Outreach Week Seven – The “Frontier,” bikes and strikes
This week we trekked out to the Y Frontier Missions Center in the hills north of Pokhara. They have an amazing ministry vision to reach the villages of Nepal where about 70% of Nepalis still live. Their focii on indigenous leadership development, and job creation as part of bringing social transformation are very compelling and actually work!
We hiked out to a site where they are building a Guest House for tourist income complete with plans for Yak rentals just two days journey from the Anapurna Loop.
We also visited their orphanage which is one one of only two organic olive farms in the whole nation.
Another Banda!!
Down in Pokhara there was a transportation strike called for the day before we were scheduled to return to Kathmandu. After our previous “Banda” experience we wanted to make sure we would be safe to travel back to Kathmandu.
To understand the situation and exchange money for the trip I needed to go to the other end of town. As it turned out, the Banda transformed into a traffic holiday and I spent an enjoyable afternoon riding a private motorbike on quiet, peaceful streets. We also got the best exchange rate possible and we were able to come back when scheduled on a bus that the company reserved for only our team. The lack of traffic resulted in us getting back in record time and they dropped us off in our area of town rather than at the main terminal.
All in all, what could have been bad turned out to be the best of all options!
Good things happen!
