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If you would like to plan a trip to India, please reach out to Hannah Kim ([email protected]) and she can add your or your group to the next trip planned. Please see below for trip details.
Trips
Flight departs Friday evening with a stopover in Dubai/Seoul/Frankfurt/Singapore and land in Hyderabad Sunday early morning. From Hyderabad, we take a 3 1/2 hour car ride to our hotel in Miryalaguda. We take the rest of Sunday to get acclimated and prepped for our first meeting that evening. Medical, Dental, Vision clinics and Vacation Bible School runs during the week days, Monday-Friday. Evening evangelism meetings run from Sunday evening to Friday/Sat evening. Saturday morning worship service is held at the school. All flights depart Saturday evening and arrive back in the states by Sunday afternoon.
Daily Schedule
Day Time (9am-4pm):
Evening Evangelism Meetings (7-10pm):
- Medical Clinics- daily medical clinics in different villages.
- Dental Clinics-daily dental clinics in different villages.
- Vision Clinics-daily vision clinics paired up with medical clinics.
- Vacation Bible School-held during the day at the Miryalaguda SDA School for the 500 plus students
- Prayer Walks-door to door prayer walks happen during the day in the villages. A prayer team will accompany either the medical/dental team and offer door to door prayer.
Evening Evangelism Meetings (7-10pm):
- Children's Program-songs and short story or drama
- Preventative Health Talk-ten minute preventative health talk that addresses health issues in the region
- Message-evangelism sermon
- Prayers Sessions-after the meeting ends, most of the villagers ask for one on one prayer
Cost
Individual cost:
- Flight cost: $1500-1800
- Loging, food, and transportation: $300
- Evangelism set up cost: $1000 per already reached villages
- Evangelism set up cost: $4500 per new (never reached) villages
- Cost of medical, dental, vision clinic supplies-price will vary depending on number of villages and teams
- Cost of VBS material
Preparation
- Visa application-need to receive a travel visa to India prior to trip. It takes approximately 3-4 weeks so sooner the better. Details on what to put on your form will be emailed out to all those who are traveling.
- Immunizations-Need to locate a travel clinic to determine what immunizations are advised by the state department. http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1139.html
- Medical supplies-We take with us one days worth of medication and purchase the rest in India.
- Dental supplies-We ask for donations from surrounding dentists & friends. All dental supplies we take from the states.
- Dental chair-Need to secure dental chairs to take depending on the number of dentists traveling.
- Books, clothing, school supplies, sports equipment-everyone takes 2 suitcases stocked with supplies and donated items. Because of the 2 suitcase limit, we try to limit our own personal items and try to take as much as we can to donate.
- Sermons, Children's Story, Health Talk, Vacation Bible School. music-all are advised to prepare their sermon/presentations well in advance of their trip. We have powerpoint sermons, health talks, and children's stories that can be distributed in advance so everyone can make their presentation their own. Our goal is to be ready to present before we get to India. We will provide training sessions prior to the trip.