in this diverse city will shape our lives from here to eternity,” Lucas said.

“Before going, while we were there and now even more do I realize how the Lord does NOT need us, but invites us to partner with Him in bringing His kingdom here,” Becca said. “How simple and true the Gospel is, and how complicated we’ve made it here in America. What I experienced of Christ in Mumbai I will definitely aim to see in my daily life.”

“I never knew what I was really getting myself into when I signed up for the trip to India. I really didn’t give it that much thought. My expectations were high but I really didn’t know what exactly to expect. I went with some fear of sharing with other people from other religions, especially Muslims. All I had ever heard about them made me afraid of them.

“But God quickly exceeded my expectations and shattered my fears. My first day out, a man of the Islamic faith approached me while I was still in my taxi as if he had been looking for me and had finally found me. He asked who I was and what I was doing there. I proceeded to tell him all that He asked including that Jesus Christ was the main reason I was there and explained my personal encounter with Christ and the story of how I came to call Him Savior. That Muslim looked me dead in the eye and said, “I trust in Jesus…I believe in Him as you do.” Then he began to shake my hand in gratitude and called me “brother” and asked me to pray for him. That experience was NOT what I expected, but God set that up from the beginning. God seems to always exceed our expectations when we just go and are obedient… He’s just awesome like that,” Seth said.